Halloween Contest- 2012-Tell Tale Heart-NewDark-V.1.19-Nov/2/2012 - by darthsLair
darthsLair on 12/11/2012 at 03:18
Quote Posted by lundy999
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. I also loved Cataclysmic Revelations and Deadly Triangle, btw.
Great ! Thankyou !
Winter Cat on 12/11/2012 at 10:23
darthslair, please make 1.18 version too. Really you should have done it firstly, the original engine isn't cancelled yet. There was report that new fm-selector glitches, original mission is started, while Darkloader work normally.
darthsLair on 12/11/2012 at 14:27
Quote Posted by Winter Cat
darthslair, please make 1.18 version too. Really you should have done it firstly, the original engine isn't cancelled yet. There was report that new fm-selector glitches, original mission is started, while Darkloader work normally.
If I hadn't run out of ambient objects at 255, I would have continued with the V.1.18, however, since it has been converted to the NewDark, turning back is impossible at this point in time. The NewDark also allowed for much better lighting, and alot more object lights, animated lights ect.
Eventually, I will convert all of the other 14 fms to NewDark, however, I will leave the original versions V.1.18 untouched, so the Gamer will have a choice.
darthsLair on 12/11/2012 at 15:13
Quote Posted by fey*grenzgang
I found some kind of bug. When I take
Mrs. Morris out her "box" and then close it, then it won't open again by pressing the switch. The door is staying where it is. This leads to problems later, because I wasn't able to get the poisoned flesh anymore. Due to the 1.19 fix I can't take the flesh through the door. Hence I couldn't poison the lord of death. I killed him (the guy with the axe?) with the sword instead *g*.Nice storyline idea and textures (: but a bit iterative architecture. I liked the dialogues and voices. What I didn't like was the
"hack and slay" to handel the undead and get the loot out of them. I'm more the sneaky kind of player.Where are
the secrets in the warehouse which are on the list with the 12 secrets? Do I have to (or can I) enter the warehouse?Actually, I designed this so the player would not have to kill to obtain loot. You can still reach your goal on expert of 7000, as there is excess of 11,400 loot in the mission. Just stay in the shadows, and time your movements to avoid any conflicts with the spooks.
Winter Cat on 12/11/2012 at 15:38
Quote Posted by darthsLair
If I hadn't run out of ambient objects at 255, I would have continued with the V.1.18, however, since it has been converted to the NewDark, turning back is impossible at this point in time. The NewDark also allowed for much better lighting, and alot more object lights, animated lights ect.
Eventually, I will convert all of the other 14 fms to NewDark, however, I will leave the original versions V.1.18 untouched, so the Gamer will have a choice.
The same way you could leave aside the last version available on 1.18 before converting it to 1.19.
Sir Taffsalot on 12/11/2012 at 19:31
So Im at the start. The ghost tells me to press a button on the chimney. Im at the chimney. Where's the button?
Edit: Typical! I find it as soon as I make a post. Ignore.
Sir Taffsalot on 12/11/2012 at 19:47
OK so now I've pressed the switch the bed has moved to reveal a trap door that is closed and I cannot frob. The only other door in the room is locked and lock picks dont work. What am I supposed to do? Im not really enjoying this FM to be honest.
darthsLair on 12/11/2012 at 19:56
Quote Posted by Sir Taffsalot
OK so now I've pressed
the switch the bed has moved to reveal a trap door that is closed and I cannot frob. The only other door in the room is locked and lock picks dont work. What am I supposed to do? Im not really enjoying this FM to be honest.
Press the
switch again to close the bed in it's original position. Then press the switch again. Let the floor trap door open before you approach it. This mission is large, so be prepared for about 2 hours to get through it.
If you dont succeed in opening
the trap door with the switch then check your gen.osm to see if it is current.
Did you patch your version of 1.18 before patching to V.1.19 ? And, do you have the proper runtime environment, and direct x requirements.
lundy999 on 12/11/2012 at 20:03
Quote Posted by darthsLair
Great ! Thankyou !
I attempted to install the fm-selector. I was unzipping contrib_src & editor_zip blindly because I couldn't find any instructions. After unzipping these it only produced more zip files and no executable and I wasn't sure where to go from there. So I just re-installed V1.19 and ran darkloader with tell tale heart; Low and Behold no error messages! The mission started; I almost fainted after playing around with this for 5 days. Now let's see how far I get in the mission itself....
Sir Taffsalot on 12/11/2012 at 20:06
I've pressed the switch again and the bed didn't move. Nothing happened. From a logical point of view how is the player supposed to know that he has to press the button three times to progress? To be told that Im going to encounter these illogical situations for up to 2 hours is not really inspiring me to continue with this FM.
