Durinda D'Bry on 4/3/2005 at 09:26

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Agetian nice thing that you found out how to generate .ibt! Guys, we (or at least me) have been totally blind before because WriteResourceBlockFiles option already exists in default.ini shipped with editor (even the comment for this in default.ini is not very clear) :)

And little comment: we don't need to double "WriteResourceBlockFiles=True" in default.ini and user.ini because user.ini settings override default.ini (100% sure). I mean that "WriteResourceBlockFiles=True" in user.ini is enough. Also it seems as "WriteBlockFiles=True" does nothing and could be skipped. So, we just need to put "WriteResourceBlockFiles=True" in user.ini and that's it.

Regarding location of generated files: AFAIK there are to paths defined in Windows registry for ThiefDS. These are ION root (refers to installation directory) and saved games directory (refers to directory that will contain actual saved games directory). The default for second one is My Documents\Thief Deadly Shadows in current user profile folder. So, it puts files to second directory. The reason why it doesn't put files to maps folder is simple, I think: to prevent unwanted rewriting of your original .ibt files.

Regarding content of .ibt files: we probably need to start writing guide what kind of resources are loaded from where and how this resources could be edited and saved. I wouldn't mean that I know answers :) But it is necessary for mission builders to know this thing.

BTW: just found (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94117) post of one TDS designer EndlessDespair. He wrote that probably they used some command line switch for game executable (t3.exe or t3main.exe) to generate .ibt. Therefore, we may have even more convenient way to create .ibt...