David on 8/11/2004 at 20:56

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Last Updated February 25th 21:45 GMT

T3ED was not designed to give you the ability to design maps and play the game from the same installation, so you will require two. This document will show you how to create and switch between the two.

#1 Uninstall any modifications you have added that appear in the Add/Remove Programs, such as John P's excellent custom textures.

#2 Uninstall the game and delete the installation directory.

#3 Install and patch the game. For reasons that will become clear later it is best to install it to a directory named <em>Thief3</em> rather than the default <em>Thief - Deadly Shadows</em>

#4 Make a copy of the installation directory and name it <em>Thief3 Edit</em>.

#5 Delete the contents of the <em>CONTENT\Maps</em> folder, you won't need these in the editor. You can also delete the <em>CONTENT\Video Textures</em> folder. Please note, some people have found they need the GMP and IBT files

#6 Extract the editor to your new <em>Thief3 Edit</em> directory.

#7 Delete <em>T3Main.exe</em> from the <em>Thief3 Edit\System</em> directory and rename <em>T3MainOptVersion.exe</em> to <em>T3Main.exe</em>.

#8 Open the file <em>user.ini</em> in the root of the <em>Thief3 Edit</em> directory and add a semi-colon to the start of the line <em>LoadFromResourceBlockFiles=True</em>.
At the bottom of this file, add the following:
<em>[Conversations]
SchemaChangesAllowed=true</em>

#9 Add whatever mods you want to the standard installation inside the <em>Thief3</em> directory.

#10 To switch between Editor and regular game mode I suggest you use (http://www.ttlg.com/dave/t3ed/thief3launcher.zip) dracflamloc's Thief 3 Launcher. Just fill in the directories in the two boxes.

To launch manually rename Thief3 Edit to Thief3 and start /SYSTEM/t3.exe editor

If you fail to rename the directories when manually running the editor you will get a Viktoria error with the error message <em>Unable to load static mesh 'WEPaiSWORD'!</em>

Note
If you use ZoneAlarm you will need to let T3ED create a server on port 25001 - probably a remenant from source code control at Ion. (Thanks Despot)

The Editor will not run if your desktop is set to anything other than 32-bit colour depth. (Thanks Hit Deity)

Mortal Monkey on 24/2/2005 at 04:13

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Something like this?

doctormidnight on 24/2/2005 at 06:57

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Same here, I'm a little confused about the "editor" line. Is that a switch that goes at the end of the shortcut, like below?

http://www.sherlockholmesarmy.org/editor.jpg

David on 24/2/2005 at 07:20

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Excellent, Mortal Monkey! :thumb:

doctormidnight on 24/2/2005 at 08:13

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OK, maybe I'm just not getting this but the instructions seem to be conflicting:



So the shortcut on the desktop (which was created when the folder was named "Thief3 Edit") won't ever work because it's looking for a directory that doesn't exist,it's been changed to "Thief3" to enable editing.

I don't understand why there's any need to rename the folders, if they are independant then it's not like the "Play" shortcut is going anywhere but the original game install location. Likewise, the "created" shortcut for editing can only go to the directory specified.