Minimalist 1.4.1 and T3EnhancED Thread

veledan on 25/1/2006 at 18:22

Hi NH. I downloaded T3EnhancEd but I confess I haven't tried it yet cos I'm unsure if there's anything I need to know before installing it alongside the original T3Ed.

I'm too far into a C7 entry to change editors right now so I wouldn't use it extensively until afterwards, but I'd love to give it a go. I'm sure I saw you post re this topic pre this thread but I can't find it now. Is there anything I need to know/do or do I just run the .exe and follow prompts?

New Horizon on 25/1/2006 at 18:29

Quote Posted by veledan

Yup, just follow the prompts. :) That's about it. There are instructions on how to compile the sound schemas when you are finished installing. :) I have had three or four versions of the installer running side by side without issue.

New Horizon on 26/1/2006 at 03:36

Had some PM's from people who were puzzled as to why the installer was 747 megs. I have updated the original post to explain this increase in size in greater detail.

ascottk on 26/1/2006 at 06:26

Here's an alternate download on filefront:

(http://files.filefront.com/T3EnhancEDexe/;4668643;;/fileinfo.html)

SubJeff on 26/1/2006 at 09:46

Quote Posted by New Horizon

Hmmm, I don't know. I never ran into this problem with T3Ed. What files were missing?

Quote Posted by Caseus

Initially when I installed T3Ed I had a similar problem. I don't use a software firewall so I KNEW that was not the problem.

Paying particular attention to the above mentioned "Step 6" make sure when you prepare your Thief3Edit Directory you do not delete the Maps folder, just the .ibt files within that folder. You can safely delete the Video Textures folder as they are not needed. After all that deleting copy the contents of the Editorrelease to your thief3edit folder, it should prompt you to overwwirte at least once. Somtimes and extra folder gets added depending on how you extract which will bunk up the whole process. Don't forget to rename the t3main executables. It should work, but it didn't for me as well.. So I tried moving thief3edit to a different HD alltogether, still no dice.
Then I found a dream of a little program that I think is a MUST for using two Installs of Thief3, Its dracflamloc thief 3 launcher. Since I have been using this I have had zero trouble with T3 editing, and my original game dir stays clean with all my original tweaks in place.

I could be wrong but this error...

Warning: Failed to load 'Level None.MyLevel': Failed to find object 'Level None.MyLevel'

seems to denote it cannot find "autoplay.map" which is compiled when you build your first level. For whatever reason you may need to make sure Entry.gmp and autoplay.unr are in fact in your Thief3edit/content/t3/maps directory.

thats all i can think of....

That was my problem NH. I made sure all the .gmps and the autoplay.unr were in the correct folders.

I suppose this depends on how T3EnhancED installs itself. Plus this is fresh WinXP install so I might not have the same problems.

New Horizon on 26/1/2006 at 14:23

Hmmm, nope. Theoretically, you shouldn't have to worry about that. T3EnhancED doesn't come with any of the original missions anyway. I dropped them since they would pretty much be unplayable with the changes made to the gamesys and also because people 'could' reassemble them with all the content included and no longer have to buy the game....but it would be a LOT of work on their part to manually make all the original missions T3EnhnacEd compatible.

SubJeff on 26/1/2006 at 15:16

I still haven't installed it, obviously. Thief 3 isn't installed either.

So - to make things clear - I install TDS, patch it and then run the T3EnhancED installer?

New Horizon on 26/1/2006 at 17:17

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I still haven't installed it, obviously. Thief 3 isn't installed either.

So - to make things clear - I install TDS, patch it and then run the T3EnhancED installer?

I believe you can install the editor without installing the actual game. It should run independently. Ion included all the game executables with the editor, they just didn't include all the sounds. If they had, people would have been able to reconstruct the unr files and play the full game without buying.

That's why I removed the .unr files when I included all the extracted sound content. The only reason you need to install TDS with the editor is to test it in a separate game install. As I said before though, the original missions won't work properly with T3EnhancED anyway. :) I just removed them for legal reasons.

I still have to get a patch out to make the game install of TDS T3EnhancED ready. Give me a week or two for that.

SubJeff on 26/1/2006 at 18:15

Well I'm dling it now (longest, but not biggest, DL ever) and my mission will be totally converted for it. I might have to go through the tutorial again just so I can see what kind of extras I can put in. Distribtued Enhanced FMS will only be playable with the patch, yes? And people only need TDS and the patch to play, correct?

I get confused

New Horizon on 26/1/2006 at 18:16

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

Yup, they just need TDS and the patch. :)