Sneaky Upgrade Editor Edition: Unofficial patches for T3Ed and friends - by snobel
snobel on 3/2/2013 at 07:02
If you have more than 5 resolutions and aspect ratio display, then it's the patched Release version running. Check your T3Main.exe, it should be larger than 8 MB and not have the new icon.
There may be a slim chance that you have an old experimental exe from my porting efforts, but I don't think it ever got that far.
snobel on 1/5/2013 at 17:51
Updated the first post with the 1.1.2 version, which now has an actual installer... The patch for T3MainReleaseVersion.exe has been updated to match the 1.1.2 Game Edition, the other patches are unchanged.
The readme now describes the testing/mapper options that are not mentioned in the readme for the Game Edition. The readme also describes how to override the user's options by including a SneakyOptions_diff.ini file in the FM. This is mainly relevant for the new movie and loading screen aspect ratio options, the intro-movie-as-briefing option and the mecheye tweak.
Note that there's a new options section for FMs. The NoDeletion option has been moved there, and there's a new option, PrepareAtLaunch, to have the Thief 3 specific FM preparation executed every time the FM is launched, instead of only at installation time. This can be convenient while testing an FM.
snobel on 6/8/2013 at 19:11
Updated the first post with the 1.1.2.1 version. The patch for T3MainReleaseVersion.exe has been updated to match the 1.1.2.1 Game Edition, the other patches are unchanged.
Beleg Cúthalion on 6/8/2013 at 21:23
Looks good, even though it's too late tonight for a test. I'll have a look this week.
snobel on 2/2/2014 at 20:33
Updated the first post with the 1.1.3.4 version, which now includes the T3MainReleaseVersion.exe patch from the 1.1.3.4 game edition. No other changes.
Leenuks on 16/6/2014 at 09:44
Can we have another download link as it is broken.
Thanks
snobel on 16/6/2014 at 17:27
Fixed, thanks for the heads-up. My cloud service shut down but I was told that the files would be available until the end of July - apparently not...
Leenuks on 17/6/2014 at 08:19
This patch fixed my editor loading issues.
Thanks.
snobel on 27/12/2014 at 13:46
Updated the first post with the 1.1.4.2 version - there never was an 1.1.4 or 1.1.4.1.
For once there's something new, besides just switching T3MainReleaseVersion.exe to the latest version from the game edition: If Shift is held while selecting the Send to Xbox menu item, then a new batch file, ExportMap.bat, will be executed, with the base name of the currently loaded map (e.g. "Inn") passed as an argument.
The default ExportMap.bat will launch the game exe with a special switch, -mkibt, which is equivalent to running it with WriteResourceBlockFiles=True and QuitAfterFirstFrame=True. After the IBTs have been generated they are moved into a folder which is selected through the ExportPath variable in the .bat file, and renamed according to the map. The corresponding .gmp file is copied there as well. If the map name is "Entry" then only the .gmp is copied, the IBTs are ignored.
The default target is "ExportedMaps\Content\T3\Maps" in the root of the current editor installation. To copy directly to an FM folder for test with FMSel and the game installation, set the ExportPath value to something like "C:\ProgramData\Thief 3 Sneaky Upgrade\Installed FMs\NewFM\Content\T3\Maps" (assuming that the default FM installation path is used). The path will be created if it does not exist.
Also, the installer will now create XbReboot.bat with the usual content if it's not already present.
Judith on 28/12/2014 at 12:07
That's great, this way we'll be able to test the "playable" build of the mission without going through all the hassle with entry map, objectives and such. Also useful if you want to see your map file size and compression ratio (with 7zip and such).