t2skies - Enhanced skies for Thief 2: The Metal Age

jermi on 17/11/2010 at 17:22

That's what it looks like when the replacement textures are not found. What's your TexturePath in ddfix.ini?

Garras on 17/11/2010 at 17:25

Quote Posted by jermi

That's what it looks like when the replacement textures are not found. What's your TexturePath in ddfix.ini?

TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix\

The t2skies folder is within that. I also tried...

TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix\t2skies\

jermi on 18/11/2010 at 18:12

And TextureReplacement=1?

Have you tried the exe from the sticky thread?

Garras on 20/11/2010 at 13:20

Quote Posted by jermi

And TextureReplacement=1?

Have you tried the exe from the sticky thread?

TextureReplacement=1, yes

What, the Tafferpatcher? No, no need for it... yet!?

Nameless Voice on 20/11/2010 at 16:05

The (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) DDFix sticky thread.

Garras on 20/11/2010 at 17:20

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

The (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449) DDFix sticky thread.

No, didn't see this one. Will try it when I have more time. Thanks.

bikerdude on 30/11/2010 at 23:57

is there a fix foir the halo issue yet as I have just installed t2skiesd and I am getting the same issue. And if I enable texturepath=1 is screws around with the ntex textures...

jermi on 2/12/2010 at 08:19

It's TextureReplacement=1 and TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix (or something like that, depending on where you've installed the game). Also, try restarting the mission.

I still assume that the halo is usually due to incorrect installation. There may be some bug in ddfix that causes the halo, but even if there is, I haven't been able to find it.

The Phantom on 4/12/2010 at 22:54

Beautiful work on this, jermi! The new stars, clouds and moon look lovely :thumb:.

But I'm having a few issues:
1. The most serious: fog isn't working. Not in Life of the Party nor in Framed, Precious Cargo and Masks.
Truth be told, fog wasn't already working with just DDFix installed, but I expected installing t2skies would solve it. But no luck. :erg:
I checked all OMs with 'EnableLifeOfThePartyFogFix=1' and 'EnableLifeOfThePartyFogFix=0' but this doesn't make a difference. Everything works except fog. Only difference is that with 'EnableLifeOfThePartyFogFix=0' the stars in LotP are messed up.

Is it my video card (GeForce 7300 GT) or is something wrong with DDFix and or t2skies?
Does someone know the problem and how this can be fixed? I've got DDFix 1.4.5 installed.

Haven't tried (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119731) Winter Cat's fog fix but I don't see how this brings back fog in other missions besides LotP.

Here is my ddfix.ini overview (after installing t2skies):

Code:

;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
;XX DDFix by SIO2 XX
;XX Commercial distribution prohibited XX
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[Main]
;Screen resolution
;Must be 800x600 or greater
gWidth=1360
gHeight=768

;Refresh rate. 0 is default, anything else to override.
RefreshRate=0

;Set to 1 to fix the duel core related crash
MultiCoreFix=1

;Set to 1 to automatically register lgvid.ax each time thief is started up
VideoFix=1

;This can be set to zero to get a more accurate z-buffer
;Doesn't usually make a noticable difference to picture quality
UseCompatibleZBuffer=1

;Turns on the 32 bit texture loader and adds support for some unsupported screen resolutions
;Will cause a crash if used with an unsupported exe
; 0 - Disable
; 1 - Determine exe automatically
; 2 - Thief 2 v1.18
Thief2Extensions=1

;Set to 1 to disable the windows keys while thief is running
DisableWindowsKey=0

;Set to 1 to enable anisotropic filtering
AnisotropicFiltering=1

;If you want to share overriden textures between thief installations, uncomment the next line
;It should contain the absolute path to the equivilent of \res\ddfix, including the trailing \
;TexturePath=C:\Games\Thief2\res\ddfix\

;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
;XX Compatibility settings XX
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

;Changes the way direct writes to the frontbuffer are handled
;SS2 players should set these options to '2' and '0xf81f' respectively
;Thief 2 players with corrupted in game text should use '2' and '0x0000'
;Players who experience slowdown with UseSysMemOverlay=2 should set both options to 0
;UseSysMemOverlay=2
;OverlayColourKey=0xf81f
UseSysMemOverlay=0
OverlayColourKey=0

;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
;XX SIO2: Fog fixes XX
;XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

;General fix for all Thief2 missions that use fog.
;Default value is 1 (enabled) so all mission that use fog can benefit.
EnableFogFix=1

;Special fog fixes for the Thief2 Original Mission "Life Of The Party".
;Enabling this for missions other than "Life Of The Party" may break other missions that use fog.
;Default value is 0 (disabled) because it breaks other fog missions (broken sky, etc)
EnableLifeOfThePartyFogFix=1

TextureReplacement=1

2. Starting Thief 2 after installing t2skies, and loading Running Interference on Normal difficult, brings a sky as seen (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131652&p=2030134&viewfull=1#post2030134) here on Garras' first screen.
Restarting the mission on Hard or Expert fixes this and the sky turns up ok.
Can this be fixed so that everything works as it should right from the start, after installing the program or re-running t2skies.exe ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Nameless Voice on 4/12/2010 at 23:29

Your version of DDFix is quite old, get a newer version.

Latest version (released today) is here: (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117616&p=2034125&viewfull=1#post2034125)