kdau on 24/9/2013 at 17:59
Quote Posted by voodoo47
the most complete mission has been used as a base for the Finals at the Academy FM, if memory serves.
It was (
http://thiefmissions.com/m/FirstCityCollege) First City College that was based on T2G material. (Oddly enough, it was based on the museum mission, not the college one.) Finals at the Academy was built from scratch.
Quote Posted by Ryan Smith
That's what drove me to start exploring PlayerArm animations. If I were patient, I could replicate those exact sword swings from the 1996 video:
Those could be fun! It's also interesting to note the metal-on-stone collision sound at 0:17 in that video. It seems that they did have melee-weapon-on-terrain collisions enabled until later in the development cycle.
LarryG on 24/9/2013 at 21:22
Quote Posted by kdau
Finals at the Academy was built from scratch.
Correct. Though voodoo47 may be channeling the True Dreams mission which will follow Finals in my campaign. I am using pieces of T2Gold in that.
vorob on 17/10/2013 at 07:18
What about this design doc which was also published? No backstory there?
By the way, maybe there is a chance to get in touch with former developers ask more about these levels?
voodoo47 on 17/10/2013 at 08:29
I stand corrected.
Quote Posted by Ryan Smith
I wonder what happened to the game assets used in the Thief 1 trailers between 1996 and 1997
yeah, the betas of thief and ss2. there aren't many things I wouldn't do to get my hands on them.
[video=youtube;FdB3ZCFRRZQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdB3ZCFRRZQ[/video]
vorob on 15/4/2015 at 07:36
Still this thing is a mystery to me. Thief community is healthy and alive, creating numerous of great fan-missions even 15 years after game release. We now have source code and internet can help us get in touch with former developers. We even have crowd-funding system. So why it's still impossible to finish Thief II Gold?
voodoo47 on 15/4/2015 at 08:02
Quote Posted by voodoo47
the T2 gold levels are just a bunch of very rough maps, no real backstory, voiceovers or anything, so anyone attempting to finish them up would end up remaking everything from scratch anyway.
pretty much that.
vorob on 15/4/2015 at 09:07
Quote Posted by voodoo47
pretty much that.
But we can get in touch with original authors. Who knows, maybe they will be happy to help?
voodoo47 on 15/4/2015 at 11:47
they already did that - they've released the missions. I doubt more content ever existed.
vorob on 15/4/2015 at 13:43
Quote Posted by voodoo47
they already did that - they've released the missions. I doubt more content ever existed.
Just a thought, maybe if there will be a full project they can help with more info? Share their thoughts and plans they had back then? I think its a good time for such thing, especially with all these talk about legendary LGS, OtherSide Entertainment dream team and etc...
Renault on 15/4/2015 at 13:51
Quote Posted by vorob
But we can get in touch with original authors. Who knows, maybe they will be happy to help?
I tried to get in touch with one of the devs directly tied to the Thief 2 Gold project about a year ago. He responded initially, and then when I mentioned T2G I never heard from him again. Everyone's moved on to new things, and I don't think there's much interest in reviving a long dead project that's 15 years old.
And as far as FM authors go, it's been said a few times, but most want to work on their own projects, not someone else's. And T2G would be a ton of work.