p7eter on 29/5/2004 at 21:03

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i have tweaked lightgem (smaller, lower); health meter (smaller, lower), and i have moved the weapon and item inventory display icon, (lower and to the side)

here's my settings from the UI .ini:
*** connotes a change and everything after a semicolon is a note to myself

[LightGem]
Type=T3LightGemWindow
Placement_X=CENTER
Placement_Y=BOTTOM
Pos_Y=-20 ; *** was-50
Pos_Z=10
Scale_X=.8 ; *** was all 1.0
Scale_Y=.8
Scale_Z=.8

[CompassWindow]
Type=T3CompassWindow
Placement_X=CENTER
Placement_Y=BOTTOM
Pos_Y=-20 ; *** was -50
Pos_Z=10 ; ***was 10, no idea what this does, maybe tilt
Scale_X=.7 ; *** added these 3 lines, remove to change back
Scale_Y=.7
Scale_Z=.7
Active=VISIBLE
CompassWindow=CompassActorWindow
...

[HealthMeter]
Type=T3HealthMeterWindow
Active=ACTIVE
Scale_X=.5 ;*** was 1.0
Scale_Y=.5
Scale_Z=.5
Pos_X=20
Pos_Y=15 ; *** was -15

[ItemCycleWindow]
Type=T3ItemCycleWindow
Placement_X=LEFT
Placement_Y=BOTTOM
Width=200
Height=200
Pos_X=0
Pos_Y=0
NormalPos_X=30 ; *** was 80
NormalPos_Y=160 ; *** was 136
...

[WeaponCycleWindow]
Type=T3WeaponCycleWindow
Placement_X=RIGHT
Placement_Y=BOTTOM
NormalPos_X=170 ; *** was 122
NormalPos_Y=160 ; *** was 134
Width=200
Height=200
Active=VISIBLE
...

gazchap on 29/5/2004 at 21:07

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...has anyone found a way of changing the save location?

I detest this new trend amongst games (GTA, Manhunt, NFS Underground, and now TDS!) of saving everything in My Documents. I like to keep my My Documents folder free from clutter, with nice simple structure (Documents, Pictures, Source Code, Websites etc.) and don't want a million and one individual folders for games in there.

Freelancer had the right idea, putting everything in "My Games", although even that isn't perfect.

I've seen references to "SavePath" in the default.ini file, but in my copy thats set to ..\Save which is obviously not where the saves are going. Hopefully its not hardcoded!

keeper_Silvas on 29/5/2004 at 21:23

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I was just playing with those settings myself (still am tho)

NormalPos_X=
NormalPos_Y =
These are where the chosen weapon icon is placed (I think relative to the gears when you cycle through the weapons)

Width=200
Height=200
These are default. Setting to 400 moved the gears to the centre of the screen.

I also ADDED
Scale_X=0.5
Scale_Y=0.5
Scale_Z=0.5
This scaled the size of the actual cogs, but it appeared to scale each to its own centre and so caused them to have a space between each cog. (ie it was no longer a gear)

Schwartz on 29/5/2004 at 21:29

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T3Menu.ini seems to be full of cheats, and graphics tweaks and such. Now we just have to figure out how to use it.... :confused:

Mr. K. on 29/5/2004 at 21:54

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Ok, i got the demo and i really don't like the movement. Garrett feels more like Benny than a master thief with cat-like dexterity (save for the superhuman jumping).

Here's a tweaked (ftp://yw:helper@212.97.170.118/T3PlayerAnims.zip) T3PlayerAnims.ini that tries to alleviate this.
Always back up your original .ini files before taffing with them, you know.

Changes made:
- Slower head bob -> Less motion sickness, softer walking.
- Faster strafe transitions -> Better maneuverability (not the best, though)
- Slightly softer breathing when idle. -> Less motion sickness
- Slightly slower weapon animations. -> Feels better
- Faster leaning. -> More thiefy
- Slower fall recoveries -> No fall damage sucks. At least this should make falling a bit more annoying.
- Some other minor thingies.

Overall i think it feels quite better. There are lots of tiny changes (overall, movement, leaning and acting are a wee bit slower while crouched, to compensate for the sneaky bonus to crouch). The only thing that bugs me is the strafing, it's not quite allright yet, and turning the transitions to 0 doesn't help much.

I'd like to know if you like these tweaks or make some of your own.

Also, 3rd person movement is NOT changed at all. This means things will handle differently in 3rd person mode, but you can do the changes yourself. :)