Fidcal on 10/6/2004 at 20:49

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BETTER KEYBOARD BOW SIGHTING & SEPARATE CREEP, WALK, RUN KEYS

Don't know if this has already been covered but it's for players who prefer the keyboard to the mouse. You may have found that compared to the mouse it is difficult to sight the bow because each keypress turns over 20 degrees so you keep overshooting. A similar thing happens when tightroping along a narrow been - the slight keypress to keep Garrett in line overshoots the other way. It's more sensitive than T1 and T2 which were also a little difficult.

To adjust the turning speed of Garrett and bow sighting edit the following settings in a text editor. If you use a feeble one like Notepad then you might need to take care with the suffix. When opening in Notepad, set the 'files of type' to 'all files' at the bottom of the open dialog else you'll only see txt files. When resaving, use 'Save As' and type the name in full 'options.ini' else it will save it as 'options.txt' It's wise to make a backup of options.ini first anyway so if anything goes wrong you can restore it. Guess all that's been said elsewhere. Here's the file...

My Documents\Thief - Deadly Shadows\SaveGames\User Options\options.ini

The keys are listed in alphabetical order. Note that some values have a minus - sign.

Set the turn left and right keys (let's say D and F) thus...
D=RotateRightLeft -0.65000
F=RotateRightLeft 0.65000

Similarly, the up/down keys (let's say U and H)...
U=RotateUpDown 0.650000
H=RotateUpDown 0.650000

The above keys are reasonable for turning corners when running but still fair for sighting the bow and tightrope walking a beam.

If you want greater accuracy then you can set different keys for sighting, etc. and just reduce the 0.65000 to say 0.33000 or even 0.2000. 0.10000 is too fine in my opinion.

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While I'm at it, if you want separate keys and your own preferred speeds for run, walk, and creep then set all those keys thus, where K is the key you want, MoveForwardBackward is the same for all, and 1.0000 is normal run speed...

K=MoveForwardBackward 1.000000

So for walk set a key to 0.5000; for creep to 0.3. 1.000 seems to be the maximum so you can't run faster than normal. Put a minus sign in front of the value for any key(s) where you want to move backwards.

Note that you can have multiple keys to do the same task just as you could with T1 and T2. This is sometimes handy and keep missing a key and hitting one that isn't used anyway - might as well set them both. Or when you two similar sets of keys, eg, normal move forward/back next to normal turn, then another set also with normal move forward/back but fine turning for beam-walking.

Nanol on 10/6/2004 at 21:16

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Hmm, yes, interesting that the default for high end graphics cards is 25, medium is 13 and low is 0. I think this is a rare error from Mr Tweakguide, but since I can't see the difference in image quality, it's hard to tell.

Mentalepsy on 10/6/2004 at 22:57

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Well, like I said, I was going off of what the readme file said...

Actually, though, I seem to remember trying out that slider, and higher does mean lower detail. On a high setting, shadows start flickering in and out when you get a certain distance from the light source...

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, or maybe I'm thinking of Shadow Detail. At any rate, are the defaults actually used for anything?

quakemazer on 10/6/2004 at 23:46

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I'll just edit the darkest level so that when it fades it'll be entirely black. The rest of the light levels should be ok. The fact that there stored in each game level (that's what you're saying right?) is a bit of a pain in the arse.Thanks again...


edit- hmm... the hudlightgem_01 texture already appears to be totally black... Darn this is kinda annoying :]

Eep on 12/6/2004 at 04:20

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A quick fix (thanks to SpammersDie via the alt.games.thief-dark-project newsgroup) to get rid of music and ambient sounds is to change "MusicAndAmbienceVolume=1.0" to 0 in default.ini under the [Cadence] section.

However, if you'd only like to remove certain sounds (like the annoying suspense crap) while still leaving in the truly ambient sounds like crickets and other natural sounds, check out my (http://tnlc.com/eep/thief.html) Thief page.