Thief 3 Tweaks - Requests and Discussion

tonsofquestions on 7/8/2004 at 08:08

Does anyone know if it is possible to enable reversed stereo? There isn't an in-game option like there used to be for Thief 1/2. Any help would be greatly appreciated; anybody who's had it happen know's how frustrating it is to be up against a wall, and see some people to your right talking, but hear the voices coming from the left.
Thanks.

Moriturus on 27/8/2004 at 07:27

This thread has a number of good tweaks, suggestions, changes, improvements, etc., that have not made it into the official "Thief 3 Tweak Guide" thread. Either this thread needs to be made a "sticky" thread, or these tweaks, etc. should be transferred over to the "Thief 3 Tweak Guide."

Mentalepsy on 27/8/2004 at 07:50

Quote Posted by Moriturus

I'll look through them this weekend if I have time and try to pick up any that I missed. Are there any specifically you can point out for me?

New Horizon on 27/8/2004 at 14:14

Quote Posted by paulcoz

Sorry if this has been discussed already. I just had a look at the file aicore.t3u.

It looks like there are some references to guard behaviour in this file which are not found in default.ini. These include the guards field of view, sensitivity to multiple pieces of evidence (presumably missing loot, open doors etc..), penalties which are applied to the AIs ability to search successfully if the player has evaded combat situations and is in a dark place etc.. Although, there don't look to be many alterable parameters in this file, just a whole lot of definitions of classes which the variables are to be stored in and some explanatory comments.

So, maybe there is a way to make the guards chase you more immediately and effectively?

I'm not sure if you can edit this file directly because there are a lot of strange looking characters (binary?) in it. You may need a DX2/Unreal tool of some sort to change it (assuming that doing so is of any use) or access the values it defines.

Anyway, I hope someone reads this and is intrigued enough to take a look at the file and perhaps find a way to make the guards smarter, coz' I sure as hell don't know what to do with this info. ;)

Paulcoz.

I sure wish I knew what to do with this information. Perhaps there is a way to make guards "hear" lockpicking. Ahhh, that would be nice. I would also love Garret to be blinded by flashbombs again for not looking away. I really miss how the old games penalized you for being a sloppy player.

sergelac on 28/8/2004 at 22:30

Quote Posted by Nupraptor

his face is present on each loading screen, at least I can remove it now.

I'm going to try and replace it with a picture of Garrett's face from the Thief 2/Thief Gold cover (whichever looks best). Failing that, I'll just black it out.

And if anyone would like copies of the .dds files after I'm done, I'll be glad to oblige.

can you send me the modified .dds files
my email is [email]tds@sergelac.port5.com[/email]

Nomad Prophet on 31/8/2004 at 14:29

I'm sorry if this has been stated before (this is a big thread) but Thief DS does have a built in frame rate counter so you don't have to use Fraps.

Just get your default.ini file in the system folder and where it says

StartupConsoleText=

make it say:

StartupConsoleText=stat fps

**EDIT ... p.s. and the same applies to Deus Ex: Invisible War ***

juveli on 4/9/2004 at 06:34

Quote Posted by tonsofquestions

I, too, would like to know if there's some solution to this.

WNxScythe on 28/9/2004 at 20:12

I tried using the lockpick graphic thing removal tweak (to make it harder for my own enjoyment) but it wont work... thief (DS) crashes everytime I try it right after the loading screen (b4 the menu comes up)... has anyone done it succesfully... I know the guy who made the minimalist project did... but I dont want all his modifications just this and a few others. If you succesfully did it can you either explain it in detail how or can you just give me your .ini so I can copy it into mine?

Thanks in advance.

SubJeff on 30/9/2004 at 10:30

Any chance of a raw list of tweaks in alphabetical order? I want to change specific things but can't find them or they are packaged with other changes I do not want.
Specifically-
-faster leaning
-faster walking
-smaller icons, health bar and compass

EthanGilchrist on 4/11/2004 at 20:42

Anyone have a working link to this file? The two I was able to locate on the boards here do not work. Heck if the file's less than a meg I'll turn around and host it myself. I've got paid space.