Thief's Rising, an 8 mission set for Thief DS - 21/04/2012

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 12:49

Quote Posted by gnartsch

I am not quite sure I understand what you want me to do.
Go and see if I can find more loot ?
How many loot is there in mission 2 ?
If there is more loot around then I have no idea where that might be.
Or do you require me to restart the mission on a level where 81 % would be sufficient ?

Yes, unfortunately you will have to play the mission again on a difficulty where 81% would be sufficient. Sorry about that!

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 12:55

Quote Posted by cardia1

ADSK1, at the beginning of the thirth mission i was able to climb that car with crates that is barricating the street and i was able to jump to the other side of the streets where by around the corner i see a skyboxe with houses silhuetes in the middle of the street :cheeky:

you might want to change this next time you update this sequel...Anyway i´m enjoying playing this sequel :thumb:

I did try to block that off with invisible walls but obviously there was a part that I missed!

Glad you're enjoying it though!

At the end of the sewer tunnel, on your right, a grate is missing from the passage, crawl inside and follow it to the end, then look up.

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 13:33

John P's Texture Pack

Don't know if this is common knowledge but you can apply John P's Texture pack to Thief's Rising to make it look better.

You need to have John P's Texture pack installed for the main game.
Then install Thief's Rising using GarrettLoader
Go to your ...ThiefDS\Collective Texture Pack\ folder
Run the ibt_patcher.exe application
Once it has loaded, set the 'Pick a preset:' drop down menu to 'All high res textures'
Click the green '+' to install
Then start the game!

Thank you John P!:thumb:

Note: If you change the installed FM you will need to re-install John P's textures next time you play Thief's Rising.

Judith on 26/4/2012 at 13:37

Quote Posted by Adsk1

Was still learning about the engine and editor back then and never got round to sorting that. The second mission is the same but without fog and then all the rest of the missions have proper sky boxes. I think it does look worse now, somehow, than when I used the Editor play version.

Thanks for the offer of the skyboxes, but I no longer plan to do any more to the FM. It is my first ever offering and I'm happy that I got it this far. Any future FM-ing will be done more thoroughly and professionally, though I expect that'll be with Thief 4.

EDIT: It's even worse with John P's texture pack! The star sky is grey compared to the original and it makes my hand made moon's edges show up.

You just needed to set similar parameters in your LevelInfo -> ZoneInfo and SkyZoneInfo -> ZoneInfo. Both sections are the same, you need to enable bDistanceFog and then match the parameters in ZoneLight section for SkyZoneInfo and LevelInfo to see whether it looks right.

(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/176/clipboard02tb.jpg)

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Urumo on 26/4/2012 at 14:31

Hi there,

THIS promises to be a very nice mission! Thanks to the Autor !

Unfortunately I'm still struggling with the language settings. I've read the posts above and tried/checked this so far:
1) the language setting in GarrettLoader is already set to english.
2) because I have the german version of TDS, the setting in user.ini is german. So I got into the user.ini and set the language there to english too. BUT after I save the file and check it again - I see that it has set itself back to "language=german". What am I doing wrong here?

I would really like to play this campaign. But it is difficult to play, when no objectives are displayed and on every readable it only says "german" and nothing else.

Could someone please tell me another trick and what to do to get that languages work properly ?

Many thanks in advance
Urumo

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 15:21

Quote Posted by Urumo

Just tried to use another language besides English by adding the [Locale] text to the user.ini file. However, it would appear that GL overwrites the user.ini each time the game is launched, so I checked in the ...\System\Default.ini file and found the following;

Quote:

[Locale]
;Qualifiers for locale will be specified as follows:
;__a-english, __f-french, __i-italian, __g-german, __s-spanish
;Search code for cConfigManager::Get().AddQualifier('a') for clarification
Language=english
;Language=french
;Language=italian
;Language=german
;Language=spanish
AudioLanguage=English
AggLanguage=EURO
AggLanguage_fren=French
; Add to supported languages as their translates become available, any
; language-setting attempt to a language not on this list will get the
; 'show tags' mode instead of the actual text on-screen.
SupportedLangs=english,french,italian,german

If you set the semi-colons for all the 'Language' parameters as above maybe it'll fix the language issue.
Fingers crossed!

elkston on 26/4/2012 at 15:37

I need someone to give me a hint on Mission 4 regarding the newspapers:

Broad question:

The two parts of town are separated by a bridge. I found 3 newspapers on the side of bridge where you start the mission. Are the other 3 on the OTHER side of the bridge or do I need to go back to the other side of town (without the gated houses) and find more papers?

Specific question

I can see what appears to be a paper in one of the guard houses right near the bridge crossing. Problem is, there is a bright light in front of the door to get in (which has to be lockpicked) and an un-BJ-able guard standing right in front. I can't see any way to distract him long enough to lockpick this thing. Is it possible? Is that note actually one of the papers? Is there any way to turn off the light?

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 16:08

Quote Posted by elkston

That is indeed the other paper! Two words, 'Gas Bombs'. Search the grounds of some of the other houses. Some gates are unlocked, some are locked but are unpickable and others are locked but CAN be picked. Also there is one area here that is accessible by climbing over a wall.

Urumo on 26/4/2012 at 16:21

ADSK1:
I checked that "default.ini" and it was already set exactly as shown in your post above. So I don't change anything in it. I think the :ebil: does not lie in here. Hmmmm ... don't know what to do now.

Greetings - and thanks for your quick answer anyway
Urumo

Adsk1 on 26/4/2012 at 16:46

Quote Posted by Urumo

Damn! I managed to change it so that I had the french version running, and like you had the books all saying just the word 'German' I had them all saying just the word 'French'. So I felt sure that was going to work.

Back to the drawing board.