Unobstructed Screenshots

LarryG on 20/10/2013 at 17:09

I need to take some screenshots of the council chamber. Is there any way to disable the lightgem & other console items for the screenshots? Also is there a simple way to make the AIs ignore Garrett for the screenshots? I really don't want to have to deal with them while I try to get the shots I need.

I don't have the T3 editor currently installed. If this is needed / recommended for the screenshots, let me know. I have the zip on a hard drive, and I figured it out once, so I should be able to do so again.

Thanks in advance!

snobel on 20/10/2013 at 20:55

lf you install my patch (link in the signature) and run the game once you'll find a file called SneakyOptions.ini in the User Options folder (which is where your savegames are). Edit that and set HUDScaleFactor=0

To be ignored by the AI see (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94149&p=2193691&viewfull=1#post2193691) this post and the following two. In the next patch version you can set DifficultyFactor=0 but not yet. :)

Can you reveal what the screenshots are for?

LarryG on 20/10/2013 at 21:40

Thanks. Sounds like what I need.

Sure, it's no big secret that I've been working on a T2 Keeper based campaign called Prequel. The screenshots are for the final mission in that2 campaign, as reference images. As you may recall, according to (http://thief.wikia.com/wiki/Stonemarket:_In-game_text#SM3aboutgarrett) Garrett's backstory, "Garrett studied with us until his early twenties at which time he was offered the chance to proceed with the Indoctrination Ceremony and become a Keeper. However, he lacked balance and instead expressed his intention to leave. The council voted we deal with him using the Enforcers, until Caduca informed us that Garrett was essential to overcoming difficult times ahead. And so our most promising acolyte left us." In the final mission of my campaign, I deal with Garrett leaving the Keepers.

LarryG on 20/10/2013 at 22:01

Hmm ... it doesn't like my T3. I'm using the T3Ed versions of T3.exe and T3Main.exe in order to avoid having to keep a CD in my machine ... should I restore the originals and do the patch and then replace them after? I've not installed T3Ed.

And where is user.ini?

snobel on 21/10/2013 at 10:17

Don't bother with the current release, apparently I set a lower limit on the scaling factor without thinking. :tsktsk: I've PMed you a beta which should make things easy.

LarryG on 21/10/2013 at 13:45

Thanks! I'll try that and let you know. I'll also restore T3Main.exe since you say that the T3.exe is the only one needing to be changed for No CD.

Edit: Seems to work just fine. Thank you very much. I got the shots I needed. BTB, I had never noticed the misaligned pillar in there, where the top half doesn't sit correctly on the bottom half. The things you don't notice when playing that you do notice when you actually look ...