R Soul on 6/10/2018 at 17:30
10 years ago CoSaS 2: Mission X was released.
Over time it has become harder and harder to get Mission X to work on modern computers. It became clear that the problem was that many of the custom scripts were written especially for this mission, so they didn't get updated like the more general purpose ones used by many other FMs.
Those scripts have now been rewritten using a scripting system that comes with NewDark, so they should work reliably for the foreseeable future. In addition to the scripting update, I also tweaked some textures and objects, and I moved a writing set/copy kit which made perfect ghosting impossible.
Near the entrance you will see a small tribute to MsLedd.
This update could not have been done without help from Telliamed and Mortal Monkey, plus Anarchic Fox and Digital Nightfall (in case his employers are reading this, he didn't do any editing, just provided PDFs of old documentation!).
The mysterious "Le Corbeau" deserves many thanks too. Not only for NewDark, which is awesome, but for making it much easier to write custom scripts, which made this patch possible.
The update has been tested by GUFF and Baal.
Requirements:
* You must be using Thief 2 version
1.26. It may load with 1.25, and should work just as well, but that hasn't been verified.
* The file 'squirrel.osm' must be in your Thief2 folder.
Be aware that old save games are not compatible with this update.
Download links:
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http://www.mediafire.com/file/bxw9u90kqoq4xx8/CoSaS2_MissionX_v114.zip/file)
Mirror 1:
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http://fms.derfy.net/CoSaS2_MissionX_v114.zip) (thanks to derfy)
Mirror2:
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http://download.darkfate.org/fan-missions/thief2/cosas/part_2/CoSaS2_MissionX_v114.zip) (thanks to Glypher)
(330MB)
Below is an alternative version in which the movies are in Divx format. Those movies were obtained from the (
http://thiefmissions.com/m/COSAS2MissionX) thiefmissions page. Thanks to NewDark, these movies
do now play in game.
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http://www.mediafire.com/file/dx6f76fadv2fczv/CoSaS2_MissionX_v114_divx.zip/file)
Mirror 1:
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http://download.darkfate.org/fan-missions/thief2/cosas/part_2/CoSaS2_MissionX_v114_divx.zip) (thanks to Glypher)
(220MB)
You will notice that the total file size is quite a bit lower, but all other files are identical.
For further reading, the thread announcing the previous update is here:
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123244)
And here is the original release thread (with pictures):
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122490)
R Soul
Beltzer on 6/10/2018 at 17:46
Thanks :)
Gloria Creep on 6/10/2018 at 18:13
Cool. :angel:
Dahenjo on 6/10/2018 at 22:28
Thanks for doing this, Robin. Do movies in some other format than DivX play in game in the regular version? If so, which version provides higher quality on a fairly powerful system?
R Soul on 7/10/2018 at 01:16
I don't know a lot about movie formats, but NewDark comes with ffmpeg.dll, which I think gives it support for a wide variety of formats (but the .avi extension is needed). I'm not sure what you mean by the 'regular version', bit I can't see any difference in quality between the two types of video. It may be that the reduced file size is the main benefit.
downwinder on 7/10/2018 at 01:45
grats on release
Yandros on 7/10/2018 at 04:05
Thank you for this tremendous effort and for taking care of this classic old milestone FM, and insuring it can be played by future taffers, Robin.
Dahenjo on 7/10/2018 at 13:52
Quote Posted by R Soul
I don't know a lot about movie formats, but NewDark comes with ffmpeg.dll, which I think gives it support for a wide variety of formats (but the .avi extension is needed). I'm not sure what you mean by the 'regular version', bit I can't see any difference in quality between the two types of video. It may be that the reduced file size is the main benefit.
Thanks, I thought maybe we needed to use the alternative version in order to have the in-game movies, or if both versions did have them which one looked better. Went with the regular/non-alternative version and all is working fine so far, plus it's good excuse to replay this wonderful classic.