What new features would you like for the next NewDark update (Suggestions) - by Cardia
howeird on 1/7/2020 at 22:59
I have it set up that way already but i mistakenly stuck a thief gold fm in the thief 2 folder. I took me a week to figure out why everything was black in the fm.
I didn't know what "view info file" meant. Why doesn't it say "fm read me file" ? I really don't use most of those buttons in FMSel. The only ones i use are play, status, install, uninstall, & rating. The other stuff is worthless to me.
One other problem i have is with DromEd. I installed DromEd with the patch but if click on DromEd.exe the FMSel box comes up and not DromEd. Why is that ?
Edit: Thief Gold DromEd comes up. Thief 2 DromEd does not come up only FMSel.
Nameless Voice on 2/7/2020 at 01:05
Because it's opening FMSel for DromEd, to let you edit FMs if you wish. Just hit "Skip FM" if you want to launch it for the original game.
Most of the time, this is what you'd want in your FM-playing install.
Actual mission development should be done in a separate install anyway.
howeird on 2/7/2020 at 01:49
Why does a terminal named "Mono" come up when DromEd comes up in Thief 2 ? This does not occur in the gold DromEd. And, if i close the terminal DromEd closes
nicked on 2/7/2020 at 06:48
It's the monolog. It spews messages about the mission. It's part of Dromed.
howeird on 2/7/2020 at 10:26
I made some missions for myself years ago with the original DromEd but don't remember the terminal included. The missions i made always imploded. For some reason if one save became corrupted it would corrupt all the saves with no way to repair the mission because it would no longer load into DromEd. 'Too many vertices' was a common complaint from DromEd.
nightshifter on 2/7/2020 at 12:46
monolog came with New dark. Builder be praised for that:cool:
nightshifter on 2/7/2020 at 12:52
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
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Actual mission development should be done in a separate install anyway.
on the one hand I tend to disagree about that. I have my WIP's in seperate folders in the fm folder in my thief dir. works like a charm. all the custom goodies in the right folders. when done zipping up the entire content from that fm folder and done
on the other hand, I would be the last one to say you are incorrect.;) what makes, it is better to have seperate installs for building?
Psych0sis on 2/7/2020 at 15:37
I may be a bit naive but I do think the monologue has always been there, just that before NewDark it was just a .txt (maybe?) file you had to view AFTER the fact once dromed crashed... Which it did... a lot.
And still does :joke:
ZylonBane on 2/7/2020 at 20:27
Quote Posted by Psych0sis
I may be a bit naive but I do think the monologue has always been there, just that before NewDark it was just a .txt (maybe?) file
Mono
LOG. It was a log file. Hence the name. It's a pun.
Maybe someone should move the "(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8s9cNqZO4&t=45) Howeird Uses DromEd" posts to a different thread.
Nameless Voice on 2/7/2020 at 21:13
Quote Posted by nightshifter
on the one hand I tend to disagree about that. I have my WIP's in seperate folders in the fm folder in my thief dir. works like a charm. all the custom goodies in the right folders. when done zipping up the entire content from that fm folder and done
on the other hand, I would be the last one to say you are incorrect.;) what makes, it is better to have seperate installs for building?
No, that's fine too. I was actually going to suggest it, but it seemed too complicated to explain to someone who doesn't know how FMSel works with DromEd.
I still have different installs because I've had them since before NewDark.