This is an unofficial patch for Thief II: The Metal Age.
Requirements:
· Thief II: The Metal Age
What's New in This Release: \
Renderer:
· Added windowed mode
· Added single display mode option - no resolution change between menus and game
· Added ingame support for all common resolutions, including widescreen
· Added support for 32-bit color
· Textures can now be automatically promoted to 32-bit, improving quality and effectively eliminating the palette limit
· Added UI framerate cap option to avoid GPU fan spinning up in UI
· Added DDS/PNG image support
· Added full 24/32-bit TGA/BMP image support
· Increased the maximum number of frames allowed in animated textures from 20 to 99, and increased the allowable filename length for animated textures (before the underscore) to support more than 7
· Animated texture rate can now be specified via a material file for that texture
· Fixed a bug where Transparency property didn't (correctly) apply on objects that contain transparent polys
General:
· Replaced video player lib with an FFMpeg based one to play cutscenes. LGVid.ax or other codecs are no longer required
· Option to use OpenAL (if available) instead of DirectSound. Includes support for audio effects in Windows 7 without an EAX-enabled driver (e.g. ALchemy)
· Added "head_bob" config var to control amount of head bob
· Added mousewheel support to options menu
· Fixed player ground contact tracking when walking off an object (caused footstep sounds to get "stuck" on previous material)
· Fixed sound cap per schema type bug and upped max sound channels to 48
· Changed screenshot output format to BMP and also added support for PNG screenshots
· Changed mouselook sensitivity to be resolution independent
· Added check to avoid trying to open files with reserved system name like com ports
· AIs now breathe from their head instead of their stomachs. They will no longer drown when up to their waist in water.
· Lowered player crouch height by a tiny fraction so he's less likely to get stuck on 4 unit tall spaces
· Added better support for binding actions to the mouse wheel (can bind wheel up and wheel down as separate actions, with modifier key support)
· Fixed star rendering
· Added "log_player_pos" command that dumps current player pos to log file (when enabled)
· Added the ability to detach from ladders by crouching
· Improved mantling a bit and added optional new mantling algorithm with lower failure rate
· Fixed a bug which limited number of sound channels to 16 even if more were selected
· Fixed a bug that sometimes caused doors to float away into infinity
· Fixed (or at least greatly improved) a bug with edge triggered OBBs sometimes failing to detect collision (in particular for slow moving objects)
· Fixed framerate dependent speed issue for camvators/moving terrain (with collision type: none)
· Added "fixed_star_size" option for resolution independent star size
· Fixed some bugs when attaching to a ladder from water.
· AIs who are facing very close to a wall will no longer turn to face south when the game begins
· Health bar drawing adjusted in widescreen
· Added option to fix arm rendering
· Added AA to rendering of loadout screen items
· Fixed pickpocket count bug that would always show 1 more maximum pickpocket than there actually was.
· Added "Blocks frobs" property, allowing objects to block frobs of objects behind them (e.g. to stop frobbing items through safe doors)
· Added option to left-align map notes text
· Made navigation of map/objectives screen a little bit more in-game friendly (screen can also be closed with space, arrow key navigation and return to switch map/obj)
DromEd:
· Lightmaps are now properly displayed in the editor 3D view
· Added support for HW rendering in editor viewports
· Increased the maximum number of visible on-screen terrain polies from 1024 to 20480
· Increased the maximum number of visible on-screen objects from 128 to 1280
· Added some safety checks to object scaling operations to prevent objects with 1.#INF scale
· Fixed a crash when computing pathfinding with an improperly linked moving terrain object in the mission. An ignorable assert is thrown and the object is skipped gracefully instead of crashing.
· Prevented a crash if you apply a model of one creature type to an object assigned a different creature type
· Fixed "Attempt to mark from invalid room id 0" assertion to actually show the room id that is invalid, instead of always showing 0.
· Integrated csgmerge tool into editor exe
· Added support for 32-bit lightmaps
· Fixed the bug where cloning a multibrush with particles would duplicate every object in the mission
· Fixed a bug where the game would crash when deleting a large multibrush
· Added fallback check to find Motiondb.bin in resource paths
· Fixed resource lock errors when loading TGA images (for object textures and distance art)
· Fixed solo view editor issues when going back to edit mode from game mode
· Added ability to change the brush colors in DromEd via values in DromEd.cfg.
· Added light-based transparency property
· Added ability to enable/disable eye zoom in Thief 2
· Vast improvements to editor dialogs, including crash fixes and improved functionality
· Increased brush limit from 7068 to 16384
· Increased rooms limit from 1024 to 4096
· Increased ambient sound limit from 256 to 1024
· Increased cell limit from 28672 to 32760
· Increased the maximum number of sides in a cylinder from 10 to 26.
· Increased automap location limit from 64 to 256 locations per page
· The texture rotation control can now interpret negative values
· Fixed a crash while generating reports
· Added a warning dialog when attempting to save one filetype (mis/gam/cow) as another
· Added new Windows-style texture palette (which also supports more than 256 textures)
· Added support for all editor window sizes
· Added Pendulum (/sinusoidal) curve type to tweqs
· Added DetailAttachement link type
· Added Distance Alpha property
· Added Bitmap Color property for custom modulation color on bitmap objects
· Added "Face camera (axial)" setting to Bitmap Worldspace
· Added color param, additive blending and spotlight cone falloff support to coronas
· Added "Editor Comments" property
· Added "show_vhots" command for debug visuals of vhot placement and numbering on objects
· Manually deleting links in the link view dialog no longer deletes attached object for ParticleAttachement/DetailAttachement links
· Added the ability to place graphical decals on book pages
· Corpses with Contains links no longer count as pickpockets
· The Auto-Multibrush property no longer crashes DromEd if the .vbr file was not found.
· The stimulus on existing receptrons can now be changed
· The intensity for sources is no longer reset when changing the propagator
· The receptrons list now correctly shows the max intensity value for existing receptrons
· Meshes can now be scaled with the Scale property
· Scaled objects now cast properly scaled shadows
· Objects can now obscure coronas
· Bitmap Worldspace objects can now be locally lit
· Precipitation will now collide with OBB objects as well as terrain
· The brush_to_room command can now be given a negative number, to be interpreted as an absolute size instead of a percentage (e.g. brush_to_room -0.1 would create a room brush 0.1 units larger than the selected brush.)
· It is no longer necessary to explicitly add the Hidden property to a secret object for the secret to be properly counted
· Added numeric keypad input support
· DromEd will no longer stop working after 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038
· Added "scroll here" option to the right-click menu for solo views, similar to the "teleport camera" option for non-solo views
· Fixed some issues with calculating which room cells are in (which might have caused problems with precipitation and fogging)
· Increased the time range of Tweqs to 0-65535
· The same property can no longer be added to an object multiple times
· Fixed a crash when adding the Texture Anim Data property to a concrete object
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