HomeDeath's Turbid Veil
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Death's Turbid Veil v 1.1
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Author : Nick Dablin (nicked)
Contact Info : nickdablin@googlemail.com
Homepage : nickdablin.wordpress.com
Date of Release : 30th October 2014
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
==============================================================
If you know what you're doing, just install this mission using Darkloader or FMSel.
*** THIS MISSION REQUIRES NEW DARK PATCH v1.22 ***
If you're not sure where to begin, refer to the full installation instructions found in the separate Install.doc file.
v1.1 CHANGE LIST
==============================================================
* Changed how an objective works to make a disappearing AI bug less likely.
* Changed all terrain textures to dds format to reduce filesize and potentially increase framerate.
* Fixed a book that was getting cut off.
* Fixed some object textures that were not power of two.
* Updated some ambient sounds that were the wrong quality and playing as static on some PCs.
* Changed the colouring on some textures to make a puzzle clearer.
* Adjusted the position of an important object that was so close to some loot that it could be picked up accidentally without noticing.
* Moved a barrel to make some mantling easier - may still require new_mantle to be enabled.
NOTES
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* This mission requires the New Dark patch. The latest version at the time of writing is v1.22. This can be downloaded from here: http://thief.0815x.de/t2_v122.zip. If you do not have the latest version, the game will crash as soon as you try and boot it.
* Please ensure that new_mantle is enabled in your cam_ext.cfg file (New Dark settings file).
* It is also highly recommended that you install the Object Enhancement Pack by Nameless Voice, as this will significantly improve the model quality of the game's original objects and add greater consistency to the mission. You can download it here: http://www.thief-thecircle.com/download.asp?fid=1281
KNOWN BUGS
==============================================================
* This mission fully utilises the increased limits of the New Dark patch. As such, the system requirements are significantly higher than basic Thief 2, and you will possibly experience severe frame rate drops in outdoor areas with a low-end graphics card.
* Sometimes teleporting AIs can appear in weird places.
* It has been reported that a plot-crucial AI can sometimes disappear when being carried. This version has changes to the objectives that should reduce the possibility of this, but I was unable to find out the exact root cause of the issue, so it may still be present. If this issue happens to you, you may have to revert to an earlier save in order to complete all the objectives.
STORY
==============================================================
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man--
So glorious in his beauty and thy choice,
Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd
To his great heart none other than a God!"
- Alfred Tennyson, Tithonus
I recently paid a visit to an associate of mine, Lyle, who works at the City Museum, in an attempt to find a buyer for some antiquities I happened to have come into possession of. The man has delusions of nobility, and is usually on edge whenever I, a common criminal, go to meet him. This time however, he was clearly deeply worried by something and was acting even more flustered than usual. I wasn't going to pry, but partway through appraising my goods, he appeared to reach a decision, and started begging for my help.
Lyle's daughter, Marianne, recently got a job as a servant at the country estate of Lord Oswin Pavoni, a noble and explorer. Everything had been going fine, and she seemed happy with the work, until five days ago when she didn't come home. When he went to the house to try and find her, they told him she had disappeared and was missing, but would not let him in. Now the Watch have sent a detective to investigate, but no-one is telling Lyle anything.
He wants me to break into the house and find out what happened to her. He didn't have much to offer in return, but to sweeten the deal, he told me about a secret vault rumoured to be hidden somewhere in the house, and provided me with a list of valuable artefacts that I could get a good price for, were they to be liberated from the Pavoni estate.
Lyle's a useful man to know when I need to shift rare antiquities, and it couldn't hurt to have him owe me a favour. He's provided me with a map of the house and an advance on the artefacts I brought him so I can buy equipment. I'll be going in by dropping over the wall near the back of the estate. Once inside, I'll need to find out what happened to Marianne, and of course, locate that vault.
PLAYING INFORMATION
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Game : Thief II: The Metal Age
Patch : v1.22 New Dark required
Mission Title : Death's Turbid Veil
File Name : miss18.mis, tusc.gam
Difficulty Settings : Yes
Equipment Store : Yes
Map : Yes
Auto Map : No
New Graphics : Yes
New Sounds : Yes
Multi-Language Support : Not currently
Briefing : No
Length : N/A
Size : N/A
Installation : Refer to separate Install.doc for full instructions.
Difficulty Level Info : Normal, Hard, Expert - Extra Objectives on higher difficulty levels
* Construction *
Base : Built from scratch. The design of the mansion was based in part on the mansion from Assassin's Creed 2.
Build Time : About 2 months + a couple of weeks for v1.1
CREDITS
===================================================================================
***Sorry if I've missed anyone - give me an email or PM and I'll update the readme!***
Huge thanks to my Beta Testers for their tireless efforts to break things and suggest improvements:
ffox
nickie
Nightwalker
Peter Smith
Tannar
***Terrain Texture Families:
All custom textures created by me from images from cgtextures.com, with the following exceptions:
* Some carpet textures: created by me from images from 3d-diva.com
* New special water texture: created by me from an image from filterforge.com
* New standard water textures: vurt
* Fire: Eshaktaar
* Moon: created by me from public domain image
***Objects and meshes:
All custom objects created by me, with textures from cgtextures.com or filterforge.com, with the following exceptions:
* Animal Trophies: Jason Otto
* Painting textures: Wikimedia Commons
* Custom AI skins: Purgator (modified by me)
* Some Books and Bookcases: Pinkdot
* Chair, Plaque, Armour & Mask: TDBonko
* Wine barrel, custom sword, pink bottle: Targa
* Some trees, bushes, ivy, tropical plants, fountain, clock, keys, fishing rod, rowboat, shields: Daraan
* Keys: Digital Nightfall
* Necklace: Eshaktaar
* Crown: pkaa
* Ankh: NamelessVoice
* Hi-res Rat: LarryG
* Cobweb textures: Poisonessity (DeviantArt)
* Plates & hi-res ripple: From the EP by NamelessVoice
***Audio:
* Ambience: gigagooga
* Music: Sephy
* Vocals: Me
* Piano: Me using Garageband
All other sound effects from freesound.org users:
* Gas lighting sound: fogma
* Magic boom sound: sandyrb
* Plant sound: MaxDemianAGL
* Plant sound: ArcLegend05
* Pouring sound: tobias-sieben
* Splish sound: music-boy
* Splash sound: soundscalpel.com
* Magic gling sound: richerlandtv
* Key sound: egolessdub
* Ambience: JimiMod
* Ambience: fons
* Ambience: unfa
* Ambience: Corsica_S
* Ambience: jackie4ever
* Ambience: ERH
* Ambience: pogotron
***Scripts:
* Custom Scripts - NamelessVoice, Telliamed
SPECIAL THANKS
===================================================================================
Dussander and Tannar for the testing forum
Looking Glass for Thief
My wife Louise, for everything
Everyone who contributes to the TTLG forums for their help, encouragement and support over the years.
You, for playing!
LOADING INFORMATION
===================================================================================
FMSel and Darkloader compatible. Plays best with the Object Enhancement Pack installed (not required).
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
===================================================================================
This level is (c)2014 Nick Dablin
Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package
is kept intact. You may not include this level to any map pack without my
permission. No one may edit and re-distribute this mission without my express
permission.
This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos
Interactive.
Death's Turbid Veil v 1.1
==============================================================
Author : Nick Dablin (nicked)
Contact Info : nickdablin@googlemail.com
Homepage : nickdablin.wordpress.com
Date of Release : 30th October 2014
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
==============================================================
If you know what you're doing, just install this mission using Darkloader or FMSel.
*** THIS MISSION REQUIRES NEW DARK PATCH v1.22 ***
If you're not sure where to begin, refer to the full installation instructions found in the separate Install.doc file.
v1.1 CHANGE LIST
==============================================================
* Changed how an objective works to make a disappearing AI bug less likely.
* Changed all terrain textures to dds format to reduce filesize and potentially increase framerate.
* Fixed a book that was getting cut off.
* Fixed some object textures that were not power of two.
* Updated some ambient sounds that were the wrong quality and playing as static on some PCs.
* Changed the colouring on some textures to make a puzzle clearer.
* Adjusted the position of an important object that was so close to some loot that it could be picked up accidentally without noticing.
* Moved a barrel to make some mantling easier - may still require new_mantle to be enabled.
NOTES
==============================================================
* This mission requires the New Dark patch. The latest version at the time of writing is v1.22. This can be downloaded from here: http://thief.0815x.de/t2_v122.zip. If you do not have the latest version, the game will crash as soon as you try and boot it.
* Please ensure that new_mantle is enabled in your cam_ext.cfg file (New Dark settings file).
* It is also highly recommended that you install the Object Enhancement Pack by Nameless Voice, as this will significantly improve the model quality of the game's original objects and add greater consistency to the mission. You can download it here: http://www.thief-thecircle.com/download.asp?fid=1281
KNOWN BUGS
==============================================================
* This mission fully utilises the increased limits of the New Dark patch. As such, the system requirements are significantly higher than basic Thief 2, and you will possibly experience severe frame rate drops in outdoor areas with a low-end graphics card.
* Sometimes teleporting AIs can appear in weird places.
* It has been reported that a plot-crucial AI can sometimes disappear when being carried. This version has changes to the objectives that should reduce the possibility of this, but I was unable to find out the exact root cause of the issue, so it may still be present. If this issue happens to you, you may have to revert to an earlier save in order to complete all the objectives.
STORY
==============================================================
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man--
So glorious in his beauty and thy choice,
Who madest him thy chosen, that he seem'd
To his great heart none other than a God!"
- Alfred Tennyson, Tithonus
I recently paid a visit to an associate of mine, Lyle, who works at the City Museum, in an attempt to find a buyer for some antiquities I happened to have come into possession of. The man has delusions of nobility, and is usually on edge whenever I, a common criminal, go to meet him. This time however, he was clearly deeply worried by something and was acting even more flustered than usual. I wasn't going to pry, but partway through appraising my goods, he appeared to reach a decision, and started begging for my help.
Lyle's daughter, Marianne, recently got a job as a servant at the country estate of Lord Oswin Pavoni, a noble and explorer. Everything had been going fine, and she seemed happy with the work, until five days ago when she didn't come home. When he went to the house to try and find her, they told him she had disappeared and was missing, but would not let him in. Now the Watch have sent a detective to investigate, but no-one is telling Lyle anything.
He wants me to break into the house and find out what happened to her. He didn't have much to offer in return, but to sweeten the deal, he told me about a secret vault rumoured to be hidden somewhere in the house, and provided me with a list of valuable artefacts that I could get a good price for, were they to be liberated from the Pavoni estate.
Lyle's a useful man to know when I need to shift rare antiquities, and it couldn't hurt to have him owe me a favour. He's provided me with a map of the house and an advance on the artefacts I brought him so I can buy equipment. I'll be going in by dropping over the wall near the back of the estate. Once inside, I'll need to find out what happened to Marianne, and of course, locate that vault.
PLAYING INFORMATION
==============================================================
Game : Thief II: The Metal Age
Patch : v1.22 New Dark required
Mission Title : Death's Turbid Veil
File Name : miss18.mis, tusc.gam
Difficulty Settings : Yes
Equipment Store : Yes
Map : Yes
Auto Map : No
New Graphics : Yes
New Sounds : Yes
Multi-Language Support : Not currently
Briefing : No
Length : N/A
Size : N/A
Installation : Refer to separate Install.doc for full instructions.
Difficulty Level Info : Normal, Hard, Expert - Extra Objectives on higher difficulty levels
* Construction *
Base : Built from scratch. The design of the mansion was based in part on the mansion from Assassin's Creed 2.
Build Time : About 2 months + a couple of weeks for v1.1
CREDITS
===================================================================================
***Sorry if I've missed anyone - give me an email or PM and I'll update the readme!***
Huge thanks to my Beta Testers for their tireless efforts to break things and suggest improvements:
ffox
nickie
Nightwalker
Peter Smith
Tannar
***Terrain Texture Families:
All custom textures created by me from images from cgtextures.com, with the following exceptions:
* Some carpet textures: created by me from images from 3d-diva.com
* New special water texture: created by me from an image from filterforge.com
* New standard water textures: vurt
* Fire: Eshaktaar
* Moon: created by me from public domain image
***Objects and meshes:
All custom objects created by me, with textures from cgtextures.com or filterforge.com, with the following exceptions:
* Animal Trophies: Jason Otto
* Painting textures: Wikimedia Commons
* Custom AI skins: Purgator (modified by me)
* Some Books and Bookcases: Pinkdot
* Chair, Plaque, Armour & Mask: TDBonko
* Wine barrel, custom sword, pink bottle: Targa
* Some trees, bushes, ivy, tropical plants, fountain, clock, keys, fishing rod, rowboat, shields: Daraan
* Keys: Digital Nightfall
* Necklace: Eshaktaar
* Crown: pkaa
* Ankh: NamelessVoice
* Hi-res Rat: LarryG
* Cobweb textures: Poisonessity (DeviantArt)
* Plates & hi-res ripple: From the EP by NamelessVoice
***Audio:
* Ambience: gigagooga
* Music: Sephy
* Vocals: Me
* Piano: Me using Garageband
All other sound effects from freesound.org users:
* Gas lighting sound: fogma
* Magic boom sound: sandyrb
* Plant sound: MaxDemianAGL
* Plant sound: ArcLegend05
* Pouring sound: tobias-sieben
* Splish sound: music-boy
* Splash sound: soundscalpel.com
* Magic gling sound: richerlandtv
* Key sound: egolessdub
* Ambience: JimiMod
* Ambience: fons
* Ambience: unfa
* Ambience: Corsica_S
* Ambience: jackie4ever
* Ambience: ERH
* Ambience: pogotron
***Scripts:
* Custom Scripts - NamelessVoice, Telliamed
SPECIAL THANKS
===================================================================================
Dussander and Tannar for the testing forum
Looking Glass for Thief
My wife Louise, for everything
Everyone who contributes to the TTLG forums for their help, encouragement and support over the years.
You, for playing!
LOADING INFORMATION
===================================================================================
FMSel and Darkloader compatible. Plays best with the Object Enhancement Pack installed (not required).
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
===================================================================================
This level is (c)2014 Nick Dablin
Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package
is kept intact. You may not include this level to any map pack without my
permission. No one may edit and re-distribute this mission without my express
permission.
This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos
Interactive.
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