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The DarkMod Wiki:About

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This is the wiki that holds all the information relevant for editing and playing Dark Mod missions!

Main Page

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<p style="margin:2em 0 0 0; text-align:center; font-size:200%;">Welcome to the DarkWiki</p>
<p style="margin:0 0 3em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">We currently have <number> articles</p>

<table align="center" width="90%" cellspacing="10"><tr>
<td style="width:50%; vertical-align:top; padding:2em; border:1px solid #e1e1e1; background-color:#f9f9f9">

'''New to the site?'''

This wiki is focused on documenting the various aspects involved with developing The Dark Mod, for Doom 3. Please visit the about page or talk to some of our editors in #darkmod on irc.starchat.net if you want to learn more about this project.

'''Want to help?'''

As the modwiki is a community project, feel free to register and join us on this great endeavour! Please check out the style guide first and follow these guidelines. Visit open tasks to find out which pages need help. You can also visit the sandbox to experiment with the wiki markup language.

'''High quality links:'''

Other interesting Dark Mod related links:

<dl>
<dt>[http://www.thedarkmod.com www.thedarkmod.com]</dt>
<dd>The project website</dd>

<dt>[http://www.modetwo.net/darkmod www.modetwo.net/darkmod]</dt>
<dd>The project forum</dd>
</dl>

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<h2>Editing Categories:</h2>

<dl>
<dt>[[Installation]]</dt>
<dd>Information how to get The Dark Mod running</dd>

<dt>[[Editing]]</dt>
<dd>Information about level design and the tools</dd>

<dt>[[Textures]]</dt>
<dd>Explanation of material shaders and image files</dd>

<dt>[[Modeling]]</dt>
<dd>Modeling and file format information</dd>

<dt>[[Sound]]</dt>
<dd>Soundeffects, ambients and how to get them ingame</dd>

<dt>[[Coding]]</dt>
<dd>Source code modification, level and GUI scripting</dd>

<dt>[[Release]]</dt>
<dd>How to pack a mission, and get it tested and released!</dd>
</dl>

</td></tr></table>
<p style="margin:2em 0 2em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">(Create a new page by making a link to it, then click it. Or you can just go to www.evilarmyfilms.com/darkwiki/yourpagename)</p>

How to pack your Mission

2005-12-05T16:37:57Z

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You like, totally make a .pk4 and stuff which is just like a .zip file!!!

GOOD LUCK

Main Page

2005-12-05T16:37:29Z

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<p style="margin:2em 0 0 0; text-align:center; font-size:200%;">Welcome to the DarkWiki</p>
<p style="margin:0 0 3em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">We currently have <number> articles</p>

<table align="center" width="90%" cellspacing="10"><tr>
<td style="width:50%; vertical-align:top; padding:2em; border:1px solid #e1e1e1; background-color:#f9f9f9">

'''New to the site?'''

This wiki is focused on documenting the various aspects involved with developing The Dark Mod, for Doom 3. Please visit the about page or talk to some of our editors in #darkmod on irc.starchat.net if you want to learn more about this project.

'''Want to help?'''

As the modwiki is a community project, feel free to register and join us on this great endeavour! Please check out the style guide first and follow these guidelines. Visit open tasks to find out which pages need help. You can also visit the sandbox to experiment with the wiki markup language.

'''High quality links:'''

Other interesting Dark Mod related links:

<dl>
<dt>[http://www.thedarkmod.com www.thedarkmod.com]</dt>
<dd>The project website</dd>

<dt>[http://www.modetwo.net/darkmod www.modetwo.net/darkmod]</dt>
<dd>The project forum</dd>
</dl>

</td><td style="vertical-align:top; padding:2em; border:1px solid #e1e1e1; background-color:#f9f9f9">

'''Editing Categories:'''

<dl>
<dt>[[Installation]]</dt>
<dd>Information how to get The Dark Mod running</dd>

<dt>[[Editing]]</dt>
<dd>Information about level design and the tools</dd>

<dt>[[Textures]]</dt>
<dd>Explanation of material shaders and image files</dd>

<dt>[[Modeling]]</dt>
<dd>Modelling and file format information</dd>

<dt>[[Sound]]</dt>
<dd>Soundeffects, ambients and how to get them ingame</dd>

<dt>[[Coding]]</dt>
<dd>Source code modification, level and GUI scripting</dd>

<dt>[[Release]]</dt>
<dd>How to pack a mission, and get it tested and released!</dd>
</dl>

</td></tr></table>
<p style="margin:2em 0 2em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">(Create a new page by making a link to it, then click it. Or you can just go to www.evilarmyfilms.com/darkwiki/yourpagename)</p>

Main Page

2005-12-05T16:36:17Z

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<p style="margin:2em 0 0 0; text-align:center; font-size:200%;">Welcome to the DarkWiki</p>
<p style="margin:0 0 3em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">We currently have <number> articles</p>

<table align="center" width="90%" cellspacing="10"><tr>
<td style="width:50%; vertical-align:top; padding:2em; border:1px solid #e1e1e1; background-color:#f9f9f9">

'''New to the site?'''

This wiki is focused on documenting the various aspects involved with developing The Dark Mod, for Doom 3. Please visit the about page or talk to some of our editors in #darkmod on irc.starchat.net if you want to learn more about this project.

'''Want to help?'''

As the modwiki is a community project, feel free to register and join us on this great endeavour! Please check out the style guide first and follow these guidelines. Visit open tasks to find out which pages need help. You can also visit the sandbox to experiment with the wiki markup language.

'''High quality links:'''

Other interesting Dark Mod related links:

<dl>
<dt>[http://www.thedarkmod.com www.thedarkmod.com]</dt>
<dd>The project website</dd>

<dt>[http://www.modetwo.net/darkmod www.modetwo.net/darkmod]</dt>
<dd>The project forum</dd>
</dl>

</td><td style="vertical-align:top; padding:2em; border:1px solid #e1e1e1; background-color:#f9f9f9">

'''Editing Categories:'''

<dl>
<dt>[[Installation]]</dt>
<dd>Information how to get The Dark Mod running</dd>

<dt>[[Editing]]</dt>
<dd>Information about level design and the tools</dd>

<dt>[[Textures]]</dt>
<dd>Explanation of material shaders and image files</dd>

<dt>[[Modelling]]</dt>
<dd>Modelling and file format information</dd>

<dt>[[Sound]]</dt>
<dd>Soundeffects, ambients and how to get them ingame</dd>

<dt>[[Coding]]</dt>
<dd>Source code modification, level and GUI scripting</dd>

<dt>[[Release]]</dt>
<dd>How to pack a mission, and get it tested and released!</dd>
</dl>

</td></tr></table>
<p style="margin:2em 0 2em 0; text-align:center; font-size:94%">(Create a new page by making a link to it, then click it. Or you can just go to www.evilarmyfilms.com/darkwiki/yourpagename)</p>

Editing

2005-12-05T16:33:24Z

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The general hub for DarkMod specific editing - links to articles about:

[[AI]]

[[Sound Prop]]

[[Visportals]]

and other specifics that are relevant to the mod.

Installation

2005-12-05T16:33:08Z

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== Requirements ==

In order to install The Dark Mod D3 has to have at least patch for 1.1 installed. You can download the patch (insert link here). It is recommended that the installation path for Doom 3 contains no blanks as it might cause problems with some of the tools. Additionally it is recommended to keep all the paths lower case. This is especially important as Doom 3 can also run on other platforms like Linux where pathnames are different depending on their case (i.e. /home/sparhawk/Doom3 is a different path than /home/sparhawk/doom3). Windows does not have such restrictions but it happened on some systems that there were still issues with paths, as Doom 3 has it's own internal library of handling paths in a system independent way and therefore this might cause maps to break on some systems while they can work on others.

Depending on the operating system additional requirements may apply. Doom 3 currently supports Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Requirements for the various platforms will be added at a later point, when development has progressed to a state where it makes sense to ensure platform compatibillity.

== Installing The Dark Mod on Windows ==

In order to install The Dark Mod, once the requirements have been satsified, you should download the package which is provided (inert link here). In the distribution is a DLL contained named DevIL.dll which is required for image handling. Since as the time of writing there is no installer, so the user must install this library himself. To do this the DLL must be copied in the windows/system32 directory. The DLL can also be put in any other directory where a path is pointing to (meaning that the directory is included in the PATH environment variable when Doom 3 is run). If the library is not found when the mod is loaded, Doom 3 will show it's blue window and can not be started. The downloaded archive must be extracted directly into the Doom 3 folder which will create a darkmod folder in there with all files neccessary to run the mod.

== Installing The Dark Mod on Linux ==

Instructions on how to install The Dark Mod on linux will be added at a later point, as currently there is no development done to ensure linux compatibillity.

It is assumed that running a mod is consistent throughout the supported platforms. In case this turns out not to be true, we will add specific instructions for certain platforms later.
In order to run The Dark Mod, Doom 3 can be started normally. In the lower right corner you can see a button saying "MOD". Clicking on this button will cause a dialog to appear listing all the mods currently installed. You can select Darkmod by choosing the appropriate entry from the dialog and load it. This will cause Doom 3 to load the mod data and initialze the mod. For later releases it is planned to create a total conversion, which means that we will provide menu screens for all the various settings to be done in a consistant style fitting to the The Dark Mod universe. Since this is still under development, TDM maps have to be loaded via console commands using "map <mapname>". For instructions on how to use the console please refer to the game manual or tutorials which can be found (insert link to general tutorial site).

== Running the Mod ==

Alterantively The Dark Mod can be initialized directly from the command line (or via an icon from the desktop) by using the commandline
'''Windows:'''
"<path to Doom 3>/doom3.exe +set fs_game darkmod"

'''Linux:'''
"<path to Doom 3>/doom3 +set fs_game darkmod"

It is recommended to use this way of running The Dark Mod, as it appears that Doom 3 will handle paths more consistently then loading the mod manually.

Talk:Main Page

2005-12-05T13:14:19Z

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What's a Wiki? :) Guess I'll do a Google/dictionary search some time.

I just wanted to be one of the first to post something here.

Sincerely,
-Darkness Falls

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I totally created some new links and shit

-Fingernail

Editing

2005-12-05T13:07:40Z

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The general hub for DarkMod specific editing - links to articles about:

[[AI]]

[[Sound Prop]]

[[Visportals]]

[[Running the Mod]]

and other specifics that are relevant to the mod.

Editing

2005-12-05T13:04:51Z

Fingernail:

The general hub for DarkMod specific editing - links to articles about:

[[AI]]

[[Sound Prop]]

[[Visportals]]

and other specifics that are relevant to the mod.

Sound

2005-12-05T13:04:02Z

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A page about sound fx and ambients, how to include them in your map, and suchlike.

Textures

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This page will have articles and links relating to making and importing textures, and editing .mtr files and the like specific to the mod.

Main Page

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Welcome to [http://www.thedarkmod.com The Dark Mod's] wiki.

Here you can store all the info you want on The Dark Mod.

As Uncle Gay says in that gallantly lisping voice:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/god_is_my_goldfish/uncle.jpg

To create a new page, change the page title in the URL in your address bar to whatever your new page will be called.
Don't forget to save it!

Here's an example:
[http://www.evilarmyfilms.com/darkwiki/index.php/Test Test Page]

For ease of page tracking, first create the broadest page for your subject, then create a more specific one, but remember to include a link to the subpage from the main one. I.E. ''3D modelling'' '''then''' ''Modelling with lightwave''

Until we get a proper layout done, make sure you include a link to your page from this main page

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'''Links:'''

[[Modelling]]

[[Textures]]

[[Sound]]

[[Editing]]

Main Page

2005-12-05T13:02:07Z

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Welcome to [http://www.thedarkmod.com The Dark Mod's] wiki.

Here you can store all the info you want on The Dark Mod.

As Uncle Gay says in that gallantly lisping voice:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/god_is_my_goldfish/uncle.jpg

To create a new page, change the page title in the URL in your address bar to whatever your new page will be called.
Don't forget to save it!

Here's an example:
[http://www.evilarmyfilms.com/darkwiki/index.php/Test Test Page]

For ease of page tracking, first create the broadest page for your subject, then create a more specific one, but remember to include a link to the subpage from the main one. I.E. ''3D modelling'' '''then''' ''Modelling with lightwave''

Until we get a proper layout done, make sure you include a link to your page from this main page

Links:
[[Modelling]]
[[Textures]]
[[Sound]]
[[Editing]]