The Dark Mod - Revision history

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	With the release of the Doom 3 source code in 2011, those that remained on the development team worked to untether TDM from Doom 3 (IDtech 4) which would allow people to play TDM without having Doom 3 installed. That required a tremendous amount of work, many D3 assets had to be replaced - especially to replace sounds, models, animations, and other D3 assets that TDM used. All that work eventually culminated in the standalone version of The Darkmod 2.0. After version 2.0, the team has worked to enhance and extend Id Tech 4 with new features and optimizations.		With the release of the Doom 3 source code in 2011, those that remained on the development team worked to untether TDM from Doom 3 (IDtech 4) which would allow people to play TDM without having Doom 3 installed. That required a tremendous amount of work, many D3 assets had to be replaced - especially to replace sounds, models, animations, and other D3 assets that TDM used. All that work eventually culminated in the standalone version of The Darkmod 2.0. After version 2.0, the team has worked to enhance and extend Id Tech 4 with new features and optimizations.

	The latest version is 2.10, which was released on ~~February 28th 2022~~ now has support for:		The latest version is 2.12, which was released on March 3rd 2024 now has support for:

	* Geometry Level of Detail ( LOD )		* Geometry Level of Detail ( LOD )
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	* PCSS Soft Shadows		* PCSS Soft Shadows
	* FFMPEG video		* FFMPEG video
	* Scrolling menus		* Scrolling menus
			* Subtitles
	* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )		* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )
	* 64-bit Color		* 64-bit Color
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	* GLFW Window Management		* GLFW Window Management

	[[What's new in TDM 2.10]]		[[What's new in TDM 2.12]]

	=== Webpage & News ===		=== Webpage & News ===

Nbohr1more at 01:46, 17 March 2022

2022-03-17T01:46:20Z

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	The first huge milestone was reached by January 2008, when the TDM team could delivered their first "alpha" mission [[Thief's Den]]. At this point, the game was far from being in a feature-complete state, but yet it was already possible to show off the mod's capabilities. The work on the Thief's Den release inspired the team to pull together, and an awesome progress rate was achieved during these few weeks before release. Everybody was pretty excited about the pre-release and motivated to ensure TDM would be as polished as possible.		The first huge milestone was reached by January 2008, when the TDM team could delivered their first "alpha" mission [[Thief's Den]]. At this point, the game was far from being in a feature-complete state, but yet it was already possible to show off the mod's capabilities. The work on the Thief's Den release inspired the team to pull together, and an awesome progress rate was achieved during these few weeks before release. Everybody was pretty excited about the pre-release and motivated to ensure TDM would be as polished as possible.

	Seeing the feedback to [[Thief's Den]] was a huge boost for the team. Although many had nearly burnt out themselves before release, the team decided to push even harder and deliver another demo - a larger one showing off more features. So development on [[The Tears of Saint Lucia]] started in early 2008, with the goal to show off a largely feature-complete mod by Summer 2008. This goal was missed by a few months, but in October 2008 Saint Lucia was finally released to the public. At this point, almost all features in TDM were implemented with the exception of Lockpicking and Melee Combat, and the feedback on Saint Lucia helped pointing out the remaining issues with the mod. Since Saint Lucia, team members have come and gone but continued effort has been made to fix bugs as players and the team find them.		Seeing the feedback to [[Thief's Den]] was a huge boost for the team. Although many had nearly burnt out themselves before release, the team decided to push even harder and deliver another demo - a larger one showing off more features. So development on [[The Tears of Saint Lucia]] started in early 2008, with the goal to show off a largely feature-complete mod by Summer 2008. This goal was missed by a few months, but in October 2008 Saint Lucia was finally released to the public. At this point, almost all features in TDM were implemented with the exception of Lockpicking and Melee Combat, and the feedback on Saint Lucia helped pointing out the remaining issues with the mod. Since Saint Lucia, team members have come and gone but continued effort has been made to fix bugs as players and the team find them.

	With the release of the Doom 3 source code in 2011, those that remained on the development team worked to untether TDM from Doom 3 (IDtech 4) which would allow people to play TDM without having Doom 3 installed. That required a tremendous amount of work, many D3 assets had to be replaced - especially to replace sounds, models, animations, and other D3 assets that TDM used. All that work eventually culminated in the standalone version of The Darkmod 2.0. ~~The Dark Mod was officially released on October 17th~~, ~~2009~~ and ~~since then has seen several updates~~.		The Dark Mod was officially released on October 17th, 2009 and since then has seen several updates.

			With the release of the Doom 3 source code in 2011, those that remained on the development team worked to untether TDM from Doom 3 (IDtech 4) which would allow people to play TDM without having Doom 3 installed. That required a tremendous amount of work, many D3 assets had to be replaced - especially to replace sounds, models, animations, and other D3 assets that TDM used. All that work eventually culminated in the standalone version of The Darkmod 2.0. After version 2.0, the team has worked to enhance and extend Id Tech 4 with new features and optimizations.

	The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:		The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:

Nbohr1more: /* History */

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	* Procedural Geometry spawning ( SEED )		* Procedural Geometry spawning ( SEED )
	* HL2 style skyboxes		* HL2 style skyboxes
			* Bloom and Tone mapping
	* Soft Particles		* Soft Particles
	* Cubemap Light projection		* Cubemap Light projection
	* Irriadiance Cubemaps		* Irriadiance Cubemaps
	* 64-bit builds		* 64-bit builds
			* AVX instruction support
	* GLSL Shaders ( OpenGL 3.3 specification )		* GLSL Shaders ( OpenGL 3.3 specification )
	* SMP (Multi Core)		* SMP (Multi Core)
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	* HRTF Positional Audio		* HRTF Positional Audio
	* Frame Buffer Objects		* Frame Buffer Objects
			* Vertex Buffer Objects
			* UBO Streaming
	* Shadow Maps		* Shadow Maps
	* PCSS Soft Shadows		* PCSS Soft Shadows
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	* Scrolling menus		* Scrolling menus
	* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )		* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )
			* 64-bit Color
	* Parallax Corrected Cube Maps		* Parallax Corrected Cube Maps
			* Shader based Gamma and Brightness
			* Resolution Scaling
			* Post-process Sharpening
	* Volumetric Lights ( God Rays )		* Volumetric Lights ( God Rays )
	* X-Ray Rendering		* X-Ray Rendering
	* 3Dc \ BC5 ( RGTC ) Normal Map compression		* 3Dc \ BC5 ( RGTC ) Normal Map compression
	* SIMD accelerated level loading		* SIMD accelerated level loading
			* GLFW Window Management

	[[What's new in TDM 2.10]]		[[What's new in TDM 2.10]]

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	* Irriadiance Cubemaps		* Irriadiance Cubemaps
	* 64-bit builds		* 64-bit builds
			* GLSL Shaders ( OpenGL 3.3 specification )
	* SMP (Multi Core)		* SMP (Multi Core)
	* Uncapped FPS		* Uncapped FPS

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	* EFX Reverb		* EFX Reverb
	* HRTF Positional Audio		* HRTF Positional Audio
			* Frame Buffer Objects
	* Shadow Maps		* Shadow Maps
	* PCSS Soft Shadows		* PCSS Soft Shadows

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← Older revision		Revision as of 01:10, 17 March 2022
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	* 64-bit builds		* 64-bit builds
	* SMP (Multi Core)		* SMP (Multi Core)
			* Uncapped FPS
	* EFX Reverb		* EFX Reverb
	* HRTF Positional Audio		* HRTF Positional Audio

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	The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:		The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:

			* Geometry Level of Detail ( LOD )
			* Procedural Geometry spawning ( SEED )
	* HL2 style skyboxes		* HL2 style skyboxes
	* Soft Particles		* Soft Particles

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	* HL2 style skyboxes		* HL2 style skyboxes
	* Soft Particles		* Soft Particles
			* Cubemap Light projection
			* Irriadiance Cubemaps
	* 64-bit builds		* 64-bit builds
	* SMP (Multi Core)		* SMP (Multi Core)

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← Older revision		Revision as of 00:23, 17 March 2022
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	* EFX Reverb		* EFX Reverb
	* HRTF Positional Audio		* HRTF Positional Audio
	* Soft Shadows		* Shadow Maps
			* PCSS Soft Shadows
	* FFMPEG video		* FFMPEG video
	* Scrolling menus		* Scrolling menus

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2022-03-17T00:22:54Z

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	The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:		The latest version is 2.10, which was released on February 28th 2022 now has support for:

			* HL2 style skyboxes
	* Soft Particles		* Soft Particles
	* 64-bit builds		* 64-bit builds
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	* Scrolling menus		* Scrolling menus
	* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )		* Ambient Occlusion ( SSAO )
			* Parallax Corrected Cube Maps
	* Volumetric Lights ( God Rays )		* Volumetric Lights ( God Rays )
	* X-Ray Rendering		* X-Ray Rendering