Using Dromed

How to configure and use Dromed.

• The Views This was a bad addition Either fix it, or delete the topic.
• Custom Menus How to make your own menu.

Working with brushes and building worlds.

• Building Principles – The old building principles documentation. Very concise.

• Using the Time Value – Use the Time value to change the appareance of your terrain

• Importing a Custom Texture – Importing textures and saving the changes

• Making an AI Pause on Patrol
• Alerting Friendly AI with Lockpicking – Puts back some of the tension that is lost when AI don’t automatically attack you.
• Making an AI Pick Up a Weapon – Making an AI run for a weapon if they see you.

• Creating a CamVator Sequence – How to create a CamVator sequence.
• Glyph Doors – How to create Glyph Doors like in T3 and What Lies Below
• Creating New Types Of Roombrush – These are good for automaps, ‘go to room’ goals, event triggering etc
• Thief 2 Pickpocket Count Bug – Fixing Thief 2 pickpocket count bug
• Using a Custom Gamesys – Link to this when telling people to use a custom gamesys
• Inheritance – Explains how properties are inherited via the hierarchy

Making the best use of the object hierarchy, and adding properties, meta-properties, and links.

• Combination Locks – Just like Shipping and Receiving
• Reducing Object Count – Getting as much out of your objects as possible
• Creating a ‘Mission Start’ trigger – Useful for triggering doors/conversations etc when the mission starts

• List of object properties
• List of link types
• List of mission variables
• List of gamesys variables
• List of AI behaviors

• Lockable Light Switches – Create lockable light switches like those in Mission X
• Advanced Lockpick System – Use the Advanced Pick System to make more challenging locks in Dromed 2.

• ‘Bring Object to Location’ Objectives – This is a subject that comes up quite a lot.
• Steal Multiple Objects – Stealing all specified objects, or a certain number of them.

Taking advantage of the complexities of the act-react system.

• List of Receptron Effects

Create interactive effects using conversations and custom scripts.

• The TrapTimedRelay Problem – A useful script that could cause problems.

• Retexturing Brushes In-Game

• The use of Genies (or ‘Helper AIs’)
• Using InvCarryOver & InvLoadUp – How to carry over objects between missions (using tnhScript).

• An Introduction to Scripts

Fixing problems, or at least finding out who to blame.

• Anatomy of a Crash Dump – Learn how to read the crash dump from a monolog.