NOTEME 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.

NOTEME Working with brushes and building worlds.

• Building Principles – The old building principles documentation. Very concise.
• Breaking the Cube – Improving the look of basic architecture.

• Using the Time Value – Use the Time value to change the appareance of your terrain
• Smooth Curves using the 3 Cylinders Trick – Effectively double the number of sides in a cylinder
• Vaulted Arches – Make perfect vaulted arches using cylinders

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

• Using a Custom Gamesys – Link to this when telling people to use a custom gamesys
• Inheritance – Explains how properties are inherited via the hierarchy
• Copying Archetypes from one Gamesys to Another – NewDark’s DML feature makes this easier than it used to be

• 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.
• Knocking Out an AI in Dromed – A simple set of instructions for having an AI knocked out when your mission begins.

NOTEME Making things behave differently depending on the difficulty level.

• Controlling Lights by Difficulty

• 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
• Creating Doors That Don’t Alert the AI – Improve gameplay in some situations

NOTEME 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
• Deleting all objects from a mission – Delete all objects from a mission, or delete all objects of a certain type

• 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.

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

• List of Receptron Effects
• Creating a Custom A/R Stimulus

NOTEME Create interactive effects using conversations and custom scripts.

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

• Retexturing Brushes In-Game
• On/Off Window Lights with Matching Texture

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

• An Introduction to Scripts

NOTEME 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.