Unfortunately that statue won't convert from bin to e, so any material shader changes would have to be made in the bin file itself. I did a brief comparison comparing two versions of one of my objects, one with phong and one without, but I wasn't able to see a connection between their differences and any of the hex values in dstat3.bin.

my Dromed crashes when trying to load the fixed model. guess I will have to wait until you install Thief.

yeah, whatever will remove that weird blocky look of the original model - smoothing seem to have done the trick. added some more models.

Dromed Basic Toolkit (should have all the tools included): http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141708

I wasn't aware of that, good to know. anyway, the proper tools should be included in the toolkit I've linked.

there is a basic fixed model set that is installed even if you do not check anything. if you want to disable those as well, let me know.

I don't think it's necessary, as there is no need to make fixed models for those models which have already been fixed.

I have just tried TG clean + TFix + Dromed basic + Dromed.exe and darkdlgs.dll from the T2 1.21 NewDark package, and it seems to be working fine when going ingame. make sure you copy over those two NewDark files.

the original EP would be the Thief equivalent of SHTUP - a must have, at least on my list. it does pretty much the same thing - replaces many awfully lowpoly objects and their textures with a much finer versions. you can install it via TFix (just run the installer again).

there are a few world texture mods out there, but not many - one texture pack is included in TFix, those are basically a higher res replacement textures from Thief2, there is Tin's pack which does not even try to stay true to the originals, and EP2 beta, which still has some beta stuff going on. I would probably leave them be for now (although EP might have some more obj models included, I will probably have to have a look).


oh, and you'll probably want to activate the editor hw rendering if you haven't done that already, edit dromed.cfg, scroll down and uncomment

editor_disable_gdi
edit_screen_depth 32

EP (Thief Enhancement Pack) is what you need.

no, because it's one of those models which do not have an EP replacement.

yeah, to upgrade the rest of the models (EP has over 300), both modeling and texturing work would be required.

EP includes a very nice set of updated swords, unfortunately, with very broken hands. I did report this at least once, but it seems like either the original modeler is not available anymore or they have bigger fish to fry. attaching the models in a newdark mod format (you will need to have TFix installed, then just extract into USERMODS. to view the models ingame, start any mission before "the Sword" to see the regular sword, and any mission after that to see the Constantine's sword. block with the sword to see the broken parts).

also, pita warning, this won't be a one-click-and-done fix. I should be able to tweak the textures myself (the ones included are actually the ones I've already tweaked for the TFix custom models) when the models are fixed.

//attaching the unmodified hand texture just in case.