News - DARKNESS WITHIN - Inquisition Campaign mod for Dawn of War

Life and modding goes on like the tide on the shore, back and forth, up and low, rise and fall.

Darkness Within campaign is nearing completion (again...) like a wave growing and moving forward.
When standing on the shore and comtempling the ocean you see it aproching the sand and wonder if it will make it to the beach or fall without noise.

Well... i need modelling work done : so if you have this kind of skill and are willing to create something pm me

what else ?

"hey Jag, learn 3d and stop bothering people !" ....well, this i should have done 10 years ago, it is better to have creation freedom than depending on others.

thanks for your support !!

JL

Hello felowers and friends,

After this long hibernation in statis mode i'm making a quick poll to see if Darkness Within is able to rise from the pit of oblivion and finally be delivered to the community.

My goal is to complete the first chapter of this campaign and make a public release.

I have no doubt that some copies of this work are scattered among a few members of the community, so be it ! Most of the beta testers were trustfull and honest people and respected their promise not to distribute it. Guys you will recognize yoursleves. thanks for your respect and honesty.

Some others, who made contact with me after DW mod went "dead", begged to test the campaign and promised to give feedback...Needless to say, i never heard a word from them after they grab the mod !

SO... If you are really interested in this project and willing to join me in this adventure , please say it aloud !

Darkness Within is UNIQUE in a lot of way, those who tested it and had access to it can confirm this

you are a scar Guru ? i want you !

you are a skilled modeller and know your way from 3ds to ingame models ? WE need you !

JL

I'm sorry to announce that the Darkness Within Campaign Project is dead and locked for an undetermined time.

The reasons that motivated this decision are multiple but among them the lack of solid and continuous communication between core members and the lack of reliability from our modelers have been decisive.

i do not wish than anything belonging to this project to be distributed and shared among the community,
even if i know that my will won’t be respected to the letter i asked you guys to try and keep this protected and hidden away from modding predators as much as possible.


A very special thanks to:

Argonaut:who made all this scar and gave a lot of blood and sweat for this project. i have been missing you for too long to keep the modding flame burning in the darkness. All words have already been said. i'll sit one day at your table and ask for some real food.

Jones1979 : SPASIBA ! for your support and invaluable help in the darkest times. if there is a relationship that came close to a real one, this is it !
i really enjoyed your company and presence here. i'm in debt.
Transmit my respect and apologies to the Russian community.

Gambit: yeah man! What a ride! i do liked your way of doing things and your ideas,
we had great and enjoyable conversations and you contributed some precious gems to our project. The daemon mod was a great adventure and you offered me the opportunity to give the best of myself.

Chiu ChunLing : bow to a master of code, very big thanks to you for your Masterclass Scar coding !
Thanks to you we were able to add a strong RPG flavor in DoW. it was a real pleasure to work with you.

Gunfood : if ever there is someone more reliable than you please someone introduce him to me.
You are strong loyal and trustful beta tester, if any project is looking for beta testing handle it to Gunfood.i hope you enjoyed doing all this for Darkness Within. I'm sorry that this project took all of your free time for such a result.

Dark40k: for your precious tools and useful advices, merci du fond du coeur.


i do not forget anybody, all those who contributed to Darkness Within know what they have done for it be it positive or negative. Thanks to all that have supported it during all those years.

JL

hello gamers and modders,

do anyone of you are able to report any problem with the mods you have already installed before steam update this month.

+are all your mods working correctly?

Those who know how we are working at DW and how we battled to make linear campaign happen in Dow DC again, also know that we pushed modding beyond any other mods out there because we have a couple of custom dlls mandatory to enable the custom linear campaign manager we are using for our Darkness Within Campaign, it also mean we may be the ony mod out there facing this problem.

our custom dlls interact with some of the game mechanisms in order to :

+clear the map list for any maps not present in the scenario/mp folder of Darkness Within,
+others are needed to enable data storage of variables (charchain, num value, boolean... ) outside of the player config lua file for use in latter subsequent or current missions
+others interact with the player placement on maps to ensure that player 1 is always the one present at starting location zero, a kind of "always fixed" starting location whatever you choose) (or not).....

IF steam block the execution of these custom dll THEN darkness Within wont be compatible with a Steam version of DC.

i don't know of people care or not, but this is going to be an issue for DC steam owners who try to play the mod in a near future.

furthermore, after last steam update for Dark Crusade, our main script Scar code is unable to start the mod and this is a big issue for future development of this project.

So before you make the steamjump check carefully what is going to happen.

JL

edit 09.June 2014 :

nothing comes from Steam, no news no moves. I'm seriously considering to make a petition that will ask for clear modding support for Steam-DoW, we need tools to go on bring additional content for this game.

edit : November 2014 : Steam dev answered our call and things are moving...for the greater good !

We are not dead, very far from it really.
This last mission is complete as far as mapping is concerned and i'm waiting for some crucial environment scenary model to be completed before i go on with coding.

The scenario for the mission is completed and i promised that i wont change a line anymore. It is a multipathed mission, not complicated or difficult to play but a curious player will have a lot to do, explore and observe if he want to bring the light into these darkness.
Darkness Within Book One is slowly creeping towards completion, have faith ! we will prevail.

JL