Thief 2 V1.19 & System Shock 2 V2.4

[The Illusive Man]

Holy sheet there might actually be a future for the System Shock and Thief games. Some random French dude (Le Corbeau) just bumped both System Shock 2 and Thief 2 right into the modern era. This is not just some texture revamp it contains a revamped level editor!

Look at the readme!

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A small sample of changes and fixes
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Renderer:
 - Added windowed mode
 - Added single display mode option - no resolution change between menus and game
 - Added ingame support for all common resolutions, including widescreen
 - Added support for 32-bit color
 - Textures can now be automatically promoted to 32-bit, improving quality and effectively eliminating the palette limit
 - Added UI framerate cap option to avoid GPU fan spinning up in UI
 - Added DDS/PNG image support
 - Added full 24/32-bit TGA/BMP image support
 - Increased the maximum number of frames allowed in animated textures from 20 to 99, and increased the allowable filename length for animated textures (before the underscore) to support more than 7
 - Animated texture rate can now be specified via a material file for that texture
 - Fixed a bug where Transparency property didn't (correctly) apply on objects that contain transparent polys

General:
 - Replaced video player lib with an FFMpeg based one to play cutscenes. LGVid.ax or other codecs are no longer required
 - Option to use OpenAL (if available) instead of DirectSound. Includes support for audio effects in Windows 7 without an EAX-enabled driver (e.g. ALchemy)
 - Added "head_bob" config var to control amount of head bob
 - Added mousewheel support to options menu
 - Fixed player ground contact tracking when walking off an object (caused footstep sounds to get "stuck" on previous material)
 - Fixed sound cap per schema type bug and upped max sound channels to 48
 - Changed screenshot output format to BMP and also added support for PNG screenshots
 - Changed mouselook sensitivity to be resolution independent
 - Added check to avoid trying to open files with reserved system name like com ports
 - AIs now breathe from their head instead of their stomachs. They will no longer drown when up to their waist in water.
 - Lowered player crouch height by a tiny fraction so he's less likely to get stuck on 4 unit tall spaces
 - Added better support for binding actions to the mouse wheel (can bind wheel up and wheel down as separate actions, with modifier key support)
 - Fixed star rendering
 - Added "log_player_pos" command that dumps current player pos to log file (when enabled)
 - Added the ability to detach from ladders by crouching
 - Improved mantling a bit and added optional new mantling algorithm with lower failure rate
 - Fixed a bug which limited number of sound channels to 16 even if more were selected
 - Fixed a bug that sometimes caused doors to float away into infinity
 - Fixed (or at least greatly improved) a bug with edge triggered OBBs sometimes failing to detect collision (in particular for slow moving objects)
 - Fixed framerate dependent speed issue for camvators/moving terrain (with collision type: none)
 - Added "fixed_star_size" option for resolution independent star size
 - Fixed some bugs when attaching to a ladder from water.
 - AIs who are facing very close to a wall will no longer turn to face south when the game begins
 - Fixed a crash when the "current" folder is missing (it will now be created)
 - Added an option to only use a single binding file, eliminating the "broken use/shoot mode" bug once and for all
 - Added option to have the quicksave save to a proper slot (now defaults to last regular save slot), complete with proper name (as opposed to "crouchhold")
 - Removed four junk lines at the bottom of the map window
 - Fixed gun jitter

DromEd:
 - Added support for full game mode backup/restore
 - Lightmaps are now properly displayed in the editor 3D view
 - Added support for HW rendering in editor viewports
 - Increased the maximum number of visible on-screen terrain polies from 1024 to 20480
 - Increased the maximum number of visible on-screen objects from 128 to 1280
 - Added some safety checks to object scaling operations to prevent objects with 1.#INF scale
 - Fixed a crash when computing pathfinding with an improperly linked moving terrain object in the mission. An ignorable assert is thrown and the object is skipped gracefully instead of crashing.
 - Prevented a crash if you apply a model of one creature type to an object assigned a different creature type
 - Fixed "Attempt to mark from invalid room id 0" assertion to actually show the room id that is invalid, instead of always showing 0.
 - Integrated csgmerge tool into editor exe
 - Added support for 32-bit lightmaps
 - Fixed the bug where cloning a multibrush with particles would duplicate every object in the mission
 - Fixed a bug where the game would crash when deleting a large multibrush
 - Added fallback check to find Motiondb.bin in resource paths
 - Fixed resource lock errors when loading TGA images (for object textures and distance art)
 - Fixed solo view editor issues when going back to edit mode from game mode
 - Added ability to change the brush colors in DromEd via values in DromEd.cfg.
 - Added light-based transparency property
 - Vast improvements to editor dialogs, including crash fixes and improved functionality
 - Increased brush limit from 7068 to 16384
 - Increased rooms limit from 1024 to 4096
 - Increased ambient sound limit from 256 to 1024
 - Increased cell limit from 28672 to 32760
 - Increased the maximum number of sides in a cylinder from 10 to 26.
 - Increased automap location limit from 64 to 256 locations per page
 - The texture rotation control can now interpret negative values
 - Fixed a crash while generating reports
 - Added a warning dialog when attempting to save one filetype (mis/gam/cow) as another
 - Added new Windows-style texture palette (which also supports more than 256 textures)
 - Added support for all editor window sizes
 - Added Pendulum (/sinusoidal) curve type to tweqs
 - Added DetailAttachement link type
 - Added Distance Alpha property
 - Added Bitmap Color property for custom modulation color on bitmap objects
 - Added "Face camera (axial)" setting to Bitmap Worldspace
 - Added color param, additive blending and spotlight cone falloff support to coronas
 - Added "Editor Comments" property
 - Added "show_vhots" command for debug visuals of vhot placement and numbering on objects
 - Manually deleting links in the link view dialog no longer deletes attached object for ParticleAttachement/DetailAttachement links
 - Added the ability to place graphical decals on book pages
 - Corpses with Contains links no longer count as pickpockets
 - The Auto-Multibrush property no longer crashes DromEd if the .vbr file was not found.
 - The stimulus on existing receptrons can now be changed
 - The intensity for sources is no longer reset when changing the propagator
 - The receptrons list now correctly shows the max intensity value for existing receptrons
 - Meshes can now be scaled with the Scale property
 - Scaled objects now cast properly scaled shadows
 - Objects can now obscure coronas
 - Bitmap Worldspace objects can now be locally lit
 - Precipitation will now collide with OBB objects as well as terrain
 - The brush_to_room command can now be given a negative number, to be interpreted as an absolute size instead of a percentage (e.g. brush_to_room -0.1 would create a room brush 0.1 units larger than the selected brush.)
 - It is no longer necessary to explicitly add the Hidden property to a secret object for the secret to be properly counted
 - Added numeric keypad input support
 - DromEd will no longer stop working after 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038
 - Added "scroll here" option to the right-click menu for solo views, similar to the "teleport camera" option for non-solo views
 - Fixed some issues with calculating which room cells are in (which might have caused problems with precipitation and fogging or elevable objects)
 - Increased the time range of Tweqs to 0-65535
 - The same property can no longer be added to an object multiple times
 - Fixed a crash when adding the Texture Anim Data property to a concrete object

 - See the included modders_notes.txt for more details on editor changes

Special thanks to the users of www.ttlg.com for linking to and archiving the files

thief 2 V1.19 :
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/33869454/file.html | md5 : 131cd0a1d9e626ee90e569571e8d0d01

System Shock V2.4 :
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/89847252/file.html | md5 : 907489eccafe1cab55b01386f17a8efd

And 2 demos for it :
Demo Thief (Bafford's manor) : http://depositfiles.com/files/9qzqrf7mu | md5 : 6f297e85577c6faa89f62805e00fbc74
Demo System Shock 2 (Med/Sci deck) : http://depositfiles.com/files/q50s53phw | md5 : 062a84c68c4ff2b759f0820aedfa6d2f

Mirrors

Thanks Briareos H :
Thief 2 v1.19 : http://anodal.org/thief/t2_v119.zip
System Shock 2 v2.4 : http://anodal.org/thief/ss2_v24.zip
Thief demo : http://anodal.org/thief/Thief_Demo_HD_t2_v119.zip
System Shock 2 demo : http://anodal.org/thief/Shock2_Demo_HD_ss2_v24.zip


Thanks Brethren :
http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2012/t2_v119.zip
http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2012/ss2_v24.zip
http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2012/Thief_Demo_HD_t2_v119.zip
http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2012/Shock2_Demo_HD_ss2_v24.zip

Thanks DarkDragon :
http://www.saleck.net/downloads/thief2/t2_v119.zip
http://www.saleck.net/downloads/systemshock2/ss2_v24.zip

Thanks Kolya :
Magnet

You have to see it to believe it! Huge, high quality pictures that do horrible things to tables.
http://imageshack.us/a/img228/9481/earthsky.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img513/4416/hybrids.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img26/3738/t1training.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img818/5608/t1sky.jpg

[Dakota Bob]

This is fuckin' great. Now System Shock 2 needs to be put on GOG.com on something and then I'll be a happy camper.

[RavynousHunter]

O.o  Holy fuck, that looks pretty damned cool.  So, I see the Thief improvement community isn't totally dead...that's good!  Now, if openDarkEngine would get some coverage...

[Sleepy]

Damn, I'm impressed by the Thief images. This is good to see.

[The Illusive Man]

Damn, I'm impressed by the Thief images. This is good to see.

The demo's are free. Patched editors to handle all of the improvements (graphical, engine, sound, ect) are included with each patch. See the readme that I spoilered.