t2skies - Enhanced skies for Thief 2: The Metal Age

Contents

• Realistic star field, generated with t2stars (with default parameters).
• High resolution texture replacements for
  • The Moon (t2moon).
  • Clouds.
  • Distant art.
• t2skies.[c|exe] - a program that patches the celestial, sky, cloud deck and distant art parameters in the mis files (obsoletes t2fogskies, unless you don't want to use the high-resolution clouds and distant art).

Installation

Requires ddfix 1.4.3_alpha or later.

1. Backup your *.mis files - or, if you installed t2moon or t2fogskies previously, restore from the backups you should have made.
2. Extract this package (with paths) into your Thief2 installation directory. If you've previously installed t2stars or t2moon, some files may need to be overwritten.
3. Navigate to the t2skies directory and double-click on t2skies.exe. You will be prompted for each patching (type "y" and <enter>).
4. Put these settings in your ddfix.ini:
   • Thief2Extensions=1
   • EnableFogFix=1
   • EnableLifeOfThePartyFogFix=1
5. If your ddfix replacement texture path is not the default (RES/ddfix), then move the directory RES/ddfix/t2skies to the correct place (to the directory pointed to by "TexturePath" in ddfix.ini).
6. If you installed t2moon previously, the "pmoon" replacement texture directory is now unused and can be removed.

Uninstallation

• Remove the file FAM/skyhw/STARS.BIN (and to save space and avoid clutter, any and all files extracted from this package).
• Restore the mis files from backups that you made before installation.

Screenshot

Ambush! with t2skies