Hi,

I've just bought the game and I've installed it and all. Steam is also finished updating, but now I want to start mapping. Do I need to download the patches from the site first or has steam dowloaded that already? Furthermore, what do I need to do after I've downloaded the necessary stuff?
Thnx for help (in advance )

Steam should have installed the patches automatically.

For mapping, Hammer will be your primary tool, to gain access to this you need to download the SDK found under the Tools tab in steam.

The DMOMM SDK hasn't been released as of yet but there are some work arounds to get hammer to work with DMOMM, try looking through this forum.

If your new to mapping theres plenty of tutorials at:

www.interlopers.net
www.iwannamap.com
www.snarkpit.net

thnx =).

I've looked on the forum now and I found a file which has instructions on how to make it work. I've almost done it. Except for the last step. The document sais:

You will need to extract;

The materials directory from the following GCF files, MM_MP_Generic.gcf &
MM_MP_Materials.gcf, into the root of "Steam\SteamApps\<UserName>\Dark
Messiah Might And Magic Multi-player"

The models directory from the following GCF file, MM_MP_Models.gcf, into the root
of "Steam\SteamApps\<UserName>\Dark Messiah Might And Magic Multi-player"

Additionally you will need to extract surfaceproperties_arkane.txt and
surfaceproperties_kuju.txt from MM_MP_Engine.gcf to
"Steam\SteamApps\<UserName>\Dark Messiah Might SDK\mm\Scripts"

I do not understand how I can extract those files from .gcf files. Is there anybody who knows how to do it?

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=25

Download GCFScape and you can use that to extract the files.

thnx . that was helpful.

Now I just don't understand the last step:

Additionally you will need to extract surfaceproperties_arkane.txt and
surfaceproperties_kuju.txt from MM_MP_Engine.gcf to
"Steam\SteamApps\<UserName>\Dark Messiah Might SDK\mm\Scripts"

I can't find the .txt files and I also can't find the folder in which I'm supposed to put it (Dark Messiah Might SDK).
Is this just because I'm stupid or do I need to create the folder? (or something entirely different :P)

For the txt fiels I jsut did a search from the start menu and pasted the name of the document, and as for where you put them, I can't really remember I did this ages ago, but I think you might have to make it, don't take my word though, just a random unedumacated guess.