My DtS/MoT mod

[Liz Shaw]

It's finally here, after nearly four years. v15.0 is here, and with it a fully-revamped Hotel and Embassy. I didn't mean to leave it for this long to finish it, but again, I had other projects to work on, like getting Would You Kindly finished first. But I'm glad I got it finished before resuming work on v15.0 in hindsight, as the last minute changes getting Would You Kindly out the door first taught me some new things about AI in the Death to Spies series, and I have applied those experiences to the MoTmod Addon - you will now find more NPCs won't just suddenly freeze when you're a certain distance or facing away from them in some missions.

This is the first release since Windows 7 first lost support, and now with ESU for that OS ending this January, I felt that the time had finally come to migrate my work to my new Windows 10 computer, and with that comes buying the Steam versions of DtS and MoT. As a result, this is the first release to support the Steam version, as well as higher screen resolutions.

With a new computer, comes old methods of capturing MoT footage, in more glorious framerate and quality than before, and as a result, this is the first version since v13.0 to come with a release video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtmYMNuEo3Y

Here are the links to the new version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/suhxrgzng1...V15.0.rar?dl=0

https://mega.nz/file/3k1WAKQS#MbfOuR...zrJx0o-LytL28U

And finally, here's the changelog:

• The property "AI_CanLookPlayer" has been implemented for all NPCs in Jagdpanther, Winter Cold, Stronghold, Paycheck and Eight Snipers.
• Dietrich Meltzer's logic has been changed from 5 ("GoalMan") to 8 ("PassiveEnemy") so his "AI_CanLookPlayer" property works properly (Jagdpanther).
• Civilians whose jobs were changed in MoTmod Addon v14.0 should now face their default direction if they moved for whatever reason (Winter Cold).
• All peasants in Paycheck now have the "AI_CanGoAside" property.
• All wardens in Removal now have a duplicate of the property "AI_DontRelaxAfterAlert" removed.
• The mission tips in Removal and Embassy now appear only on Easy difficulty.
• Some workers in the barracks area have been reverted back to soldiers (Lightning).
• The subtitles for the informer's message to Strogov in White Head have been split into two parts, so the full text can be viewed properly on all players' monitors.
• Fixed a bug where the fireplaces in some of the guest rooms in Hotel fail to load their texture if you set your language for non-Unicode programs to Russian.
• Fixed a typo in the tip about identifying different uniforms in Training.
• A table in one of the tents no longer clips through to the point where a small portion of it is seen from outside (Training).
• Katyusha now plays on a radio in the bunker, in the room where you have to take out the radio operator (Training).
• All lockers in the seventh tower now have Wehrmacht uniforms inside them instead of SS ones (Eight Snipers).
• Some NPCs no longer freeze at inopportune moments or when you're a certain distance away from them in Winter Cold, Stronghold, Paycheck, Project Y, Eight Snipers, White Head and Renegades.
• Did a cleanup of Renegades' SWD - got rid of all traces of the now-deprecated AI Form "Soldier" and fixed a bug with one of the tankmen still having this from registered as his AI Body Form.
• Fixed a bug which causes an FBI agent having a drink in the main hall of Tsavalov's house to drop dead as if you poisoned him if you poison Ivan Melnik's wine in White Head and then at any time afterwards play Shefferd in the same game session - the bug is a result of unused poisoning triggers present in Shefferd's SWD file.
• The sniper in White Head will no longer "discover" any bodies inside his shed, causing him to raise the alarm even though he's supposed to be sleeping for the entire mission.
• Actor "WHeadSpy" will now engage in conversation with British civilian Actors.
• The soldiers who guard the top entrances to the final towers will now periodically step away from their posts on Saboteur difficulty to make crossing the bridge and entering the towers in front of them easier (Eight Snipers).
• The guards inside the sixth tower will now have different jobs on Saboteur difficulty, to make it easier to non-lethally take out the sniper on top of that tower (Eight Snipers).
• The guard and officer standing outside the final tower have their "AI_GuardOnStrangeSound" properties disabled so they don't cause problems on Saboteur difficulty when you punch the sniper on top of that tower (Eight Snipers).
• Hotel and Embassy have been fully revamped.
• There are now new paintings in Hotel and Embassy, most of which are real ones made by British artists, except for one painting, which is Peter Breughel the Elder's "The Hunters in the Snow".
• muz_ger_6 has again been replaced, this time with the US version of muz1_ger_loop, while the UK version of muz1_ger_loop (Alte Kameraden) is now part of the MoTmod Addon.
• Fixed a bug where attempting to change into an RKKA infantry soldier's uniform causes the game to crash - the model of Strogov wearing said uniform was never put in the addon folder for some reason.
• Fixed several spacing issues in various mission objective texts in MoT missions, the difficulty description texts, and at least one tip in Training for those who play on higher screen resolutions.
• The steam engine in Eight Snipers now has its original DtS textures rather than the edited MoT textures made specifically for the steam engine in Renegades. Additionally, the uncensored tar wagon texture from the same train has now been properly implemented to the model.
• The worker who has his back turned to the three dynamite points on Easy difficulty no longer floats while doing so (Eight Snipers).
• Actor "Madam_1" has been renamed to "Madam01" as is her original actor name in DtS' Actors.shadvs file.
• The startup.shad file has been modified to remove an extra video from being played on startup, to prevent any potential problems trying to run the addon on the Steam version of MoT. I may make a custom video to replace the third video in the future.

This is the last release to include two revamped DtS missions at once. The next three releases are going to be one at a time. Here's the roadmap:

v16.0 - Project Y
v17.0 - Die Spies!
v18.0 - Removal

Here's hoping I can get v16.0 finished before Windows 10 loses support on October 14th, 2025.

[Liz Shaw]

I finally uploaded all the video playthroughs of MoTmod Addon v15.0, the first done in high definition. Here's the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...w9jsA3BGShhQd2

Again, I WON'T be deleting my old videos, they'll still be there so you can see what has changed in the past decade.

[Liz Shaw]

I may as well make periodic progress update videos over the course of the Project Y revamp. In this first video, I go over how most restricted areas can now be entered while dressed as a scientist, provided you have an ID card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzeDgnyWfRM

[Liz Shaw]

New progress update video, this time showcasing the first frisk search zone for Project Y.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58tlfuGn3FM

[Liz Shaw]

After two years of on-and-off work, v16.0 is finally here with only five months left until Windows 10 goes out of support. This version revamps Project Y, and with help from some people, I've finally managed to start reworking various German uniforms again, to the point where some are now basically 100% complete after over a decade of WIP hell.

This is also the first release to support a Russian translation, courtesy of Alex Velychko. However, some shadvs files have currently been excluded due to problems trying to convert the translated text back to shadvs format. The excluded files are listed in the ReadMe for the Russian translation folder. The FarClip fix has already been applied to the translated LUAs to make things easier.

Here's the release video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1_YARGY1ic

Here are the links to the new version:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gzl7i...e7n0x14hu&dl=0

https://mega.nz/file/v0dWTSJT#khuqdV...lmwoA15AdB9yUU

And finally, here's the changelog:

• Fixed several reactions for the "GuardRoomNear" zone in Polish Surprise, and removed a typo in the relevant StopMove script.
• Fixed a mistake where the folder "Sabouter" located in the Players folder was changed back to "Saboteur" when packaging v15.0 of the Addon as a result of migrating my work to a newer computer.
• The Heer winter officer now has six different skins representing different ranks, and the uniform is now 100% complete, thanks to Ivan The Belarussian and Fra30ahg2r.
• With the new winter officer skins, I've changed Paul Weber's rank from Generalfeldmarschall to Generalleutnant, and the objective description text where you have to collect the layouts from him has been modified to accommodate this (Winter Cold).
• With changes to the winter officer's belt buckle, I've removed the NormalMap for the default Heer winter officer uniform and reset it back to the original base game NormalMap.
• The officer addressing his troops on the streets has now been reverted back to a winter officer, and now uses the new Feldgendarmerie skin created by Ivan The Belarussian (Die Spies!).
• SS collar runes have been removed from all RSHA skins.
• New NormalMap textures for the warden in Stronghold and the sniper in White Head.
• The warden in Stronghold has now been promoted from Untersturmführer (Lieutenant) to Sturmbannführer (Major).
• Gestapo detectives now have their sunglasses meshes disabled via the SWDs of Stronghold and White Head instead of the LUAs of those missions.
• Clerks in Stronghold no longer carry silenced Lugers, and silenced Lugers have now been removed from one of Stronghold's equipment pack entries.
• Removed the unused equipment pack entry "GermanOfficerSmoke" (a Walther P38 with one magazine and bizarrely a smoke bomb) from Stronghold's SWD.
• Removed the unused equipment pack entry "sniper" from White Head's SWD (in the final vanilla build of White Head, the sniper has placed his rifle and magazine beside him while he has a nap, and has a Walther P38 equipped instead).
• Polyakov no longer talks to himself when he's called in to the interrogation room to get a berating from the officer (Stronghold).
• Collar rank insignia has been improved on most Waffen-SS skins, thanks to Ivan The Belarussian. Unteroffizier skins now have their own NormalMaps instead of using the default one.
• Waffen-SS drivers and radio operators now have their own sleeve patches, thanks to Ivan The Belarussian.
• SS-Totenkopfverbände NormalMaps now have the proper sleeve eagles rendered, taken from Ivan's Waffen-SS skins.
• The soldier who works on the end of the train now has his back turned on Saboteur difficulty as part of his job, giving players enough time to neutralize or sneak past him on the way to the end goal (Winter Cold).
• The soldier who has a smoke in the room with the open window now shuts the door when he heads back to the adjacent room, so the other soldier guarding the room doesn't see you climbing through the window (Polish Surprise).
• All radio operators whose original Actor Template was "GermanYellow" at launch of MoT now have their equipment and helmet meshes disabled via the SWD of Polish Surprise instead of the LUA.
• Fixed a bug where the construction worker standing in front of the renovated house doesn't properly engage in conversation with the policeman (Shefferd).
• All OSS agents now properly use the "male_usa_guards" ConfLogic (Dora).
• The diplomat no longer reopens his room door after locking it when he leaves (Hotel).
• Removed a spare K98k, a spare MP40 and a spare Stielhandgranate from the train station area in Eight Snipers.
• Some sleeping mechanics no longer carry K98k and MP40 magazines on their bodies (Eight Snipers).
• Removed the equipment pack entry "RifleBullets" from Eight Snipers' SWD.
• The soldier who guards the entrance to the base of the second tower will now periodically step inside on Saboteur difficulty (Eight Snipers).
• The soldier who uses one of the radios on the second floor of the eighth tower on Saboteur difficulty now periodically gets up to look at the farthest propaganda poster in the room, so he doesn't hear you opening the door to the roof (Eight Snipers).
• More NPCs no longer freeze at inopportune moments or when you're a certain distance away from them in Winter Cold and Eight Snipers.
• All of the cabinets in Tsavalov's kitchen will no longer turn invisible when viewed through the windows from outside (Shefferd).
• Changed the timer for the pool area zones to reset after showing the guest card to the guard to match those of the other zones disabled by the card (Hotel).
• Smoke bombs have now been removed from Embassy's equipment loadout - they were only there prior to the revamping of Embassy's zones because it was the only way to go to the top floors on Saboteur difficulty without raising the alarm.
• Removed some unnecessary extra spaces in the VCH briefing for Renegades.
• Project Y has now been fully revamped.
• Some posters from Shefferd have been added in some rooms in Project Y, and there are now new American propaganda posters (reskinned from the German ones) throughout the mission as well.
• All American uniforms have been reskinned courtesy of Ivan The Belarussian.
• The unteroffizier who loiters outside the house near the train station on Easy difficulty now has his "AI_GuardOnStrangeSound" property disabled so he doesn't go into search mode when you open the door to said house (Eight Snipers).

The reason why I wanted to get this out the door before October is because I have to migrate to a new computer (again!) because my current Windows 10 computer is ineligible for an upgrade - I got it JUST before Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 and announced end of support for Windows 10. Some time after I move my work to Windows 11, I'll start work on v17.0. Here's the roadmap:

v17.0 - Die Spies!
v18.0 - Removal

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