TaystJK - A Better Jedi Academy Multiplayer Client

TaystJK is a fork of EternalJK, which in turn is a fork of OpenJK that focuses on adding QoL features, jaPRO integration and Client Engine modifications to Jedi Academy Multiplayer.

TaystJK supports Windows, MacOS (Intel & Apple Silicon), and Linux.

To install, check out the JKHub OpenJK tutorial and follow the same steps.

If you have any suggestions or would like to submit a bug report, please post them in issues.

Some features it has over vanilla and OpenJK:

• Native widescreen support
• An in-game camera photo mode
• First person lightsaber
• RGB lightsabers and blade styles
• An in-game server browser
• More options in the menus
• Native jaPRO support (which is a server mod focused on defrag racing)
• Optional blood effects
• Emoji support
• New HUD options
• Move and resize the chat
• Change the chat font
• and many more

License

OpenJK is licensed under GPLv2 as free software. You are free to use, modify and redistribute OpenJK following the terms in LICENSE.txt.

For players

Installing and running TaystJK/EternalJK:

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the file into the Jedi Academy GameData folder. For Steam users, this will be in <Steam Folder>/steamapps/common/Jedi Academy/GameData/.
3. Run taystjk.x86.exe

For Developers

Contributing to TaystJK

• Fork the TaystJK project on GitHub
• Create a new branch on your fork and make your changes
• Send a pull request to upstream (tayst/master)

Maintainers

• Tayst

EternalJK Contributors

• eternal
• bucky
• loda

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