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Qiras Lounge / Valora City

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About This File

Welcome to the finest bar and lounge in Valora City.

This map, namely the city in the skyportal has been a work in progress for a long time. I guess you can say its an experimental map, I've always wanted to build a city and decided to compromise a bar for now otherwise this would never get released. The skyportal is fully animated and the entire map is almost all custom textures and shaders. I did borrow one of Szico's tree models though lol. Valora City almost feels like a personal diary to me, Its been my project that I've turned to when times get stressful or tough or whenever I just feel inspired by either Star Citizen or visiting a city in the real world. This city and the hard drives its been on have seen numerous real world cities too. Like a real city, it has survived and evolved through a hard drive wipe, homelessness (working on it in a tree house was pretty fun actually), A global pandemic, and my own stupidity (Screwing up the texture coordinates after upscaling a texture.) I came to realize that for me that for 7 years, this city was like the potted plant in the movie Leon the Professional. For this reason I've included the .map file.

Features

Almost everything in this city is fully animated, from the skybox to the interfaces.

Some rooms you are able to dim the lights through the holographic switches on the wall

You can turn the music off in the bar, (switch is on the right side of the bar itself)

If I get enough encouragement I will work on a version 2 where I will include some of the features I wanted to add originally such as a glass elevator that goes down to the street level. (Yes the skybox can already sell that illusion.) and possibly a penthouse. For now, I wanted to make sure this map sees the light of day in the form of a release. 

This map looks best when r_dynamicGlow 1 is enabled 

(Note:) This map only works on patched versions of Jedi Academy, For some reason I can not for the life of me get the shaders to work on the default steam install. It seems to work just fine on OpenJK and EternalJK


Credits

Lucas himself for Coruscant which made me fantasize about Ecumenopolis like planets since I was a kid, Chris Roberts for inspiring me with the cities of Star Citizen (namely ArcCorp, Lorville, and New Babbage) and continuing to push myself to constantly recreate my work.

Szico for their tree model

I'd like to thank MJT, SomaZ, and Noodle for their technical help. 

I also want to give a special thanks to ZanderNeo, Numberwan, and Omega for testing this map's various iterations and giving me feedback as well as the motivation to keep going on this project. 

Bar Music: Freelancer Soundtrack [26] - Bretonia Bar #2

Trailer Music: Strange Pleasures by Still Corners
 

THIS FILE IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, INC., RAVEN SOFTWARE, OR LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, LLC. ELEMENTS™ & © LUCASFILM LTD.™ & DISNEY, INC.™ AND/OR ITS LICENSORS. STAR WARS®, JEDI®, & JEDI KNIGHT® ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF LUCASFILM LTD™ AND WALT DISNEY, INC.™ STAR WARS®, JEDI®, & JEDI KNIGHT® ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF LUCASFILM LTD™ & DISNEY, INC.™


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GamerRedNeck

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

The cocktail lounge was a smart choice for this map.  There's a cozy vibe to it.  The lights, holoart, and other details stick out well.  My only gripe is that I wanted more.

Response from the author:

I'm really tempted to do a version 2 when I have the energy and comments like this give me the encouragement, thank you 🙂

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Acrobat

  

Great map. played it on that shadow server that is hosting it right now. lots of detail. Nice to see people are still mapping! 

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Circa

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

The atmosphere and aesthetics of this map is sublime. The chill music, the dark skybox with speeders and skyscrapers, the mood lighting and craftsmanship just put this map on that next level that just makes it a masterpiece. Amazing job.

I was surprised that the levelshot image was so small which ends up looking very pixelated when loading it up in MP, and lack of bot routes makes it less convenient to use on a public server, but the map is so good I can't even knock off a star for those things.

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Love it, I get such a great sense of relaxation and thoughtfulness wandering around. Thank you for sharing with the community!

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Minoda

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

The use of the skyportal is something that is going to inspire others to make incredibly immersive cityscapes. An amazing level of care and detail has gone into this and I'm really excited to see it being used. 

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biggs

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

an exquisite map that I'm sure will inspire other creators for many years to come.

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