Getting a Blender made lightsaber into JKA

[Voidzer]

I've been bashing my head against the wall trying to get a saber hilt I've made in blender into Jedi Academy with little to no luck (best I've gotten was an untextured model with the saber part being backwards) Does anyone know of a tutorial that they could share or could help me figure this out? 

I have found some tutorials but I've always ran into a wall with one thing or another just not working like in the tutorials.
https://gamebanana.com/tuts/12604
https://virtue.thejediacademy.net/tutorials/hilts/saber_tutorial.html

[Ramikad]

Really strange that the model would be untextured - are you sure you applied the texture in the Ghoul2 properties of the object?

As for the blade, I suggest you to import the tags from another lightsaber model - from my experience, tags can get fuzzy sometimes, this should fix the saber orientation.

[Voidzer]

Well I only got it to show in game by replacing saber1 with my stuff renamed as saber1, otherwise I cant even get it to show up at all. My knowledge with this is surface level at best so I feel like I'm messing up somewhere but I can try to give me best rundown of what I do but first I have a question. What version of blender should I use?

[Voidzer]

I've been trying to get any of the saber models I've made into Jedi Academy with no luck at all and I'm going absolutely insane trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm using this blender plugin https://github.com/mrwonko/Blender-Jedi-Academy-Tools/releases/tag/nightly and various tutorials to make it but it never shows up in game. I'm honestly thinking of posting the completed pk3 file to see if anyone can see where the hell I went wrong in making it and hoping someone could help me out since I made a model I'm very proud of as a armature 3d modeler.

[mrwonko]

Did you write a .sab file in ext_data/sabers for it? Sharing the PK3 is probably the easiest way for us to find the issue, agreed.

[mrwonko]

The latest version should be fine.

[Voidzer]

10 hours ago, mrwonko said:

Did you write a .sab file in ext_data/sabers for it? Sharing the PK3 is probably the easiest way for us to find the issue, agreed.

Yes I did write a .sab file. Also is there a preferred filesharing site for here or would any do?

[Voidzer]

@mrwonko

This is the pk3 https://mega.nz/file/3tl20SgJ#czfr-GmTl63mnPCi1BVdpwVsPybeooj3Zycn0zWZhTw

[mrwonko]

Works for me in EternalJK MP. But you should use slashes ("/") instead of backslashes ("\") in the .sab file.

[Voidzer]

I'd like to get this working in single player as well and when I tried to grab it with console commands the game crashes and I get this msg
 

JA: v1.0.1.0 win-x86 Oct 24 2003
Initialising zone memory .....
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData\base\w_saber.pk3 (8 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData\base\assets3.pk3 (16 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData\base\assets2.pk3 (62 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData\base\assets1.pk3 (8320 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData\base\assets0.pk3 (15346 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData/base

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23752 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
execing jaconfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium IV

------- Input Initialization -------
Skipping check for DirectInput
Joystick is not active.
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----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
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----- Client Initialization Complete -----
--- Common Initialization Complete ---
Working directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Jedi Academy\GameData
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
succeeded
...setting mode 6: 1024 768 W
...registered window class
...created window@131,0 (1030x797)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...numPFDs > MAX_PFDS (318 > 256)
...255 PFDs found
...hardware acceleration found
...PIXELFORMAT 11 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Initializing OpenGL extensions
...GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc available
...no tc preference specified
.....using GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
...using GL_EXT_texture_env_add
...GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic available
...using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
...Using GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
...using WGL_EXT_swap_control
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
...using GL_EXT_point_parameters
...GL_NV_point_sprite not found
...GL_NV_register_combiners not found

GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: Radeon RX 580 Series
GL_VERSION: 4.6.14800 Compatibility Profile Context 22.5.1 30.0.15021.11005
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GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384
GL_MAX_ACTIVE_TEXTURES_ARB: 8

PIXELFORMAT: color(32-bits) Z(24-bit) stencil(8-bits)
MODE: 6, 1024 x 768 windowed hz:60
GAMMA: hardware w/ 0 overbright bits
CPU: Intel Pentium IV
rendering primitives: single glDrawElements
texturemode: GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST
picmip: 1
texture bits: 0
lightmap texture bits: 0
multitexture: enabled
compiled vertex arrays: enabled
texenv add: enabled
compressed textures: enabled
compressed lightmaps: disabled
texture compression method: GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
anisotropic filtering: enabled  (16.000000 of 16.000000)
Dynamic Glow: disabled

------- sound initialization -------
Initializing DirectSound
locked hardware.  ok
Loading... jedi_00
------ Server Initialization ------
JA: v1.0.1.0 win-x86 Oct 24 2003
Server: yavin1b
Loading shader text .....
..... 3391 shader definitions loaded
------- Game Initialization -------
gamename: base
gamedate: Oct 24 2003
-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------
Done.
...loaded 818 faces, 26 meshes, 150 trisurfs, 0 flares

Can't save game while dead!
]helpusobi 1
]saber w_saber
----- CL_Shutdown -----
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
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Requested feature was omitted at compile time