Datapad glitch on Courscant; anyone help fix?

[Megakyle]

I've had a glitch in my last two play-throughs that I haven't been able to pin down the cause of. Racto's datapad isn't loading the texture. Instead, it actually seems to be loading some sorta WIP texture of the model's vertices from when the developers were working on it. I've seen this TYPE of thing when editing character textures, often when a part of the texture is unused.

But I can't figure out what is causing it! I was running OpenJK on the first play-through, now Jedi Academy Enhanced on the second. I believe Enhanced is based on OpenJK? And to test this out I removed all other mods, I figure it HAS to be something from that.

Anyone seen this before and know what I can do to fix it?

[mrwonko]

You must have some kind of (asset) mod that changes the datapad, it looks like it's using a different texture. I'd be surprised if this was in any way connect to OJK or JAE. Have you tried removing all PK3s and loose files except the original assets?

[Megakyle]

Your comment made me want to double check that I had indeed removed everything, which was what I had done initially. But I realized that since JA Enhanced loads mods from it's own folder, I hadn't checked the original Base folder, and lo and behold - the assets from Jedi Outcast were there thanks to running the Outcast campaign mod. That was indeed the case; for some reason, Outcast's datapad.tga and datapad_screen.tga are those weird development textures, and it's a mod I had loaded during both playthroughs.

For anyone in the future, it's under Jedi Outcast's 'assets0.pk3', then 'models/items'. I opened up the pk3 using pakscape, replaced the textures with JA's good ones found in its assets, then repacked. Fixed it right up!

Thanks for the chat, mrwonko. Just verbalizing it a little got the brain gears working to finally find it.

[mrwonko]

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Just verbalizing it a little got the brain gears working to finally find it.

Ah, good old Rubber Duck Debugging.

Looks like the datapad was still work in progress in JK2 and then they finished it for JKA. I wonder how many other unused and/or unfinished assets are included with the games...