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[ChalklYne]

Looks like I might actually voice some of the SK phrases I need. I been practicing, it sounds good man, I wouldnt bs. Ill most likely be doing Kazdan's voice as well.

 

I would LOVE to have a proxy though =(

 

Droids #1 and #2 I think @@therfiles said he wanted to voice one, cant remember the other.

 

Thats relly all the voices we need.

 

Maybe some Kota's militia reactions and taunts. New sounds for troopers?

 

Please dont post a bunch of soundbytes and stuff, we need original stuff for this.

 

I might keep "stop that jaden" for the ertor sounds in the menu lmfao but besides that id like to see what we can come up with.

 

Any ideas or applicants?

 

Also... when I get hit by something... I go "ahw fuck!". Id like real reactions to pain, but I dont see much swearing in Star Wars... Thoughts?

[ChalklYne]

Just touching base. Ive finally actually started packing the final pk3. Its bare as hell right now... but i was excited. Ive spent maybe 10 hours a day the past entire week on the TIE Facility, it is being assembled for the final time before I send it to a mapper. Should be at least a month though, its pretty meticulous. The only hang up with characters is rigging, otherwise im cranking them out. I think I counted 30 or so characters will be in this pack last I checked. All have been started and are being optimized because my skills now surpass what they were when I started. A lot of clean up. Ive got a bunch of effect files done lately. I almost have Felucia ready to paint and assemble. I reeeeally like how its turning out. Im more focused on the TF right now than anything.

[ChalklYne]

Thanks to a handy link , I just found out that this forum is still available. Anyone wants to discuss anything else concerning TFU content, lets do it here.

To sum up what we were discussing, TFU ported content might play the part on a small scale, but you wont be able to make any large TFU mods with those models because they are inefficient for this engine.

Thanks @@Circa =*

[ChalklYne]

Alright, Im going to start today with recording all my modeling and stuff and hopefully that is a little better than just a few pics every once in a while. 

Just my first attempt right now so lets get some suggestions going as to where I can make this something beneficial to the community.

Heres a few quick words to get us started, then, Ill record a few episodes at a time, maybe a half hour each, and post them in their respective sections. 

Throw a bunch of feedback at me because I want people to learn from this and hopefully birth some modelers.

 

Also, if anyone knows a good program that records my keystrokes on screen so you guys can follow along with my keyboard and mouse presses, and you think it would help, let me know and Ill use it so everyone can follow along.

 

I wont be doing modeling basics i.e. face extrusion, rotate scale and translate, simple things like that can be learned already through youtube, Im focusing more on this particular engine and this particular mod in general.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErYs8jWEGLY&feature=youtu.be

[Barricade24]

I little off topic, but can I just say you don't sound at all like I expected.

[ChalklYne]

@@Barricade24 lol my bad, i guess... whats going on man??? damn good to see u

[Bek]

"Put three fucking proxies on your screen and you'll have this entire fucking map."

 

Gold.

[Barricade24]

@@Barricade24 lol my bad, i guess... whats going on man??? damn good to see u

Likewise. You seem to have a habit of randomly disappearing and reappearing. 

[JAWSFreelao]

are you black? I had to ask just because of the voice. Not trying to be racist.

[Bek]

are you black? I had to ask just because of the voice. Not trying to be racist.

That's not racist, it's just an observation dude.

[JAWSFreelao]

That's not racist, it's just an observation dude.

Some people take things some ways, yafeel?

[ChalklYne]

Yeah no worries man, I grew up in the south, I got a southern draw to me. White, ginger, 5'11, 215 lbs, mohawk, tattoos, built like a brick shithouse lol

[JAWSFreelao]

Yeah no worries man, I grew up in the south, I got a southern draw to me. White, ginger, 5'11, 215 lbs, mohawk, tattoos, built like a brick shithouse lol

it was a slight plot twist, but that makes sense.

[ChalklYne]

Here is a video I made showing where I think your skills should already be to be able to continue along with me.

 

 

 

If not...

 

Here are some great resources to get you there not by me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this guy.

 

 

 

 

After this I'll just jump right into finishing proxy on camera.

[GPChannel]

Is the mod dead?

[ChalklYne]

Is the mod dead?

 

 

I would say that's a reasonable inference. I sill have all assets and stuff... but kept hitting limitations that made things nothing like they should be and who wants to wait years for something buggy a.f.

 

I have been developing on Unity for a while now. I have been meaning to speak up on this but wasn't sure how to word it. I say rebuild the damn game in Unity. Why the hell not. JKA isn't exactly rocket science. Ive been coding my own game for a few months and it is simple. Unity has a lot of built in things to make it a lot easier. We would eliminate transform errors and skeleton issues effects and models would be crisp and JKA would get the revival it is deserving of. 

 

Damn thing needs to be rebuilt.

 

So to answer your question, yeah I guess it's "dead" upon the fact that I'd rather spend more of my time getting the jka anims into fbx format and over to unity than I ever will messing with this old q3 engine again. So much hard work gets just destroyed by the engine's limitations and all the hard work going into reworking the engine seems lackluster to me personally. As a community we could do it, and it would do nothing but positive things for us, I guess it all depends on what direction you all want to take it. Would you rather see the faculty and members so devoted to this game slowly fade out and lose the opportunity to have as many people all dedicated to one cause to where we can actually do a remaster... or revamp the damn thing to where it looks and plays crisply with more possibilities gaining popularity among people unaware of the game. its hard to get next gen people in here to work on a q3 engine or even be excited about downloading it... which takes away from every single aspect of this community. The game deserves better and we can do better. I apologize to anyone I may have let down by not releasing it already and i am still willing to finish it... in unity lol

[ChalklYne]

 

look at the sword fighting... around the 6 and 8 minute marks

... imagine that in jka

 

seems like a no brainer

[DT.]

What are the limits you speak of?

[ChalklYne]

@@DT85 Geometry Limits... custom skeleton issues... pbr shaders... physics... flying ships...

 

Mainly the geometry and level design limitations are what keep screwing me.

 

I did however get pretty savage with animating and have been debating re animating the jka skele. I was thinking of doing a cloth sim plus a backhand style mixed into the base gla... maybe also a small yoda size skele and dabble with a grievous 4 arm... I'll prototype off minilogoguy18s rig this week and see where it takes me. I'm not sure how the hit detection would work on grievous 4 arm so I'm excited to play around with it.

[DT.]

Rend2 allows use of PBR textures, almost have a full level in df2 mod using them.

 

custom skeleton issues? What were your issues?

 

Level design limitations? Not hard to make detailed meshes and load them in as either misc_model or misc_model_static.

[ChalklYne]

@@DT85 Well I've been out of the loop so long I don't doubt there's been bounds of advances on it. PBR sounds perfect. I think my maps are just too detailed. Custom skeleton problems basically stem from the fact that I can't make custom ones for mp... I only wanted the mod for SP but everyone jumped on it and said go mp... then started the downward spiral of not knowing what I was doing

[Circa]

Don't listen to people that say go for MP. JKA MP is at the point now where if you introduced another MP mode, you either won't get enough players to make it worth it, or you just further split the already small playerbase. Not just you, but I say this for everyone. 

[DT.]

MP can be coded to allow custom skeletons, MBII have done it for my SBD on a separate code branch. DF2 mod is staying SP though, then doing MP after which will be alot faster to develop with the assets already created.

 

Check this out: https://jkhub.org/albums/silve

 

 

 

Model and textures aren't done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ChalklYne]

@@DT85 yeah I may need to go through the forums and find how that's done that looks exactly how I hoped. I'll look for tutorials on mp skele think you for the info for sure.

 

Btw that gammorean or whatever is an insanely good use of low poly who did that??

[DT.]

That was @@Psyk0Sith