Updating "Movie Duels II" mod to use MBII Saber Trails (SFX Sabers)

[Darth Sion]

Ok, so I've recently found some motivation to get back into modding, again and was looking at improving the "Movie Duels II" mod.
(Showcased here; http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-movie-duels) 

(NOT to be confused with "Movie Battles II").

Personally, I'm not a fan of the whole MBII being a "multiplayer experience ONLY", which is why I much prefer MD2, as it's basically MBII, with the Single Player aspect, instead of multiplayer. Now, I'm well aware that MBII uses 'OpenJK'. However, I'm not entirely sure about MD2. I seem to recall @@Plasma mentioning to me a while back, on Steam that MD2 uses a version of OpenJK (or something or other). Anyhow, I was looking to try and update the MD2 mod, myself and add in the "SFX Sabers" effect, to get the realistic movie saber trails, as I don't think the MD2 mod, uses them. From what I know, this seems to be to do with coding.. But if both MBII and MD2 use OpenJK, in some form.. Is there any way to make this happen? If anyone has any info or advice about this, it would greatly help.

Thanks!