Back in January we announced a new mod contest: maps built for the Duel gamemode. These maps are typically smaller with a central dueling area. The deadline to submit was 6 weeks later on February 23rd, when then the poll was open to any forum member to vote on which they thought was the best map. Due to a great turnout with the number of submissions, I decided to award the top 3 voted maps with a Gold, Silver, and Bronze award.

THE WINNERS ARE...

🥇1ST PLACE

@Reepray with Rishi Station 2

 

🥈2ND PLACE

@chloe with Oasis Mesa

 

🥉3RD PLACE

@Artemis with TFFA Brutal

 

Congrats to the winners, your work was astounding! However, huge shoutout to all submissions because seriously, they were all astounding. It was a very hard decision to pick just one to vote for. Very well done. This contest had a much better turnout than I expected. You guys are awesome, thanks for making all of this worthwhile and keeping the JK modding scene alive and well!

See poll results [screenshot]

See all submissions [video]


 

For some time we've been working on a Jedi Outcast single player mod. We expect to have a video teaser at some point to showcase gameplay and cutscenes, etc. But in the meantime, we'll start with some screenshots.

Our focus is on delivering:

Fully fledged missions (Stealth, combat, puzzles) all voice acted and scripted, similar to Raven's Jedi Outcast experience.


New NPC classes, bosses and Force Powers.


Difficulty non artificially amped up (extra-hp), puzzles, secrets, movement challenges, stealth.


Storyline based after the events of Jedi Academy, with Master Skywalker, Katarn and Korr back to action.




Current state of the mod is at two fully playable missions end to end (including their respective cinematics), taking each to completely roughly 1h~ if you are good at the base game.

It's a long shot, but if you are able to model/animate creatures, we'd love you hear from you, as we'd like to introduce the Sithspawn in this mod.

Our progress is slow but the Jedi won't stop us.

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At last. Years have passed, and I feel like I'm playing less and less at this game, which made my childhood and early aduldhood. And I hate to leave without a gift. So, this final chapter is dedicated to all of you, all of us, Jedi Knight lovers, Kyle Katarn's friends.

We've got a bunch of submissions for the Duel Map Mod Contest, and they all look outstanding. This will be a very hard decision! Please vote for the map you believe should win!

Due to the great turnout with the number of submissions, we're going to do a GOLD 🥇, SILVER 🥈, and BRONZE 🥉 award for this contest, depending on the votes they receive.

I highly recommend actually downloading all of these and taking them for a spin ingame. Pictures say a thousand words but experience is priceless.

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Hey, it's been a while since I posted here.

So I wanted to update this thread because I've been working on something interesting for the game: importing motion capture animations. I managed to do this using the Auto Rig Pro addon for Blender, which you can basically use to retarget any custom rig to the Jedi Academy skeleton in this case.

Most of them were taken from mixamo, but you can basically retarget anything. Here you can see a video showcasing the results:

Credits to @MagSul for the amazing mod used in the video. As you can see, the retargetting it's not perfect. There are some details such as the fingers that may need to be adjusted. But it's still very useful for NPCs in the background that you see from a distance.

If I combine this with the facial animations workflow that I showcased in this same thread, I can make the ultimate SP missions which I plan to do at some point. For now, I hope you enjoy this!