I'm pretty sure no one has to worry. Ravensoft will place the codes back online as soon as they remove the illegal content, which shouldn't take that long.

Not sure if we want to post it here, but I stumbled upon a link to a set of forks to Git Repos of the source.

Yeah, post it. @D

I actually managed to get the first 6 completed levels of the Dark Forces mod, about a week before the site and all the download links went dead. I'm considering about having it uploaded here, but I'm not sure if the creators of it would want it to be put on this site.

Try and contact them, there should be a TXT file somewhere with information, I used to have it but while i was cleaning some stuff up it got deleted and when i went back to downloaded it the site was already down.

I just sent an e-mail to Darth Linux, so hopefully we can expect a reply saying that it is ok to upload here.

Yeah, post it. @D

 

https://github.com/jedis

 

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inb4 CrimsonStrife gets sued

inb4 CrimsonStrife gets sued

Considering I am not responsible for said fork, or even using it, that seems highly unlikely.

Aha. Nevermind then.

Aha. Nevermind then.

I guess saying that I "stumbled" upon it was alluding that I had made it

 

But nope, that is exactly what happened, when I first heard it was taken down I was looking around for an article to find out why, and then poof, found that.

I was one of the modelers, coders and main researchers of the Dark Forces mod (also, some may remember me, I was the first one to introduce new animations into Jedi Outcast using the Raven issued dotxsi plugin together with Wudan and ASk).The problem was not the lack of coders but the lack of SP source code. I managed to reproduce every original Dark Forces weapon behavior (Including the sequential four barreled fusion cutter) but all with the MP code. We knew we could that and much more but only in MP while the mod was being made with the SP client. I would've been easier to add weapon and new creatures code to the SP than adding all the rest to MP (it didn't even have AI). So the feeling of working on a doomed project took over everybody and we finally lost interest. It was a very well organized, well connected and very professional group of work, our motivation rested upon the idea of getting the SP code soon after Jedi Academy was released.

actually, it is free. opensource but not free, disinformation, rofl

@@Corto, you should totally res the project, simply for its sheer awesomeness.

 

@@Ory'Hara'Hara, please just be quiet if you don't know what you're talking about.

@@Ory'Hara'Hara, please just be quiet if you don't know what you're talking about.

I think as usual it is less his lack of knowledge, and more his inability to speak like a somewhat normal individual.

Eez, I seriously couldn't revive the project even if I had the original team at my side. The amount of work that was done just to put together the demos was astonishing. I think another guy tried to pick up where we left, but to no avail. It would require a 100% committed team as if we were making a commercial game to finish it with the standards we were aiming at.

Oh, that sucks

Oh, that sucks

Yeah, it kind of does. Nobody felt happy shutting down the project.

To me the DF mod was probably the closest anyone got to a SP total conversion, playing those levels FELT like a new game. With the source code release it really needs to be picked back up, I'd lend them a hand since if picked up by people who were even close to as dedicated as the original team the success rate would be high.

 

To me the DF mod was probably the closest anyone got to a SP total conversion, playing those levels FELT like a new game. With the source code release it really needs to be picked back up, I'd lend them a hand since if picked up by people who were even close to as dedicated as the original team the success rate would be high.

 

Agreed. That is probably the only, total conversion as minilogoguy18 suggested, that not only felt like a new game but also had quality work put into it. It's a real shame that it died off after the amount of work that was involved. Also, since the source is released, couldn't it  be made into its own game fairly easily due to the amount of custom assets already being used?

I completely agree, and I'd definitely like to help in whatever way that I can.

The most difficult asset to come by are mappers. The custom models that the game needs can be easily tackled by one modeler and couple of painters (who could also redraw the level textures in parallel). The coding side can steadily done by one coder (I honestly lost practice with JA code). But mappers, that's the cornerstone of every total conversion. I think the would need at least three experienced mappers to work on three levels at one time if you want to finish the mod. The things is, most level artists have moved to UDK, Crytek or Unity.

Maybe. The source release brought back a lot of people, including BobaFett and DarthLex, which means that all original, key members of JKG are back.

as a mapper, ive been too lazy to move onto newer games and relearn what ive learned for the IDtech series

 Also, since the source is released, couldn't it  be made into its own game fairly easily due to the amount of custom assets already being used?

You would still be forced to make it a mod, because you are still dealing with the copyrights on the intellectual property of Star Wars.  Even if it were a non-commercial game, the copyrights would still apply.

as a mapper, ive been too lazy to move onto newer games and relearn what ive learned for the IDtech series

 

It happens the same to me with this game and Source games. Even though I improved my skills a lot I haven't even bother yet to move to a newer game engine. Honestly, if the engine gets a well deserved graphic update I think we could put a small team back together but keeping it well under the radar not to raise any expectations. But this is just day dreaming, cause it will take a lot of dedication to keep the same standards we had back then.