AshuraDX

Maybe you could post rend2 screenshots of things you make - curious how that brick wall would look

Good work!

hmmm - difficult

first : I'm not a mapper but that is the lesser of 2 problems here...

second : this was once again made using a pbr workflow - so it won't translate well to legacy systems (even though I could run it through the substance file I create to convert PBR textures to Jedi Academys old renderer - but i'd have to alter that a little to work for map textures...)

EDIT :

I quickly adapted my PBR2JKA substance for map textures

and this is the result I got after pushing the brick material through :

this is what it could potentially look like

I like substance Designer - did I mention that before ?

What is this? Im know almost all Star Wars wearpons, but i don't recognize this one. And that fact is disturbing me.

it's not a Star Wars weapon

Hey Ashura, you're pretty hard to get hold of! I was wondering what was the current status on the Felucia map?

 

Source: http://www.moddb.com/mods/jedi-academy-unleashed/images/felucia-map-by-theexile-wip

 

Stated there that you have taken over that project.

a. it's not hard to get hold of me

b. I was making textures I didn't take over making the map and those map files are lost

c. you jsut necro'd a topic that has been dead for 6 months with an offtopic post- you should have pm'd me

if you want parts of your model to glow : create a black version of your texture and color in only the parts that should glow in the color they should glow in

then add this stage to your shader file :

models/weapons2/<yourweapondirectory>/<yourglowtexture>
{
   .
   .
   .
   {
       map models/weapons2/<yourweapondirectory>/<yourglowtexture>
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
       rgbGen identity
       glow
   }
}

here's an example shader from the model @zeƒilus pointed out

models/weapons2/murasama/Murasama
{
	q3map_nolightmap
    {
        map models/weapons2/murasama/murasama
        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
        rgbGen lightingDiffuse
    }
    {
        map models/weapons2/murasama/murasama_s
        blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE
        alphaGen lightingSpecular
    }
    {
        map models/weapons2/murasama/murasama_i
        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
        glow
        rgbGen identity
    }
}

Mesa is a filthy liar

gonna take some more time to get it done though and it's still pretty heavy for a saber with 1736 vertices and 1929 tris

but I couldn't accept that it was impossible to work in JKA at all

I really love your work, seriously, basically everything you do ends up in my base folder . Keep it up!

 

I've just got a question about that student version od 3DS Studio Max... seriously, what's the real deal about it? I mean, they couldn't verify if you were a student really so it should have some tricky licence about it. I would love to try software myself since I'm a student but it just feels... too good?

there is no catch - you just can't do any commercial work using the student version

but it has all features and allows you to use pretty much all plugins you are just restricted from selling your assets

texture breakdown will be added later - thanks for finding that design @, it was fun to model

Once again I decided to model a hilt @@Rooxon is modeling aswell - but my version is built for practice and therefor will never make its way into JKA - it's just below 12k tris

still WIP, the textures are currently just a bunch of colors combined with my bakes and a bit of noise for the roguhness to break up the highlights a little

now it's time to take this thing into substance painter to add dirt, scratches and a bit of color variation for the materials

wooooow been a while since the last post but here comes another one :

based at one of @zeƒilus concepts
 
Texture breakdown (25% of original Resolution):

I'm starting to like Substance Painter a LOT.
 
Also : don't ask me to convert this for Jedi Academy - it's not exactly easy to convert PBR oriented textures to a legacy diffuse/normal/specular system
it's possible to do it quick and crappy but doing it good takes some time

EDIT : found a way to convert them quickly with some substance designer experimentation

I'm pretty certain that it's not the mesh - as it shows up correctly in Noesis and 3ds max

what exactly would you like to know ?

I never really had to upscale textures perhaps I can help you though

Inno 3D Geforce GTX970 , driver version 344.75

no issues in both Jamp and Jasp

now please finally replace those ugly default JKA hands 

still have quite a bit of pinching going on there, lemme see your topology might have some hints what you could change to reduce it

before going through the painful and boring process of handmoving vertices around until you recieve a clean, smooth surface

or you use this material trick to get rounded hard edges, simpyl subdivide using SG's for hard edges :

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71995

Speaking of ut4, after Titanic I will be saying farewell to the JKA community and moving to it permanently. In many ways that is why I HAVE to finish Titanic, it is my good bye.

you won't do it

a few weeks ago I thought I'd just stop, only stying with the community

teaching others while moving on to newer engines - and that wasn't the first time I thought about this

so far I allways came back after a few months

got any decent ref pics for that angel ?

I might see what I can wip up friday morning - got a 4 day weekend

I'm amazed to see you still working at this magnificent map - I remember seeing a WIP thread of you on Filefront (yeah back then it was still Filefront - not Gamefront) Forums

I think you even asked me to help you with the model for that angel statue there, back in atime where I just started modeling

first release !

will be updated with rend2 support once rend2 is in a stable state

I think I should finally finish this, you guy shave been waiting for far too long

pretty blocky atm, cave walls should be more "organic" as opposed to cubic with a rounded roof

@@Aidor

take your animation mod and rename the folder models/players/_humanoid from _humanoid in _humanoid_

then get an hex-editor and open the model.glm file from the model you want custom animations for

find the filepath to _humanoid.gla in there and change it from :

models/players/_humanoid/_humanoid.gla

to :

models/players/_humanoid_/_humanoid.gla

and save, now your model should load the animations from _humanoid_

yeeeey good to know that this works

I also wrapped up a game version of the Kylo Ren saber, using my own lowpoly version of the mesh
and some substance designer madness for texturing :

 
in Modview
ingame (no rend2 yet !)

EDIT :
view it in 3d !

@@Rooxon got the bakes done buddy

EDIT : please note that the model will in no way appear that clean and smooth in jka, unless we got moar rend2

EDIT2 : seriously not even with rend2 it will get to that level, thanks to PBR rendering inside of Substance designer