AshuraDX

the UV's could still be improved, give this a shot :

apply a checkerboard texture to the model while UV mapping, then try to keep everything in evensized squares,

otherwise you'll get blurry/stretched textures on some places and extremely crisp textures on other parts

just compare your barrel with the back of the gun and you'll see what I mean, the checker texture helps to avoid issues like this

your last idea will def require a code mod

a first ingame screenshot

for some reason I can not embed it, says I'm not allowed to use that image extension which is strange as I think I embedded .jpg images here before...

Done

still have a few minor tweaks to do until it's ready for a release , might aswell have to adjust the blade length as it's now about as long as a saber blade with a saberlength of 24 in JA which is ridicously short

will work aswell , another option would be an exchangeable floor.jpg in the modview folder, just as it's done for EffectsED or you could leave options :

grid, "solid color floor" and "load floor texture"

Good to see you back on board mate

take your time, RL is allways more important so get that stuff done and find your peace by modding during the breaks, that's what I do

@ Google autodesk 3ds max and get the trial version. If it works fine you can sign up at autodedk students and get a free learning license for 3 years.

But Blender for example allows you to reach the same quality and is free. Just remember - it's not the software that makes your work look good

Wish my computer could handle this kind of 3D modeling program.

otherwise I don't see any impediments atm - this scene is not high poly at all

I see, so I guess that means you're kinda allready at it

nice !

sorry If you allready answered that question : what about realtime shaders ?

letting us preview our JKA shaders in modview would be awesome but I don't know if that's possible at all without rewriting the whole renderer in Modview

done with the low poly mesh

@@Xycaleth

Yes, I do most frequently the animation controls and texture reload buttons

continueing what I started with my Murasama, here comes Raidens High Frequency blade from Metal Gear Rising

still have to add all of the detail plating to the handle until I can call this lowpoly version done

But reskinning a Reborn to make it look like the Jedi Hunter is just...eh...

at least he tried

the model certainly isn't perfect

a wireframe overlay pic taken from blender would actually be a lot nicer @@Mandalorian

sry , I should have expressed myself clearer

but as far as I can tell from that pic you could save a few faces at the rifles stock

Well looks like i'm late to the Party

first model you say ? not bad !

but as you know me I'm, quite itnerested in seeing a wireframe overlay, to give you some suggestions to improve your models performance ingame

when I started I did not know a lot about this stuff and really didn't give a shit, which is why I've started to remake some of my older models

you don't have to follow my advice but I think you might benefit from this

@@dark_apprentice , which program do you use to edit the images ? Photoshop ?

the alpha channels had to be edited and I'd prefer teaching you how you can do it yourself rather than just giving you the fixed files

you should also remove the Jedi Knight logo saber from your hudleft & hudright images to avoid any wierd issues

it works fine in all games , even in base JA but OJK freaks out whenever I run it via steam and the steam overlay pops up , I'll probably record my screen with a camera as I can't screenshot it

pass me your images and I'll mess around with them

I recently noticed a wierd issue with the steam overlay :

basically everytime my steam overlay pops up in OJK everything becomes highly contrasted, darkened, glowy/bloomy and partly desaturated

it just looks VERY strange

I've tried to screenshot it but without success so far

you need a proper alpha channel for your tgas

white=opaque, black=transparent

x1 & y1 should deal with the position while x2 and y2 describe how far the image extends from the position defined by x1 & y1

but @@therfiles knows way more about that stuff and might have to correct me here

If I'm not mistaking it should be placed correctly

just try it for now if it doesn't you'll have to alter the "rect x1 y1 x2 y2" in the .menu file

I think some time ago somebody was working on programming a visual editor for .menu files, don't know what happened to that guy and his project though

it does not need to move at all , the game will just exchange the images whenever you change your saber style

just as it does for the default menu , the only thing you will have to do now is replace the filepaths in your ui file