AshuraDX

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

@ dark_apprentice I dont really understand what you want, do you want to move the entire hud to the left or something else ?

probably you could attach a screenshot and paint over it

you'll have to add your own saber style images to overwrite his old ones , I'd suggest maybe coloring the Jedi Knight logo saber in the matching color

your suggestion would be possible aswell , just rotate the saber on your images and it should work

I don't miss anything really, but i'll see If I can come up with something that might be worth adding

please tell me that the final version will feature nicer arms

looks great so far !

a little blurry , maybe a bit more definition then they should be fine

EDIT :

I also just noticed that the coloring of the hands does not match the body at all , yellow highlights and way to saturated shadows instead of pale blue highlights and shadows

ah okay, then nvm the 500 vertices

the topology should work out for such an old game , anyway to answer your other question , there is not much deformation happening at the upper half of his heads backside so don't worry about those triangles , you might want it to match the neck of the base JKA models

I don't know how many sides it has to be right now though , just import your retopoed mesh into 3ds max

import a base JA model and then scale and target weld as required also : try to get that head under 500 vertices otherwise it wont shade correctly ingame - sadly

@@Barricade24 okay, I tried to record something for you to support my descriptions, notice that I do not have the same amount of muscle mass one would expect from skeletor but I hope my biceps is defined enough( and that the lighting isn't too crappy) that I can use my own arm for explanation as it's kinda hard to find fitting pictures
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KNKgYxvZGc
 
let's hope this helps, if it doesn't I made myself look like an idiot for no reason and will do a paintover instead

Great Work ! so far

I have one further suggestion though - lower the definition of his biceps lower end , and stretch it out to reach allmost down to his elbow

I could probably provide some pics to further illustrate what I'm saying, if you need them

If you could use entirely open-source and free license software to produce the in-game results, that would effectively skip this last step of potential controversy.

 

that's not impossible actually, any kind of vehicle or creature that utilises a custom skeleton with custom animations and was exported via MrWonko's blender plugin should fall into that category, as long as the other prerequisites are met

for those interested :

Murasama Lowpoly by ashuradx on Sketchfab

Murasama High Poly model by ashuradx on Sketchfab

 

depending on your setup yes, if it's a sepperate layer lowering the opacity should work aswell

naw not anything

some suggestions :

reduce the intensity of that cloth pattern overlay

add some red & brown stains to the hood

probably reduce the darker shades of blue/gray around his biceps , the model doesn't really allow for painting muslce on and if you try then keep the shading subtle, otherwise it'll just look off

his biceps also looks flexed , paint it in a more relaxed position to ensure that it will look good during most animations the character will go through

released, last mod in the row for now, school coming back up wednesday so mods will take a while longer to complete from now on again

You made THIS in 12 hours?

Okay, it's "just" a sword (Hight Frequenzy Blade to be exact), but the details are just f***ing amazing.

 

Are you planning to make more of these things, like the Fox Blade?

yup, I only have the regular HF, the wooden and the Fix Blade in MGR sofar so I can't take screenshots as reference material for the other high Frequency blades, like the armorbreaker or the stun blade

but I plan to create those I have, except the wooden sword

 

phew, allmost done now, but it's time to get some sleep