AngelModder

Soo whos ready for some pictures?

The Jedi Temple update - A LOT of work has been done to insure and stabilize vanilla player experience. cleaned up the vis for the veranda, fixed several things for this section in fact. Got the entire map back together which so far includes... * Sections complete and ready to go, Archives wings 1, 3, 5, & 7 (May do more here), the Great Hall, Veranda, Yoda and the youngling's room, Immenor's Meditation Hall, & lower exterior * Coming Ahsoka's bedroom, Yoda's Bedroom, Anakin & Obi Wan's bedroom, Anakin and Obi Wan's Dueling room's 1 & 2, Hall of Knighthood, The Back Door, Hanger (A lot of damn research went into this), & Roof Top. * If nothing else the map will then be nearly finished. There are some personal touches I want to add making use of soo many statues. Around that time I'll be digging into a lot of old jkhub etc record(s) to compile a list of Modder's who've truly made incredible mods. Some may be entire overhauls, while other could be map or player models that set a new bar for people through out the year's. An example would be Rgoer, his sunset on Coruscant set a bat for a lot of us early on, many of his maps did. * Rend2 Compatible - YES | Vulkan Compatible - YES | Vanilla Eternal/OJK/Tayst - YES | OG Base Vanilla - NO (May change in future or at least options made available | SP - Yes/Accept OG Vanilla. * So far we're sitting @ 36,547 Brushes - 23336 Patches - 154 Active Entities

The little meditation shrines inside of the towers starting to come together, got the candles working @ last. The glass in the great hall finally was replaced with one that is sort of rot iron paned glass with a bit of the natural colors blending through. Massive thanks @Helena Revan for letting me use her little candle flames!

Well today was progressive on flushing things out. Created doors for yellow doors ceiling - Yellow duel is a larger dueling arena built for team gameplays. Created textures to make it clear where the dueling platforms as well as which one is which The roof of the Yellow duel room is the shiny bit in front of the large obelisk/behind the throne. * These dueling platforms lore wise double as places of meditation in the lower levels so they will be detailed out with cushions, small altars, candle, incense, & few holocrons about. I sort of picture a almost sheer like cloth hanging around them and a few old tattered banners. These towers and platforms while not really anything important, they offer dueling space, rp, strafing space, mountain climbing & add atmosphere to the map. The player will spawn roughly along this center line facing south (as seen in pic) towards the dueling wing of the map as well as the roof of which houses aforementioned platform. (see pics 1 & 2) Something important to understand is wherever something was in version 3 it's not only there but it's exactly where it should be comparatively. Take the basement/bunker w/e you call it (where the bar and air vents are) it's exactly as it was in 3 even the rough distance as it was, you turn around north face the academy building (the council room section) go inside go through the hall back outside turn right head about 2-300 yards and voila there will be the new version of the bunker in the new exterior. The new exterior will include many things from versions 1-3. This will all make more sense later in videos I guess and in game play. You will feel right @ home but it'll finally have those touches 2-3 lacked a bit. However I learned from the failure imo that was the jedi's home 3, a map can't just be big and pretty..

Aerial view showing the different dueling platforms outside to act as extras rather than just the same ones from v2/3 interior ones. Would be good for 90 FPS dueling but if you want 125+ go inside, cmn I'm not god I can't make it perfect, good yes, perfect no LOL. Still a ways to go but it's coming along nicely! Feels a bit blank here and there when you're pulled back, but it oddly doesn't feel that way when you're there. Still as I said a few more things to be added tonight before I'd consider everything laid out fully.

Opened up the last layer of it all... This layer is massive. This will give the RP lovers a chance to finally have that feeling in JKA that perhaps you're the first to stand right there and see it from this angle.. Yes you will be able to interact and use that massive layer, I've turned this if you will into sort of the Jedi Variant of the Valley of Kings. This will be shown and explored more in-depth later.

Let me pose a question to you all. The V2/3 are well known and loved and while I have my own ideas about what would've made them better I'd like to hear yours.. I'll list below the changes to the concept I've made. Again it should be stated this is not a critique of Virtues work rather a look forward @ what we expect from V4. 1 - Rend 2 Compatible as well as at least a vanilla variant. 2 - Larger. I wanted and have expanded on the original by 8X the scale of what version 3 was. While not upscaling familiar elements. I took the concept that all of what we saw was either on top of the building or some of the interior of a larger Mayan-like structure. I chose one of the Mayan square pyramids for inspiration of the structure. However, I wanted it to go further with large walls around the structure that contained a massive paradise-like garden filled with ancient secrets. 3 - Secrets. Something I felt the Academy series always lacked was any secrets. In this map every room, hallway etc have at least 1 secret and one interactable. 4 - A story, but less a specific clan-orientated one. While somehow still honoring those the community chose to. This area still is yet to be built, I bet it'll be the last room I build. However, I have considered a set of memorials for some of the most influential modders of all time. The ones who really changed JA. 5 - Last but certainly not least. Training areas up to snuff for even the stingiest base players.. This includes but is not limited to a mountain.

A note these were without the world fog as I later discovered. Still gives you the right vibe but missing that blended feeling it should have. I'll do a video soon and start linking the progress vids here. AngelModder

The project is going fine, I spent some time tonight cleaning up some of the statue meshes. Cut out about 15% of the polys. I managed to remap the texture they are supposed to use back on, however, I went back to the default copper as in the end it just looked better so that was 45 minutes wasted haha... To avoid burnout, I am working on some other various maps but mainly The Academy V4 at the moment. I bounce around to avoid getting fed up So be sure to go over and check that out! It's quiet a different design type then this. However many of the elements of it's build have given me idea's for the JT to go even further than before. What if we go over to the senate building as well???

Which server do you run my friend? ^_^ I am looking for alpha testers... <:D The open feel this map has is incredible, you can explore and find all sorts of ways to different spots you normally can't in maps.

Sooner than you'd expect... Update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A few textures still need their normal's created such as the smaller obelisk's base.

Nope this is just a break.

Well after talking it over with the community I am proud to announce the Academy IV - continuing on Virtue's work. A much expanded on rebuild of the idea.