Warlock

We just upgraded our server to this mod and we love it. I do have a question though, is there a way to get the mod's specific menus to function? I keep getting a UI errors saying that it can't create uix86.dll and has to revert to legacy and then all the Zykmod menu items get ui errors. What am I doing wrong?!

Again, if you link it, I will look at it. I'm not digging through an entire mod just to dig a skin out that I don't even know can be used outside of the mod. The author may have made it specifically for the mod with a no-modifications request. Is there a standalone download for this model you speak of that is in MBII (which I never play and never will because I dislike the sabering?)

Also, big thanks to Circa for checking my credentials to make sure it was ok by Griff to release this, and adding the screenshots I couldn't acquire for a proper release of this. I really do think Griffenclaw would be very happy to see this map still being used and available to the public, as he was always very proud of the work he did to help his old community and the love he got from the JK players about this map. 

The reason this says version 2.0 is because there was a 1.0 beta map that was "leaked" back about a month before he made his actual release, so the original map was v 2.0 I believe...it was either 2.0 or 1.1, I can't remember. I was trying to keep the version number that he used for the actual public release, but I may have failed. There was no 3.0 or anything of the like to the best of my knowledge.

In 2010, some hack released several "updated" versions of the map without permission from Griffenclaw, though he apparently said at the time he would have liked to "thank him" for doing so, but couldn't access his Filefront account and such. However, he never actually SAW the "updates" the guy made, and everyone in Griff's original clan hated it that actually played it, because the changes were not in the spirit of the map's original intent. This is the ORIGINAL map. As I said, I knew Griffenclaw, I used to play with him, and I even consulted with him while he was making this map and knew several of the people in the credits, as well as the players who are commemorated in the map.

Once again, Deviance, find me a model that will work that was released in the last 8 years and I'll work with it. I'm not using a JO model for this, and every single thing you "don't like" about my skin has nothing to do with my skin, it has to do with the model, except your criticism of the brown exposure...which I'm not sure what you mean. The "brown" color is at least 7 different shades of brown based on all the various different movie stills I looked at. Good luck finding the exact brown for that.

My final bit of advice for anyone who wants to criticize my work - I am open to criticism. However, I would like you to at least examine the skin in game before you start criticizing some of my choices. The screens I posted are from Modview, so that the detail can be seen a bit clearer. Remember that JA likes to wash out textures, so some choices are made to reflect the fact that the model doesn't have light on it in Modview. In the game he looks significantly softer. Most of the criticisms here, however, have been about the model choice. I refuse to use a JO model that has about 40 polygons to do a skin in 2014. Find me a model that isn't originally made 10+ years ago, and post a link to it, and I will consider re-releasing this skin on that model.

Thank you all for the comments. I appreciate that you like / dislike my work. I won't be responding to any more comments unless it's a specific question I can address, as I think I will just be rehashing the same points. 

Mini, that model has actually been around since JO, and it shows. Sorry I want to use a model that's actually up to today's gaming standards.

Thanks for all the kind words, guys. I would have done all the suggestions mentioned had I been able to alter the model. If anyone who models wants to play around with that, it'd be fun, though I'm not sure Hapslash would want anyone messing with his model. 

I am thinking about a future update where I add a blue glowie skin.  I may try to soften the face up with some more drastic skinning changes, but initially I wanted to preserve a lot of the Ewen McGregor look to him, because I thought it would be neat to have a sort of "what "old Ben" Kenobi might look like if he were re-cast to be played by a 60-year old Ewen McGregor instead of a 60-year old Alec Guinness."  Also, I agree Langerd, I really thought that's what I'd end up with and I wasn't disappointed. 

Thanks. I can't do anything about the robes, that's the model. I am not a modeler, only a texture artist. I've done everything I can do with the limitations of the model. Thanks!

xD Sometimes I look at it and I think it looks like Sean Connery. Honestly, there's only so much you can do when the model is based on someone else's facial structure, though. Dooku?  Hmmm  Yeah I can see it in the hooded version. Check out the other screens though. Better yet load him up in game.
 

Two things:

First, the screenshot isn't linking to the whole album, which I expected. There are several other reference comparisons here:  http://imgur.com/a/khgCy#0

Second, I forgot to give a shout to Circa, who was nice enough to package all those Lucasfilms, Ltd. sound files, which is where I got the movie sounds for Old Ben's taunts and such. That file can be found here: http://jkhub.org/files/file/1651-star-wars-sound-effects/