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I'm not going to mince words here because this is something that I honestly feel quite strongly about. Bear that in mind. Now with that out of the way, I think basically everything that you've said here is complete and utter bullshit. The problem has never been about the engine, it's always about the people generating content for it. Look no further than the mods being uploaded here. While yes, we do host a large quantity of mods, they are quite frequently frankensteined, often with a poor understanding of how the underlying architecture works. I applaud people for taking the time to learn the tools, but quite frankly they have room for improvement. This isn't a new problem, and older models are quite worse compared to this newer stuff. But we've got a ton of Star Wars models and stuff, and nothing frankly compelling. Also, I don't buy the argument that corridor engine games are dead. There's certainly room for improvement and ground that hasn't been reached within this game. When was the last time you saw a side scroller mod or a top down shooter in this game? The only non- Star Wars mods never got off the ground because people weren't interested in them in favor of other junk. There's lots of stuff you can do with this game and make it work, it's just that people (myself included fwiw) are unwilling to take risks, or make the same old "It's JK4" mod that dozens of teams have done. The only thing I agree with is that Radiant needs changed (because it's crap) and that maybe another format can be supported. Skyrim isn't an "alternative" to JKA. Like I said before, they had two completely competing design philosophies that make it impossible to cater to both. Do you cater to high performance, twitch gameplay of old, or do you go for the slow paced, globe trotting adventure game? The two are mutually exclusive you'll find. OJK isn't really an "engine" no more than Q3 is. The difference is the game that you're modding. For all intents and purposes, creating a game on the OJK "engine" is infinitely more feasible since Skyrim's "engine" is just a game that you're modding. Like I said, the comparison here is silly. If you want to make a mod for Skyrim, go make a mod för Skyrim. If you want to make a mod for JKA, use OPENJK as a base. This is not complicated. Rend2 isn't meant to put JKA above Skyrim, it's supposed to make mods be able to use better graphics. And for what it's worth, the problems you're experiencing with FPS on rend2 isn't rend2's fault, it's the excess pixel shaders and shit you have caked on it to "prettify" it by using whatever you're using, and it's definitely NOT the mapping format, otherwise I would be getting issues on base with the map you've posted screenshots of. What WILL draw in people is compelling experiences via mods, and rend2 will certainly help with that by making the game more accessible to people and by drawing in mod developers. I for one would be 9000% more interested in working on JKE if rend2 could work for JK2SP which is what my mod targets. Plus I intend on said mod being a solid base for SP modders by providing amenities like a solid facial rig, removing lots of hardcoded stuff, etc, which will feed back into the ecosystem. There isn't one way or strategy to getting people to come back to the game. I'd suggest getting a jump start on the new movie craze. Remember that this game is the best lightsaber game in existence. What keeps people from staying is a huge learning curve in MP and lack of compelling content for SP. The MP could stand to have an element of addiction pumped into it too, and maybe a fast paced arcade game to play when friends are over at your house. As far as advertising, personally I don't believe in it. I subscribe to the belief that if you make something good, people will generally follow.

@@Ping, @ one of you guys step up. I wanted them to approach you about it but it seems things have changed (?)

Please don't bump via triple post. Thank you.

Models: There's nothing wrong with the MDX formats (MD3/GLM) in and of them-self. In fact I would say that using them is far better than a format like OBJ, FBX or others because they're not compact like MDX is. The only thing wrong with them is the lack of exporters...and the big one that's missing right now is Maya. You can already bolt MD3 models on GLM models. (But maybe not through ICARUS?) Maps: BSP format is ideal for corridors and the type of mapping you see in JK2, Q3, Doom, etc. but it kinda falls apart once you have the mapping of JKA and mods with large expanses of outdoor area. It would be nice to use more than one format here, but q3map2 and (especially) Radiant would need to be reprogrammed anyway. Did I mention that Radiant is dated as hell? Comparing JKA to Skyrim is frankly stupid, the games weren't designed the same way at all and each one has its own set of problems (let's talk for a sec about how Bethesda totally fucked up their scripting engine and had to have modders repair it...). Yes, it'd be nice to have good looking graphics, but saying "we should make it look like this" is not really helpful. I'd like to see a type of Garry's Mod or something with large amounts of scripting, that would ensure lots of replayability to me. I had some crazy one-off ideas for mods that would be good as server scripts for fun.

No offense to them, but Cerez doesn't really know what they're talking about. We didn't touch anything involving dismemberment.

Nope. You can get the MP movement in SP through a cvar too though.

Yeah, I'd be interested in getting it back up and running. I'd like to make it into a curator's group for all things SW related too. We need someone to manage it (and our twitter) a bit better. So basically we need a social media person.

It looks like a bug on this line. It needs to allocate some memory first.

How to make a much more approachable/moddable JKA: 1. Fix the goddamn shader parser. For real though. This thing has caused nothing but problems. I'm not talking about OpenJK specifically, but it's a severe pain in the ass how shaders are currently loaded and handled. 2. Fix the OpenJK bug with loading DLLs from homepath, still a major problem ~2 years later 3. Replace the old MFC tools with newer ones that use Qt or something else. Xyc's ModView comes to mind 4. Remove hardcodes: Reborn AI is hardcoded based on rankLots of hardcoded references to NPC namesObjectives are totally hardcoded and new ones can't be created.5. A mod manager like NMM and an API to tie the community to the mods better. JKH API is still something I can see being useful. 6. Finish rend2 (I would be more inclined to mod if this was finished + ported to SP) I think part of the problem also is that there's this assumption that people ought to know what they're doing. There's not a simple, straightforward guide to getting started in the game. The tutorial section of this site is kinda messy imo.

Alternatively, you can use the -lomem switch, which sacrifices compile time for more memory.

ty, I forgot how I set this up.

The first one.

You're right, the way it is handled was changed (for some reason). Try setting g_saberRealisticCombat to something higher than 1 and g_dismemberment to 100.

Thread moved to Mod Requests and Suggestions

Yes. Also you can enter a cvar into a GET on OpenJK.

The cvar is g_dismember , not g_dismemberment. Also you need cg_dismember turned on. Moved (again) to OPENJK discussion.

You can get both the difficulty and sex via a GET command.

First and foremost, are you using OpenJK? Because the recent builds have a crashing issue that sounds exactly like you describe.

The model for it still exists for Kyle and Kyle alone, it's just a different .skin file (model_fpls.skin) I have no idea if code for it is still around, but it's probably not there anymore, for good reason. Stuff like katas would cause severe confusion in first person, I imagine. I never understood the appeal behind first person sabering anyway.

I never said that TFA is going to be any better storywise. However I think your argument is a bit silly. "The names are silly" is exactly what people have been saying since A New Hope. Plus I don't think that you can judge a story based on how silly stuff looks anyway.

I don't think that comparing JA to this movie in a favorable way is a good idea, since JA had such a trash story, especially compared to the game that came immediately before it. Also the cultists didn't worship Vader. They worshipped Ragnos, because...reasons. It's not exactly specified why, and this is one of the reasons, like I stated above, why JA's story is complete trash.

Changed. Nice work, @@Circa.

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End which part happening? This also controls the cinematic. Tell me what you want to do here.

Some notes about this ICARUS command that isn't documented at all anywhere and is actually broken. This one is identical to SET_MISSIONFAILED, use that one instead. If you want to repurpose this SET_ command, feel free to do so. The code is handled in Q3_Interface.cpp if you want to repurpose it for something else.