Cerez

I've only done so to credit your research, and to thank you for the conversation we've had, as despite the accusations, I do appreciate it.

 

@Clan FJA So sorry... *blushes*

No sorry, it's funny. I wonder what is the limit of messages for a status ^^

Jeez, mine exploded too

It only showed up 30 status updates, so that may be the limit, considering it's now 51 updates and it was just a few.

I honestly think that some of the EU stories had great potential -- if only they would have been adapted into big-budget productions. The best of EU could make for one hell of a series of Star Wars films. Better than anything Disney can come up with now on the fly. Time and a process of selection helps to filter a good story from a bad one.

I'm just glad Rosh & Jaden are both not canon.

Why??? Our poor little Rosh, he deserves credit for his high quality nonsense. He's kept us entertained for years. He deserves some kind of award. XD

My number one problem with Rogue One is this: why should I care what happens in the story, and about any of the characters featured there? What makes them so interesting? That they are no-one? That we don't even know who they are? That they are powerless rogues/soldiers (who happen to have incredible, almost superhuman accuracy and skills)? That their individual motivations are as vague and unfathomable as possible?

Take Jyn, the lead hero, for example. Who is she?! A rogue? A thief? An assassin? She lost her father when she was very young, okay. What happened after that? How did she grow up? Does knowledge of her father mean anything to her now, and if so, what? What is her past? What are her skills and where to they come from? We are not given insight to any of these details. We are only given the bare minimum that keeps the story from falling apart. And we're talking about the main character h...

here!!! And I don't even want to mention some of the other, supporting characters in the story. Who are they, where do they come from, why are they along for the ride, ready to sacrifice everything? Why do they even care for and trust Jyn? What reason do they have to do that? Or to sacrifice their lives for the rebellion. We're not given any of this background in the story.

...black smoke. So that would explain why looking into it Finn never got a confirmation. But the movie goes into extra effort to convince us that he is truly dead (the explosion). In storywriting that is called cheating the reader/audience -- to have no reason to call back a character, and then have them pop up as a surprise later, out of the blue. It may be possible that the fill-ins the first movie makes sense, but it's still far from a balanced movie/story IMHO.

Oh absolutely! Poe was most certainly meant to die, but the actor convinced JJ to write him back in. Is it incredibly odd? Definitely.

Hmm... Somehow I don't think it was the actor... (Merchandise... *hint-hint*. Imagine if you had different pilots for each feat of bravery? It just wouldn't do... We need an icon! Something people can relate to... and buy...) But that's beside the point, really.

Skyrim - It felt like more of a dating sim than an actual RPG.

Mass Effect 3 - For the obvious reason, and that it seemed more geared towards the multiplayer than your character's story. (the reason you went back and played the other 2)

Hitman: Absolution - Seemed like a total step back from Blood Money. (I'm hoping the new game will change that)

Hmm... I see your point. Although, writing for video game games has been overall in improvement over the last decade. Big studios are starting to realise that a good story can separate a good game from a bad one just as much as a good gameplay. I think JKA is actually one of the last examples where very little mind has been paid to the story/script. With sequels there is always the temptation to go for less effort, more jazz, and more money, but overall big bugdet (and indie) games are much m...

...more story-focused these days. Perhaps that's why we tend to pick out a bad story more easily.

Just because you write wallpages, it doesn't mean you're right.

Also if you think few quotes like that make a story mature, the Twilight trilogy as well can be utmost mature show, considering the show became darker than its first season.

Notebene; I understand you're upset over canceling few seasons of TCW, because best things always eventually come to an end. You liked the show more than rebels? Fine by be, it's your opinion.

Lucifer, this is my status message after all. Of course it is my opinion -- LOL! Being a fan, I am of course upset that TCW was cancelled, but what's bugging me is that I'm finding Rebels to be way beneath what I would expect from a Star Wars TV series targeted for all ages. And we have nothing else, now.

It would be stupid for them to not consider rebooting TCW since it is officially cannon and it never finished itself out to end at the Battle over Coruscant like it should have. I didn't like the beginning of the show and the pilot movie was gayer than 2 dicks touching but the final few seasons were pretty good.

If you ever go back to modding, I suppose you could make a Jedi Leia model, if only to say 'Fuck you' to Disney.

Hahaha, love it! Well, that is kinda what HapSlash has created, and what I'm working on finishing. It's Leia in a light and mobile military suit, wielding a lightsaber. The only thing closest to it would be Leia in Jedi clothes, but not even Luke wears traditional Jedi clothes in the EU/JKA -- they're past that traditional era. Not to mention that that would be an easy kitbash to achieve after I'm done with rigging.

 

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Dark Forces is Doom with Star Wars paint and the ability to look up and down.

Doesn't make it a bad game, though. You just can't call it innovative and groundbreaking. It really wasn't.

Fair enough.

I got the same issue and I'm running steam.. I think maybe there's just a bug in the 1.3 bits someplace... I can run mb2 if I launch it manually with a shortcut, but my lighting is all wonky.... o.O

 

Figured it out. A missing DLL was responsible for the crash in my case. I fixed it by creating a clean duplicate of my Jedi Academy installation directory just for MBII. Then by shuffling the DLLs I was able to find which DLL was responsible for the crash. It was jampgame.x86.dll missing from GameData (in my installation it was in base). MBII really needs a clean JKA install for it to work properly.

Doesn't fix the client mismatch error, though. I think that's a programming issue between the client and server versions of MBII.

Not to mention, he is a Star Wars fan, he wasn't a Trek fan, knew very little about it, and in fact once said something along the lines of the Trek movies were his audition to get Star Wars.

Well… let's hope for the best. Thanks for your thoughts, everyone.

Let's just wait and see. Anythings got to be better than the prequels lol

I'm glad clone wars was put into place. It added a much needed story between 2 and 3.

I agree to a hundred percent!

 

I think Clone Wars has a better story than the first, second and even the third movie. It binds it all, peneltrates it all and combines it into one big epic piece of epicness. I heavily recommend it, as Cerez does

haha, "penetrate"

 

I've been a fan since the original trilogy, and I agree that Clone Wars series (old and new) was integral to 2 & 3, as both only tell the beginning and the end of the Clone Wars itself. It also, I think, opened up a new world of possibilities with old/new planets, heroes/villains, etc etc. , so I'm a fan of the series myself.

This wasn't an attack on fan films (that are made as such), or their creators. I was talking about mainstream, official Star Wars films. But you do have a good chance of getting it right two hundred times better than these creators if you induce a feeling in your audience, and manage to capture them (emotionally involve them) in the story. With all these crappy official movies coming out, the chance is big for a great fan film to shine its light now.

I know what you speak about, but as artist i think it will be easier to share when it's done, not with words here..because with every day I work on it and on the music projects I understand the other side of view from behind the camera to the moment when u have to sell it to someone else and he might take it or not, but if he does it goes in other directions. Long words anyway I got your point and will be he happy to share in near future. But I personally have something special with Rogue...

This type of discussion is really more suited for a full-fledged thread, not for a status post.

LOL!

Maybe you're just like that all the time. It was 2 or I think this is the third time but not sure, when you replied something the way you did. I just wanna give you a nice advice; the world is full of idiots and haters, try not to be like them. If you can't say something nice, it's better to say nothing at all. Just my humble opinion.

What I wrote was neither rude nor offensive. Relax.

YEAH! WB FTW!! (it's not sarcasm, I do love WB and am genuinely disappointed Lucas didn't sell out to them at least)

Stick with the Jedi Knight series (DF2 & MotS included), make your own stories in the Old/New Republic eras, and that's all I have to say about that.

Sure thing, Forrest. (Couldn't resist. )

I still don't get it. ICARUS can position and rotate the entities just as well, can't it? Why the need for ROFFs? Or do you mean that ROFFs can rotate and manipulate *parts* of a 3D model? I thought the actual character animations were defined in the GLA files, and so far I had no issues using simply ICARUS for scripting and animating the characters and entities.

Oh wait, you mean moving and rotating map objects, right?

I think bModels can include other static models-- and not just brushes. Read about it (and origin brushes) in the manuals. Post your new-found understanding.

Well, agree on everything about Ahsoka except for her familiar face Actually if we dig deeper in her persona, especially in Season 1 – she exactly what a Jedi wouldn't be. That's what Yoda says in Episode V, that a Jedi never seeks adventures. This however can work in a peculiar way: Anakin was a lot into adventure and admiration of life, so was Ahsoka, who took a lot from her Master. Yoda, seeing this in the past, retells the story to Luke on Dagobah. But still this is my speculat...

She's not familiar because she is a good Jedi -- quite on the contrary, she is familiar because she is like us: a Jedi wannabe/learner, who tries hard, but just can't seem to fit in fully. The fact that Anakin, who doesn't exactly follow tradition, is her Master only complicates things. But in her honest heart Ahsoka tries her best to be a responsible and noble Jedi -- which is why I find myself admiring her efforts and her predicament. She is essentially an underdog in Anakin...

Anakin's story, as well as a true companion, and an inciting incident at the turning point.

maybe some Sega emulators?

When I emulate I like to have a controller that is either spot on or close and the last few sega consoles were like nintendo consoles in which they had unique controllers where sony and microsoft controllers are very similar to a generic PC gamepad. I also still own a sega DC so no need to emulate that since those consoles had no way to check for authentic game discs so burning games is no big deal.

I will say though despite nintendo having odd controllers for the N64 and GC I couldn't imagine playing any games on those consoles using a different controller, they somehow worked so well for the games you played despite how odd they looked.

Yup. And I also found the Rey's father:

"Have you seen a little girl? Short, white. Black hair?"

Her hair is brown though.

Let's say she dyed them.)

Australia is upside down

LOL! Nope, the rest of the world is turned on its head. XD

I now, right!

*changes avatar* There. The wedding's over. Now it's official.

Eh, watch out with that Blender. You know how it goes, Blenders and fur...

Needs some Inigo Montoya style fencing.

"My name is inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die."

Needs JKA style fencing. XD

Well, all I can say is that falling for 6 or 7 minutes into the void, with /g_gravity 800000000 and /timescale 1000000, leads to nothing. Looks like we really ARE alone in the JA universe.

There were some games in the DOS era that had glitches that would let you do that: traverse alternate realities where nothing makes sense. XD

You know you went too far into these realities when turning around with the mouse results in being displaced through space.

.skin files don't always point to basic image files Archangel, in this case it points to a shader, my AT-ST does the same thing. The referenced path in the .skin file doesn't point to a physical file but rather something the game creates. There are no images in models/players/atst/

Hapslash told me this gem back in the day: "Just do a quick UVW planar map on the cap mesh"

Worked like a charm! Didn't need to add any materials, just a UVW map modifier with the planar layout setting, as ol' Haps said. (As well as the texture/shader defined for the caps in the SKIN file.) Thanks guys! :glad:

Bota* whatever it's called

What's ironic about these episodes is how Ahsoka saved Tarkin and Barriss's lives, and they BOTH turned against her in the same story.

Yeah... There's a LOT of irony in these episodes. I think that's part the reason they're so intriguing. B)

Yep, that's it! I didn't want to say it, but that's what happened. Dark_apprentice is right!

 

There were just too many of them...

And Chewie could not resist their "hoodiini" call, so he took off on his own after them.

 

It's a sad tale of love and loss.

They should have given chewie a grey highlight like they did Data in latter movies.