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  1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi? o.O This just keeps getting better and better... The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi -- seriously, which of these does not sound like a crummy fan fiction title? Who comes up with these??

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    2. NumberWan

      NumberWan

      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...

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      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...

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

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

  2. Submitted... *takes a deep breath* Done.

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    2. Cerez

      Cerez

      Call me sentimental, but I'm glad it's finally complete. :P

    3. Ping

      Ping

      Enjoy the praise.

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

      Hahaha, thanks, but I'm mostly just glad that it worked out in the end. I know it's not perfect, and it'll never be, but at least it's worthy of representing Ahsoka's character in this game, and now I can finally continue modding for JKA.

  3. The Coruscant Jedi Temple simulation is off, guys. Unfortunately I don't have the tools with JKA to do it. Due to limitations and bugs with the scripting system, the game falls short for purpose in this case... It's a shame. I really wanted to do this. :'(

  4. The Mortis episodes have got to be the absolute worst episodes of The Clone Wars. Such trivial melodrama! It makes me nauseous! Uegh!!

  5. The NintenDON'T-Switch has arrived to Australia. Yeesh... that thing... >.<' I remember a time when Nintendo used to make practical gaming things. I guess putting Sega out of the competition didn't do them any good after all...

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    2. dark_apprentice

      dark_apprentice

      maybe some Sega emulators?

    3. minilogoguy18

      minilogoguy18

      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.

    4. minilogoguy18

      minilogoguy18

      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.

  6. The time for real JKA cutscene cinematography has arrived! Get ready for an awesome Clone Wars experience, guys. :D

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    2. Cerez

      Cerez

      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.

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

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

    4. Archangel35757

      Archangel35757

      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.

  7. There's Star Wars, and then there's Disney Star Wars... I'm definitely a Star Wars fan.

    1. Ramikad

      Ramikad

      Old school ftw!

    2. Ping

      Ping

      like a boss

  8. This is serious. I need to squeak with you.

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    2. Cerez

      Cerez

      Alright, let's do it! But you have to wear a Darth Vader costume. You don't look serious enough.

    3. Ramikad

      Ramikad

      Could I wear a mandalorian armor instead? I like it more.

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

      Yep. Mandalorians are serious. :) And they squeak clearly, too.

  9. Time to rock all joints! I may need a hammer...

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    2. Bek

      Bek

      NO NO NO

    3. Ping

      Ping

      DIE BART DIE

    4. JAWSFreelao

      JAWSFreelao

      why this nigga need a hammer to get high?

      Nah jk.

  10. Trying to accomplish some more advanced scripting... Any way to set a CVAR through an ICARUS script?

    1. Tx606

      Tx606

      if you mean a cvar from a server setting, you can't alter those. if you mean something to use in scripts, you can declare a float,string and a vector using declare i think, and simply use set to set it to whatever value you want

    2. therfiles

      therfiles

      Nothing that I've found in all my tinkering! Sorry...

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      Thanks guys. Apparently it's not possible in retail JKA, but in OpenJK we've had a coding feature implemented into ICARUS that lets you set a CVAR for the SP game from a script. I'm testing it now...

  11. Wasted a whole day trying to get MBII to bloody work... and in the end accomplished nothing... :/

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    2. Nuhallis

      Nuhallis

      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

       

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      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.

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

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

  12. Watched Rogue One. My verdict: entirely forgettable. What part of this movie actually made sense in the Star Wars lore?

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    2. Cerez

      Cerez

      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?

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      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...

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

      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.

  13. Watching X-Files all the way from the beginning. (Never watched the full series.) Woohoo! ^_^

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    2. Ramikad

      Ramikad

      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.

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      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

    4. Ramikad

      Ramikad

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

  14. We have hype. Crappy movies are built on hype.

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    2. RJA

      RJA

      The dark side of the force is a path way to many new trilogies... that some consider to be unnatural...

    3. Cerez

      Cerez

      You can't win, Darth. If you strike my beloved story down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

    4. RJA

      RJA

      Mesa clumsy

  15. What's on *your* mind?

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    2. Bishop3000

      Bishop3000

      Trying to figure out how to add a droidbrain to a datapad!

    3. Kahzmat

      Kahzmat

      Currently, some kind of huge repsect for your (both of you ;) ) Ahsoka model which I just discover.

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

      Hahaha! I'm flattered, thanks. ^_^

  16. What's the deal with caps? How do I UV Map them, so that the stormtrooper caps texture will appear on them properly?

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    2. minilogoguy18

      minilogoguy18

      .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/

    3. DT.

      DT.

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

    4. Cerez

      Cerez

      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:

  17. When people say we've had no good Star Wars games, they are wrong. We've had Dark Forces, and we've had KOTOR -- both brilliant games that pushed the creative boundaries of what was possible in a video game.

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    2. NumberWan

      NumberWan

      What I did like about the old games, is that the developers had limits but still they were creative. Every detail in level design has sort of duplicity of perception: you are open to treat them the way you like. E.g. in DF2 Nar Shaddaa is not just a city level, but also includes a staship section, as well as cargo transport at the distance.

    3. Seven

      Seven

      I mean we've had plenty of good ones, Dark Forces and KOTOR are some of the few examples of great ones

    4. Seven

      Seven

      The scale would probably be

      Great

      Good

      Alright

      Bad

      Terrible

  18. Whoever made the original facial animations for JK at Raven had no idea how muscles in the face actually work... :/

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    2. Archangel35757

      Archangel35757

      ...I'm also hoping that rend2 will eventually support animated wrinkle maps (@Xycaleth, please).

    3. DrXann

      DrXann

      Elite Force 2 does a better job at facial animations for the last game with idtech3

    4. eezstreet

      eezstreet

      Elite Force 2 is on (basically) a different engine. It's id Tech but heavily modified.

  19. Why is it every time I post about a cultural/social issue (related to Star Wars), it devolves into people snapping at each other? I want to have a full thread with a civil discussion of differing views for once! Please!

  20. Working on Chapter One of Ahsoka's Adventures in the Underworld. And, hopefully, I'll get started on both the Asajj Ventress model, and a brand new story that is a direct continuation of The Clone Wars, soon, focusing on Anakin's story.

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