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The problem? Both Warner and Disney are irresponsible with their programming and product rating. Not sure how it is in the US, but here in Australia The Clone Wars has a 12+ equivalent age rating, while Disney Infinity has so far had a 10+. The US packaging above says 7+ for Infinity! If a child of 7 plays this new Clone Wars Infinity, they will naturally want to see the episodes in the series the game was made about, which are only appropriate for a teenage audience and older. In other words, the whole thing's a mess that results in children watching a show too mature for their age. Go Disney. The Clone Wars is not Infinity appropriate material. Rebels may be, but The Clone Wars isn't.

Isn't it popping up upgrade reminders as well? Distracting the user experience? If it isn't yet it probably will, knowing Microsoft... So called "important updates" are installed automatically, without the user's approval by default on Windows. I've had such updates screw up my games in the past. And even if you do choose to "approve" the updates manually, you have no idea what they contain. Microsoft doesn't exactly go out of their way to specify clearly and user-friendly what each Windows update does in practice. The only redeeming factor is that if you know exactly which update screwed up your PC, you can reverse/uninstall it through the software removal pane in Windows, and then blacklist it, as detailed above.

While I know it would be exciting to see your favourite character from another game wield a lightsaber, I don't think you (and other people with similar personal requests) quite realise just how much work goes into making a new model. I don't think anyone is going to spend so much of their free time working only to fulfill a single wish. Your best bet for a desire like this is to start learning modelling yourself, and make this a personal project of yours. I say all this with respect to your wish. I once thought the same as you do, but diving into modelling opened my eyes about how much work it really takes to achieve something like this. And you'll be surprised!

This is an interesting suggestion, and I do think it's good to support as many personal preferences people take as possible within the community, but I'm not sure how wide an adoption rate this really has. I would recommend a poll to see how many 1.0 users we really have in the community, and see how we'll proceed from there, instead of arguing about it. Backwards support is always tricky because it requires a thorough insight into the software changes. I think it's only worth spending time and effort on if there is a considerable need for it within the community. But I agree that a "works with 1.0" badge may be good to implement for mods/files if we have a number of 1.0 users.

Hahaha! And once again an official Microsoft update is responsible for screwing up our computers without our approval. Nothing new here... :/ The beauties of being a corporation! Your users are your slaves. At least that's how most of today's tech corporations seem to perceive it. I say fight back.

@, there is a big difference between how the Disney film have handled death, for example, as subject matter, and how The Clone Wars handles it. Thematically and emotionally they are on a completely different level. The death of Mufasa in The Lion King was one of the most ground-shaking events in a story of your childhood. It was not taken lightly. And that was a single, delicately staged death. My point is that the mature themes so frequently covered in The Clone Wars are too shocking, desensitising, and inappropriate for small children. If a character death jolts us a little as adults, you can bet children will feel it a shock tenfold. And there were quite a few small and larger jolts even for adults throughout the run of the series, especially towards the end. A seven-year-old doesn't need to know about adult human cruelty, and the feeling of being rejected/betrayed by their loved ones, friends and family. These are themes that are not appropriate for small children, and any child that experiences these themes this early on will have trouble with their personal development. So I stand by my point, firmly. The later seasons of The Clone Wars are not appropriate for under 12-year-olds. They are in fact mid-teenage and adult material. Edit: The Clone Wars later also breached the boundary between hero and villain, which is also indicative of the more mature themes. Small kids, on their level of maturity, are used to grouping characters into good and bad. When a 'bad' character dies, or does 'bad' things, that's not so impactful (i.e. Tarzan- Clayton's death, Beauty & the Beast - ending - "kill the Beast! "). But when a good main character dies, that's a different matter entirely, and children seek good reason for it (i.e. Scar the villain in Mufasa's death). Otherwise small children are completely flabbergasted and emotionally shocked by such events. The Clone Wars breached those boundaries by approaching the many sides of a human character, and presenting realistic situations where the line between good and evil was not so clear to comprehend (e.g. Barriss Offee, Savage Opress, the final story of Fives, etc.). This is mature character development that only serves to confuse younger audiences. And the prequel movies are a special cookie. Let's not get into that. They are walking the borderline on so many levels. If you compare the original trilogy to the prequel trilogy in how the themes are laid down and followed through, you'll likely completely lose interest in the prequels in the comparison, and realise that they are not really family movies.

Well, I don't know about you, but I remember myself at the age of 7-8, and I remember that the main character's death in All Dogs Go to Heaven made me cry my eyes out. Watch that today as an adult and you won't even get sad about it. It's easy enough to act tough and say "sulk it up", but children have a different, much more immersive view of the world, and they are affected much-much stronger than adults by such heavy themes in a moving picture. There is a reason the rating system was invented. Unfortunately few adults are caring and responsible. There's a time for everything, and age 7 is not the time to deal with hopelessness, death, and betrayal. So Disney is doing as much damage to children's healthy emotional growth now as they brought good things in the past. A toy set where the figures come to life in the form of a video game. Everything sold separately, of course, designed to deplete the parents' pockets.

That's okay. Glad we've figured it out. Thanks @@DT85!

Have a look at your screenshot. The center point is where the middle of the hand is. You need to move the model higher in order to get a lower grip on the handle -- so into positive Z.

What do you mean by that, DT? Edit: Oh, the weapon's model! So it's just relative to center point, then?

Wait, are you talking about moving the hand tag of the soldier model, or the object (grenade) model's hold tag? The former is tricky. The way it works is that the top-left corner of the tag needs to cross with a face of the model. Depending on which face it crosses, its position will change in-game. So if you wanted to move it higher, you need to move it for the corner to touch a higher face in the palm, or even the wrist. If you mean the latter, then I'm not sure why moving the tag up and down the handle produces no result. If that's the hold position marker, it should shift the object in the player model's hand, as long as the corner of the tag is crossing with a face of the handle.

The game is comprised of playsets. The Clone Wars playset's story is centred on the later seasons / finale of the series. The later seasons deal with many adult themes -- such as desertion, death/killing, punishment, and betrayal, that are hardly appropriate for a 7-year-old.

Nope, I think I've got 5.0. That actually looks more up-to-date than mine. I don't have the computer with me know, so I can't post a screenshot... but it doesn't matter, really, @@AshuraDX. After this project I will be updating my Max to a later version, anyway. This was perfectly fine for me to finish the rigging and final tweaking here. Does the face look better now?

It is... but it's awesome! I haven't seen a better rainy map in all my years of JKA activity.

Being 100% sarcastic. In case you haven't had the chance to look into the series that far, some of the themes and events in the later seasons of The Clone Wars are absolutely not appropriate for children, @@Circa. Even 12+ is questionable, yet alone 7+! And those story events are exactly what Disney decided to focus this playset on. It seems the Disney management currently consists of money-hungry blabbering idiots who are launching various Star Wars products without any sense of decency, respect, or reason.

That already sounds 15 times better than Rosh's normal whiny voice, hahaha! Let's do this, seriously! It would totally revive the single-player experience! New Jaden and Rosh dialogue that matches the events in the game and actually makes sense, rationally and emotionally. I'm so in on this!

Especially since the last season is what they decided to focus the playset on, which is thematically totally appropriate for 7-year-old kids. And they won't want to see the series after they've played the game. Why would they? So much sensible logic here, it just blows your mind.

Brilliant!

Thanks @@AshuraDX. In that case I just don't know how to activate the proper view for it. I think it's version 5, yes. That's okay, though. The important thing is that the model looks and behaves right in-game, and it does. (I know how to activate the wireframe view, but in this old version of Max wireframe looks horrible, really difficult to make out anything, so I find this view is better for showing the topology in a screenshot/render.)

Well, where the object is held is where the corresponding tag should lie. But it's always a bit of a hit and miss. Try different scenarios until you get a good behaviour in-game. I had to shift Ahsoka's left hand tag nearly 30 times to get the second saber to behave in her hand properly. What seemed logical at first was not at all how the tag worked in the end. From what I've seen the game engine is quite flexible with positioning. It is only structural details that it monitors closely.

Well, it's like cleaning the area under your ears, I guess. Those lekku are their pride and joy, so I'm sure they would take very good care of them. It's sensual and what attracts the boys and girls in their race, just like with Twi'leks' lekku -- except Togruta's brain does not extend into their lekku like the Twi'leks' do. If you ever make love to a Togruta, be sure to caress her lekku as part of the foreplay. The 6" figurine will be hand painted eventually. This is just a prototype.

http://ie001.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/star-wars-black-series-ahsoka-tano.html

Did I mention how I hate Disney? >.<'

Mobile phones are getting so unreliable these days. My iPhone keeps completely freezing up when it's receiving a call. Stupid thing... Never used to have that problem with my mobile phone in the 90s! These days they are overloaded with junk you don't need, and fail to do what they were actually created for. Always keep a regular backup of your contacts/data on a mobile phone. (And not just the iTunes kind of bundled backup.) Next time you may not be so lucky... (I keep my contacts on my PC, backed up, and my more important SMS on the SIM card.)