Cerez

Try disabling the automatic video recording. See if that makes a difference in loading the same maps.

Are you sure Radiant is the only way? I'm 100% sure that there are entity mods with solid switches for the spawners, I've even got a video, have a look: https://youtu.be/LGe_IfXQGXo

You can add any object you like (or most, anyway), but, as far as I know, you can't change their appearance to something that isn't already in the map, and I think -- though I may be wrong on this -- the only way to make them solid is to make them an active object, which is not easy on the memory. For already active objects (like vehicles and NPCs) this is not an issue, but when it comes to building on a map, GTKRadiant is the better way to go.

Great work, @@Langerd! You've genuinely surprised me. If I may, make the hair strands toggle-able.

And @@Seven is right, make the mid-top section of the torso (where the top of the red sash is) just a little wider.

We're going to need female voices for these Reborns, too, guys... Any ideas?

If you're looking to add solid map objects, GTKRadiant is the way to go without question.

You can tell your current position (co-ordinates) in-game with the command "viewpos" in the console. That, in combination with "noclip", should help you with placing objects accurately on a map in ENT modding without having to look at the map in GTKRadiant.

I don't mind, but it's yet another stupid trend, that is going really off from what it is supposed to be. Like in the picture with rainbow trooper, why don't we make also some other gender characters, all sexual oriented characters as well and even a Unicotrooper (unicorn + stormtrooper) I mean ok do what you want, but some things should not get out of the line, so that people and fans can stil like it if you can understand my mumbo-jumbo thoughts.

https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ed99bf20-7d51-4d26-8843-891ad324817e

Sounds anti-British anti-female, sir.

(But I agree that there needs to be a balance. However, to have a female Reborn is very much within that balance. Why not? There are female Jedi, so why not female Reborns?)

Well either way, it's not a problem of the AI. The AI hasn't really changed between games, it's the pathfinding that has.

Whatever it is, it's causing the waypointing system to be unreliable.

The solution to fix JA's terrible waypointing is to...fix JA's terrible waypointing. The problem (and I've always asserted this, over and over) is the terrible waypointing that is done in the maps. Do you want an example of AI that is perfectly waypointed? Try looking at what JK2 did with their maps. A lot of this can be fixed with map modding. Granted, the code in JKA is a bit different, getting it to be at JK2-level isn't hard.

While I agree with this, I believe, as @@NumberWan has also pointed out, that the current AI is unreliable in following those waypoints as expected, especially when it comes to choosing a path, or walking from point to point before changing direction.

If it's going to be fixed in such a way, the NPC AI needs to behave more reliable about it, and follow direction. What we have at the moment is a transitional thing, where we set fixed waypoints, and then the NPC decides to do what they like with them (or between them) -- which is not helpful. Not to mention that because of this freedom in logic, they often tend to get stuck at a waypoint, or behave ridiculously walking back and forth.

It should be either pre-defined, or automatic behaviour, but it needs to be easy to use/switch and reliable for us to be able to use it in more advanced ways, and script more intelligent and lively NPCs.

Aliases: wedge2211, Wedge

Area of skills: Mapping

Brief list of accomplishments: A number of highly original design maps featuring innovative concepts and ideas, and inspiring creativity in others. A creator of new, original design Star Wars worlds.

Examples of contributions: Bloodmine Shaft, Gulf of Souls, Tal Erulanei, Nirenne Station, Corellian Platform Encounter

Comments:

His accomplishments often forgotten, Wedge has been an amazing mapper and creative thinker, always striving to create original, new worlds and environments for Star Wars that have great story backgrounds and practical applications. One of the most talented original design mappers I've ever known.

Kind, humble, and generous toward the community, Wedge is now retired from the JK modding scene, though I often wish he would take a plunge back in and surprise us.

Aliases: Sith-J-Cull, SJC, @JCulley3D

Area of skills: Mapping

Brief list of accomplishments: From the prequel films to The Clone Wars, SJC has brought inspiring and authentic worlds to our game.

Examples of contributions: Palpatine's Office, The Senate Building, Mustafar (Anakin's End), The Invisible Hand, Utapau, Mygeeto, Kashyyyk, Coruscant Adventures

Comments:

Needing no introduction, Sith-J-Cull is pretty much single-handedly responsible for bringing the world of The Clone Wars and the prequel films to Jedi Academy. From his legendary Mustafar maps, and the Chancellor's Office, to the engrossing, shady world of undercity Coruscant, SJC has amazed and inspired us all with his astoundingly detailed, authentic works, and given us cinematic places/worlds to enjoy in-game for a whole decade and more. With the high quality of his work, he has left a lasting legacy for us to follow and live up to.

Plus, he's a great guy, who's built an R2D2 in his home workshop!

Aliases: DT85, DT

Area of skills: Player Character Creation (Modeller, Texture Artist, Character Rigger)

Brief list of accomplishments: High quality player models for characters from The Clone Wars, The Force Awakens, and new generation Star Wars content.

Examples of contributions: Darth Maul, Savage Opress, TFA Stormtrooper, TFA Luke Skywalker

Comments:

Single-handedly responsible for creating much of our beloved, high quality, new generation player models, rising up to and continuing HapSlash's legacy. Never one to refuse help or the offering of genuine advice, DT has been a great inspiration and friend to us all, and a valuable, distinguished member of this creative community.

(I'm honoured to have had the pleasure of modding beside you, my friend.)

Oh crap, I read the first post too quickly and was tired. I thought you were hoping that the TV show itself would get finished, wasn't thinking about fan fiction. But still, why the heck not.

Oh, hahaha! Well, I meant both -- whether it is labeled as fan-fiction or the official story doesn't really have bearing if it is good. The Clone Wars was written by many writers. Just when you said "that story", I thought you were referring to my "Ahsoka's Adventures in the Underworld" -- which you've put a like on in the past.

With the recent developments, I won't actually be starting on this anytime soon -- so if anyone else wants to have a go, feel free (and I'll drop it).

Yes, I would like to see that story finished.

Don't get your hopes up. I think I'm just about to take a long-long leave of absence.

If I do finish it, I'll post it... but don't hold your breath.

@@eezstreet, I think we can lock this now. Not gonna get any more intelligent talk coming out of here.

Because Disney says they aren't.

 

Somewhat irrelevant. People's experience with the works has nothing to do if something actually happened.

 

Hit the nail on the head.

No comment.

You missed my point about the question whether something is official or alternative having nothing to do with value at all.

Let me guess. It has to do with that Lucasfilm and Disney proclaim to be official, right? Hurray for independent, free-thinking minds.

@@Ping, except that when it comes to talking about Star Wars history, you will keep insisting to me that the Disney timeline is the official Star Wars timeline, everything else is "alternative". Whereas I know a different official timeline that existed not too long ago -- and for me still exists as the main, official storyline in Star Wars.

You guys are driving a very one-sided argument.

After reading this thread it sounds like you're only trying to justify in some form or another that things such as Kotor are "true", when point of fact they "aren't".

What makes them not true? That's my question to you. They are loved by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Star Wars fans around the world. So what makes them less "true" than the latest Disney blockbuster? That Disney didn't put a "canon" stamp on them?

To be clear, I'm not trying to make KOTOR, or any other Star Wars work "canon" -- because "canon" is Disney content, as I've stated over a hundred times by now! What I'm trying to make you see is that to recognise the Disney "canon" as the the one true, and only Star Wars timeline means you are discriminating a big portion of the fanbase, people who love the old stories, and consider those Star Wars timelines and stories just as, if not more valuable than Disney's timeline.

@@eezstreet, to more directly answer your call, I am talking about authorship as it relates to the stories and the story-world. Lucas was known to have overseen the development of Star Wars stories. He didn't write them. He oversaw their progress and developments. He "puppeteered" the creation, and continued development of the world, so to speak.

And... it's a "vocal minority" now. We've only seen the first movie yet... >.<'

The fact is that, as @@Ping has rightly pointed out, if there is a Story Group at Lucasfilm that is currently in charge of directing the Star Wars stories, then effectively we have two authors on our hands: the original author, Lucas, and the new team at Disney. It's a loose definition of authorship in both cases, but with Lucas it was known to be one individual, who more or less took direct responsibility for the content produced, while in Disney's case this is a mystery team of possibly ever-changing individuals -- so it's even more loose. There is not much moral responsibility in being a nameless staff member working on the Star Wars stories as a job for a few years -- not nearly as much as being proclaimed as the author of a story world and the creator of a franchise.

Also, @@eezstreet, I never said that the fans decide what is "canon". I said the fans choose what will become, and be remembered as Star Wars history. There's a big difference. The word "canon", as used by Disney, means "content approved by us" or "our storyline". Star Wars history, on the other hand, is our entire Star Wars lore, encompassing everything that we find valuable in Star Wars. Things that stand the test of time.

Our official Star Wars history is this, not Disney's "canon". That's what I'm trying to stress here. The use of the word "canon" is very misleading here, and that's what I'm trying to raise awareness to. It's a marketing strategy used by Disney that can be very damaging to our community if we don't think it through, and change our perspective.

I agree with you Cerez, but we should avoid using discrimination in this context.

To be clear, I'm not having a go at @@Ping, and not saying that he would do that (sorry @@Ping). I am just illustrating the problems we will have to face as a community if we continue along this path and allow different fictional timelines in Star Wars to segregate us from one another.

The real problem with this or that "canon", and having multiple timelines is exactly this. In order to see past this and find a compromise, we need to learn to appreciate that we have a Star Wars history that extends far beyond any "canon". That there is no "official" story anymore. That Lucas' universe is just as valid as the new Disney universe. And the EU is worth no less than the Disney content. They are different Star Wars worlds overlapping.

Which we choose to use per occasion is up to us as fans, but there is no "official" storyline here anymore.

Otherwise, if we keep stressing this or that is the "official," "canon" version, we really stand a good chance of discriminating one another in this (illustrated) fashion, and causing serious social problems within our community. All because of different fictional timelines.

I would rather we started changing our outlook way before things took an ugly turn. We are all Star Wars fans here, and we need to respect all of Star Wars, and everyone's preferences.

@@Ping, wow... no comment... (you need to ease up...)

You've just shocked me to he bone. This has just made me want to deny that I was ever a Star Wars fan. I am no slave to Star Wars, or to Disney, thank you. I have my human rights and freedom.

As to the points you've raised, I have addressed them with good reasoning, but let me address them directly, for extra clarity:

To say that Nietzsche has changed, and that he is not the same person 20 years later changes nothing on the fact that he is still the same individual who wrote the work in question. Unless that person has completely lost their memory, and even then, they will feel moral responsibility over their creation. That's why an author is respected as the creator in charge of that work. If nothing else, their name is attached to it.

From ANH to ROJ George Lucas supervised the story of Star Wars. The author hasn't changed.

While it's good to hear that there is some management as to the direction of the new stories at Disney with the Story Group in charge of keeping things going, that still doesn't change the fact that George Lucas is the author of Star Wars, the original story and world that inspired this franchise. A new author stepping in now cannot claim that their rewriting of the old stories is the new Star Wars canon. They can, but it would be hardly justified, or gain favour... and it certainly doesn't help to give their work credibility.

When you are talking about "fictional canon", I ask you; what canon? Whose canon? From whose point of view? And if you say the Lucasfilm Story Group, I will tell you again: they have no moral right over the original author's, George Lucas' Star Wars, or the other Star Wars authors' work for that matter. Their license and IP ownership entitles them to create new Star Wars works, not to desecrate old stories and content.

As to your last paragraph, it's not nonsense. Let's say, hypothetically, that the new trilogy runs its cinema time, and the movies really fail to impress the public -- they are complete flops. Do you think the Star Wars fan community will follow the new Disney proclaimed "canon" storyline when they play, and write fiction, and role-play? No, they won't. We'd be complete fools to. The new movies will eventually simply fade into oblivion, and the old stories will return to take their place. We decide what makes Star Wars history by the content we like in majority, not Disney.

Now, your argument is that Disney doesn't care because they reap the benefits in the cinemas anyway. I never argued that they did care, or that they would not earn money from their initially published content. But the more they disappoint their fans, the less loyalty and support they will get in return. A big part of the reason Star Wars has been so successful over these last decades is that it has a dedicated and loyal fan-base who keeps buying new content and merchandise from the franchise. We do this of our own free will, because we care about and support Star Wars. But if Disney decides to lay waste to our turf, do you think we will stand for it, and continue supporting their cause? Do you think we'll care about their next flop and insult? Do you think we'll invest money in it?

I am already not watching the new sequel in the cinemas. I will watch a shared copy. The same goes for Rogue One. Now, I know not everybody feels the same way about The Force Awakens, and I respect that some people still find it inspiring and interesting -- but once again, that's not everyone, and with the recent desecration of some of the old stories and characters, Disney has already lost quite a bit of fan loyalty.

Nothing is forcing us to keep supporting Disney's Star Wars. We do it because we still believe that they can do some justice to the franchise. But what if we didn't?

But the real issue here is not what happens to Disney, or whether they earn their money, but what happens to us as a segregated community in consequence of their rewrites and actions. If I find the new movies and Disney's recent actions personally hurtful, do you think I will follow the new "official" storyline, and find it credible? Now, say you and I wanted to partake in an after-the-Battle-of-Endor time-framed story together. Which storyline is true? Which Star Wars history will we play by? Will you insist repeatedly with certain "proof" that Disney's "canon" is the one true choice?

And here we bear witness to a new form of discrimination.

And as I said there, it didn't go unnoted. It's part of the reason I've started this thread, to discuss it. @@Ping, so, from your point of view, by what definition of "canon" do Disney, and its subsidiary, Lucasfilm, have right to claim that their new storyline is official, and to be considered more important and relevant (or credible) than the original storyline many of their new stories are trying to replace?

I don't doubt that TFA has a collective body of writers as an author for the story, and I've listed the writers, but, with the exception of one writer for ROJ, those authors have absolutely nothing to do with the original story of Star Wars. My point is that Disney is not an author, and neither is Lucasfilm. They are not an individual, or a group of individuals who directly oversees story development, and keeps a close eye on the story-world. They are a company, a licensor, selling rights and hiring others to make movies based on Star Wars. There is no overseeing body here, no collective author with moral responsibility over all Star Wars works to keep things in check, unlike with Lucas. George Lucas is still the only true author, the only one with moral responsibility over the whole of Star Wars.

And Disney may control the franchise, but the company does not control the public. Which is what I'm getting at. They can do whatever they want, but that doesn't mean it will go down well with us, the fans. Without our support there is no Star Wars franchise, there is no "official" new storyline, and they can kiss their license goodbye. That's why it doesn't pay to insult the fans. Our world, and our past should be treated with the respect it deserves. And we are the ones who keep Star Wars alive, therefore we have a say whether something is officially adopted into Star Wars history or rejected for being a weak attempt, and sub-par.

I guess...why does it matter? Just like what you like. Understand that there is an "official" timeline of events (otherwise how will new fans enter the story), but as a fan you are free to like things however you want. Is there a reason we need to redefine things?

Glad you asked. You're the first one of the nay-sayers to actually read what I wrote and think it through. A tall, cold glass of wine to you.

With all the marketing that has been happening in the world lately, it should be obvious, but what the Disney marketing guys aim to do by twisting our use of the word "canon" as it pertains to Star Wars here is to make us focus entirely on their new content, as if it were the one and only "official" Star Wars content and storyline. The reason I wrote this article is to raise awareness to this campaign. It's not canon, and it's by no right the "official" storyline.

How does this affect us? The more people, without thinking it through, start to blindly believe and promote that Disney's way is the only "official" way, the more damage to our community and long history this will do, not to mention a segregation between fans. Disney has no right to affect our community, wipe our long past, our culture, and try to manipulate us into submission this way -- unless we are dumb enough to let ourselves be subjected to it.

We have a Star Wars history, and we should be proud of it. Disney may not respect that, but that doesn't mean we need to side with them and forget about our deep culture, or discredit the stories we've grown to love and that have shaped our past -- unless we really feel that they need to be discredited. Disney has no right to tell us what is creditable in Star Wars and what is not, and overwrite our past only to call the newly created past "official" by their standards. We're entering 1984 territory here.

"Peace" stands for "military". "Canon" stands for "Disney approved".

We're not that blind, are we?

Here's a question to your logic though - would Jedi Knight games not be considered canon at all then because they were written and produced by Activision, having only been given the greenlight by someone at Lucasarts?

They aren't. They never were. Lucas never oversaw the story of the Jedi Knight series, as far as I know. So they were never really canon. Just like the new (Disney) Star Wars films. However, unlike the new films, they were never really labeled as "canon" either, to my knowledge...

What they are is Star Wars history, as far as the games are concerned, because we love the games, and most of us think they are some of the best Star Wars action games that have ever come out. They stood the test of time, and are still remembered.

Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with the Disney company wanting to have their own, "official" Star Wars storyline, it's just that this storyline does not necessarily take precedence over the Lucas canon and the other Star Wars stories that have come before it, and that the majority of us have grown to love. In other words, it may be quickly labeled "canon" by Disney, but in honesty it's truly not canon, it doesn't have reason or right to be, and it's certainly not official Star Wars history. Not until it shows quality to be remembered, levels with the old stories, and stands the test of time. And it'll never be "canon", the same as the EU stories.