BruceJohnJenner

Ive been trying to hunt down a particular sound that I really disliked in JKA, specifically the explosion sound used when explosive crates are destroyed, as well as in a few cutscenes. You can hear it here, at about 28:10-28:15 I always thought it sounded like a bunch of pans being dropped on the floor, only less forceful But I haven't had any luck in tracking down what sound file it comes from. I was wondering if anyone who has done sound work before (or anyone who has worked on the games source code) can identify what files are used in it? Is it a single audio file, or several being played over top of one another?

Still no luck on this, I tried the Kotor silver saber mod off of filefront, but it doesnt appear to work as advertised at all for me. I suspect the issue is related to shader files, but I dont understand the syntax at all. Can anyone reccomend a good tutorial on shader files?

After a bit of digging, I found this http://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-jedi-academy/addons/rgbsabers-sp still not sure how it works, but a bit of experimentation will probably resolve that

... Both what? As in the saber colour is determined by both the mask applied from gfx/effects/sabers and a hardcoded rgb value for each preset colour in the executable? Are there any console commands that I can use to manually set saber colour?

Ive been doing some tinkering with my single player Jedi Academy install, with mostly good results. One thing that has eluded me though, is creating new saber colours, specifically a silver coloured lightsaber. I tried editing the files under gfx/effects/sabers , but it didnt work. Are the rgb values applied to sabers hardcoded into the executable, or is it possible to modify them?

That seems odd, that he would leave it behind. You would kind of think that it would mean something to him, given that Yun saved his life... Oh well Thanks for the info on the inventory iterms. How so do the night-vision goggles bug out? And, I assume the power variable must still be present, just not visible on the hud. Do Gonk droids still recharge it?

So I finally got around to playing Jedi Outcast recently, since I am playing the Jedi Knight series in order from Dark Forces II (finally got it working flawlessly through Wine on my Kubuntu install), through to JKA (the first game in the series that I actually played). The storyline in Outcast was pretty good all around, still not quite as good as Dark Forces II, but still better than JKA IMO. The first couple of levels were the most fun to play, the engine for the Jedi Knight games seems quite well rounded even without any lightsaber combat. Likewise, Nar Shadaa, Bespin, and the Cairn Facility were well done, although the Cairn Facility dragged on for too long IMO. Oddly enough, Desann was actually a complete pushover for me, only taking about a minute or so to finish off with force speed and remotes. The force speed seemed really overpowered in Outcast, since none of the NPCs speed up to match you like they did in JKA. One aspect of Outcast that was much better than Academy was the use of battery power with the night vision goggles & the binoculars. having to budget this while sneaking around in dark rooms made for a much more challenging gameplay experience. If this could ever be added to JKA, I would love to see it. One question about the game: If Kyle left his lightsaber with luke after the events of Mysteries of the Sith, why is the blade blue when he gets it back in Outcast? Yuns lightsaber that Kyle picked up in Dark Forces II was yellow IIRC.

Just how bad are you?

Personally, my favourite was Covert Operation (Kril'dor), which I really liked for the quality of the modelling, and the general interesting feel of the mission itself. It felt very Star Wars to me, for lack of a better word. Other good ones were Chandrila (beautiful environment duh), Vjun (the most original of the missions IMO), and Hoth (not as original story, but the mapping was absolutely brilliant).

Thanks everybody Any idea on who I can talk/bug incessantly about joining the coding side of things?

I just thought Id say hello I was quite excited once I found that this project was in operation. I had originally thought that any possibility of an open source fork of the jedi academy engine was squashed by the issue of proprietary code, and the quick removal of the code after the dust had settled on the disney aquisition of lucasarts. (at least thats how I understood the series of events involving the release of the source) This project seems to be a well kept secret unless you know exactly what you're looking for... I happen to know C++, so I was wondering if I might be able to volunteer with the open jk project on Github. I feel that I have a decent grasp of C++, and I think I can handle the C parts as well, but Ive never worked in a project of this size, so Im not sure if maybe I should work on maintaining a small section of the code or not? I have some basic experience in using SFML for graphics & hardware interfacing, but Ive never worked with any sort of 3d graphics engines. Im curious as to whether the engine can be run completely independently of the game discs, or are some files impossible to work without? I've always thought that it would be interesting to make a Battlefront clone under the jk/ja game engine, it always seemed much better than the one that was actually used for Battlefront 2 to me. Im also looking to get a copy of the linux version running on my Kubuntu install, but I think Im going to need a list of the dependencies needed to run the program, when I tried to run the sp version of the latest 64 bit build, I got ./openjk_sp.x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory which Im pretty sure is just missing libraries My github repos can be found here: https://github.com/BruceJohnJennerLawso Thanks for any help in advance