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Let's not forget Jaxxon is canon https://i0.wp.com/comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/death_of_jaxxon.jpg?resize=599%2C337

He's a near human alien Jedi that was doing a vow of penance during the clone wars for an unnamed reason. He had set traps for possible tresspassers, not padawan learners. Vader's chasing him to fulfill his rite to corrupt a kyber crystal, which he does by fighting the jedi battlemaster unnarmed. This is all during the first months of the Empire.

The noghri used to be purple untill it was shoddily reskinned to looke blue. You can see how it uses to look at the multiplayer's red and blue skin icon.

Not only is he a Grievous fanboy, he's a complete retard and it's fun to see Vader rekt him.

I stopped that project when I hit a wall with a bug I didn't know how to fix back then. I will finish it eventually and it will be added to my main mod project as a small quest.

It seems that now crystals follow more George's ideas than in the past, which I like. All living things are influenced by the force, as such, it seems pertinent that kyber crystals react in some way to it, after all, it's the crystal the one that chooses the Jedi, not the other way around. In the same way, a red lightsaber is obtained by corrupting the essence of a kyber crystal. In the new canon, the sith take the lightsaber from a Jedi and imbue it with all their dark emotions (thus, making it 'bleed'), which I personally like, since it seems coherent with the whole corrupt nature of the sith. Ahsoka's white lightsaber were obtained when she killed the sixth brother and purified his lightsaber crystal. It doesn't mean that it obtained that color because she's a gray jedi, because she isn't, as there's no such thing as a 'gray jedi' in the new canon.

I'd love to try and animate a model with a custom skeleton like that one, sounds like a really fun challenge.

This is great! Might be very useful for all of us SP modders. I think the AI flags are related to special npcs like vkothos and dkothos, who have a special AI flag that tells them to heal evil rosh, who alsi has a special AI flag.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress#Influence

Sure! I love studying everything I can

I have made some progress in my main mod, though there's still plenty of things to finish. Good news is that at last my first bounty hunting mission is complete: you'll be able to either kill or capture your first target. Sad thing is that since I'm still new to coding, I haven't been able to implement a credits mechanic, in which you can either earn or spend money for different things. I have been playing a lot with kitbashing and skinning (inspired by the recent threads here). Since I've always been a fan of togrutas, I started working on my own Togruta mercenary. It was almost all done with base models (which means her head has proper mouth movement), with exception of the montrals, which are from neomarz's shaak ti and Cisco's texture which I'm using as a placeholder for now. Also, I used Scerendo's Female Jedi face textures as a base. Pic related: Thanks! I'm not sure I've the brain to make it a gameplay mechanic, but I'm sure I'll use it for some fun quests! Thanks! That was achieved with a couple of scripts and a couple of hand-crafted animations. We will make Jedi Academy great again!

They're basically different games. The Wii version even has a duel mode.

Anime isn't the only thing that's japanese, and even so, anime has been a source of inspiration in recent Star Wars history. http://www.starwars.com/news/the-cinema-behind-star-wars-princess-mononoke-ahsoka-tano The original trilogy was heavily inspired by Kurosawa's samurai films and the whole philosophy of the films is based on eastern mysticism.

A boss from the ported version for playstation 2 of The Force Unleashed.

Can't the whole model be linked to just the root bone? I don't this 'meme' needs to be animated at all.

Ironically Star Wars is based on silly japanese stuff.

Just in case someone is interested in improving it and doesn't know how, these tutorials are quite useful: http://deadlystream.com/forum/topic/5525-advanced-skinningupscaling-techniques-in-photoshop/ http://deadlystream.com/forum/topic/5536-advanced-skinningupscaling-techniques-in-photoshop-pt-2/

What's wrong with the Galaxy of Heroes fulcrum model? As it is, it fits perfectly in JA aesthetics, the only thing it needs is for someone to do improve the resolution of her textures.

Then what you're looking for is a tutorial in Weight Painting. What's shown in this video tutorial is what you should have to do with any model you want to fit into the JKA skeleton.

You can do it by switching saber styles, but you must have the adequate saber skills (don't remember how much, but must be something in offense and defense).

No, this is a Singleplayer-only game mechanic.

I'd like to see more beasts models. The mine monster from base JO and the howler from JA are nice concepts that show how the game can be populated by native fauna. I'd love to see animals like the Kowakian Monkey Lizard, Fathiers, Gundarks and others. On a more humanoid level, I'd love to see a Tognath since they're like Kel'dors but cooler.

I'm 100% sure you can create an Open World RPG with Jedi Academy. The game can totally support large maps, or at least that's what the development pics of Warzone has led me to believe. Oblivion isn't that big in reality, it's just a bunch of maps connected with each other. Same as Skyrim, if you mod it, you'll notice that all the open world areas are relatively small maps connected. Same thing can be said about NPCs, how many NPCs do you think are in each cell in Skyrim? Their whole cities are populated by -at most- 30 people. Besides that, I agree with most of your point.

I find it interesting how much people from the developed western world advocate so much for copyright laws. In south america you can find most streets filled with people selling pirated copies of video games and movies and nobody bats an eye. That said, I think people are way over reacting to the whole Battlefront II thing, if the game is so bad, just stop giving it attention, don't make a 1 hour video shouting and crying about how bad EA is.