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  1. Sorry to necro the thread, but just my two-pence:

    I was born in the early 90's, so i missed the OT hype, not to mention that my country was in the Soviet Union just a couple of years prior, so the hype was mostly wasted anyway.

    In the mid-80's and the 90's, when western (pop)culture poured in en force, it was easy to jump on the hype train for anything that was western, especially if it was something extremely popular already, so a lot of the older kids got into SW, and even if you didn't see ANH, you knew who Darth Vader was, even if only by appearance. Additional stuff (books, comics, audioplays) was only available in the bigger countries, like Russia or Ukraine (maybe the former Easter Block countries), whereas in Moldova, we mostly had just the movies and knock-off toys. So my love for the old EU came in the late 2000s, when i was in mid/ highschool, and it mostly came from videogames and the internet, not the comics or novels (this is the reason why i don't have an issue with Luke being the way he is in the NT).

    When TPM came out, it felt like some kind of blessing, because we, the kids that missed the OT, had a chance to legitly become part of the crowd (that's why i liked, and still like TPM, even though it's actually a rather dull movie). Then came Clones, and i was 'bought' but the clone armors (as i got older, i got more and more disgusted with the movie because of the terrible cgi's, and obviously the boring plot, and the clone action only beginning at the end of the movie, and lasting only for some 10 minutes, if not less - the cg TCW annoyed me because the clones were drama-queens, and the series focused more on Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme, and Ahsoka than on the clones, i wanted something closer to Republic Commando, focused on the clones, and showing exactly why the clones are supperior to the droids and are supposed to be pro-soldiers). RotS was alright, but the pacing felt off, and the cgi's were again an issue for me, plus some of the characters' choices were dumb as fuck!

    The New Trilogy, i don't like. On the one hand, i was glad that they moved away from excess cgi toward real props and more balanced use of cgis, i was also glad to hear technobabble (can't have sci-fi without it!), but the whole recycling of the OT, and the overal blandness, sjw propaganda, and pointless fan-service are just repulsive.

    Rebels and Rogue One i liked, because they felt more like the OT. Yes, they have their faults, no point denying it, but they were still better than the NT.

    As to Disney buying the franchise, yes, it was a factor that pushed me away from it, but i tried to console myself with the thought that disney has, and still does, deliver actually entertaining and quality-made products. Problem here is that these products have to be original-made, and not bought from someone else, because otherwise, as someone already mentioned here, they just turn it into some bland pile of crap. And disney is a megacorporation bent on taking over the world, just look at all the proof, both in the media-market, real-estate, and other domains. So once disney bought SW, nuked the old EU (even though i only cared for a part of it), and started to deliver products of mediocre (the NT) or questionable (BF2 with all the scandals) quality, i just lost my interest.

    To me, Star Wars was not just cool, it was a way to belong to a group (something that i've had trouble doing since i was a teen), and the whole spiritualist conflict between the jedi and the sith made the franchise stand out from among other sci-fi-fantasy mixtures because it was done in a very smart and original way (no technomagic, no god-level magic powers, no orcs and elves!), not to mention that i always was a sucker for spiritualist topics and philosophy (which is the main reason i love kotor2). The new direction does nothing for me, and frankly, not even the old EU is as fun anymore, because if you are to look at it, it's actually really repetitive - the sith want to take over the galaxy, they want to destroy the republic and the jedi, they create interstellar empires, the jedi fight and (in 98% of the cases) defeat them. Anything beyond that is either one-shot (doc Aphra), unpopular (Yuzhaan Vong), or irrelevant. Most other characters (i.e. non-jedi/ non-sith) are only important if they have any kind of connection to the said jedi/ sith, but otherwise, only exist to create a semblance of a functional universe. This is also something that made the OT so great - the universe didn't revolve around force-users, even though they were a big deal.

    Well, time to move on.

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  2. I look at the list of users currently online and it shows google, bing, etc. bots. Can anyone explain their purpose? Are they spying on us? Or are they just here to make the site searchable on the respective search engine (the heck they are!)? I actually saw the google bot looking at one of the uploads, namely the one that replaces the Jaden-vs-Kyle Korriban duel music. Shouldn't we be worried?

  3. S-J-Culley mentioned somewhere here at Jkhub that he was working on/ supposed to start working on some Sequel themed maps, like Maz Kanata's Palace or Vaders Castle. (? i think that topic was from 2017 or even late -16)

    Thing is, he hasn't been very active in a long time, so maybe he had a sudden inspiration to work on something, and then lost all interest due to something going on IRL. Would make hell of a comeback if he suddenly released  1 or 2 maps.

    On a side note, is S-J-Culley the same guy as Sith-J-Cult?
  4. I'm trying to add something to my model but when i try to export it, it says it's missing a ghoul2 or something like that. what do i do?

    I think you're in the wrong thread - that's modelling and rigging, if I'm not mistaking. This thread is about bots, which is closer to coding, I think.

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  5. Hey there, fellow JK fans

     

    I was wondering, if anyone has started (seriously, with intend to publish) the creation of some of the Episode 8 maps? To be more specific;

    - Crait,

    - The Supremacy infiltration,

       -       (i cant believe I'm saying this, but) The Casino Planet

    - Ahch-To

    - The initial D'Qar sequence (really? It's actually called "Dakar", like in, the Dakar rally?, and yes, yes, i know, it's also the capital of Senegal, but still!)

    What's the "D'Qar sequence"?

    Personally, I don't know if anyone made these locations for jka (there are few mappers left, as far as I know), but I suppose some people are making them, just didn't say anything, or will make 'em, once they accept TLJ on a personal level

  6. Yeah sure, with some clever shader and setup work, a darksaber like this could completely be possible. :) I can think of several ideas and I even found the darksaber interesting from the day I found out about it. It's been months since my last casual mod release so I just might tackle this next! (after I finish up stuff for magsul).

    Sweet!

  7. visit imgur.com

     

    take your awesome picture and upload it, this should lead you to this site:lgZMw2ql.png

     

    now just rightclicjk your picture, view it in a new tab and copy that adress, it should look something like this:

     

    https://jkhub.org/images/DtLBfHR.png
     
    note the i. at the beginning of that adress and the iamge exntesion at the end!

     

    now to embed this picture here all you need to do is simply typing this into your message:

    [img=https://jkhub.org/images/DtLBfHR.png]
    
    and here's what the result looks like:DtLBfHR.png
    Ah, thanks
  8. Well, what if the NPC has no SP NPC qualities, such as spawning or player modeling? This is the case with HapSplash's Legends Thrawn; I can still make my player character look like him with team colours and everything, but if the mod's description says that it is also a multiplayer bot, then why can't I seem to choose him as one? This is confusing...

    The .npc file from ext_data folder has nothing to do with multiplayer and/ or bots, its for non-player characters that "live" in singleplayer. Both singleplayer npcs and multiplayer bots are computer-controlled though, and therefore are almost the same thing, though only almost, because their behavior and other things are different.

  9. Well, the BOT and JKB files are present, but it's almost like the MP game has a numeric limit of bots or something. I simply change the bots' display names, but before and after changing its name to "Legends Thrawn", it just wasn't a selectable bot. Nothing but a multiplayer skin with team colours.

    I'm not exactly sure what you did. Did you just rename a vanilla bot to 'legends thrawn'? If so, you'll also need to change the bot model in the .bot file. If not, then make sure the .bot and .jkb files are in the correct directories in the .pk3 file, and when making a brand new .pk3 file, make sure you compress it as .zip first, and then manually rename the extension to .pk3 because otherwise, the game won't "see" it (don't know why though).

    You are right, the game does have a limit of bots, but if you exceed that limit, they simply begin replacing the vanilla bots in the game's bot list. Once you remove the excess bots, the vanilla list returns. I don't fully understand the whole thing myself, but I rarely go beyond bot limit, so it's not so big a problem for me.

    If all else fails, write down everything you did in the topic here, because personally, I didn't understand what you did (no offense) and most people don't use bots anyway, so getting more answers would take a while (no offense to the guys)

  10. What's the picture?

     

    Generally this occurs with users who hope to post an image from Wikipedia or a similar site, and just fill in the whole image link, like this:

     

    https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/b/b1/Kylekatarn_jasoncourt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20051207113342

     

    From which of course you'd need to remove the last part, in order to be able to post it, like this:

     

    https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/b/b1/Kylekatarn_jasoncourt.jpg

    Well, it's not a specific picture, I just occasionally want to post a pic, and the site tells me this.

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