Smoo

Map 2 sounds kinda like the Zion map. I don't know about the first one though.

zion is a great map

So... I had the misfortune and fortune of having a full weekend where I could just work on rend2 the whole time. It's unfortunate because this only came about because I'm ill. Fortunate because I've been able to get somewhere with adding weather

 

Here's what I have so far:

 

All I'm missing now is to stop it raining indoors and underneath things, and to make it a bit more customisable so that it can do other weather effects. I also need to actually spawn rain around the camera, instead of covering the entire map. When I get around to doing any of that, who knows

 

So, the fun thing about this rain, is that there are around 250k rain drops, with very little performance impact. It even runs well on my MacBook Air which isn't the most powerful thing in the world

That is so cool

So many jka clans I'd hope would live longer

So I gave this several attempts but to no avail. My server still doesn't show up in the server list. What are some possible problems I might be having that might be causing this? As far as I'm aware of, I've opened the ports to my router.

Sometimes the host cant see the server in public list, have you tried get a friend to check if they see it or can connect to it first?

caelum or BlueFangSolutions, nfoservers is good too but you have to setup server urself on a vps

Ive got vanilla code but it has lots of bugs that need to be fix before it will even compile lol and only fixed some for mp code, havnt tried to code sp at all yet

This is aweome

You screenshot broken?

Nice. Will it interfere with QEffects at all?

https://github.com/jedis/jediacademy

but OpenJK has lots of bug fixes

https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

Salut! I'm doing IT at university myself, was able to pick up modding Jedi Academy code pretty easily from learning programming at uni

Awesome

Bots are so incredibly lame, the most difficult bot is on par with a below average player at best.

 

There aren't any "tools" for BOT or NPC files because they're so simple it isn't necessary. Using the assets as a reference is more than enough to figure out how to make them.

you can make em OP with japro, give em fullforce and gripkick lol

Damn I missed out! Loved that map back in the day

Something I recorded on the SO server a couple months ago:

I forgot to make my twitch stream a highlight so it got deleted lol

Reminds me of Farcry and Crysis hah

So in the past few months I've been chatting with a guy called Nick in the Soldier of Fortune II community (I'm from there aswell)

 

And as we want to improve the graphics of the game , in this case maps , we search for ways that haven't been tried before or have been tried but cancelled.

 

Well mainly he stumbled onto something awesome which I knew about vaguely as I read it before on TrueCombatElite's forum by Damien.

What it briefly is is a map completely made out of models work and then bake the lightmap onto the model in 3dsmax or any other 3D Programming tool that allows this.

This results in very nice shadows but it is a tedious way.

 

Same thing can be done when your map made in GTKRadiant is done and in BSP format, import the map into a 3D program and bake your lightmap on it and export the model, import the model with the lightmap on it in GTKradiant and recompile.

 

I copied a part of our Skype conversation and put it here for additional info, he was going to make a tutorial but no promises, we'll have to see:

 

[26-3-2016 15:09:09] Nick : I create my models inside 3DS max, i mean the map (broken down in models), then uv unwrap them, create the texture. I then create a copy of the whole map. I then select each model separately, and apply a new uvw unwrap, where I downscale de UVW to 20%, so i can fit 25 objects on one light map. Once i'm done, i bake lights, and exports the model for GTK. I create the shader for the textures where the textures are scaled down aswell 5*5

the reason I use 5*5 instead of 2*2 or 4*4, it's because you can only scale the texture in the shader, and not offset it, so if you scale down a texture, the middle texture is centered, if you do a 4*4, the middle texture is split in 2. I could offset the texture in photoshop, but I found out that 5*5 gives good results anyways, so i stick to it

 

 

 

 

 

- Nick's maps in chronological order

 

@@Nick

 

- Nick's profile

https://jkhub.org/user/3195-nick/

 

- TrueCombatElite forum post by Damien (images are missing)

http://www.truecombatelite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2116&start=60

beautiful

Would love to play as Doctor Strange Mysterio is awesome too, wish he was in one of the movies

Might try it out

Eagerly waiting for that 1.4.0!

We all is

Still gets rid of the lighting though

Hi Creyon,

 

Very funny video! It was definitely worth the entire 1:01 minutes of my life!

 

Please check out my video as well as my YouTube channel.

Hey Cor! love ur lugormod server

Do these only work on warzone mod? Or can it work on regular jamp etc

 

Here's a few quick screenshots of the extension to the procedural geometry stuff I have been working on.

 

I have changed the old grass system to do 3D model ground cover.

Lighting is now done deferred for speed improvements.

Real lighting also now comes from glow shaders. Visible in the last screenshot on the fallen tree behind the crystal.

 

 

 

beautiful

Nice work so far