MagSul

Whilst I appreciate the thought, Circa, my hilt making skills aren't in the same league as most others. When I decided to take a swing at it yesterday, it was my first time in years to get a functioning hilt into the game. On top of that, I used GMAX, which I gather from majority opinion is obsolete and there's another programme I'd be better off learning. (If anyone wants to give me advice on that, I'd be very interested!) What I'd like to do to contribute (at least, to start), is add more facial customisations for the various Base Jadens. I thought 3 choices for each was a bit stingy of Raven. But hey, from what I hear they had some serious deadline issues and a lot more was scrapped than just a few more head options!

Open luke_head_new Layer -> New Layer (use the foreground colour, which by default is black.) Select that layer in the layers window. If you look just above it, there's a little box named "Mode:" with a drop-down arrow opposite. Click it. Click "Saturation". The black should now be partially transparent, making the hair (and the skin) a dark grey. (Don't worry, it doesn't have to stay this way!) Now click the bottom layer. Using the fuzzy select tool (the one that looks like a wand), select Luke's skin and avoid selecting his hair. (Hold SHIFT to select more than one area with the tool) When you have most of Luke's skin selected, click back onto the top layer. Tap Ctrl+X, or "Edit" then "Cut" You should now be left with unaltered skin, but dark grey hair. If not, repeat the process until you're done, or use an eraser on the top layer to tidy up grey bits left behind. (If you erase a part of the hair to reveal the blonde underneath, just use a black paint brush to replace it, or hit "undo") Ensuring the top layer is selected, underneath the "Mode: Color" part of the layers window will be "Opacity" Lower that until you're happy with Luke's hair colour. Done!

You take that one, I'll take these two!

Mesa no think so.

I will do what I must.

Not a bad start! Personally, I'd have de-saturated the colour a bit more on the face. (Whilst in "Colors" "Colorize", drag the "Saturation" bar to the left a bit more.) I was feeling generous. Here's a head-start. (Get it? Head start?) Lekku could use a little more work. I totally didn't do this just so I could make a pun.

The other he spoke of is your twin sister.

Not to bad that guy, I'm only suggesting this because I don't know shaders off by heart. Do you know of any example skins with the shaders you're after? You could just compare yours with what you find, maybe!

She is more foolish than I thought.

Agreed. Improving the NPCs wouldn't be a bad decision, either. Particularly where their aim is concerned...

Might be a tiny bit too ambitious there, Onysfx. ...Eventually I'll be able to spell your name without scrolling back up.

That's the one!

Sweet, looking forward to the preview!

Ah, understood! In that case: copy the original image and save it as a backup in case you ever need to go back. Cut out those white bits, then paste it as a new layer above the original image in GIMP. Export that, done!

You could use the "Real Jedi Academy" map that's lurking around somewhere. (I'd link it, but net's crawling right now.) It's more or less the full academy as featured in JK2, only with a bit more.

Use your feelings, something is out of place!

I dread to imagine what an accurate assessment of my JA game time would tally up to.

Yavin2 would definitely be a good choice for that. (The one you mentioned where Kyle trains Jaden and Rosh.) Alternatively, perhaps Yavin1b, the map you and Rosh explore after the Yavin Runner 2 plummets.

Yeah, I can safely say that they are. You've cut out the right bits, but that layer isn't transparent. Select that layer in the layers window, then, at the top of the image: go to "Layer", then "Transparency" and click "Add Alpha Channel". Select the white section and Ctrl+X if it's still there.

Ctrl+L will open the layers box. Or, click "Windows" "Dockable Dialogs" "Layers" When the window pops up, just right-click the layer and continue as described earlier!

I'm afraid, that the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive...

Last point. This is only relevant if you're saving any images as .jpg files, by the way: When you click "File -> Export" to create the .jpg or to overwrite the old file, make sure "Optimize" and "Progressive" are un-ticked as they are in the image below. If you don't do this, JKA will fall out with you.

Very swish! Reminds me a lot of the original source, which is very good!

I don't believe you! I can't...