Syko

Hello good folk of the hub. 

I had an idea for a multiplayer game-mode type to put in Jedi Academy. Basically, it's like Battlefront's Conquest game mode, where you go and capture control points and try to hold them, and people spawn at the control points held by your team. Nothing that complicated conceptually.

I want to try to implement this in Jedi Academy myself. This will be my first attempt at actually creating something with the game's source code. I'm just not sure exactly where to begin. I have a fair amount of experience with Java (hold your noses) and I created an Android app, not to mention some other stuff which I've never shown here, so I'm fairly confident that I know how to code non-game stuff, and I want to start learning how to code games. 

Can someone at least point me in the right direction where to start to create a custom game-mode in Jedi Academy? Just loading up the project in Visual C++ is pretty daunting and I'm not even sure where to start.

Yeah, I hate it when I'm looking up a problem I'm having on Google and I stumble on a forum post with the exact same problem but the op just says "problem solved." Tell us what you did to fix it please.

The more I listen to Radiohead, the more I absolutely love their music. At this point they're probably either my favorite or second favorite artist. A lot of their songs sound kind of meh at first but then build up and are amazing at the end. I feel like their songs convey an emotion or a feeling rather than just a message. That's what I like so much about them. I love almost every song in their "In Rainbows" album. 

Syko, 99% of the content on JKHub is about modding so what's the issue if there's one article about non-modding related stuff? I'm sure there will be a lot of modding related interviews again in the future.

I was interpreting the underlying reason for writing the article as, "activity is low here, we haven't written a news post in a while, and we can't find anyone to interview, so lets pick SiLink because he's active here and he's head of the JAWA clan", rather than "lets make an article that focuses on the community aspect of JA as opposed to the modding aspect".

So sorry I inconvenienced you guys with this "unnecessary" interview. It was fun to do and lots of people dont know SiLink very well these days.

 

Can't please everyone.

 

What would be a necessary interview in your opinion?

Well I just would have liked to read an interview with a modder who is more or less notable. I guess maybe I didn't find it interesting because I don't care about the non-modding community that much. Also, I did thank you for taking the time to write the interview. I'm not trying to be an asshole. 

No offense intended to anyone but I feel like this interview is kind of unnecessary. Most everyone here knows SiLink to some degree since he's usually pretty active around here which negates the purpose of conducting an interview. I guess activity around here has been pretty slow. Thanks for putting a news post together for us to read at least.

This is kind of off topic, but has anyone tried to port OpenJK to android? There's a singleplayer version but to my knowledge no one has made a multiplayer port to Android

I actually had this problem when I was trying to modify the source code. Where are you putting the code? If I remember correctly you have to put your code in the MP Client source folder, not MP Game library. Also, depending on what you are doing, you might not have registered what you did correctly. I remember to write a console command I had to write a function for it in addition to "registering" it as a variable somewhere.

I could be wrong though and there's people on here that know a ton more about this than me.

EDIT: UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Lol, I love this. It never gets old.

Does the map use Rend2 ? Those lights in the first screenshot too good to be from base JKA.

Back up your important data and then do a complete reformat of your hard drive.

I'm just thankful for someone making a new Star Wars game. Besides The Force Unleashed 1 and 2 (which were both pretty mediocre) and The Old Republic, there hasn't been a new Star Wars game since 2005.

Google translate?

Absolutely amazing film score. Probably my favorite movie soundtrack song ever.

Moving forward, another example of video games being painted poorly by the media was the whole Twitch buyout. Every news station was essentially saying "What's Twitch and why the hell would anyone pay money for it?!" in a very similar manner to when they discuss games like GTA5 grossing insane amounts of money and somehow fail to notice that the video game industry is a bigger industry than film by a large amount.

The film industry is actually still a lot bigger than the game industry. I don't know how accurate Statista.com is, but according to it the total revenue for the film industry last year was about 40 billion dollars, while the gaming industry took in about 888 million dollars. Even if these numbers are wildly inaccurate I think it's still clear that the film industry is bigger and it makes sense. Tons of movies like The Avengers and Furious 7 take home billions of dollars every few months while in the game industry there's only a select few that make profits like that (like Skyrim and especially GTA5)

Also consider the demographics. People of all ages and genders go to the movies while the demographics of gamers (were taking about people who play full length games, Angry Birds doesn't count) are young (>30s-40s) and skewed towards males.

Has anyone ever seen Fox News' report portraying Mass Effect as a pornographic game? This is the perfect example of how the media views games, nothing more than violent and overtly sexual.

Yeah, of course, that's why it's there. Some people have downloaded the entire mod database in one zip file, though I wouldn't recommend that since downloading a 40 GB file over HTTP is kind of overkill. Maybe I could make a torrent mirror?

I would recommend downloading by category; the zip files will be smaller that way.

@@Asgarath83

https://app.box.com/jkarchive

It's on page 6, towards the bottom of the Jedi Academy/Maps/Multiple_Gamemodes folder.

Thanks to the Humble Bundle there's actually a significant amount of people playing JKA when I checked yesterday (maybe a hundred players on a weekday?). Pre-Humble Bundle I think activity was extremely low with only like 2 servers with people on them.

This site is really the last truly alive, truly active JA community. Yes, there are a few smaller active clan websites but this is really like the only modding site left. Everything else seems to be either broken (ie Filefront) or gone entirely (Lucasfiles, Mapcraft, PCGameMods, and other ones I probably don't know of)

Lol, I was picturing a skirt on the male Jaden when I read the title.

@@DarkForcesII

 

Welcome to the forums! Funny you're name is Dark Forces II, my friends and I were yesterday just playing co-op on it xD.

Co-op? How is that possible? That sounds incredibly fun.

So apparently after the huge backlash, Valve has completely removed the paid mod system. In spite of their apparent greed when they first introduced the paid mod system, they've gained some respect from me for being willing to remove it. It's not every day that a company actually listens to their customers.

It wasn't really the length that was the problem for me. About half of the book is the main character's (I forget his name) encounters with Dracula locking him in his castle, and it actually was pretty creepy for a book and was great to read. All of that part I read, but then half way through the book it changes to just be a bunch of letters from his wife to him in Dracula's castle, which were incredibly boring. I remember at one point in his wife's letter she wrote about getting new curtains or something... the next third of the book I think was the letters. I read several chapters of them and I didn't see how they had any relevance to Dracula's castle or even to the main character. Kind of ridiculous. 

1984, really enjoyed that book.

Also, about half of Dracula, but believe it or not the book got really boring half way through and I didn't feel like reading it anymore.

The most recent book I read was The Shining. That was like 9 months ago though, don't have much time to read at the moment. I quite enjoyed that book as well. 1984's probably my favorite book of all time so far.

We need paid mods on JKHub. Someone should take KOTF and sell it on here for $50 without crediting the guy that used all those people's mods without their permission.