Tempust85

I tried it once, left my PC on for hours and Blender was still locked up.

Dark Forces II Mod is a total conversion modification, for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. This project aims to re-create Star Wars Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight but with modern rendering, more detailed levels and utilizing Jedi Academy's lightsaber combat system. We're using OpenJK's code as a base, and also using code from ioquake3's OpenGL 2 renderer with our own improvements.

If you're skilled or have a drive to learn and would like to join us, please head over to the applications forum and apply:

https://jkhub.org/forum/151-df2-mod-developer-applications/

allow multiple GLA loading. I'd like to see individual GLAs per animation, so animations are modular. We can then see multiple animation mods be used together.

remove hardcoded bone axis orientation. skeletons with non-matching bone axis orientations to what the code expects will have borked aiming. An External file would give greater control.

Scale animation. Would really cool to have this. Animations that would take several bones to pull off could only take 1. Example, enlarging a sphere.

Not sure if an exporter/compiler thing or not, but allow position only animation. Right now in order to have position animation processed, there must also be rotation animation.

Project Leads:

DT85

minilogoguy18

Programmers:

SomaZ - Lead Programmer

DT85

Level Designers:

DT85 - Lead Level Designer

Jedi_Mediator

Ramikad

JayJay21

3D Artists:

DT85 - Lead 3D Artist

minilogoguy18

AshuraDX

Psyk0sith

Nupol

Texture Artists:

AshuraDX - Lead Texture Artist

DT85

Psyk0sith

Nupol

Animators:

DT85 - Lead Animator

minilogoguy18

Effects Artists:

DT85

UI Artists:

DT85

PR:

Circa

Thinking about applying for a position on our team? Please include:

• what position you're interested in applying for
• examples of your work
• game engine & program experience (3ds Max, Photoshop, etc)

Current positions available:

• Character Artist - ability to create detailed character models using a sculpting program (Zbrush recommended) and bake into a low budget model, create LODs and create PBR textures for them. No frankensteining or porting!
• Level Object Artist - ability to create detailed high poly level object models and bake into a low budget model, create LODs and create PBR textures for them. Can use Maya, Blender, 3ds Max or Softimage. No frankensteining or porting!
• Level Designer - ability to use GtkRadiant proficiently, versions 1.5 or 1.6.x only
• Texture Artist - ability to create PBR textures for levels. Albedo, Normal, Roughness/Metalness/Occlusion
• Programmer - decent knowledge of C++ required & familiar with idtech 3 engine's code. Bonus points for being able to work with OpenGL, to participate with the production of the OpenGL 2 renderer

Looking great!

Yeah, I agree. Go for it, @@AshuraDX.

Looking great but for the love of baby Jesus, pick a material and stick to it lol.

All right fair enough, points made. I'll get working on textures for gorc level, @@AshuraDX can finish up 07yun. I'll also sort out the bryar animations. @@minilogoguy18 how's the gorc animset coming?

Maybe for now, have the bryar on the turntable NPC thing and make a short video to show off?

@@Circa can you please add an Applications section?

As far as in-game content goes, we can't really do much until @@AshuraDX finishes those PBR textures for 07yun and the lighting is sorted by @@SomaZ. I don't want to show off anything half finished anymore, it's either done or it's not. What we can do is show off models like the Bryar & Gorc, rendered in marmoset with PBR textures.

Found a Lightsaber blueprint: https://bohriumdev.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/lightsaber-in-ue4/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQvm_5VMyxc

Need something a bit more recent than that, ue4 went from needing a sub to being free.

I've also read that you can mod Unreal Tournament, so that could be a good base as well. Slap in a basic saber, then get animating & coding.

I've also got $30 USD credit for the UE4 marketplace that I'm willing to donate for something decent, if this ever gets started and the purchase is of a dire need.

The problem I've seen with many mods is that they set unreal goals when they should focus on achieving small things first. You can aim for the sky, but without a clear set of goals it's impossible to get anything done. 

Exactly. It's all well and good to want to get large features like sabers in off the bat but unless you're team is large enough and experienced enough, you'll fall flat.

Proper assets can come later. You could easily make a VERY basic saber, UE4's test dummy character and use them for animation work. So long as you have the skeleton you want, a test character model and a saber hilt with a right thickness (for correct holding), then you can move straight on to animation & coding work. Wouldn't matter if it's Star Wars, this would still apply.

About the Star Wars - problem. I could imagine having SW as a mod or as an alternative theme. However, I think most people here underestimate the amount of work to create assets for a complete Star Wars game, including models, maps, sounds, textures, etc.

Both projects I was part of - Star Wars: The New Era (HL2) & MBIII (UDK), focused on all of these things and yet they still ultimately failed. Why? Because the developers eventually lost interest. Not many people want to hang around for years making a game unless you're being paid for it. The only projects I've seen stick it out for longer than 6 months are Star Wars: First Strike Mod (Battlefield 2142) & Star Wars: Battlecry (UE4), with the latter still in production and the other finished.

EDIT:

Here's a good base blueprint: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/generic-shooter-sample-project

Can you please add support for custom texture paths, using material names (like you can with xsi exporter)? Being confined to the models folder will be problematic if using textures from other locations such as maps or ui.

Might see if he's interested in sub surface scattering, basically seeing if he can do some of the stretch features on your list.

I think what should be done is just a barebones, Star Wars MP shooter. Add sabers later when you've got a release out to get more devs. This is pretty much what we were doing with MBIII on UDK though we had very basic sabering as well.

Can port the animations, onto a new set of bones with different names. We also have access to the full animation source as well. No one would be able to prove that they were ported.

Updated the links.

Maybe we could get uniqueOne to help? He loves cramming rend2 with features.

@@SomaZ can you please post it in its own thread? I'll pin it.

Here are the links for every texture DF2 mod needs to be re-created. Every texture must be PBR ready.

Barons Hed (06abarons & 06bbarons): https://www.dropbox.com/s/r47tiii03qceoz2/DF2_baronshed.rar?dl=0

Cargo (10cargo, 11gorc & 12escape): https://www.dropbox.com/s/wccd8nyonnunyc8/DF2_cargo.rar?dl=0

Common: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7mq2ptndeua5ov/DF2_common.rar?dl=0

Crates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekh9txrbobwxi8r/DF2_crates.rar?dl=0

Dark Palace (07yun & 08escape88): https://www.dropbox.com/s/r4dqujvchtdvus5/DF2_darkpalace.rar?dl=0

Doors: https://www.dropbox.com/s/usnx5ulgr2nq56n/DF2_doors.rar?dl=0

Escape Ship (16aescapeship & 16bescapeship): https://www.dropbox.com/s/euwks67rrpdlbql/DF2_escapeship.rar?dl=0

Fuel Station (09fuelstation): https://www.dropbox.com/s/2sc79suu8aifql9/DF2_fuelstation.rar?dl=0

Jerec (21ajerec & 21bjerec): https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3ah5peakzfs589/DF2_jerec.rar?dl=0

Katarn House (03katarn & 03escapehouse): https://www.dropbox.com/s/adkpr4cwgkih14c/DF2_katarnhouse.rar?dl=0

Lifts: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7fkvforc6qxh3mx/DF2_lifts.rar?dl=0

Lights: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d10g0puymvnbf8n/DF2_lights.rar?dl=0

Maw (15maw): https://www.dropbox.com/s/5msxybuu0k0gq8x/DF2_maw.rar?dl=0

Misc: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3awg5xc3golqav7/DF2_misc.rar?dl=0

Nar Shadda (01nar & 02nar): https://www.dropbox.com/s/jon1cax9ctr6qhi/DF2_narshadda.rar?dl=0

Panels: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztwtrjaiicyfdru/DF2_panels.rar?dl=0

Pipes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzcxpsyeqb6k06q/DF2_pipes.rar?dl=0

Signs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/42mqj58h4v9q7p5/DF2_signs.rar?dl=0

Tower (14tower): https://www.dropbox.com/s/hjjnroabwqjf12w/DF2_tower.rar?dl=0

Valley (17asarris, 17bsarris, 18ascend, 19a, 19b, 20aboc & 20bboc): https://www.dropbox.com/s/1lw1s7d5xvudjyf/DF2_valley.rar?dl=0

All textures have been resized, so the re-created textures need to match.

Updated the first post with a zip of all textures, rather than uploading each one.

But it's ultimately upto SomaZ, what he tackles first and so on. I'm just happy he's doing this in the first place.