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Aren't there some other Shader Editors out there? What about J.A.C.K?

I agree... the blades should have a taper-- and not look like broomsticks put through a pencil sharpener.

I thought you guys were developing an in-game light editor?

@@eezstreet may have some ideas how you could implement an in-game shader editor and effects editor.

Are you planning to fork & modify GtkRadiant then? I have asked Raven if they'd release the tools' source code (ShaderED, EffectsED, etc.) ...but I never got a reply. (sigh)

 

Milkshape?! Who the hell is using that? XSI ModTool 7.5 is FREE and supports MD3 (with my new exporter) and exports dotXSI that is converted to Ghoul2 using Carcass.

Like @@AshuraDX said... IG-88 needs to be a custom NPC character with its own animations... I have IG-88 as one of many characters laying in my pile of WIPs, also will include the Lancer droid variant.

 

https://jkhub.org/albums/9eqmh

I do plan to get back to it one day...

should define a common PBR workflow

@@DT85, @@Corto, @@SomaZ: Since Dark Forces Revival and DF2 are both SP and would seemingly share a lot of models and assets... might I suggest that the two teams collaborate from the same code base???

 

That way Corto's programmer can help @@SomaZ with GL2 and perhaps it gets completed quicker with all of SomaZ's desired features.

@@AshuraDX - yes, the Softimage MD3 exporters I created are functionally equivalent (animations, etc.) to the 3dsMax MD3 exporters-- since that was the basis for my code.

@@JAWSFreelao - look at the SoF2 documentation from Raven.

Nice work! ...the gloves could use more love.

You can't animate world (player bolted) weapon models, not for how the code is set up currently anyhow.

Seems like it would be no different than a reload animation.

I heard they really used the Chinese replica for Han Solo's gun. Even back then, I doubt they could get a hold on an original Mauser gun to play around with. At any rate, the E-11 is coming along just the way I want. I've modified, added and polished more details. I'm currently modeling some arms and hands for the first person view model. I'll cut down the polygonal detail for the world view.

You should make an animation for 3rd-person where the buttstock is unfolded for a more accurate, single-shot shoulder-fire position.

You might do better forking the Dark Forces 2 SP code base (ask @@DT85) because @@SomaZ is actively working on the renderer-- and if you have another coder... that would definitely help out both teams.

I wouldn't replace "heal" (just because it doesn't have a physics related affect); it should remain a force power. You should be able to heal others as well. Dtain is the darkside to heal. It should remain too... You should keep force saber throw... and a new alternative "javelin" throwing style shoukd be added (like Yoda used at the Jedi Temple).

 

I wouldn't replace speed... I would just add your new force Levitate-- but Levitate Level 2 should be Level 1, and 3 as Level 2. Then for Level 3 you should be able to propel the object as a projectile towards an enemy.

 

Also, if there isn't... there should be a darkside force freeze like Palpatine used when they came to arrest him.

it's released!

 

https://jkhub.org/files/file/3301-softimage-quake3-md3-exporter/

Ok... the plugin pack has been submitted for approval/release.

So I have compiled the Softimage MD3 exporter for:

• XSI6.0/ModTool6 (32bit)
• XSI7.01 (32/64bit)
• Softimage 7.5/ModTool7.5 (32bit)
• Softimage 2011 (32/64bit)
• Softimage 2012 (64bit)
• Softimage 2013 (64bit)
• Softimage 2015 (64bit)

I'm missing Softimage 2014... does anybody have (or know someone that has) 2014? Thanks.

This feature can be implemented in a mod, hence not really an OpenJK goal.

 

Loading "head-torso-legs" type md3 models requires a fair amount of extra work. And I'm not sure you could get it working easily for a map entity.

 

Mind you, when I attempted to bring ETF over to JKA, I was able to get the md3 player models working, however it uses some extra stuff besides animation.cfg , plus you have to do some funky shit with player model entities so that the game doesn't boom on missing a ghoul2 reference. I no longer have the code so I can't check.

 

Maybe if the models used ROFs & scripting for locomotion (if they are not a static animated assembly) and not anything like the player movement code.

Show a screenshot of how they look on the models.

I admit I have been on a break lately, but have felt the want to update this ent.

 

Atm, I've tidied up the code and:

 

- added a LOOP flag for animation. Useful for 1-frame models

- added USE_SKIN flag when wanting to use skin files. If not set, will use internal texture path.

- removed startframe & endframe. added ability to set the animation to play via its number in the animation table. Default 0. (experimental)

 

I'd like to add animation.cfg anim name reading, but not too sure how yet.

 

I'd like to help with that... where can I get the latest DF2 code base?

@@MGummelt- actually, no I haven't played it... but it's on my "ToDo" list.

It would be a task of modifying misc_model_breakable to load animation.cfg.

 

Animevents on a map ent? That may be more difficult, dunno.

 

Loading the cfgs for md3's weren't disabled, it's the fact that ghoul2 models were set to load instead of md3 as player models. Also, Jka uses a slightly different animation.cfg than q3. Jka uses anim names, q3 uses anim numbers.

 

If I were to attempt this... I would make them use the same style animation.cfg file as STEF and Jedi Knight.  When I renamed all of the "Grand_Pappy" root nodes to "model_root" in the Klingon dotXSI 1.1 root.xsi and animations and compiled them to GLM/GLA, I created an animation.cfg file from Assimilate and that cfg file loads the animations perfectly into MD3View with the original STEF lower.mdr and upper.mdr files.  However, this is not a top priority for me and I would be open to collaboration. 

@@MGummelt - WW2 fighter behavior would be great. I noticed in your space dog-fighting videos the craft jerk/slide sideways (which is not WW2 behavior)... Something that would replicate X-Wing Alliance (or X-W8ng vs Tie Fighter) flying is what I meant. Thanks.

I'm not sure what you mean? Are the Asteroids and Star Destroyer space combat maps that we released not big enough?

 

How much bigger do you need to be able to make them?

 

 

Ok... so we just need better flight dynamic behavior, any suggestions on where to start?