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About Evolution of Combat "Evolution of Combat IV is the next generation for the popular Jedi Academy game mod. Now stretching across Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, EoCIV is now based upon the brand new Serenity Jedi Engine providing not only improved combat and animations, but updated campaigns and multiplayer maps. Evolution of Combat IV is set to launch in December 2015." Trailer "EoCIV adds tons of new features improving on EoCIII, as well as now running on the new Serenity Jedi Engine and incorporating Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. Stay tuned for more news as we near release!" Stay up to date with Evolution of Combat IV by following them on ModDB. Click here to view the article

I think if we can get enough editors from different suburbs of our community we can churn out some pretty decent stuff I think content from the competitive scene would be a good addition personally.

Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sentra, the mastermind behind SkyLine, a GUI replacement for Jedi Academy which has been one of, if not the most downloaded menus of all time. For a little while now, he has been working on version 2 of his popular mod and agreed to share some exclusive insight on how it is looking and where it is heading. This article has some exclusive images that can only be found here, so if you think you've seen the latest, keep reading! Enjoy! Hello Sentra, thank you for agreeing to this interview regarding SkyLine 2.0, how have you been? Hello there! I am doing well, thank you. I have been pretty busy lately because of my job and university. But now I am glad that I can continue to mod JKA (Click for full image) For those who are unaware about the SkyLine project, could you explain what it is, how it began and how long have you've working on it? Sure. SkyLine is a complete game user interface (GUI) replacement that was designed to fully edit Jedi Academy interface. The work on SkyLine v1 started in the end of 2011. Me and Zionter, co-member of SWGalaxy Team, decided to create something interesting and quite unusual for JKA. We stopped at GUI creation because no one has not published anything like this for about 10 years since the JKA release. That's how the first SkyLine was created. It took about 5 months to design and code it. (Click for full image) You work as part of a team called SWGalaxy, could you explain what it is, who is part of it and who does what? SWGalaxy Team was founded by me and Zionter in 2009. The decision was simple - we wanted to modify JKA and create something special, that everyone will remember. Currently there are only me and Zionter. I am a graphic, web and UI/UX designer myself, so my primary task is to design the GUI concepts. Zionter mainly is a C/C++ coder (he learned the .menu files structure and wrote the first SkyLine). I am glad that he got back in the team and agreed to help me with SkyLine 2.0 implementation (Click for full image) Could you explain how you approach projects like this? Do you plan everything beforehand or just think it up as you go along? I assume it takes quite a lot of time to get it to look like your vision. I decided that we need to create the second version of SkyLine two years after v1 release. The first SkyLine was a nice concept, but not the best GUI replacer (mostly because of different design on each screen). So I thought that we need to create the second GUI replacer that will combine minimalistic design, better sctructure and lag-free experience (basically it won't crash your JKA as SkyLine v1 HD did ). The process of designing for me is pretty simple - I just know what I am doing. You know, when you start to design something, the idea cames during the creation process. I just like the work I am doing and I always put a part of my soul in it. This is my secret ingredient (Click for full image) I must say, the art used in SkyLine 2 is nothing short of beautiful. How did you come to work with Concept Artist McFish? Pokes @@Omicron. In the beginning of 2015 I was talking to Omicron about plans for SkyLine development process. He adviced me that I should message @@McFish and ask him about the possibility of drawing some exclusive artworks for SkyLine 2.0. Luckily McFish liked this idea and he said that he will gladly assist. I can't imagine the second version of SkyLine GUI without his artwork to be honest. McFish is a very talented artist, I think everyone will agree (Click for full image) I've read that you're looking for some assistance in regards to OpenJK, could you explain what you need help with? Would you like some assistance in other areas perhaps? Yes. Yesterday I have contacted the OpenJK dev team and asked them about the possibility of implementing some things into the game's code in order to make the GUI look like you can see it on the concept images. We are discussing the features list at the moment. The only assistance we may require is a .menu writer to help Zionter with GUI's implementation. If you wish to help us, please contact me via PM on Hub. (Click for full image) Now for the question we're all wondering, best case scenario, when do you hope to have SkyLine finished by? I hope that I will be able to finish GUI's design by the end of 2015. The technical implementation will require about two-three months to properly code and test both SP and MP parts. (Click for full image) Thank you Sentra, this has been a great interview. I'm sure we'll follow up on this nearer the release date. Thank you for the interview! I am looking forward to hear some comments from you too. And I hope you guys like SkyLine 2.0 If you would like to follow the development of SkyLine, you can follow Sentra and SWGalaxy on Twitter and ModDB! Also, if you would like to check out more of Fish's work, see below too. Want SkyLine 1.0? See below! https://jkhub.org/files/file/1264-skyline-menu/

I'd recommend NOR, nice community

I think it's because of three reasons 1) It has been stated in other threads that this will take quite a bit of work for numerous reasons. 2) You are being very very pushy on people who have no interest in helping you with this for whatever reason. 3) You keep making multiple threads and users rather than focusing on fixing your Blender problem. Blender has a lot of documentation and tools so I'm sure you can find something to assist you.

Unfortunately I haven't heard of this player before, he sounds like he was a really nice guy though. I'll get on it May need some assistance with an article like that though, would you be willing to help me @@DT85 ?

Welcome to the hub rog hog

W10 works perfectly fine for me with JKA

Welcome to the hub

(The below is all referencing JKFiles pre-2011) Quite honestly, all of it. It's very difficult to find people who are not only willing to do reviews of ALL files, but do them rather well... The contests (When they had them) had some amazing entries and always drew crowds regardless of skill. Picture of the Day was neglected long before 2011, but when it was active (And good) it had some pretty funny stuff. It was always an accomplishment to have your file be featured, even when they made it the top 3 featured items, so if you saw a featured file, you knew it would be good because these people spent the time to analyse the files and review them. The interviews were rare, so I can't comment on those. The uncut comic was pretty funny if you knew the staff, if you didn't it rarely made sense . The staff themselves were a real bunch of personalities, everyone around the community who visited the site (Which was a majority) knew who the staff were when JKFiles was at its peak. A fond memory I had was when I was in the running to be a staff member over there was when Averus and 2 other JKFiles staff members circled me on Taspir and interviewed me XD quite weird looking back, but it was apparently how they did things. Unfortunately my stint as a reviewer and staff member there was quite brief due to school at the time, but it was VERY interesting to see how they did things back then... the whole system was really old fashioned and broke way before 2011 XD you could see it was on the downfall much earlier than when it publicly broke.

Agreed, whilst JKHub might have most of the files (And the others backed up), we lost a treasure trove of great reviews. That's probably the biggest loss unfortunately...

Introduction Hello and welcome to this big reveal and interview with Damian Scott, one of two people in Primal Clarity Productions who are responsible for the upcoming "Jedi Outcast - The Movie" project. For those unaware, this is a project which has been in development since 2013 and is churning out updates regularly. I felt it was only fair that we get in contact with these guys and advertise this as much as we can. Below you will find an exclusive trailer, you will only see this first on JKHub and (JAWA) who Damian has kindly agreed to launch here first. So without further ado, I present to you the official trailer! Official Trailer Interview Hello Damian, thank you for agreeing to do this interview, I know a lot of our readers are really excited about what you're working on. Thank you for your interest in our project! Could you tell us a bit about Primal Clarity Productions (PCP)? How many people are involved and what is the skillset of the team? PCP was started up over a decade ago by myself, Damian Scott. I'd just finished working for Team Fortress Software, when Valve bought out the company in 1999, and I wanted to buy back some intellectual property I had developed that Valve had no interest in. I created the company to act as the legal structure that owns all the intellectual property that I create, and I've been adding to it ever since. At the moment, PCP consists of 2 people - myself, and Chris Reed, who has been with PCP almost right from the start. I'm the machinima guy, and Chris is the technical artist who turns my junk into swank. At our height, PCP was doing subcontracting work specialising in the Unreal engine, and had 13 awesome people dreaming of some pretty awesome products. Chris and I still believe You and your team are clearly very talented, but to me it seemed like Primal Clarity Productions burst onto the scene out of nowhere. Could you give us a bit of background on your experience in the Jedi Knight community? Thanks for the kind words! We're proud of what we do, even though these days it's more for fun than anything else. We never really modded *for* Jedi Outcast - we knew how to mess around with, since we knew id tech quite well, and we loved checking out all the cool stuff people made. When the time came though, we knew how to get stuck into it. Such a great engine! You have been working on Jedi Outcast - The Movie since 2013, I've been following the progress myself for a while now. What inspired you to start this project? Well, we were enjoying the "Bane of the Sith" machinima we were making, and had done some work for clients using UDK to create cut-scenes (sadly these projects never actualised!), and I've always wanted to make a feature length film using machinima. Bane was a way of taking assets that were handy and good looking, and making something with them. As a way of showing potential clients we could take their art and turn it into something else, as well as stay true to the essence of their intellectual property. We'd developed a bunch of stuff over the years, and tried to get a few games off the ground, but we found what was most successful for us was the "for fun" work we did with Star Wars - specifically the "Bane of the Sith" videos we created. They were so much fun to make, that when we finally hit the wall and realised we needed voice actors to go further, it suddenly dawned on us that we already HAD great voice acting...Jedi Outcast! It was a light-bulb moment. We did a few quick tests, and we knew this was the vehicle we'd been talking about. Although progress is slow at times, we still believe this *needs* to be made. Will the plot of the movie be identical to the game script, or will you be adding additional content? Great question! The short answer is - no, it won't be identical, for two reasons: one, Kyle needs to be less of a killer of we're going to sympathise with him as a *movie* audience, so we're shading him more as a "Jedi Saboteur" than "bad ass killer" - so he's softer is some regards (as seen by his grinning in the shots we've completed), but this softness is only skin deep, and will contrast with his very real brush with the dark side; secondly, there are scenes hinted at in the game, that we can now create. Such as when Desann invades the Valley of the Jedi, only to be run off by Luke and Rogue Squadron. Little scenes, that have big visual potential. We're also limited by voice samples...which makes the script we've put together quite interesting! But it's a great challenge to make it work. Could you perhaps explain the process you go through when you re-create scenes from the game? I guess we decide on what shot we want to get - and why. Mostly we're thinking about getting images for a trailer, which means we're choosing iconic moments that remind you why Kyle Katarn is so awesome. We've ported pretty much everything we need from Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy into Unreal, so our next step is evaluate what could benefit from "HD". The answer is "everything!", so we try to reimage the scene, and explore how it could look in 2015. We've applied a deliberate "cell shaded" effect to all of our textures, in order to better justify the 10 year old art assets we're using (though they still look damn good, Raven!). Usually, I smash the animation together and set up the cameras, and when I'm happy, Chris and I get to work. Chris is amazing - he's a hugely talented technical artist, and can make Unreal do everything it was meant to, and more! Making machinima in Unreal is great - very powerful, and even using models and animation from a 10 year old game, combined with my complete lack of any formal training in animation, we've been able to make some lovely shots. How long do you predict the run time to be when the movie is finished? We're confident it would be a standard feature length experience - I'd push to keep it at 90 minutes, and keep it sharp and fun. We toyed with episodic release, but that kinda scared us, because we could conceivably do a lot more than 90 minutes, and we've got other projects we'd like to start on before 2050 What's next for PCP after Jedi Outcast? Do you have any plans to work with Jedi Academy at all? Well, we've got two games we've been prototyping in Unreal 4 that could use some attention. We've got the broad strokes sorted - we just need to assess the business side of things. As in, can we afford the time away from our real jobs while we make them But I have to say, I'd love to make a trilogy of films featuring Kyle...and given all the artwork we have, the only real thing that would stop us is voice acting, and I'm sure if we put out the call, we could attract the right people...which means we're not limited by the voice samples we have...in fact, we could make Jedi Outcast much better if we re-recorded Kyle's lines, and added in some more stuff. And of course, there's Knights of the Old Republic...great stories that could easily by adapted into movies. But it would have to be a full-time job, and that means money, which means a whole bunch of scary things like lawyers and trademarks and right holders and copyright. We're perfectly happy to do Outcast for fun. In fact, we've come up with a whole bunch of awesome ways we could turn this into a charity project, and raise as much money as we could. A friend of mine succumbed to cancer in 2014, and to honour his life, we've turned him into a character in the film. He's a Shadow Trooper called Savage, who doesn't say anything, and generally kicks ass, and even gets to test Luke out in the Jedi Academy. Of course, having Savage in the story doesn't alter the story of Jedi Outcast, but it makes it all the more interesting. So yeah, cancer sucks, and we've gladly donate our time and energy to honour our friend. But I'm curious to know if people out there would be interested in having their face in the film on an extra, say a Jedi or a Reborn, and then choose how they die. But they have to bid on the right to have their face in the film, and all proceeds go into the charity pot. You mentioned that you would like to do this full time and find contributors. What is the best way people can contact you? Do you accept donations/patreon? We'd be living the dream if we could be doing this full time! At this stage, our Facebook page is probably the best way to get in touch. We're not really web dudes, so Chris and I are not even talking about a proper web presence for the project - but we know it needs to happen soon. If any readers here want to join us, come visit our facebook and say hi! The trailer we eventually produce will contain information on how to reach us. I'm not entirely sure about donations and patronage - to my understanding, accepting donations to continue to work on a fan project is probably ok, but I think you can understand our hesitation here. It's more important for us to make this film, then accept money to do so, especially if this raises other issues. We're dealing with some of the heaviest hitters in the entertainment industry here, who are now the rightful custodians of the biggest franchise in history. But, Disney have clearly stated they are ignoring the Extended Universe, so I now consider what we want to do with Jedi Outcast as an act of curation - literally, preserving the story. Even better, copyright takes as one of its four founding clauses the notion of a work being "transformative", that is to say - is it merely a copy, or is the new work something new? Converting a game to a film passes this test, and we're well positioned to pass the other 3 clauses on copyright as well. So yes, we should be ok to accept donations - but ultimately, we'd be also be simultaneously discussing charity options as well. I always loved how the Humble Bundle sales would let you decide where your money went in a totally transparent way. It would be great to have a situation where we could say "the more you guys donate to charity, the more Chris and myself (and the new team members who will hopefully join us!) will donate our time." We'd love for game developers to see what we've been able to do with a cherished intellectual property, and to see what we could do for them, simply by giving us access to their game assets. There are so many amazing games out there ripe for adaptation away from the demands of Hollywood. I'd love to get my hands on Beyond Good and Evil, or even better, Dark Souls. I'm moving towards setting myself up as a screenwriter, and the challenge of doing these games justice is intoxicating. And nothing stirs my blood more than making Jedi Outcast work as movie. Now the question on everyones mind, when do you hope to have the movie released by? Well, our current rate of progress is pretty slow, but we have converted a great deal of the sets and characters we need to attempt a feature length film. We want to release a kick ass trailer first, one that hits you right in the nostalgia glands, and then gets you all sweaty at the prospect of seeing Kyle Katarn live on. Then it's up to you guys, really! We've recently come to the realisation that we cannot continue much further with just the two of us. So we're planning on opening this project up and seeing if anyone is interested in helping us out. We're still working out the specifics on how such a collaboration could work, but we're willing to accept all kinds of help - from modelling and animation, to web page, forums and community management. First thing is to transition to Unreal4. We've done some tests, and it looks so good. But we want to finish the trailer in UDK. And we're closer than ever to achieving that I was immensely pleased to read a comment left on YouTube on one of your Outcast videos that said "this could be the greatest fan project ever", and I thought "I'd love to be part of THAT!". Maybe others out there will, too To keep up to date with Primal Clarity Productions, you can subscribe to them on YouTube or like them on Facebook View full article

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I have sat down with the author of Jedi Outcast - The Movie and conducted an in depth interview. Expect to see it very soon ....as well as some other goodies =D

Why thank you

Hey NeWaGe, it's nice to hear from you again welcome to the forum

Woah woah woah, why am I getting dragged into this Fish >: O ESCORT OUR LOVELY GUEST TO RIFT!

Probably because I didn't reply to his abusive PM titled "retard?" for a second time, quite a strange fellow.

Single red, although I do sometimes go to blue if the situation requires it

Love it, great idea Syko.

This all sounds quite exciting, I like where this thread is going =D