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Mr._Katarn

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I'd suggest you learn how to map first, and maybe practice modeling. I would like to see what you can do, but based on what you said earlier, you don't really know much about Jedi Academy editing. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) If you have any new work to show me, e-mail it to me as an attachment. One thing, though. If the file is more than 4 MB, I won't get it unless you send it to williams@go-concepts.com

 

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Hey, I'm Soul_Blade, team leader of the Clone Wars MOD that's in progress. I just wanna say that this is a great idea for a mod that I think we've needed for a long time. DF2 had the best storyline out of the whole DF/JK series, and the movie cutscenes were fantastic.

If you like, I'd be more than happy to help out in what way I can. Most of my skill in modding comes from organising and planning. I can do a bit of skinning and coding, but nothing spectacular. However, I do have contacts in the modding community!

I'll tell you what to do to get the mod started.

1. Get a website sorted out ASAP. (mods, especially SP, take a long time to make, so get started as soon as you can!)

2. Ask permission to use the Jerek and Maw models from their respective creators. You're very lucky in that a good percentage of the characters in DF2 already have models in JA or JO and others can be skinned.

 

If you want to contact me, my email is Soul_Blade_15@hotmail.com so you can mail me or add me to your msn messenger list.

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Sorry for answering late, but I was on the Jedi Con 2004 in Germany this weeking. It was great ;)

 

I will see what I can do. ...and you are sure, I created a Quake3Arena Model only. Never something for JA or JK2. Also

I never created a map but I do some graphics for some HP. Nothing spectacular.

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I'd love to help in any way possible, but sadly I have very little knowledge on mapping and modeling, and next to no knowledge on scripting. But anyway, JK1 was a great game despite it's obvious lack of decent graphics - even for the time it was made. Please see this MOD through to the end, unlike the last attempt (no offense to anyone involved with that project). Any by the way, what do you need a Cutscene creator for? Can't you just convert the original JK ones from Smacker to ROQ? Or would that be a breech of Copyright?

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I like the idea with the cutscenes. You would save much time, and by the way I love the original cutscenes. I can't believe that this would be a violation of copyright unless you are using most everything from Star Wars for other things such like e.g. music, caracters yet.

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I've realised recently that there's a fairly big problem with converting the JK1 smacker files to JA's ROQ files - the framerate. The smacker files have a framerate of 15 FPS (Frames per Second), whereas the ROQ files use 30 FPS. Therefore the video would move faster than the sound - or the sound would become accelerated and sound very odd (probably good for a laugh though :D). In other words, you'll need to find a way to keep the video at the same speed with an increased framerate, or change the speed of the sound while keeping the pitch the same. Either way it could take a while. Hope this helps!

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You'd need to do what they do to get movies from 24 FPS film to 30 FPS home video. Not that I know what they do...

 

My guess is that you could somehow combine frames to make new, intermediate ones. Sounds like a lot of work, but perhaps the process could be automated. Or perhaps LucasArts has a higher-quality version lying around that they could just give us...

 

(Quality referring to the video encoding, not the cutscenes themselves)

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Sorry, Nobodymrb. I got your e-mail, but I've been incredibly busy lately. Things should start cooling down soon, so stick around!

 

Oh, on another note, I've started construction on a website. I'll probably get Yahoo! Geocities to host it - temporarily, at least. I'll keep you posted!

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Originally posted by Mr._Katarn

Sorry, Nobodymrb. I got your e-mail, but I've been incredibly busy lately. Things should start cooling down soon, so stick around!

 

Oh, on another note, I've started construction on a website. I'll probably get Yahoo! Geocities to host it - temporarily, at least. I'll keep you posted!

 

www.echonetwork.net can host it for you, and give you a forum for members to post in if necessary. Just scroll down the left a bit on the site, and send an email.

 

Anyway, what happened to Reaper and the rest of the crew? Did they all just give up? That's sad to hear if it's the case, because I know they were making good progress with the maps. Did they leave any of the assets behind, or will you have to start from scratch?

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I agree entirely with Locutus_of_Borg, it was extreamly irritating not having a site for the DF2 Mod, I'm not a mapper, skinner or model but I have some suggestions for the website:

For the layout, a banner at the top with some screenshots from either the Mod or the cutsenes from the game, and to the side a list of links eg. Downloads, Models, Levelshots, Progress, Forum ect. And in the middle an update note simillar to the DF Mod (if it's okay with them.) I hope these suggestions assisit with the Mod :) .

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Originally posted by Mr._Katarn

I have taken over (kind of) the Dark Forces 2 mod for Jedi Academy. The only problem right now, though, is that I don't have any members;). I'm looking for:

  • Mappers
  • Texturers
  • Cutscene-ers
  • Coders/Scripters
  • Just about anyone else

If you would like to help, e-mail me at darth_malak2001@yahoo.com and/or post here. Thanks!

Do you need animators?

BTW, maybe you could use Media studio 7 (I have it and I think it's possible...)to make new AVI\WMV files at 30 FPS from the old SMK files...

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Great, hope this project gets done. JK is definatley my favorite DF game. You would want to make a model of Kyle's original saber from JK, I found some pics of it so you guys can use it for reference.

 

http://www.drkf.8m.com/starwars/katarn5.jpg

 

 

http://www.drkf.8m.com/starwars/KyleSaber.jpg

 

 

http://www.drkf.8m.com/cgi-bin/i/starwars/newkatarn.jpg

 

 

Good luck with the mod. :fett:

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Well, just in case the team dosen't like those, or wants to make their own or whatever. Couldn't hurt to post some pics. Here are some more.

 

JEREC

 

http://www.thelightsaber.com/WorkFolder/SmallSFW/JerecSM.jpg

 

YUN

 

http://www.thelightsaber.com/WorkFolder/SmallSFW/YunYellowSM.jpg

 

MAW

 

http://www.thelightsaber.com/WorkFolder/SmallSFW/MawSM.jpg

 

SARISS

 

http://www.thelightsaber.com/WorkFolder/SmallSFW/SarrisSM.jpg

 

GORC (holding it)

 

http://mitglied.lycos.de/OllisWeb/images/characters/gorc.jpg

 

PIC (on his belt)

 

http://www.chez.com/starwaah/pic.jpg

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