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The Jedi Academy Map Project
Oct 14 2003 05:41pm

NofrikinfuN
 - Retired
NofrikinfuN
Welcome to The Jedi Academy Map Project!

Recently, a thread was created on the JAK forums asking for our suggestions for a new map. Monty came up with the idea to give the map a University feel, and I ran with it! I've laid out a full site to reflect my ideas in the hopes they would be produced, and now theres a team working to do just that!

Mapping Team:
FaDed, Virtue

Contact a member of the team if you think you can be of some assistance. :D

Please, give any suggestions you have on this thread! Don't forget to vote in the poll!

http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/nofrikinfun/

This post was edited by NofrikinfuN on Dec 16 2003 07:45pm.

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How does it look?

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Nov 12 2003 04:19pm

Vasper Ba'xian
 - Student
 Vasper Ba'xian

When will there be 3D pics available to view?
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Nov 12 2003 03:35pm

Virtue
 - Jedi Council
 Virtue

Everyone will probably spawn somewhere in or near the central courtyard, which is the very center of the map, which is the shortest distance to any of the rooms/buildings.

- Virtue. :alliance:
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Nov 12 2003 03:01pm

Darth Eyeball
 - Ex-Student
 Darth Eyeball

Is it going to be overly large like the Ragnos map? and if so, will there be shortcuts to the different rooms that will be used a lot?

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Nov 11 2003 05:22pm

Koto
 - Ex-Student
 Koto

Sounds sweet:alliance:
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Nov 11 2003 11:16am

YinYang
 - Ex-Student
 YinYang

OMG Virteh U RULE!!!:):D
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Nov 11 2003 09:20am

Demon
 - Student
 Demon

/me faints while looking at screenshots

Virtue, you tha SHIZNIT!!!!!!!
YOU OWN BUDDY ROCK ON!!! <insert jj smiley :P>
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Nov 10 2003 11:11pm

Flash
 - Student
 Flash

Those pics pwn.

/me dies of heart attack from the greatness of them

Nov 10 2003 10:37pm

NofrikinfuN
 - Retired
 NofrikinfuN

Nice work Virtue!

Just remember, we're on a deadline! :D

Nov 10 2003 09:45pm

Cloaked Thunder
 - Student
 Cloaked Thunder

OMFGH4X! VIRTY! You own asss~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!! SW33T! :D
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Nov 10 2003 09:07pm

Virtue
 - Jedi Council
 Virtue

Which reminds me -

I have just completed the Lobby for the training rooms and I figured I'd post 2 screens up here for you all to gawk at while I work on the rest of the area.

FaDed, NFF and JP will probably be most interedted by these as it will show what I have ended up with.
Expect the Observation Decks and the Sparring Rooms to be of the same detail, if not, better.

http://www.academymods.net/jamap/lobby1.jpg

http://www.academymods.net/jamap/lobby2.jpg

Expect the whole area to be completed within the next few hours.

- Virty. :alliance:
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Nov 10 2003 07:45pm

Kueller
 - Student
 Kueller

BETA!!!! WE WANT BETA, WE NEED BETA!!!!!!! BETA!!!

oops...sorry for the caps-lock :D
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Nov 10 2003 06:46pm

FaDed
 - Student
 FaDed

wow aphex.. you are WAY behind. :P

Nov 10 2003 05:58pm

YinYang
 - Ex-Student
 YinYang

Area portals sound 1337:P
would be cool to make the acadmey map a BIT
more enhanced than the 1st ones we used in JK2
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Nov 10 2003 05:31pm

3th
 - Retired
 3th

Area Portals eh? sound handy. are they an iproved version of hint brushes in the half-life/quake2 engine?

so does the JK3 engine not break up vis on its own? sounds like it could be good and bad.

i need to get me some mapping tools for this game and see what it's all about.
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Nov 10 2003 05:25pm

NofrikinfuN
 - Retired
 NofrikinfuN

lol

The first betas should be out and about by the end of the week.

Nov 10 2003 05:13pm

aph3x
 - Retired
 aph3x

ok guys these default maps suck.

how about we start up a team of ppl to work on getting our own map made? or have you guys thought about that already? :cool:

Nov 10 2003 05:04pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
 - Student
 Bail Hope of Belouve

Great...
New map...
New Rooms...
new names of rooms...

And i've just learned the actual names of the "old map"
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Nov 10 2003 04:22pm

JP
 - Academy Pimp
 JP

See thats the reason we keep Virty around:P, u god damn mapping genius:D
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Nov 10 2003 04:02pm

Virtue
 - Jedi Council
 Virtue

3th, you are half right.

Doors don't block the Vis, walls do.

But...

In order to save on ram and FPS, a map needs doors.
Why? Because of Area Portals.
Although a wall blocks the vis to anything behind it, if a door is placed into a certain wall, it nullifies the walls vis block.
But if you place an area portal over the door, it tells the game engine to make the door area act like a wall untill a player walks up to it and it opens.

Take the Ragnos map for example. ALOT of people have framerate issues on that map because it is a huge map that is all linked together via corridores. Now, if the mapper had placed doors in the map with area portals on them, the whole map would run perfectly and not even cause framerate issues for those with low-end machines.

So yeah, doors don't block the Vis, but they do if an Area Portal is placed over it. :)

- Virtue. :alliance:
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Nov 10 2003 10:55am

D@RtHM@UL
 - Student
 D@RtHM@UL

thnx for offering and trying Achilles, can't wait to see FaDed's team map :)

Nov 10 2003 10:11am

SaberWeildinKow
 - Student
 SaberWeildinKow

It's all good :)

Nov 10 2003 02:31am

Achilles
 - Student
 Achilles

It's for personal reasons Kow. I'm gonna be very busy the next few weeks and I don't think I will be able to even get the beta up in time :eek:
But, FaDed's version is probably 3x better than what I had ;) so look forward to that ;)
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Nov 10 2003 02:29am

NofrikinfuN
 - Retired
 NofrikinfuN

Sorry to hear that Achilles. :(

Thanks for participating though!

Nov 10 2003 02:17am

SaberWeildinKow
 - Student
 SaberWeildinKow

m00 you :mad:

Nov 10 2003 02:00am

Achilles
 - Student
 Achilles

I'm sorry to say this but... I think I'm gonna have to withdraw from this mapping 'race' sort of speak, I'm sorry.
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