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Jedi_Killer

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Posted in: Q3:A Editing Problem Already
  Jedi_Killer
06-06-2001, 1:36 AM
#11
Hollow something more complex than a cube and you'll see it does some weird things....  [Read More]
Posted in: Q3:A Editing Problem Already
  Jedi_Killer
06-04-2001, 11:24 PM
#7
And you can cleave in the editor too. You'll just have to get a little further into the tutorials to figure out which button cleaves....  [Read More]
Posted in: Q3:A Editing Problem Already
  Jedi_Killer
06-04-2001, 11:22 PM
#6
Okay--time for some important rules of brush based editing for people knowledgeable of JK. Okay--Hollow command is generally evil. It's in all the tutorials because its a simple way of making a room, but it causes problems with generating excess bru...  [Read More]
Posted in: What To Expect?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 8:21 PM
#21
Red--Yeah you can make a plugin. I'm not sure how difficult that is but I don't think its all that bad. Radiant in one form or another will be what is used to edit JK2. Whether the editor is an official one or one maintained by the community seems...  [Read More]
Posted in: What To Expect?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 4:45 AM
#13
Sorry to sound like I didn't mean you weren't into levels. I knew from the info you posted before that you knew what you were talking about. Quake 3 engine is currently the most powerful engine available to edit. The tools for the Quake engines are...  [Read More]
Posted in: What To Expect?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 1:01 AM
#11
It's really too early to ask them those sorts of questions. They are busy building the game. From my experience Radiant is a fun and powerful level editor. Anybody who is really into level editing won't feel its a waste of time to learn to edit the Q...  [Read More]
Posted in: What To Expect?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 12:58 AM
#10
I doubt they would go so far as to try to remove the ability to edit it. From what I understand--LEC got the guy who made the WDFuse editor for Dark Forces (which was a very unfriendly to edit game) to make a system that would be easy to reverse engi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Radiant Editor Resources and Links
  Jedi_Killer
06-06-2001, 1:34 AM
#11
Radiant was open sourced and GTK Radiant is a community maintained version of the editor. It has some bug fixes and some of the tools work slightly better. It's definitly what you need to use for Team Arena editing. For simple basic Q3 it shouldn't m...  [Read More]
Posted in: Radiant Editor Resources and Links
  Jedi_Killer
06-04-2001, 11:27 PM
#7
gamedesign.net has some great resources. I reccomend especially looking at Quake 2 tutorial sites. Since it was basically just lower poly, most of the methods are going to apply and there was a wealth of information on Q2 editing--even more so than w...  [Read More]
Posted in: ************ERROR************
  Jedi_Killer
06-10-2001, 1:29 AM
#2
Okay, I'm not familiar with that one, but it probably means you have some complex areas that couldn't be divided properly by the compiler. Look for overlapping brushes, that sort of thing....  [Read More]
Posted in: Editing?
  Jedi_Killer
06-07-2001, 5:57 AM
#8
Most of the JK DM levels were all built in under a day--that's almost an afterthought on top of the game. Playtesting is important to make a good level--but you generally have a good idea as to what works once you have made some levels and played so...  [Read More]
Posted in: Editing?
  Jedi_Killer
06-06-2001, 1:32 AM
#5
Well the final level of Q3 was created in about 47 minutes apparently. I'm sure it took a couple days to compile but the actual construction isn't that time consuming....  [Read More]
Posted in: Milkshape Video Tutorials Anyone?
  Jedi_Killer
06-06-2001, 1:31 AM
#6
They haven't said anything about it in any previous game. I'm sure they won't stop you from making levels as long as they don't have copyrighted material or otherwise questionable stuff. A couple of years ago, back when I was still running Hyperview...  [Read More]
Posted in: Jeff Walters RULES!!!
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 8:25 PM
#2
I'm not going to argue about whether not he in fact rules, but where does this come from?...  [Read More]
Posted in: List your Computer Specs - Now and Then
  Jedi_Killer
06-04-2001, 1:11 AM
#29
The P4 is much faster if the software is compiled for the P4's architecture. In regular old non-optimized applications Athlons of much lower clock speed are faster. But since Windows XP is supposed to be optimized for the P4 its going to be interesti...  [Read More]
Posted in: List your Computer Specs - Now and Then
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 8:35 PM
#22
Voodoo 3 when JK first came out? You mean when you first played it I'm sure. For the first 3 months I owned Jedi Knight I didn't even have a computer--I played it on the computer of the guy in the next dorm room over. Then I upgraded to the most pow...  [Read More]
Posted in: Game Engine Right For The Game?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 8:30 PM
#12
Guys, go look at some screenshots from Alice, Heavy Metal: FAKK2, and the upcoming Soldier of Fortune, Medal of Honor, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The game can handle large outdoor areas just fine. The reason Q3 is all in small cramped levels...  [Read More]
Posted in: Better than Jedi Knight?
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 3:30 AM
#8
In order to do large complex levels you have to use up a lot of RAM since the level files end up being huge. By having smaller complex levels that connect well (like in Elite Force or Half-Life) you get the illusion of a larger area to explore withou...  [Read More]
Posted in: Concussion Rifle
  Jedi_Killer
06-03-2001, 8:39 PM
#23
Stun Baton--it's an electrified stick that stuns people when you hit them with it. It's in a lot of games. Deus Ex had a really fun one to use....  [Read More]
Posted in: Someone explain to me what the fuss about the graphics is about?
  Jedi_Killer
06-10-2001, 6:24 PM
#52
Call it a guess but you would have gotten better performance in-game out of a GeForce 2MX and a 800mhz processor for less money than the GF3...  [Read More]
Posted in: Someone explain to me what the fuss about the graphics is about?
  Jedi_Killer
06-08-2001, 8:30 PM
#31
Okay--when JK was released there was basically no other 3d FPS games yet. Quakeworld was the competition. JK allowed larger outdoor environments and had support for 3d acceleration out of the box. Quake 2 was released a few months later and it defini...  [Read More]
Posted in: Someone explain to me what the fuss about the graphics is about?
  Jedi_Killer
06-08-2001, 4:33 AM
#20
Sifl--all magazine promotional shots and stuff for print adds use the higher resolution models. They don't want it to look so game-y. It's pretty standard. By standard I mean that pretty much every company does it. It's funny that you mentioned JK,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Someone explain to me what the fuss about the graphics is about?
  Jedi_Killer
06-07-2001, 6:41 PM
#12
There is a clear connection between how pretty a game is and how well it sells. Myst and Riven are still up on the top of the most sold PC games and all they are is a bunch of pretty pre-rendered screens tied together. It's not a heavily modified Q3...  [Read More]
Posted in: Someone explain to me what the fuss about the graphics is about?
  Jedi_Killer
06-07-2001, 5:17 AM
#1
First off I want to explain something to everyone here who doesn't know who I am--I am a long time JK fan and I was one of the early members on the JK.net message boards back when it had less members than this board has now. I like Jedi Knight. I lik...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ideas for 'Easter Eggs', and secret areas in JO :)
  Jedi_Killer
06-07-2001, 6:24 AM
#23
No--much older game. SW with vector graphics was a big success--you can still find it in some arcades. So they followed it up with a Jedi one a few years later. It never seemed to me like it was as much fun and I rarely ever saw it. I think it was...  [Read More]