I know i've cancelled alot if W.I.P projects in the past, but now I know where I was going wrong. I was trying to do too much from the off, getting bored and losing interest.

While making this mod however, I will pace myself more and not rush or go too hard. :)

Onto the mod:

This mod will allow you to recruit a male human Jedi named Jak into your party, replacing T3. He will have a custom robe, portrait, lightsaber, quest and more.

Here's Jaks' story:

Jak spent his early childhood on Nar Shaddaa, he was thrown out of his home and taken to Dantooine when he was small, after accidentally causing the death of his father.

Jaks' father came home drunk one night when Jak was three years old. Being drunk, he didn't really know what was happening, and he attacked his small son.

Jak, scared of his father in this state, unknowingly lashed out withh the Force. The wave of Force energy Jak emitted, threw his father out of the open door of the house, and down into a pit filled with fighting Kath Hounds outside the Cantina.

Jaks' family, scared of his power, and angry at his fathers death, took Jak to the spaceport, and put him on a shuttle to Dantooine, where he came to be found by a Jedi named Nayr Savied.

Savied, felt the Force in Jak, and brought him before the Council, telling them that the child was an orphan, and that he was very strong in the Force, and could be a great asset to the Order.

The Council, sensing the power in Jak, and knowing that he had nowhere else to go, agreed to train him as a Jedi.

He spent the next several years of his life studying under Master Nayr, who was kind but strict. He was a very able pupil, who was always wiling to learn.

A few years ago, Jak met another Jedi named Tethor, with whom he became good friends.

Now, Jak and Tethor are on a mission together from the Council, to investigate the Sith Academy on Korriban.

Tethor ventured into the Academy in disguise, though was discovered and captured by the Sith.

They brutally tortured and murdered him and finally, as Jak watched from afar, they threw Tethors body off a cliff into the Valley of the Dark Lords, where it remains as a reminder to students of what happens to those who try to decieve the Sith.

You discover Jak in the Dreshdae cantina, where he explains his situation to you.

You agree to help him recover his friends body from the Valley, and he agrees to travel with you on your quest.

As you travel together throughout the galaxy, you will discover more of Jaks' past.

You will discover Jaks' worst fear, though there is one question that must be answered...


Will the thing he fears most come to pass?

Only time will tell...
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That's what I have so far as the story. I need ideas for his sidequest, what happened in his past, and what will happen in future.

If you have any suggestions for new content, or ideas for improving existing content, post a thread over at theProject Forum (http://www.boardzero.com/recruitjakmod/), or here in this thread and i'll see what I can do. Other members may also comment on suggestions made and suggest improvements that can be made on them and so on.

The mod forum is here (http://www.boardzero.com/recruitjakmod/), please register there, and leave feedback and ideas for the mod.

If anyone decides they'd like to contribut in some way, they'll be more than welcome. :)

Here's what i've done so far:

Pre-recruit dialog: 100%
Recruit scripts: 100%
Jak's Robe: 100%
Jak's Lightsaber: 100%
Jak's dialog: 0%
Quest: 0%
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As you can see, i've been working on this for a while. There's only the quest and dialog left to do.

Please leave ideas and suggestions and visit the Project Forum (http://www.boardzero.com/recruitjakmod/).

-DDD

i just cant wait until this is done!
i always hated T3 because he didnt really talk or do anything
and even the workbench mod didnt change my opinion!
say is this mod going to have voice like kay?

Ah, that's what the robe's for. Sounds good!

Yep! Jak will have a complete voice over. :)

Here are a few renders of what Jaks' lightsaber looks like:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/RENDER1.jpg)

Here is his robe:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/10.jpg)

I'll take some ingame screens later on, when I have my next test. :)

If you'd like, I can make Jak a gun, a nicely animated gun?

That'd be great SS! :)

I have an idea of how to tie it into the story too... :rolleyes:

Tell me what you want/need and I'll work on it...

I'll drop you a PM. ;)

AHA I knew that it wasn't going to be recruit DarthDingDong!:p

If you want, I can script some things in the quest for you.

If I released a recruit DarthDingDong mod, i'd be banned for the porn mag side quest... :xp:

Sure, that'd be great if you'd like to give me a hand :).

This looks great. I wish you good luck on this.

Cheers Sekan. :)

Here are some ingame screens of Jak:

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/j1.jpg)
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/j2.jpg)
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/j3.jpg)
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/j4.jpg)
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/ryand-2007/j5.jpg)

Yay -a character named after me! j/k... Anyway, this looks like a promising mod. I never really used T3 much after Taris so this is a definite DL for me.

Sounds & looks cool, DDD. Keep the good work...err...modding. :thumbsup:

Yay -a character named after me! j/k... Anyway, this looks like a promising mod. I never really used T3 much after Taris so this is a definite DL for me.

Thanks Koopa :). Awsome username btw. ;)

Sounds & looks cool, DDD. Keep the good work...err...modding. :thumbsup:

Cheers Ferc. :)

If I released a recruit DarthDingDong mod, i'd be banned for the porn mag side quest... :xp:
Damn you! <.< That was totally unexpected... I just laughed so hard I almost peed, and now I’m getting strange looks from people in the office.

This mod looks like a definite downloader. Though, despite his lack of dialog options, I still love little T3. I hope this mod is compatible with something I am building… Are you making Jak as a completely new npc? With a new entries in the 2das? Or are you overlaying/masking T3 by changing T3’s appearance/dialogs/sound files/scripts? I’m hoping for the former ^.^

~Paps~

[Edit:] You know, in a lot of countries, 'J' is pronounced as a 'Y'

I'm gonna try for a smiliar sort of thing as Inyri did in the Kay mod...

Say hi to the guys at the office from DDD. ;)

Edit: there will be alot of dialog involved, so maybe "Yak" would be a better name... :p

[Edit:] You know, in a lot of countries, 'J' is pronounced as a 'Y'Recruitable Yak... brilliant. :lol:

I'm gonna try for a smiliar sort of thing as Inyri did in the Kay mod...

I have no idea what Inyri did. ^.^ But if you overwrite T3 in the appearance.2da, then I'm going to cry, or laugh, because there'll be a peeping beeping Yak in my mod's cut scenes!

Now... to home!

~Paper~

You've never played the Kay mod?

You should. It's a great mod. :)

Plus if you play that, you should get the gist of what i'm hoping to achieve. :)

haha!recruitable yak!
but spell kay backwards and you will see a surprise
both of them have a little suprise!

Why would you spell Kay backward?

If I released a recruit DarthDingDong mod, i'd be banned for the porn mag side quest... :xp:

Sure, that'd be great if you'd like to give me a hand :).ROFL great mod! Can't wait. I knew you would try to involve modellnig in this mod of yours :xp:

ROFL great mod! Can't wait. I knew you would try to involve modellnig in this mod of yours :xp:

What's wrong with that?

If you've got it, FLAUNT IT! :xp:

Nah, not meaning to sound big-headed there ^^

It's good practice for me, while at the same time i'm making progress on the mod itself. :)

Right, I have an idea for the first part of the quest.

You get into the academy, and find Tethors body lying battered and broken in the Valley.

Jak is angry at the sight of it, and you have to calm him down to stop him turning to the dark side and killing all the Sith.

Jak takes something from Tethors body, (lightsaber or blaster or something) and says it's all he has to remember his friend by now.

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That's the first part. After that, it's a few levels of just talking (like with other party members) and finding out about Jaks past. After a while, Jak will show you some of his memories through the Force, in which you play as Jak when he was a child.

Eventually you will meet Jaks old master, though he may not be exactly as Jak remembers him...

Do the child models have attack animations? 'Cause if not, it might be nice if Jak had to do some fairly mundane errands with some puzzles as sidequests in the vision. If the model has attack animations, though, you could arm him with a Training Lightsaber (Custom Short Lightsaber)/Stun Pistol (Custom Sonic Pistol)/Practice Blade (Custom Short Sword) and turn the fairly mundane errands into seemingly mundane errands with puzzles in them, and after the vision, you could place an event in one of the areas of the game wherein you could retrieve his childhood items and give the player an option of showing them to Jak so that he could enhance them and make them upgradeable, stun-inducing terrors. Just a thought. :D

The "vision" as you put it, will be Jaks memory of his father attacking him.

Though after the mod is released I may do an expansion, which covers his Jedi training.

I'll check and see if the child has fighting animations.

Don't count on it. Did you ever see a child fight in either game? :p

Nope, no fighting animations. Just walking and running. Not even a security or mine animation.

Does it have animations for falling over?

No. Just standing, idle, walking, running.

Ah. That could pose a problem. I'll have to think of a way around this.

A BINK video could be done, if you just wanted to move the kid around a bit/get slapped and fall down.

You could fade it to black when doing the thing were Jak fights his father.

Then, while still faded, play the sound of force lightning or something.

Fade back in, and "oh my gosh, Jak killed his father!"

A BINK video could be done, if you just wanted to move the kid around a bit/get slapped and fall down.

I'm even worse at animation etc than I am with modelling... :p

Do you know anyone who knows how to make these movies?

Or do you know yourself?

Make a video and use RAD Tools to convert it to bink format.

I could make one, but Master Zionosis would be your best choice.

Easy! First person perspective flashbacks - from Yak's p.o.v! You could for example use an invisible T3M4 npc to film with since he's the right height. Am I good or what :p

Jak is angry at the sight of it, and you have to calm him down to stop him turning to the dark side and killing all the Sith.

...why would you do this? WHY? Let him kill! KILL!?

~Paper~

...why would you do this? WHY? Let him kill! KILL!?

[slaps Papership in a comical fashion]
You should never interfere with Jak's training to become a pure-hearted Jedi!


...Revan should. ;)


...IF DDD gives us a choice, which is highly probable. :xp:

I could make one, but Master Zionosis would be your best choice.

Bah, you gusy both have a lot on your plates already, so i'll try and learn myself. :)

Like I was going to do it for you. Just Kiddin' :xp:

Right, unfortunately i've been busy with school for the last week so I haven't been able to work on this.

Now, however I have some time. I'm going to start on Jaks quest when I finish writing this.

The quest will go something like this:

After you find Jak, you enter the Sith Academy. Upon finding Tethors body, Jak becomes angry. You can either calm him, or kill the Sith who killed Tethor for DS points.

Then, you have a few levels of just talking, like with other party members.
You will learn of Jaks past etc and about him in general.

After say 5(?) levels, you will meet Jaks Master.

Though he isn't exactly as Jak remembers...

Excuse me for being lazy and not reading the whole thread, but are you gonna reskin Jak?

:lol: I will probably do a custom skin for him yeah, though that will be done at a later stage.