Death Star (JA SP) WIP

[Donny]

Hey hey.

Creating a JA SP mod. I've been modding for 13 years for various games, mostly with DF, JK, MotS, and STV:EF and now JA. I've been wanting to do a Death Star map for years, and just got around to doing it. Thought I'd stop in and show some screens!

This is the pre-special edition version of the hangar. I may change it to the SE version, after deciding that it would look more interesting.






Comparison shot:

[Delta_135]

holy cow this looks awesome

[Szico VII]

After my first thought which was "Oh god not another death star map..."

Yeah that looks nice and shiny - don't overdo the mirrors though - shit for performance.
Also, I can see the reflection of the chair bottoms as if they're not touching the floor.

P.S. Those chairs - you model them? They look good. Im almost tempted to accuse you of not using Jk3....

[Donny]

Originally Posted by Szico VII

After my first thought which was "Oh god not another death star map..."

Yeah that looks nice and shiny - don't overdo the mirrors though - shit for performance.
Also, I can see the reflection of the chair bottoms as if they're not touching the floor.

P.S. Those chairs - you model them? They look good. Im almost tempted to accuse you of not using Jk3....

I don't plan on using the mirrors much, just in a few areas here and there. I won't be using mirrored floors in the corridors, for sure. However, I am building this project with modern computers in mind, so it may not run that well on older PCs. Runs smoothly on my rig so far.

The chair bottoms have "wheels" that are touching the floor. The texture on the wheels is dark, and can't be seen very well in the above screenshot. Will fix that problem though.

The chair model is a modified version of base/models/mapobjects/imperial/chair.md3. I created a custom base for the chair and also desaturated and darkened the texture.

Trust me, it's JA. In all its limited glory.

[Szico VII]

What resolution you using? - I would suggest always bearing older computers in mind...as I imagine a lot of JA's fanbase bought PC around the time I did - which makes them oolld now

[Donny]

I'm using 1920x1080 resolution.

Of course I'll keep older computers in mind. What I meant was that I was assuming that most people have better computers than they did when JA came out close to a decade ago, so I'm not afraid to go beyond what it was originally capable of.

What kind of rig are you using?

[Szico VII]

Ah right. That resolution is wayy beyond what my display can even support

I'm on an Athlon X2 4400, NVidia 7800GT, 2GB ram.

[Stcommander]

This looks fantastic! I'm looking foward to this map.

[Xu'an]

Really, really looking forward to this!

[Mercenary]

Originally Posted by Donny

I'm using 1920x1080 resolution.

Of course I'll keep older computers in mind. What I meant was that I was assuming that most people have better computers than they did when JA came out close to a decade ago, so I'm not afraid to go beyond what it was originally capable of.

What kind of rig are you using?

You could release 2 versions, one for older and one for newer computers. This way you wouldn't have to compromise so much on your creative vision. It would also be cool to see how far this old engine can be pushed.

Also, it's nice to see some SP activity.