Hapslash's Improved Stormtrooper

[[FotF]Maddog]

If using photoshop 7.0 do not use the save for the web option for saving. Save them as jpeg and use baseline ("Standard") option. I tried using the save image for the web and it was causing problems. Hope this helps you out, if not good luck.
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[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by [FotF]Maddog
If using photoshop 7.0 do not use the save for the web option for saving. Save them as jpeg and use baseline ("Standard") option.

that did it! i noticed mine was set on progressive scan. thanks maddog (and IB for trying to figure out the problem ).

[TK-8252]

Ack, looks like I was wrong. Putting *off in a skin file will indeed turn the surface off completely. Thanks for correcting me!

[t3rr0r]

what do you guys think of the shader thus far?



maybe hap will allow a public release once the JA version is out.

edit: oops, just realised something with the shader is wrong... it's shiney even in dark shadow.

[HapSlash]

One of the reasons why the JA trooper wasn't already completed is that I've been finishing the images for a specular shader that Infinity Blade set up for me.

Here's a picture of the shader at work on the model with only flat black textures. I took this in JO, so I'm not exactly sure if it will look the same in JA.



And here is a shot with the shader on the base stormtrooper textures.






I was thinking about doing an updated JO version with the shader and a few of the texture fixes that I've applied to the Academy version, but I'm beginning to think that there isn't much point to it anymore. Out of the 180 people who've downloaded it, I imagine that most of them are trying to use it with JA anyway.

[t3rr0r]

very impressive... that spec texture must be very detailed.

i've given up on the pilot model method of shineyness, as it's either not effected by lights (so it glows, in a sense) or it is just all dark.

[HapSlash]

Yeah,.. it's just as detailed as the base textures. It pulls off the semi-gloss sheen pretty well, but I don't think it would work very well for a high-gloss shine.


Oh yeah,... I was looking at the first pic you posted of the black trooper and it looks like a mod-view shot and he's holding a blaster. I didn't think that was possible.

[HapSlash]

Arggghhh,.... I caught another mistake.

There's been something bothering me about the E-11's in the shots that have been posted. After I took a look through the pk3 I see what it is,...

Here is the one that was released,... and then the correct one,...


It released blaster appears to be the first test version that was compiled before I refined the uv-map and textures.

It's just one more thing that needs to be fixed I guess,...

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by HapSlash
There's been something bothering me about the E-11's in the shots that have been posted. After I took a look through the pk3 I see what it is,...

i noticed the lighter texture too, but i just figured that's how it turned out.

and yes, you can bolts items/weapons/whatever to tags in modview.

hap, you should try adding glow to the final JA spec shader. it makes it just a little bit nicer.

ex.

models/players/stormtrooper/arms
{
cull twosided
{
map models/players/stormtrooper/arms
blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
rgbGen lightingDiffuse
}
{
map models/players/stormtrooper/arms_spec
blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE
detail
glow
alphaGen lightingSpecular
}
}

[HapSlash]

Originally posted by t3rr0r
you can bolts items/weapons/whatever to tags in modview.

How do you do that?

hap, you should try adding glow to the final JA spec shader. it makes it just a little bit nicer.

What kind of effect does it add?

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by HapSlash
How do you do that?

on the side menu, go to tag surfaces or whatever it's named (i'm not at home so i can't check), then right click on the tag and select add and then seek out the .glm you want to bolt on.

What kind of effect does it add?

it gives the highlight a little bit of ambient glow (definately not as if it's it's own light source like lights using glow in JA). you can see a distant glow around the lamps in my second image (the one with 4 squares). it just makes it a bit more shiney looking, to me anyway.

we really gotta get you JA, hap.

edit: here's a couple of examples.

the first column is showing the slight glow of the spec lighting. the second, the full blow glow of a lamp.



the first row is with dynamic glow turned off.
the second is with dynamic glow on (set to 1).
the third is dynamic glow set to 2 (shows glow only).

[HapSlash]

Thanks!



I just couldn't help myself.

[Neverhoodian]

ROFL!

That's classic, Hap.

[HapSlash]

Did anyone have to make any modifications to the E-11 to get it to work with outcast, such as renaming anything, or did it work as it is?

I'm pretty much ready to pack this thing up, and wanted to know if there's anything I should add or change.

[Pahricida]

jeah perhaps you should include a different Version of the Sandtrooper.

Sandtrooper Model with Stormtrooper Textures ... like the Storm Commandos from Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.

Don't know, wether you already did this, but it would be cool .. no doubt.

[HapSlash]

Nah,... TK-8252 had that idea and has already started setting them up.

I just want to get these two finished. I'm not really looking for any new ideas, just what I need to do in oder to get this thing released.

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by HapSlash
Did anyone have to make any modifications to the E-11 to get it to work with outcast, such as renaming anything, or did it work as it is?

they have the same name, and work as is.

[HapSlash]

Ok,... Thanks.

[Pahricida]

just remember the officer thingy

[RJW_ca]

Does you mean that your Rockettrooper will replace the one in JA???
would that suck because the Rockettrooper in JA looks more like a real guard--like something a little more fearfull-- and remember this is years later so the Rockettrooper has probably been updated over the years

What do you think?

I so want to see the stormtroopers for JA with shaders--it will be so kool!!!

RJW_ca "OUT"

RJW_ca@hotmail.com

[TK-8252]

There are two different Rocket Troopers in Jedi Academy. There's the rocket launcher-wielding Stormtrooper, and then the jetpack trooper with a rocket launcher or a repeater. So the jetpack trooper still remains.

[Sounds Risky]

Originally posted by HapSlash

I just couldn't help myself.

Hehe.

[HapSlash]

[TK-8252]

Originally posted by Sounds Risky

Eww... the ugly trooper! Get it away!

[Pahricida]

hehe ... clumsy troopers could never do that

[monsoontide]

The only people Storm Troopers can't shoot ('Cos they're under orders BTW) are the "Heros". All the standard rebels get whupped! example: On the bloackade Runner, The Jawas, On Hoth, On Bespin (They take over the whole city), on Endor (The rebel troopers get kicked) it's just those damn Ewoks - perhaps they're just "too short for stormtroopers".

[HapSlash]

I don't know,... if you watch 'Jedi' a whole lot of them little suckers get whacked,...

Mwaaa, haa, ha, ha, haaaa!!!



The Imperials were just severely outnumbered.

[monsoontide]

Those Ewoks must breed like rabbits!!!

[ace_rogue1]

Stormies helmets just dont let them see low
Its those darn ewok pimps we have to thank for the large number of ewoks -_^

[Infinity Blade]

Furry little Ho's?.... yuuuuugghhh.... *shudder*


I dunno... I don't think they're really that accurate.. I just think if they concentrate enough fire power on one spot, eventually they'll hit something.

[AlphaleX]

How I can download the blackhole stormtrooper?

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by AlphaleX
How I can download the blackhole stormtrooper?

with haps permission, i'll upload it once he releases the JA version. unless he would want it included with the release... whatever hap thinks.

[Autobot Traitor]

You know what would be cool is if the stormie model could be made compatible with Ducan's exposed weapons mod. The E-11 could actualy fit in the holster.

[t3rr0r]

a couple shots... wee...





edit: btw... tk, what's the name of that cinematic map you used for your screenshots? i knew it once, but i'm too lazy to go through the maps to check. :P

[TK-8252]

I think it's t1_inter.

And t3rr0r, shhhhh... <_< >_>

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by TK-8252
I think it's t1_inter.

And t3rr0r, shhhhh... <_< >_>

shh what? <_< >_>

[HapSlash]

I tried posting this around 4pm, but my server went down. I'll probably release the JA versions around midnight tonight(CST), which is in just a few hours, as I haven't heard of any other bugs with it. I've redone a few of the textures fixed the shader and created new icons for the Stormtrooper.



Here's the message I tried posting earlier today,...

Originally posted by t3rr0r
with haps permission, i'll upload it once he releases the JA version. unless he would want it included with the release... whatever hap thinks.

I don't plan on including anything other than the base & team skins, So if anyone wants Black Hole Stormtroopers or clean Sandtroopers, they'll have to be made afterwards.

Originally posted by Autobot Traitor
You know what would be cool is if the stormie model could be made compatible with Ducan's exposed weapons mod. The E-11 could actualy fit in the holster.

I think that idea works well for the sabers, but it looks kinda odd having the blasters just dangling from their legs. It would look better with a holster, but only the weapon that the holster was made for.

And, as an npc, the Stormtrooper is always holding his weapon. Therefor, the only time you would ever use those tags would be as a player character.

[t3rr0r]

Originally posted by HapSlash
I don't plan on including anything other than the base & team skins, So if anyone wants Black Hole Stormtroopers or clean Sandtroopers, they'll have to be made afterwards.

i take it that you'd be fine with me releasing the blackhole trooper skin then... and of course 99% of the credit will go towards yourself.

mind you i still need to figure out how to add new npc weapons...

[Neverhoodian]

Just dropped in to say the JA versions of Hap's Stormtrooper and Sandtrooper are now available for download.

Improved Stormtrooper:

http://www.pcgamemods.com/4628/

Improved Sandtrooper:

http://www.pcgamemods.com/4629/

Great work as always, Hap!

[AlphaleX]

Originally posted by HapSlash
I don't plan on including anything other than the base & team skins, So if anyone wants Black Hole Stormtroopers or clean Sandtroopers, they'll have to be made afterwards.