JKA Model Conversion

RevanSithLord · Post by **RevanSithLord** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:07 am

Wow. I'm glad this argument is over. It kinda made me sick.

But anyways, some certain models can I think of? Hmmm. Maybe, perhaps.... the newest Cybernetic Maul model!?

http://jediknight2.filefront.com/file/C ... Maul;78858

And don't 'un-Canon this, un-canon that' to me. I see plenty of ways Maul could possibly have survived that fall.

Same goes with Mace Windu. Even though it officially says Mace died

But, you can never be too sure that someone is dead, you know?

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:42 am

I suppose if we're looking into some sort of legal document Fred's totally right, and I respect that. But still... 10+ years of internet users asking permission from other users to convert and use stuff out of courtesy and all of the sudden for the first time serious legal issues are coming up? Whatever. They're going to go after guys like Darth_Veritus before they go after community made content.

Convert whatever you want, we're not going to stop you anymore.

MercuryNoodles · Post by **MercuryNoodles** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:27 am

AceMastermind wrote:The .pk3 file format can be associated with 7-Zip during installation thus making it the program that opens this file without having to change anything which in turn makes your life much easier.

Now you're in sync with what I'm saying.

Of course, I haven't setup one of these applications in a while, so I did the association the "hard way", instead of during installation. Heh.

The_Emperor · Post by **The_Emperor** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:31 am

Teancum wrote:Convert whatever you want, we're not going to stop you anymore.

Well no, just community made stuff or JKA playermodels, eh?;)
I contacted several people and they never replied, so I'm happy about this. Cos there's great models out there, waiting to be converted

How about the pack that was released? Were all those guns oversized?

Edit: Whoa, heated topic it would seem. I'm staying out of this one.

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:10 am

The all-mighty ex-dev has spoken. Since he knows all I say screw what the modding community has done for years and years with no problems. Raid, plunder and convert all you want.

Post by **Epena** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:32 am

This sums up the conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU

Talibanman · Post by **Talibanman** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:24 pm

Epena wrote:This sums up the conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU

Thought so, thanks for the summary

jango232 · Post by **jango232** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:58 pm

so are modders allowed to use conveted items if they have been approve by the oridganal makers
for example the dc-15 remake form earllyer we allowed to use that in maps/mods???

Dohnutt · Post by **Dohnutt** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:02 pm

Epena wrote:This sums up the conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU

FTW!

Yeah. So then. No asking, just convert as many models as we want without asking?

Whoa. That was a big change in decision.

Anyways, what would a Halo Covenant Elite be without Master Chief? The reviews aren't that great for it, but I couldn't find another one.
http://jediknight2.filefront.com/file/H ... hief;12199

[EDIT]
If someone payed $11...

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:06 pm

Teancum wrote:The all-mighty ex-dev has spoken. Since he knows all I say screw what the modding community has done for years and years with no problems. Raid, plunder and convert all you want.

I was being sarcastic. We're still muddling over what to do, but for now just give the original creator credit. And don't convert copyrighted stuff obviously.

Achronos-117 · Post by **Achronos-117** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:26 pm

Dohnutt wrote:
Epena wrote:This sums up the conversation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU
FTW!

Yeah. So then. No asking, just convert as many models as we want without asking?
Whoa. That was a big change in decision.

Anyways, what would a Halo Covenant Elite be without Master Chief? The reviews aren't that great for it, but I couldn't find another one.
http://jediknight2.filefront.com/file/H ... hief;12199

[EDIT]
If someone payed $11...

And on Filefront, they dont care what the thing is, they'll still trash talk about it for no apparent reason or just mess around with smilies
I would buy the MC model but I ran out of allowance money. Perhaps we can generate some money to buy it.

Darth_Z13 · Post by **Darth_Z13** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:31 pm

RevanSithLord wrote:Same goes with Mace Windu. Even though it officially says Mace died But, you can never be too sure that someone is dead, you know?

Captain Jack Sparrow wrote:"Things can come back. You and I are living proof."

Pirates FTW!

And so far I've converted Anakin's Starfighter, Boba Fett, Jango Fett, a cool sword, Cybernetic Maul, MagnaGuard, Samus, Sheelal (Kaleesh Model) and a cool sniper rifle to .xsi . I'm emailing the authors right now to ask if it's OK to export to .msh and use.

RevanSithLord · Post by **RevanSithLord** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:55 pm

Yeah. Pirates are awesome Darth! I saw Pirates this recent weekend.

Loved it to death.

Oh and tell me when you have an in-game screen of Anakin's Starfighter. I wanna see that badly.

Darth_Z13 · Post by **Darth_Z13** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:06 pm

I will.

OK I've emailed them all but I got this message auto generated message from one of the people I sent a message to:

Email wrote:This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

[email protected]

Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-omc1-s19.bay0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;BAY110-W6
Arrival-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:54:01 -0700

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable

So I guess I can go ahead and use it? Or can't I use it?

Post by **AceMastermind** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:15 pm

Darth_Z13 wrote:So I guess I can go ahead and use it? Or can't I use it?

Teancum wrote:Convert whatever you want, we're not going to stop you anymore.

Just be sure you "thank" the model maker in a "README".

Darth_Z13 · Post by **Darth_Z13** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:23 pm

So I don't need to email them at all? OK.

Achronos-117 · Post by **Achronos-117** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:23 pm

I was looking around and i saw something very strange

http://jediknight2.filefront.com/screen ... le/37848/1

Doesnt that look like Rends' model?

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:38 pm

More like it was converted for Rends.

MasterSaitek009 · Post by **MasterSaitek009** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:54 pm

Here is what I think: They didn't think up the idea for model so they don't get the credit for inventing it, George Lucas gets that. They do however get the credit for converting a version of George's idea. I for one am not going to ask if I can use their model but I will thank them for helping me convert the model from the unreachable mind of George Lucas to Battlefront 2.

That is, if it is a Star Wars model of course.

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I was feeling profound.

On a different note, what is the scale for models between JKA and BF2.
I find when I scale the model down by 0.03156 it turns out right.......At least I think it's right.

What do you guys use?
-Saitek009

DeathRow · Post by **DeathRow** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:11 am

Yes! I finally have it working! Working on some now, scaling is a pain

JKA Model Conversion

Would you participate in this?

Using a JKA model