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Mod: Julio's Texture Overhaul (Alpha Teaser) 0.0.1

This is a teaser of a mod by JulioC that will eventually retexture all the playable humanoid characters. This version only retextures the Reborn.

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JEDI KNIGHT: JEDI ACADEMY
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TITLE: Julio's Texture Overhaul (Version 0.0.1)
AUTHOR: JulioC
E-MAIL: julioc95@gmail.com

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FILE NAME: jtc_v0_0_1
FILE SIZE: 2,74 MB (2.876.978 bytes)
DATE RELEASED: Tuesday 27/10/2009

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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Open your 'base' folder,

(C:/Program Files/LucasArts/Jedi Knight Jedi Academy/GameData/base),

and now:

1) Open .zip file and drag & drop .pk3 into the installation folder

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2) Unzip the compressed .zip folder into your base folder

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DESCRIPTION:

Well, basically I was bored of the Jedi Academy textures,
and I'd always wanted to make a mod, and I decided that
a skin was a cheap and cheerful start.
However, I got so influenced by my idea that I decided to
re-skin ALL of the Jedi Academy textures.

Obviously, I knew that there were way too many re-skins to do,
so I'm going to do all of the PLAYABLE HUMANOIDS. If I decide
to expand to a version 2, I will also re-do the textures of
the FFA maps, however, I don't see that happening any time soon.

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1) Take the skin and make two variations, a very bright one (over exposed)
and a very dark one (under exposed).

2) Combine those two and the original file to make an HDR
(High Dynamic Range - wider array of colors, contrast, brightness, etc.)

3) Post-process it in Photoshop: sharpness, colors, levels, additional things, etc.

4) Compile the mod as a .pk3, zip it up, and upload it.

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BUGS:

None yet. Well, there are two things, but they're not really bugs:

1) In the blue version of the head of the New Reborn, on the top of
the... hat?... there's a blue pattern that resembles an M. Well,
on one edge, there's a part about a pixel wide were you can see
the red beneath the blue layer. It's not noticeable so I'm not fixing it.

2) I did the blue version of the skin VERY quickly. A simple blue brush
on a new layer with the layer style/mode set to 'Hue'. I know that it won't
be perfect, but there are a lot of skins to edit, so I can't spend as much time
as I did on the default skin of this New Reborn (several hours).

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COMMENTS:

My very first mod! I'm so excited to see the feedback!

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PROGRAMS USED (in order of usage):

Â· ModView (to see the model and the skin)
Â· Photoshop CS4 Extended (to create variations of the exposure)
Â· Photomatix Pro 3.1 (to combine the three images with different exposures
together into HDR mode)
Â· Photoshop CS4 Extended (post-processing) and ModView (to see the model
after re-texturing each part of the skin)
Â· PakScape (to compile the .pk3 file)
Â· WinZip (to compress the file)
Â· Notepad (to write this readme)
Â· WinZip (to add the readme to the .zip folder)
Â· Photoshop CS4 Extended (to edit images to upload to the site)
Â· FireFox (to upload the file)

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THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION, RAVEN, OR
LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC. ELEMENTS TM & LUCASARTS
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS.

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File Name: julios_texture_overhaul_version_0.0.1.zip		Author: JulioC
File Size: 2.74 MB		Files Added: 1
Downloads: 460 (1 last week)		Author Downloads: 460 (1 last week)
Posted: 12.11.2009		Supporters: 0 (+1 Add)