Been a very long time since I last posted on here. The steam release has brought me back. I was really looking forward to it then to find it wasn't updated. Then to remember that they can't because the source is gone. So a kind of radical idea popped into my head. We've got all the data files. How difficult would it be to re-write a new JK engine for modern systems?

The graphical part would likely be the easier portion. Modern API probably includes a lot of the things they had to program by hand. Getting the gameplay to work exactly as it did...that would be a challenge.

It's probably not do-able...but I thought I'd throw it out there, see what more knowledgeable people thought.

Jeff

I always kept my head out of this topic, but I'm under the impression it's been tried/started and failed.

And if my skimming of the relevant threads was good enough, it's a BIIIIIG task.

But this will get in the way of the development of ....

Yeah, that's been tried at least once.

You see, the problem is, essentially, from what I gather, that it is hard.

Yeah people attempted it before with Sith 2, and i think one of main the problems was that the original engine didn't make any sense and none of the values used for anything were coherent.

http://forums.massassi.net/vb3/showthread.php?t=46712&highlight=sith2&page=2#post808381

There's yo ansa dawg.

Random idea?

YO LEHM IM REAL HAPPY FOR YOU AND IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT SITH2 WAS THE GREATEST FAILED SITH ENGINE REWRITE OF ALL TIME.

... sorry.

A TC for a new engine would be easier and better in every way. Source might be good, even if it is starting to show it's age. I don't really like UE3 or the Ageia API. The biggest problem is a lack of games that really mod well, and the demise of the modding community in general.

Yeah, the graphics part seems to be the easiest. Kiramin got a jlk renderer working with openGL ES on the iphone.

Wow, I was going to come in here and do a Kanye meme, never though I'd be beaten to it.

WUT?

That's awesome.

Sorta... We were going to make a game and figured working with JED for the geometry would be awesome. He ran into some bugs and lost interest. I sent the source to someone around here, but I can't remember who it was. He got 6000 block rendering perfectly at one point, but there was a memory leak so it got all sluggish and then crashed, if I remember correctly.

I loved 6000 Block.

/No homo

/No offense sexyvin

JK Source, Clearly.

TC for the Elder Scrolls Oblivion?

Remake with Jedi Academy, like the Dark Forces TC?

Just throwing out ideas.

hard and time consuming.