Clan skin pack rating: * ½ (out of four)
Bot Support: No NPC Support: No Team Support: No New Sounds: No
Unifermius Matty, Lord Valc, and Wind's (SOR) clan skin pack is very uneven. Nothing is sloppy, but very few of these skins are artistic or stylish. Most aren't even very pleasing, but they're not hard for someone to like. Members of the clan, the Secret Order of the Rancor, commissioned skinners to essentially take default models from Jedi Academy and put logos and text on them. Some are definitely more interesting than others in the pack, but not enough.
What had to be my favorite skin in the pack was Wind, which was the only one where the logo/text advertising the clan had been artistically placed onto the Reborn skin. It flows with the zany, red and orange lines that zoom all around his body. The only other good skin in the pack was that of a swamptrooper changed into what looks like a bronze swamptrooper, accomplishing the bronze effect with a combination of the color and the new shader. These two skins do look like good skins, but where the pack fails is in the rest of it.
The best adjective I can use to describe the other skins in the pack is "boring." The Grim Reaper skin is just a plain black Jawa with red eyes, which isn't the first of its kind. Some of the other skins are recolors which aren't particularly good or bad, but they lack a certain juice that makes other skins more fun to use. And the rest of the skins, unfortunately for the reputation of clan skins, are stereotypical clan skins. They are just mild recolorings (sometimes adding an out-of-place shader, like in the case of the green on Rosh) with text and/or clan logos that make no effort to blend with the rest of the skin. Clear, textureless text just seems to float on cloth. I'm not sure why anyone would want that as their clan or personal skin other than what the text says, which isn't a very good reason to want to use it.
As a whole, the pack is just too dull. It's uneven, and seems incomplete, lacking any interesting features, except the added HUD and splash screens, which are mediocre. Some model icons were new while others were just default. The thing that the production team for this pack really needs is a strict manager or some sort of quality assurance tester. Someone needs to make sure everything is included, everything looks good, and everything is worth the clan member who requested it. Otherwise, and as it is in the case of this pack, we're left quite bored.
—Ra-Kom
########################### (SOR) Clan pack ############################################ AUTHORS: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR)Lord Valc(HCM) (SOR)Wind(HCM) ############################ How to contact Us: Mattzor: Either e-mail at [email protected] or visit my forums, www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/?mforum=jk3scaclanforum Lord Valc & Wind: http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/index.php?sid=eb9abfb2848bea8198c3059ec3a7fa9c&mforum=sor ################################### INSTALLATATION: Extract the selected .pk3's (your choice) into your JKA/GAMEDATA/BASE Directory #### UNINSTALLATION: Delete the files from your JKA/GAMEDATA/BASE Directory ################################### Description ##### In around about April this year, i was approached by a friend of mine, the (SOR) clan leader Icedragon, who asked me to start making (SOR) clan skins for their members to use. After a while, i did a few skins, and i sorta laid off the project because new ones were coming in (E.g, [SCA] Clan pack final), and i decided to work on those a bit. Then, in July i was informed that Wind and Lord Valc (at the time known as JK) would be assisting me in the project. Then, at the end of October we finished the pack. I compiled the pk3's into a zip and tested them, no noticable flaws. The pack consists of three rank skins and about seven personal skins requested by members, as well as a new loading screen and hud. ##################################### Advertising =/ ##### (SOR) = Secret order of the rancor, they've been around about a year and a quarter now? Anyways, they be a lugormod clan, with a decent server ( (SOR) Clan server ) and members, as well as a nifty little website which you can visit for more info: http://www.jka-sor.tk/ ########################## File details ########################## Just summarising the name of each file and which author made what, in alphabetical order: ############### (SOR) Grim reaper skin Personal skin Author: (SOR) Lord Valc (SOR) IceDragon skin Personal Skin Author: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR) Ickle Light Personal Skin Author: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR) Jedi Max Personal skin Author: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR) JM Male Clan skin Authors: (SOR)Lord Valc / (SOR) Wind (SOR) Kennyrules Personal Skin Authors: (SOR)Lord Valc / (SOR) Wind (SOR) Lord Valc Personal skin Author: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] Profile Icon by: (SOR) Lord Valc (SOR) Rasere Personal skin Author: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR) SM Male Clan skin Authors: (SOR) Lord Valc / (SOR) Wind (SOR) Stuff Clan Hud/effects Authors: (SOR) Lord Valc / (SOR) Wind (SOR) Trooper Clan skin Author: (SOR) Lord Valc Shader by: Unifermius Matty [SCA LDR] (SOR) Wind Personal skin Author: (SOR) Wind ################### Known bugs: ####### None that i can mention (mattzor speaking) ################################# Credits: ######## 1) Lord Valc and Wind for making other parts of the pack without my original consent.. couldnt have done it without chas anyway 2) Icedragon for the advice on his skin in the first place.... helped my scripting alot 3) Jedi Max, Lord Valc, Grim Reaper, Kennyrules and Ickle Light for nagging about when i had finished the pack and if it was released yet. 4) Ickle Light for helping me get the work done when i would have been lazy. =) 5) Finally, The (SOR) clan, for asking me to do this... surely worthwhile, took up some time too. ############################################################################## Legal Blabberjabber: All skins/effects seen in the pack are modified versions of skins and effects found in the Jedi Academy game, No ported downloaded material was used during the progress of this project, however it was constantly considered and denied. ==============================================================+ THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION, RAVEN, PARAMOUNT STUDIOS, TOTALLY GAMES INC, OR LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC. ELEMENTS TM & © LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS. ==============================================================+
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