What it does

Accounts and characters

Make an account once with /new <login> <password> and log in with /login on later visits. An account holds several characters: /char new <name> makes one, /char use <name> switches, and /char alone lists them.

Each character keeps its own level, experience, skills, credits, inventory, model, size, description, sabers, hat and cape. Logging in and switching characters happen in place, without a respawn, unless the server turns that off.

Levels and skills

Characters gain experience from admins and, where the server sets it up, from defeating NPCs. Every level adds 2 maximum health and a skill point, with extra points at every tenth level.

Points go into 60 skills in five groups: Force powers, weapons, protection, ammo and items. /list force, /list weapons, /list protect, /list ammo and /list items show them, and /list <number> explains one.

Credits and the shop

Credits are earned in play and spent at the shop: /stuff item and /stuff upgrade list what is for sale, /buy buys it. Items such as ammo, fuel and Force Boon are used up; the three upgrades stay with the character for good.

Pay other players with /givecredits, or an NPC in a scene with /spendcredits.

Inventory, descriptions and allies

• /inv shows your RP items; give them with /giveitem. Admins create them with /createitem.
• /attributes "text" sets what others read about your character with /examine.
• Allies, added with /allyadd or by aiming with /allyaim, share /allychat and can't be hurt by you.
• /settings lists the toggles of your account.

Range, like a real voice

What you type in the chat box is heard within 700 units, as a normal voice would carry. Start a message with a modifier to change what it is and how far it goes: /me draws a blaster.

Most modifiers take a suffix: low to speak quietly, long to carry further, all for the whole server. Text in double quotes, or between two pairs of apostrophes, shows in green: /me nods. ''Follow me.''

Ranges, in map units

The all versions reach everyone on the server.

Out of character

/ooc talks out of character to the whole server, in every gametype. /tell sends a private message, and /ignore hides a player's written chat.

Dice, news and voices

/roll 2d6 rolls dice for the players near you, /rollall for everyone; /flipcoin flips a coin. /news reads the server's news channels. /voice_cmd plays a line in your character's own voice, heard by your allies over the radio.

Emotes and animations

/emote plays a full emote with its own ending, such as kneel, surrender, sleep, lean, cower or commlink: /emote list lists them. /anim plays any single animation by name or number, from more than 1,600, including moves from JA+.

/wehug and /wekiss play a paired animation with the player in your crosshair.

Sitting where you sit

Sitting and meditating poses are drawn on what is under you: a bench, a step or a crate, instead of hovering over it or sinking into it. Vanilla /meditate is covered too, getting up included. Everyone running the Universe RP client sees it the same way.

Ledge grab

Jump or fall next to a ledge and you grab it by yourself.

A hit, push, pull, grip or knockdown makes you let go.

Getting around

• Grappling hook: a skill. Bind a key to +grapple, hold it to fire and be pulled to where the hook lands, let go to release.
• AutoWalk: /autowalk keeps you walking or running the way you hold, so you can type on the move.
• AFK: /away, or a while without input, puts you in a protection bubble with a comlink animation until you move again.

Downed, not dead

A lethal hit from another player or an NPC knocks you down instead of killing you. While down you can't move, fight, or use the Force or items. When your timer runs out, get up with /getup; a friend nearby can help you up with /helpup. Either way you get a few seconds of protection. Another lethal hit while you are down is the end.

Falls into the void, vehicles and mini-games still kill outright, and the server can switch the system off.

Force Drain grab

With Drain at level 4 or 5, draining someone right in front of you grabs him by the throat. You hold him for up to 10 seconds, both of you rooted, draining his Force first. He breaks free with Absorb one level below your Drain or higher.

Duels and training

• /engage_duel challenges the player you look at to a private saber duel, with most Force powers off.
• /engage_fullforceduel is the same with the Force allowed.
• /training on switches to training sabers that do almost no damage.

Balance

• Force powers rebalanced at levels 4 and 5, and a Force pool of up to 250.
• The Armor skill can deflect blaster shots.
• The Cloak skill cloaks you, and at level 2 your vehicle too.
• A level 5 Stun Baton opens doors, even locked ones.

Any colour

Pick hilts, a preset colour or any colour with RGB sliders, and a blade design, in the in-game saber menu. Or from the console:

• /sabercolor 1 255 80 0, /sabercolor 1 #7A3CFF or a colour name, for saber 1 or 2. Black blades too.
• /saberblade 1 flame1: classic, flame1, electric1, flame2 or electric2.
• /saber changes hilts; /updatesaber applies a menu pick at once.

Your setup is saved with your character.

Drawn and holstered

• With another weapon out, your saber hangs on your thigh, or stays on your wrist if it is a wrist saber.
• /settings 3 chooses whether a drawn saber ignites at once, or comes out as a hilt until you light it.
• Tavion and Desann styles have stances of their own.

Hats and capes

/cosmetics hats and /cosmetics capes list them; /cosmetics hats 3 puts one on. They are saved with your character, and NPCs can wear them too.

Size

/scale sets your character's size from 20 to 500 percent; /scale help lists sizes next to real-life heights.

Ghosts and holograms

/ghost turns you into a glowing Force ghost and /holo into a blue hologram. Both pass through people and stay off the radar.

HD HUD

Sharper weapon, item and Force icons, crosshairs and zoom views, which keep their shape on wide screens.

Use hint

A hand icon appears when the Use key would do something: a door, a button, a console, an NPC.

Seen by everyone

Players running the Universe RP client see all of this. Where the server allows other clients, they play without these looks.

The Entity System

Admins with the Entities and Remaps power edit the map in game:

• /entadd and /entaddaim place doors, lights, effects, models, NPC spawners and anything else the game knows; /enthelp explains every class and its keys.
• /entcopy, /entcut and /entrotate move things by aim; /entedit and /entremove change them.
• /entsave default saves it all so it loads with the map next time.
• /settings 6 draws the box of whatever you aim at.

Extras menus

Point and click instead of typing: in the Universe RP menu, browse the server's props (MD3 and GLM models, with a 3D preview), effects, NPCs and vehicles, music and sounds, and place props, effects, lights and NPC spawners on the surface you aim at.

Locks

Doors, lifts, buttons and triggers can be locked to a list of accounts, per map: /entlockset puts a lock on what you aim at, /entlockadd lets accounts through. NPCs never pass.

NPCs

• Spawners can spawn at once, respawn, set the team, size, hat and cape, a hologram or ghost look, or freeze their NPCs.
• They can pay XP and credits to whoever defeats their NPCs.
• /npc spawns, kills, freezes or changes NPCs; /order tells yours to follow, guard or cover.

The map itself

• /remap swaps a shader in the map, saved per map like entities.
• /admweather sets the weather for everyone, and can layer several effects.
• A second pool of logical entities, so spawners and markers don't use up the map's entity limit.

Single player maps

Jedi Academy's single player maps, and Jedi Outcast's, can be played in multiplayer, with entity classes such as misc_model_ghoul brought over from single player.

Admin powers, one by one

Admin commands are given to accounts one power at a time: /adminup <player> <number or all> and /admindown, listed with /adminlist. Credit and admin changes are written to an audit log.

Server tools

• /admmap changes map and gametype together; /admweather sets the weather.
• /teleport, /teleaim, /paralyze, /silence, /noclip and more.
• /admhidden and /admwalkthrough hide you or let you walk through people.

Mini-games

The Duel Tournament (/duelmode) is a one-on-one saber bracket in the map's duel arena; Melee Battle (/meleemode) a fists-only free-for-all. Admins set up the arenas in game.

Many settings

Hundreds of server cvars tune the mod: weapon damage, Force, the downed timer, AFK, mini-games, who may use what. The server guide covers the important ones.

Native TaystJK

Built for TaystJK, a modern Jedi Academy engine with Rend2 and Vulkan renderers and many fixes. About TaystJK

Every system

Windows (64-bit and 32-bit), Linux (64-bit, 32-bit and ARM64) and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel).

Open source

The code is on GitHub under the GPLv2. It continues GalaxyRP, which grew out of zyk's mod.