Penekepack 2.4 // CLASSIC UI RESTORATION

[Penekowski]

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Changelogneke 1.9.5 > 2.0

It's been four years since the release of Peneke Pack 1.0, our pack's come a very long way since then! For Peneke Pack's 2.0 release, we have added a new Peneke UI option to UI Layouts! Plus we have added the Mandalorian, Season 7 Ahsoka, brought back many old Peneke favorites, and more!

To start off, here’s the list of characters we’ve upgraded:
- Updated Purge Trooper with new model by Scerendo!
- Upgraded Shaak Ti with redder skin, facial and hand animations, and a better torso
- Upgraded Lando Calrissian with better decaps and team skins for FA
- Upgraded TFU2 Starkiller with a ported head
- Upgraded Young Arcann and Thexan with an improved port
- Upgraded Arcann with an improved port
- Upgraded Darth Revan’s TOR and Reborn models with improved ports
- Upgraded TFU2 Kota with better rigging and restored the old shorter skirt!
- Upgraded Serra Keto with her ROTS Game model
- Upgraded Lando by restoring JK2 version with FA head, and made him compatible with new Lando skins
- Updated Thrawn so he's compatible with Imperial Officer model merges
- Moved RGB skin replacements to addon models (Crix, Ackbar, Nien, Porkins, Commando Droid)
- Moved KOTOR Jaden "Kal" to addon models
- Moved Kyle Replacement to addon models
- Moved IG-88 replacement to addon models
- Restored FA skin support to Barriss (DC Raven), Vader (UDS Zombie, Football), and ESB Han (UDS)

New Characters:
- Added Cara Dune from The Mando to Elite Troopers!
- Added Greef Karga from The Mando to Bounty Hunters!
- Added the Bad Batch/Clone Squad 99 to ARC Troopers!
- Added Bo Katan to Mandalorians, regular and helmetless
- Added Rebel Demolitions Expert
- Added Ahsoka from TCW season 7 to Jedi
- Added Exiled Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Added Stealth Jedi Gear Kyle to Jedi
- Added the rest of Kota’s Militia from TFU, the Elite and Trooper
- Added Imperial Ground Crew from R1 to Imp Soldiers
- Added Sith Fleet Technician to Imp Soldiers
- Added Sith Trooper to Imp Soldiers
- Added Stormtrooper Commander from TFU
- Added Incinerator Trooper from TFU
- Added Shadow Trooper from TFU
- Added Arena Gear Starkiller
- Added Darth Marr to Sith
- Added Lana Beniko to Sith
- Added Unmasked skins for Darth Revan’s TOR and Reborn models
- Added an Inquisitor Starkillerneke for Sith
- Added Imperial Supercommandos and Gar Saxon to Mandos
- Added the whole Skirata Mandalorian pack, with a total of 19 unique looking Mandos added!
- Added Peneke Kel Dor Male Jedi

Restored Characters:
- Readded Juno Eclipse to Commanders to prevent confusion, with a ported model upgrade
- Readded Silver Warrior Starkiller
- Restored Peneke Shirtless Maul
- Restored Dark Side Jaden
- Restored Dark Kyle skin
- Restored Black KOTOR Jedi
- Restored two Old Republic soldier skins

Removed Characters:
- Removed all clone changes for the Clone Model upgrades, and moved the replacement clone skins to addon models, which are neomarz Phase 1 Clone and Gree.
- Removed Cybernetic Maul, Shaak Ti Update, CW Obi-Wan, TCW Anakin, Purgetrooper, TROS Palpatine, Sith Assassin and Sith Master as they’ve been added to MBII officially
- Removed Starkiller-Jaden override since one of the Jaden replacements is in vanilla MB2
- Removed Morgan for being added to base MB2
- Removed Din Djarin for being added to base MB2
- Removed unused soundsets
- Removed Jedipack since it's an HB Pack exclusive
- Removed Legends Bane for being added to base MB2
- Removed RGB Geonosis Battledroid
- Removed Old Republic Soldier variants
- Removed Darth Zannah for being added to base MB2
- Removed Atton and Mandalore for being added to base MB2
- Removed HK-51 soundset for being added to base MB2
- Removed Ongree RGB for being added to base MB2
- Removed RGB Darth Talon on Unguided's request
- Removed Clone Commander (Mygeeto) RGB replacement
- Removed RGB from TFU Royal Guard
- Removed FA specific models since they're outdated
- Removed Wookiee RGB skin replacements


HILTS PORTION:

Updated Hilts:
- Updated Galen Marek hilt with a higher accuracy model by Doughnuts!
- Updated Doughnut’s Rahm Kota hilt texture with Peneke wooden Edition!

AUDIO PORTION:

- Updated Cal Kestis’ soundpack
- Upgraded Purge Trooper’s soundpack with JFO dialogue
- Upgraded Juno Eclipse’s soundpack

BUG FIXES:

- Fixed Lord Kallig missing his soundpack

Miscellaneous:
- New Peneke 2.0 menu music - the Mandalorian's theme song
- Added a new decapitation texture by Langerd (same author of the old decaps)
- Added a new saber clash effect by kalamaray, that looks much higher quality and is less annoying for our duelist users in-game
- Reorganized various soundsets to be more compatible with sound changes for the latest MB2 patch
- Transferred Nien's BF soundset to Rebel Soldier Sullustan (Addon)
- Updated Mud Trooper soundset with one of the added Stormtrooper soundsets
- Upgraded Starkiller's soundset with higher quality lines
- Updated other Jedi Starkillers with improved lines from SCIV
- Replaced Jedi Hunter Starkiller's soundset with SCIV version

USER INTERFACE COMEBACK:

That's right folks, the Peneke dudes missed having awesome features like the Music menu, Authentic Hilts, and network optimization,
so we took the time to add those menus back as their own UI preset in UI Layouts! There's a lot to explain about this UI update,
so we'll talk about the main menu updates first!

The main menu now has a new Mandalorian show themed background, and we removed the character preview so that you can have more room
to view the nice backgrounds featured in the other menus! For nostalgic purposes, we've readded a few old but gold to the Peneke family
menu backgrounds featured in Peneke Pack versions of old. The Kylo Ren cursor has also returned!

Next up to be featured is the Music Menu overhaul! We too missed being able to select whatever music you want during rounds, so we decided
to completely re-do the menus from the ground up, now the music is organized into six tabs; Official for official MB2 map music,
CMP for community map pack music, MGMP for movie game mappack music, uMad for uMad mappack music, Peneke for music that suits
our and hopefully your tastes too, and the Custom music tab! The peneke music easter egg is also featured somewhere in these menus,
so all of our users can have fun finding it again!

How does the custom music feature work? Well this is the ability for you to add your own music to play in-game! To make use of it,
make a new folder in your MBII mod folder named "music" without the quotations. Then add an mp3 or wav file of your choice,
preferrably mp3 format, into the folder, with the name "usertheme#", with # being a number going from 1-50, meaning you can have
up to 50 custom music tracks in-game! The number you put in place of # with 1-50 will be the same number corresponding with the user track option in-game.
It needs to be noted that before doing so, make sure that the mp3 or wav is exported with the project rate at 44100 HZ, exported in Stereo,
that's the minimum requirement for making your music work in MBII.

Our next great UI comeback is the restoration of authentic hilts! This has been added into vanilla MB2 alongside the new class menus,
and the Peneke Jedi/Sith roster has been made compatible with this feature!

The last thing to mention is the optimize button, for all our users with network issues, we have restored the old Peneke network optimization menu,
which we've even done bonus fixes for to make the bounding boxes (the areas that you can click) properly scaled with the options so that you aren't
selecting options from seemingly invisible spaces anymore.

I can't stress this enough, make sure to remove older versions of the Penekepack or non-official Peneke Addons before updating, if you don't do that, you'll experience crashes and different kind of bugs!

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Hi, Penekowski speaking!

Because of the assistance, teachings, and feedback that I have received from Vitez, JamyzGenius, my Peneke folks and the Jkhub community, I'm now able to publish my first replacement pack, the Penekepack. A pack that, in my humble opinion, has the best of every single mod available plus a bunch of new content that was heavily customized by me.

I brought back things that I liked from the Old school MBII, better versions of existing models, new Icons, new RGB models, new hilts, a bunch of new content, new menu, new cursor, and overall a whole new and improved look for an average replacement pack.

I have included credits for every single person that helped me on this project, and of course, there's a list of all of the authors for every single model, hilt, asset or soundpack that this pack has. In other words, here's some of the stuff that our pack entails:

- New Hilts
- New Peneke UI: Optimization Menu, Authentic Lightsaber button, Music Menu
- New effects
- New Force Icons
- New Loading Screens
- New Console
- As of 2.4 : 192 New models, all of them have their custom icons and sounds, and some of them have their own RGB system

Without further ado, here's the Icon table for the pack, as well as screens from some of the models in game/artwork, the new menu and a showcase table for the hilts as well.

Enjoy it and please remember that all of the credits are inside the .rar file, along with the installation instructions and a few more notes!

Spoiler: Special thanks

And a really special thanks to Vitez, the creator of the H.B Pack, KoyMcCloud because I took some inspiration from his style to make my own icons during early versions, JamyzGenius, Rooxon & Kualan for their unlimited patience to help me out with the optimization and improvement of my pack, Peneke Tesla, SirCrusher, k4far, Shenghai for soundpack contributions, Swagmaster for helping out a great deal with the latest content of the pack, not only with constant feedback and content, but also for his willingness to learn new stuff just to improve the pack to a whole different level, kalamaray for the new saber clash effect, and last but not least Jkhub because I got so much content from that website and got to meet great people in there and many more!

Icon tables:

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Optional Hilt Replacements:

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To use these, install it the same way as vanilla Peneke Pack, drag and drop "z_zz_PNK_Hilts" from the Bonus folder inside the current version's RAR into your MBII folder.
Majority of these are made by Rooxon. Starkiller Hilts & Kota Hilt skin replacement by Doughnuts.

In-game pics/Artwork:

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album of new stuff + banners and whatnot:

 

[Famous Dex]

Hey Peneke, big fan of this pack and been using it for awhile. You likely have bigger things prioritized but at some point is there any chance for a Darth Plagueis model? The only one I've found is from here NightShadowX1's Replacement Pack [GalaxiesPathPack] and while I could just put the model in the game myself (no disrespect to the original creator) it would look quite outdated next to all the new and updated models. Thanks in advance and keep improving the pack, can't even play vanilla MB2 anymore lol

this is how the old Plagueis model looked for reference

If Plagueis gets in, im going to dance like this

 

[Penekowski]

I'll see what I can do, will definitely not make it for the upcoming patch though

 

[Noob]

rebels maul inbound?

you better not ADD another maul lol it better replace another one. TOO MANY MAULS

 

[SneakDissing]

I'll see what I can do, will definitely not make it for the upcoming patch though

and what exactly is going to be in the upcoming patch?

 

[Penekowski]

Hey guys, just a small tease as to what's to come for the upcoming minipatch (Peneke 1.7.5)

Keep in mind that it will not have much since I haven't had much time to get stuff for yall due to Internal MBII development. But I'm pretty sure that it will keep you happy for some months! I'll try to get everything ready for release later this week but no promises.

Cheers!

 

[Darth Krez]

Love ur mod- would be excited if you could make a darth bane model. One that is as big as ur darth Sion model. Maybe without the orbelisk armor?

 

[Damiaker]

any chance we will get Visas Marr in this small update?
and is she going to be Jedi or a Sith?

 

[Jameson]

any chance we will get Visas Marr in this small update?
and is she going to be Jedi or a Sith?

She is in the game already (without this pack )

 

[Phoenix]

where’s my porg playermodel

 

[Matt The Radar Tech]

Out of curiosity what are your reasonings for using the hapslash hooded annie model over the tosh variant ? IMO the toshi variation is superior in every way. Thats my only criticism of this pack other than that its perfect.

 

[GorlickGames]

I agree with Matt, this pack is utterly perfect.
Furthermore, my only complaint is that there is no Evil Anakin from when he turned during TCW's The Mortis Arc in the place of ROTS Hooded Anakin in this pack.
Here is a picture for reference:

 

[Richard Nixon]

IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people

 

[Matt The Radar Tech]

IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people

I'm not talking about non hooded ep3 annie I'm questioning why he switched the toshi hooded annie for the hapslash one.

 

[thebiggerboat3]

IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people

Still waiting for that model, btw @Penekowski

I liked the model and I never had any issue confusing people. I mean, one has a red lightsaber and one has a blue lightsaber. Pretty easy to tell the difference. Plus them big siff eyes were very distinct.

 

[Famous Dex]

Speaking of Sith Anakin,

whenever he says that in the game, the volume is too low. (skip to 1:07)

 

[GorlickGames]

Now that you brought that up..
Why were the 212th there and not the Shock Troopers?

 

[Luna]

Now that you brought that up..
Why were the 212th there and not the Shock Troopers?

because itd be effort with n ogain to make them

 

[thebiggerboat3]

Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.

 

[RC-Delta]

Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.

I still need the impressive taunts. I can't live without vader saying impressive, most impressive.

 

[Penekowski]

Love ur mod- would be excited if you could make a darth bane model. One that is as big as ur darth Sion model. Maybe without the orbelisk armor?

I was working on a new pack for low tier PCs a few weeks ago but stop development of it due to how stressful it was. That being said, this pack has darthbane but it's not as good as you expect it to be. I'll work on that pack once I find some more motivation to finish it.

any chance we will get Visas Marr in this small update?
and is she going to be Jedi or a Sith?

Visas is already on vanilla MBII. But it's currently replaced by one of our peneke models. That being said, she'll be officially back on this release unless there's a change of plans.

where’s my porg playermodel

I'm seriously considering a playable porg for Penekepack at some point, they are cute af.

I agree with Matt, this pack is utterly perfect.
Furthermore, my only complaint is that there is no Evil Anakin from when he turned during TCW's The Mortis Arc in the place of ROTS Hooded Anakin in this pack.
Here is a picture for reference:

I see a lot of requests to bring the evil looking anakin back. I hear you and i'd like that too, @Richard Nixon nailed the explanation perfectly. But I think that I can do something that could make you all happy.

I'm not talking about non hooded ep3 annie I'm questioning why he switched the toshi hooded annie for the hapslash one.

It's more of a nostalgia sort of thing going on there. When I was like 10 years old, Haplash Anakin was the model I always used. It was actually the first model that I ever downloaded for JKA. It is one of my favorites ever and I personally think that it looks better than the toshi one. However I do admit that people seem to enjoy using the toshi one more, I have mixed feelings about removing the haplash one, but i'll think about it.

Still waiting for that model, btw @Penekowski

I liked the model and I never had any issue confusing people. I mean, one has a red lightsaber and one has a blue lightsaber. Pretty easy to tell the difference. Plus them big siff eyes were very distinct.

Here's the thing, not everyone is as used and familiarized with the MBII roster as us, keep in mind that Penekepack was designed for the casual portion of our MBII community, our download count has gone off the roof due to TLJ season, so when I add or change models, I consider that our new/casual players will have trouble differentiating them, that's why I avoid similar looking models on different teams.

Speaking of Sith Anakin,

whenever he says that in the game, the volume is too low. (skip to 1:07)

Thank you! I love that line, I'll try to boost it a tid bit.

Now that you brought that up..
Why were the 212th there and not the Shock Troopers?

I don't understand the question ,pretty sure that I've used shocktroopers ingame, hmm.

Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.

It'd be a controversial change if I ever rework darth vader's classic soundpack, I could add some lines here and there. But I don't see myself reworking the whole thing, I'm not a big fan of R1/Rebels Vader's voice for example. Sure it's still good old James Earl Jones, but his voice it's not what it used to be :/

Thanks for your feedback!

You may also be wondering why the upcoming release is taking so long despite the fact that I said that it'd be small one. It's basically done but I'm having availability issues to get everything tested and ready for release, I'm also waiting for one of our guys to finish re-porting Valkorion, as the current model has serious cosmetic/weighting issues.