Development - Jan 2023

Various pictures and videos we took while working on Jak II.

[2023-01-01] First functional enemy! Plus some nav-mesh debug tools

[2023-01-01] Collectables

[2023-01-01] Early version of Vaser's debug text filter

[2023-01-01] Can also filter processes by their distance from Jak

[2023-01-01] "some minor issues with depth testing"

[2023-01-01] HUD for the gun partially implemented

[2023-01-01] The gun course sorta works with some HUD fixes

[2023-01-01] Guards, Jak!

[2023-01-02] Titan Suit

[2023-01-02] Spray and pray

[2023-01-02] Vaser making it look easy to get Gold in the JET Board challenge

[2023-01-02] Enemy #2

[2023-01-03] Metalheads

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[2023-01-03] Scouts mission with debug path tools

[2023-01-04] Protect Site in Dead Town mostly playable

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[2023-01-07] The playable Daxter state is working

[2023-01-08] Vaser demo-ing the first 2 Sewers missions, minus the water

[2023-01-09] Meanwhile in Mar's Tomb, Hat Kid sees very little except for water

[2023-01-09] Good thing collision renderer works (oh and so do tombstones!)

[2023-01-11] Jak 2 gets a 2023 upgrade (native high resolution)

[2023-01-11] Warp gates still need some work...

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[2023-01-14] Sig mission coming along

[2023-01-14] Totally normal intro cutscene

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[2023-01-15] This mission and a couple others were plagued by a troublesome gui-control bug for some time

[2023-01-15] "Some hacks to get str's to play, but the animation playback/decompress stuff in GOAL is working. It's 16/17ths of the right speed, I think." -water111

[2023-01-15] Mar is still alive!

[2023-01-15] 2nd Praxis fight

[2023-01-18] Minor bug in ocean-far where it moved with the camera

[2023-01-18] Missing transition between ocean-near and ocean-mid, but close!

[2023-01-20] Early screenshots using the new emerc renderer, used for environment mapping (shiny surfaces)!

[2023-01-20] Jak 2's emerc improved upon Jak 1's generic renderer, and now it's been backported to Jak 1 OpenGOAL as well.

[2023-01-21] Vaser blessing us with the THPS-style trick display

[2023-01-22] Drill mission with the Titan Suit

[2023-01-23] Metalhead Mash

[2023-01-24] Dark Eco animations

[2023-01-24] 1st Praxis fight

[2023-01-27] Gumby or Precursor?

[2023-01-28] Uhh... you'll have to ask water111 about this one (blerc+merc testing?)

[2023-01-30] Water ripple effect

[2023-01-31] RIP to the unknown texture triangle

[2023-01-31] HUD textures