Desert Temple Redux — COG Factory

Q. What does a second pass buy a level that already passed — detailing, prefab reuse and a light rig — when the owner drives the edit and the agent runs the tools?

The room becomes a place, and the agent's job changes from generating geometry to operating an editor. p32's sanctum was correct and thin. The redux is the same footprint carrying a sunken floor with a mitred kerb, an altar CARVED out of a sector core, a skylight cut on the same vertex lines, eight extruded nooks and a frieze — built live through the bridge, one taught technique at a time. The first interactive training session; the doctrine it produced is in the jk-content skill.

archetype	Desert temple, second pass
project	p40-desert-temple-redux
date	2026-08-25
built	34 sectors · 291 surfaces · 6 lights
package	P40.GOB, readme.txt, screenshot.jpg
build	1 — 2026-09-05
sha256	167e5448781e33f8e6418724f09c47353d6312202b123f843fa6f6b152f88405

Installing it

Unzip it.
Drop the .GOB into the episode folder of a Jedi Knight install — the one that already has JK1.GOB in it.
Pick it from the episode list. On a libretro frontend, load the .GOB itself as content.

The GOB carries its own level, cogs, materials and sounds and reads the stock resource/ for everything else. There is no retail game data in the zip.

These are living projects, not finished releases. A level is rebuilt whenever something is learned — a lighting rule, a texture orientation, a whole detail pass — and it keeps its filename through all of it. The build number is how to tell which one you have: it is printed in the readme inside every zip, and it only moves when the level's bytes actually change.

Screenshots

reference

in engine

Textures generated for this project

$dtwall$ $dtfloor$ $dtceil$ $dtniche$ $dtsky$ $dttrim$

The readme that ships with it

========================================================================
 Jedi Knight Level

 P40.GOB

 What does a second pass buy a level that already passed -- detailing,
 prefab reuse and a light rig -- when the owner drives the edit and the
 agent runs the tools?

 [cogfactory / p40-desert-temple-redux]

 BUILD 1  --  2026-09-05
 sha256 167e5448781e33f8e6418724f09c4735

 This level is not made or distributed by LucasArts
 Entertainment Co.
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THIS PACKAGE
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  P40.GOB          the level
  readme.txt       this file
  screenshot.jpg   what it looks like

INSTALLATION
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Drop P40.GOB into the `episode` folder of a Jedi Knight install (the one
that already has JK1.GOB in it) and pick it from the episode list.
Nothing else needs to change: the GOB carries its own level, cogs,
materials and sounds, and reads the stock resource/ for everything else.

On a libretro frontend, point the core at the GOB itself. It needs a
folder beside it holding `resource/` from a real install -- that is
where the retail data lives and none of it is in here.

WHAT IS IN THE GOB
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       105  episode.jk
        42  jkl\p40redux.anchors.json
     86125  jkl\p40redux.jkl
      1079  jkl\p40redux.manifest.json
      5581  3do\dtplinth.3do
     32908  mat\dev1.mat
     32908  mat\dev2.mat
     32908  mat\dev3.mat
     32908  mat\dev4.mat
     32908  mat\dtceil.mat
     32908  mat\dtfloor.mat
     32908  mat\dtniche.mat
     32908  mat\dtsky.mat
     32908  mat\dttrim.mat
     32908  mat\dtwall.mat

    422012  bytes in 15 entries

CREDITS
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  Generated by tools/cogfactory in the openjkdf2_libretro tree.

  The readme format is styled after SM Sith Lord's cog headers,
  because his are the ones everybody read.

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