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Blog #39 - Selected Track Artwork for my SWTOR Audio Drama

Blog #39 - Selected Track Artwork for my SWTOR Audio Drama

Sometimes, I need a long playlist to listen to when I'm running myself ragged on the treadmill. I had decided to record video of the Imperial Agent story arc when I would then convert into MP3s. After that was done, I added my own music choices. I went through the sound files to explore as many branches of character discussions so I could expand them. I even added extra NPC's on story missions - you can only have one accompany you at a time - if I felt they had something interesting or funny to
Sith Holocron

Sith Holocron

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Marginalia
 

Advice about modding, no.2

Just a quick entry, with a tip I've recently rediscovered, namely: how to take screenshots without the GUI.   All you need to do to take screenshots without the GUI visible in TSL is:   1. Activate free-look mode (default keybinding is caps lock); 2. open the console and warp to your desired area.   This will load the area, but leave the console invisible. To make the console visible again, just enter and quit free-look mode again.   On an unrelated note, I have the impression from some
InSidious

InSidious

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Fair Strides' Blog
 

A Proposal for Scripting

I would like this idea to see as much light as possible, so for those that see the blog and the status update (or even the Reddit entry), please show this to anyone that might be interested.   I am considering looking into a platform like Discord to hold something akin to a livestream event. Except that there wouldn't be music or gameplay footage, though there could indeed be commentary.   If enough people would attend, I have it in my mind to hold an event where I talk about KotOR Scripting
Fair Strides

Fair Strides

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Kreia's Blog
 

Update on the Arren Kae mod

Finally satisfied with the look. What I did now is fix a few wayward vertexes that nobody thought were important because you couldn’t see them under that hood: eyebrows and other minor details. You might have noticed them during a Talk_Sad animation, on both Kreia’s original model and its Dark Side version. Must be one of those things they had no time to fix, because at least another model has the same problem: the Dark Side version of Atris, which was cut from the game. You can see the eyebrows
Kreia

Kreia

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jc2's Journal
 

#MakePeragusGreatAgain

Make Peragus Fun Again! That sounds a little less like it's crossing the line to politics.. but I bet the other line caught your eye   I'm a hardcore enthusiast, so this will increase the difficulty of the Peragus (but that can be reduced by in-game difficulty setting) to a new and fun experience. But for those of us like myself, who live to challenge themselves then this is what you need!   There are Five necessary mods for Peragus, (Note: all of these mods are compatible with TSLRCM) D
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Kreia's Blog
 

Upcoming Arren Kae mod

So I made this rendering of Arren Kae, and from that came the idea of doing a version of the model that you could actually use inside the game. Now as I happen to be particular about game modifications being seamless, I decided that Arren’s apparel should for the most part resemble the Handmaiden’s robe, which is why the white robe on this model has no Jedi librarian patterns. Thought I’d still put those on the garments underneath the robe, but it’s not quite the same. Obviously I used Kreia’s m
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Kreia

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Sith Holocron's Blog
Blog #37 - Family Matters

Blog #37 - Family Matters

I'll have to fly out of Kodiak today to head back to NYC early this evening - assuming that I can get out in this weather. My mother is in the hospital and isn't expected to make it. So the next week or so, I'll be a very faint presence on the forums. If you have access to my Facebook account, please don't post your well wishes on there at the moment because I'm not quite in the right mind frame for that. (You may post those thoughts here in this blog.) If you have questions to do with KOTOR stu
Sith Holocron

Sith Holocron

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The Musings of Eauxps
 

When It Is Perfectly Acceptable to Change the Difficulty to "Easy"

So, I'm making my way through the Undercity, killing Rakghouls. Nothing particularly special.   And so I get to one corner which has a ton of them in it. And they start to overwhelm us (as Impossible Difficulty rakghouls will do if they get up close to you). So Mission beats a hasty retreat as I'm already down and Carth stupidly charges into a nest of them. And I'm left with just Mission up, having to kill the remaining rakghouls before I can do anything else.   Actually, my character revive
Eauxps I. Fourgott

Eauxps I. Fourgott

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jc2's Journal
 

Not Another Ad....

REVANATOR'S Improved Korriban Tomb Loot Mod   Ever wonder why the Sith on Korriban were spoken of as near mythical in their prowess of combat and control over the dark side of the force?   Well now you will know. No. . Now you will experience some of their Hate. Some of their Power! And the force shall set you free. Also each item has lost it's dark side restriction, because you are, afterall, Revan, who has walked both the light and the dark side of the force.   Tulak Horde imbued his dar
jc2

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Pazuzu156's Blog
 

My Introduction. (Too long for a forum post, so I'm making it a blog post)

I'm not new here, I've been a member here for a little over a year now, and did a LOT of browsing before then.   I only made an account to send a PM to FairStrides about KSE, never knew I'd actually get involved in it's development. To make matters worse, I know NOTHING of modding KotOR and very, very little about Perl. Not one of my strongest languages, but I'm learning. I just...eh, it's such an ugly language. Makes me feel like I'm working with Objective-C again, and it gives me nightmares.
Pazuzu156

Pazuzu156

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Fair Strides' Blog
 

Where Do I Begin?

I don't know if these blogs have any sort of length limit, but I guess I'll find out, huh?   *Warning: This might look organized at first, but I jump around and just drop a whole lot of info on you. If you are able to make sense of what I'm trying to say, then good on you.*   I would welcome you to my blog and ask that you enjoy the first post I've ever made, but I'm just not in the mood for all that "happy and friendly" stuff at the moment. The truth is, I always thought my first blog post
Fair Strides

Fair Strides

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jc2's Journal
 

Most Popular Screenshots On Deadlystream, #ColorConfusion

Exiles and Revans! I present you - THE TOP 25 Screenshots/photos of Deadlystream.com   (only 1 photo per person, so that one person doesn't dominate and so that more of the community can be seen)   The first one! With over 4,000 views, Look to the left of me, is well. Um basic space gear. Useful when you need it. Shiny when you wash it.   Moving on to the 2nd, Bastila Shan with 3767 views. A community favorite coming in second to basic gear... wow guys really? Since when is Bastila less
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jc2's Journal
 

Breaking Kotor Balance, Not quite as smart as I thought

So after downloading K1 and TSL difficulty Option 1.0 And setting the difficulty on "Horror" I've come to realize it might be a bit impossible.   Oh and because that wasn't hard enough, I used the Kotor Saved Editor, latest edition, to make my character 100% soldier without any force powers! So that means no force heal, no op force lightning, no Insanity, and no FORCE IMMUNITY.   I've got to rely on mines, explosive ordnance, my wits, companions, armor, upgraded blasters, manipulating LOS
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jc2's Journal
 

Away from Kotor, SWBF2 Modding sites/links

Being a Star Wars fan, I need more Kotor. Even if it means playing SWBF2 mod with a Kotor reskin! Link for that: http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-battlefront-conversion-pack/downloads/kotor-galactic-conquest   Here's a youtube channel that does SWBF2 mods: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcqjNcRr8M-cOpulLTKv4zg More importantly, on each of his videos' have a link to a file downloader for that mod.   This is his master list of Mods: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/qb6qlt2prdypb/SWBF2_M
jc2

jc2

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Kreia's Blog
 

Wrist-mounted flamethrower

I’m trying a few new things, ‘new’ as in things I haven’t tried before, because let’s be real, giving Mandalore a flamethrower, somebody must have come up with this idea before. This is what I came up with, I moved the handconjure dummy to make the the flame spray beam originate from the wrist instead of the hand. Then I had to add some sort of gun nozzle, and I meant for it to come out of Mandalore’s vambrace, but I still haven’t found a way to make it look good. I’d rather avoid adding meshes
Kreia

Kreia

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Kreia's Blog
 

Old thread follow-up

How do you go about overriding area walkmesh files   One day I decided Atton really ought to take a seat, specifically on the Administration Level as he operates the console. Normally he would stand, and a convenient camera angle would make it look like his hands were on the console. Why do that when everything looks like he's meant to seat down, there's even his favorite chair from the Ebon Hawk. Unfortunately the walkmesh of that area didn't agree, the spot where Atton would need to be is no
Kreia

Kreia

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jc2's Journal
 

Underrated Game shattering Mod

Ever felt Kotor 1 was just too easy? You know the 3rd, 4th, or 14th time through?   You might have even felt a bit, just a little bit, like a cheater. I mean come on! We need mods that equip our heroes with Unique looking and OP items. This is necessary, no fault here.   Yet, I couldn't shake the cheeky feeling of cheating. ... SO I checked our wonderful Deadlystream.com SITE! And found this underrated, beautiful tapestry of a Mod.  
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jc2's Journal
 

jc2 Advertisement of Revanator's Mod

What is Revanator's Differentiated Mod?   It is an immersive companion mod that extends the dialogue with the Rodian on the Leviathan   WHY would I* want this?   Because, it adds to the immersion of Kotor1. Your companions not only have a cutscene originally of how they got onto the Leviathan but now have their own dialogue options! No other mod out there, does this to the Leviathan. So it is completely compatible with nearly everything!   More Importantly, it adds characterization to R
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Sith Holocron's Blog
Blog #36 - Sith Holocron Moves

Blog #36 - Sith Holocron Moves

Hey folks, I've had this message set up in advance so I can activate it and be on my merry way.   On or about the 20th of July 2016, my possessions will be boxed up and I will start the long move from the east coast of the United States all the way up to Alaska. That's a long hike - and with a whole country in between! Adding to the time it takes to move all my family's stuff, there's also the matter of the housing situation being set up on the other end of the journey. (I may be in te
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pepoluan Far Far Away
 

Now This is a Strange File...

BioWare's GFF files are simply... uhh... perplexing.   I had... quite an interesting time trying to grasp my head around the ideas.   So this post is kind-of a self-note for me.   So, we have "Structs". Inside a Struct, there's a property "FieldCount"   A Struct can have one "Field", in which case the "DataOrDataOffset" property contains an index to the "Fields Array", pointing directly to the lone field definition of that Struct.   So far so good.   But what's interesting is if a St
pepoluan

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pepoluan Far Far Away
 

2DA Parser Works!!

Just an update on my project to create new modder tool:   The .2da file parser works! Yaaay!   This is the commit where the file parser works.   Tonight (22:51 at my place as I typed this blog entry) I'm going to work on the .dlg parser. Especially because for unknown reasons KotOR Tools refuse to parse any .dlg files I have.
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