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I believe it it used for one of the Peragus Holograms and in the background of Carth's arrival at the Battle of Telos. It is very seldom used. And yes, it is actually an import from Kotor I and it's used even less there as well.

Todays Update: ill be doing some more work on this today. NetFramework Upgrade. I now have this working in Visual Studio 2022, and i have upgraded the NetFramework to run from 4.0 which will benefit the KotOR Tool massively. again im going to be focusing heavily on finishing the GUI Phase. Standardised Theme of titled DarkSaber. Once this phase is complete with the Designer Files, i will then begin to start updating the forms themselves, repositioning some elements, Community Feedback would be wonderful, with how you want it to look and feel. Any feature requests you can add them into the this forum. You can request anything. I will do my best to work it in, if i can. if it will work, and if the community desires it most. The most requested features will be the highest priority in terms of community feedback. Feature Plans. I will also create a built in TGA viewer with BMP and PNG conversion, Texture Upscaler, and Normal Map Generator, i am also considering adding in python support. Now i specifically use Python 3.13. installed into my system path. i can create some automation scripts to do that for end users who are not technical and just want to mod., but i think python support will be a massive boost to the tools power and complexity, as the KSE Editor was a good tool also. shout out to the dev who made that one. May the Force Be With You. LordVaderCW

Update on V.1.0.3.3: 29.04.26 - Alot of this Designer code source is really scrambled, and hard to read at a glance. The Designer.VB are formatted in such an old way that i have had to painstakingly restructure each one. Now, as challenging as it is, i am almost at the end of that Phase. Each designer file is being rewritten so that it complies with CodeDom inside VisualStudio so for later GitHub dumps, anyone who wants to add things or make things, will be able to do so, for reference im using my old version of my MSDN 2010 Ultimate, to ensure maximum compatibility. Fred wrote quite a LOT of code. and i am doing everything i can to preserve as much of his original code where possible, and where it works. but most of the UI screens have now been given That dark blueishgreen and gold theming. Disclosure. I am using AI to assist which is speeding up the process massively, but it is not perfect. and AI DOES and WILL make mistakes, and will often argue with you on LONG code files. Note: For anyone who wants to make stuff for the tool using AI. I will not object, i will encourage it providing it is documented. This is why these tools exist, to make our dev headaches less. or more. depending on how the mood of the LLM feels. for me this is a vibe and an experiment. Will post update again when V.1.0.3.3 source has been dumped and release of V.1.0.3.3 has been packaged. LordVaderCW. GUI UPDATES TO KOTOR TOOL by LordVaderCW. current progress at the moment. I will dump this progress to GitHub under Branch v.1.0.3.3 Here im showing the updates ive made to the Graphical Interface to the KoTOR Tool. NEW ICON PRELOADER THING MAIN APPLICATION ABOUT 2DA EDITOR DIALOG EDITOR, Not perfect, but will tweak further in next branch series of updates. TEXT EDITOR ERF BUILDER. PROJECT MANAGER, still a little bit broken, but will fix later. The Module Editor, I need to create new images etc for the buttons. tidy up some things. Not complete yet. Global Variable Editor. This one i think is kinda complete on the GUI aspect. for V.1.0.3.3 it will do. Door Walkmesh Editor thing. SSF Editor. This one is pretty much visually complete in terms of updating GUI. Search GUI. Few Tweeks needed. but almost done. MapInfo Viewer Options Window. (Needs tweeks to the tickbox colors, oversight) Path Manager. Autodetection works for steam copies. that was added into v1.0.3.1 as an immediate thing. (no more need for the registry key.) This is the current progress at the moment. Which is what im at. at the moment. Updates are live at: https://github.com/LordVaderCW/KoTOR_Tool/tree/v1.0.3.3

Thanks for the response! im still churning through the visual updates to the GUI and it is TEDIOUS! like ive been slapped with SpaceDung from the Biffs Saxaphone. im about 40 percent through the Visual GUI updates to the color scheme. I want to get that out of the way for V1.0.3.3 before i commit it to the github repo. looking through the source, Fred seemed to have other features that he was working on inside, as there are various forms and windows, that ive not quite seen yet actually used. I had a moment where i was sat thinking, what could i do with my time on this earth. something that could be done, on the back of the #StopKillingGames movement, and KoTOR was a big part of my childhood, and im 32 now. I wanted to do this long ago, but with the LLM scene. Its not like you can just copy and paste code in and out, it still require tedious micro management, positioning, updating, code arrangment, code clean up. I have PLENTY of time to give to this project. I have also noticed, that there were plans to introduce Registration and Licence Keys for the tool.

Holy moly... I love the idea. If you can make all existing features actually work reliably and make it less prone to crashes I'll sing praises of you for at least next decade. \o/ I'm looking forward to see your progress.

Besides being not able to spell, it's a 2DA edit that was literally already done 20+ years ago. So new for zoomers I guess? But muh Nexus pennies!

What does "generatinal" mean?

IMHO, it's in poor taste to advertise your mod here when it's hosted on another site. If you think your mod is worthy of being shared widely, why not upload it here?

https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor2/mods/1362?tab=files

VERSION 1.0.3.3 INBOUND. Update: I am currently working through the visual design of Version 1.0.3.3 - I have introduced a theme system for KoTOR Tool, replaced icons, and buttons. This version will be adding major visual enhancements, with custom themes via INI settings. The theme will be using a DarkSaber.ini theme file. stay tuned.

No I was more curious if that was familiar but I don't recall if this model was used at all in KotOR 2 otherwise? I assume it was made for it too and wasn't an import from KotOR 1 but correct me if I'm wrong.

You don't want to leave the vanilla script. That kills him. You need to replace that script with your own that does all the stuff the vanilla script does and then modifies it to get the result you want. Yes, to add static cameras you will need to edit the module's GIT. Which means that they won't take effect in a saved game (unless you extract the save and edit its module GIT). Alternatively, you can create an animated camera, which is a motion track stored in a model that the game can attach a camera to. Any time you see a cutscene with a camera panning or the like, that's an anicam. But you can also use it for simple position switches where you just jump the camera to different points as needed. This would require the use of Blender or 3DS Max and their appropriate I/O scripts.

Okay, thanks. So what I did in detail was this: I created an all new script. I called it "a_sion_effect" and put it in "script 2" that is underneath "script 1" in the node where Sion's death animation plays, (which is a_sion), and that is where I ended up. The part of the dialogue editor I made can be viewed in this screenshot below... As for what I out in the "a_sion_effect" script, I basically put it like this: void main() { object oDarthSion = GetObjectByTag("DarthSion", 0); location lSion = GetLocation(oDarthSion); AssignCommand(GetModule(), DelayCommand(3.0, AssignCommand(GetFirstPC(), PlaySound("v_pro_lightning")))); AssignCommand(GetModule(), DelayCommand(3.0, CreateObject(64, "sithritual001", lSion, 0))); AssignCommand(GetModule(), DelayCommand(3.5, DestroyObject(oDarthSion, 0.0, 0, 0.1, 0))); AssignCommand(GetModule(), DelayCommand(6.5, DestroyObject(GetObjectByTag("SithRitualEffect", 0), 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0))); } So yeah, that is how I got to where I was. Thanks for the advice. I am trying to learn how to apply new camera shots and make new cameras, but I will try to do so. So, for clarification, do I do this in a script or do I actually have to do module editing to do it efficiently? Like editing the GIT file or something like that?

This is all scripting for the most part. If you look at 903sion.dlg, E121 should be the node of interest. You can see that fires the script a_sion with parameter 3 - https://github.com/KOTORCommunityPatches/Vanilla_KOTOR_Script_Source/blob/master/TSL/TSLRCM/Modules/903MAL_Malachor_V_Trayus_Academy/a_sion.nss That triggers case 3 of the switch runs that function that handles his death scene. Clears all effects on him, plays the ANIMATION_LOOPING_RAGE animation on him for 1.5 seconds, removes his minimum 1HP flag, applies the instant death effect, then unlocks the door. If you want to prevent a node from skipping and run for as long as you want, then you need the ActionPauseConversation and ActionResumeConversation functions. However, you have an added wrinkle here. Sion is the conversation owner. A conversation will immediately terminate if the owner dies. Typically in cases like this where an NPC needs to die, you get around it by making the owner an invisible placeable, but in this case that would probably break all the other scripts. So you'll need a bit of slight of hand to get around it. What I would do is have him manually play the death anim, spawn the VFX placeable over the top of him, then use that as cover to jump Sion somewhere out of sight so he can be killed after the cutscene finishes. The question will be whether the VFX actually obscures him sufficiently. That will probably require some custom shot framing with new static cameras. You could probably do a wide shot from behind the PC and use the PC themselves to block it if absolutely necessary. You can script switching between static cameras using the SetDialogPlaceableCamera function.

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I realize I am extremely late, as this is almost 7 years old, but could i have all the designs? I love them a lot and want to use them for multiple different playthroughs

To clarify, let me explain my background on this topic and my problems here. So, a while back, I made this post in "mod requests" where I asked for a mod with new content and effects to be made. I don't need to worry about the new cutscenes and all of that, as I learned now the basic common sense of mod compatibility. (A lot of the things I requested for on that post back then I don't need to do now, I can simply make Extended Enclave and the Unofficial TSLRCM Tweak Pack compatible with my game, so no problem with that). There was one final thing I requested in that post though. What I requested was that Darth Sion and Darth Traya at the end of the game of KOTOR II dissolve into dark side energy in the same effect and style as Darth Nihilus. After a bit of consideration, I decided to make the mod where Sion and Traya die this way myself. I have experimented a lot throughout the months, and have learned much. However, there are a few frustrating things about my experimentations. My main modding tool I am using most of the time is Holocron Toolset, (because I am a noobie beginner). The main reason why I want to do the "dark side death effect" for Sion in this mod is mostly because I think the effect is cool, (and for Sion's case, was inspired by his death scene in KOTOR fan-film YouTuber DarthYcey's version of his death). In the vanilla game, after Sion says his last words of dialogue: "I am glad to leave this place, at last.", he lets himself die for good and falls to the floor. During this whole process, once Sion starts falling dead and before he even finishes falling to the floor, the mode of the game reverts from cutscene mode to gameplay mode. After he dies, you can loot his body which is tagged "remains" in gameplay. For my mod, my plan is to have Sion collapse and fall to the floor dead like in the actual game, but once he is fully dead on the floor, (or perhaps when he is right going to be), he suddenly emits a cloud of dark side energy that looks like Darth Nihilus's dark side cloud, and he fades away and vanishes in the cloud. The whole time this process plays out, it is in cutscene mode. So yeah. I found the script for the effect, and I found the placeable for the effect, (sithritual001), and I managed to suceed in my effect, (to an extent). The problem is that I don't know how to pause or extend the duration of a cutscene and let the effect happen. Whenever I let the scene play out, it either results in the cutscene mode reverting to gameplay mode in the middle of this effect happening and Sion leaving "remains" behind after the effect finishes. I will attach a recorded video snippet from my tested gameplay to show you visually. Star Wars_ Knights of the Old Republic II_ The Sith Lords 2026-04-27 16-00-40.mp4 So yeah, there is my problem. I don't know what to do. I kind of want him to fully collapse to the floor then have the "sithritual001" placeable effect and script playing. I also want to make that whole effect, (Sion collapsing to the floor, go through "DestroyObject" by sithritual001 and leave no remains) in cutscene mode, so that is why I asked to extend the duration of the cutscene. (P.S., the mod I planned for this mod is planned to be a private one, as I don't think that anyone would want this mod anyways if it were public. Just to let you know).

Corrun Falt has a unique headmorph that could be used for the main character in my opinion.