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Can you link to that mod? And could you list all of your mods?

My terminal is gone, I believe it's the better medical room mod but I am unsure. Can anyone give me a file replacing the what used to be terminal so I can progress and play the game? I fixed it, the bench is invisible but I can access

I was very skeptical of this project (and Shaolin in general) at first. after all, it goes against a lot of what we currently know about Dathomir's lore, and the scope of the project just seems to keep increasing. but seeing how it's coming together, plus Shaolin's other projects, as well as the talented people he's working with in OpenKOTOR (@SAO1138 especially is a friend of mine whom I majorly look up to), I'm confident this'll turn out to be the most ambitious mod for either KOTOR to date, and a blast to play. This is one mod we don't have to worry about ending up in development hell and never releasing.

DATHOMIR EXPANSION A new world, a new story, and new companions for Knights of the Old Republic II Development journal · October 2026 Hey everyone, I've been back and forth on Dathomir for quite a while, and I owe this project a proper update. Some stretches have been all Dathomir; in others I've stepped away to work on smaller things, including my Basilisk and terentatek mods. Those projects have helped me learn, solve problems, and come back to this one with more to work with. I fully intend to finish Dathomir. I want to give the Exile a world worth exploring and a story worth carrying back into the rest of TSL. I'll be working in conjunction with @SAO1138to shape that story into something that fits the original game and delivers the kind of epic Star Wars adventure I want to play myself. There's a lot more planned than I've managed to show in scattered updates. This post brings together the current work, the larger design, and the route from one to the other. The screenshots are progress captures; the scope figures below describe the full development plan. 01 · The adventure A relic found on Korriban draws the Jedi Exile to a hidden enclave on Dathomir, where a civil war and a ritual to preserve the dead threaten to turn the bonds between people into something terrible. The story's working subtitle is The Wound and the Chain. It follows the Exile into a place where memory, grief, freedom, and control have become tangled together. The factions all have reasons to want the Exile's help, and reasons to be afraid of what that help might mean. I'm aiming for ancient mysteries, dangerous creatures, political choices, personal companion stories, and some big Star Wars moments. The quieter parts matter just as much: a conversation after a fight, a companion recognizing something you missed, or discovering that the person asking for help has left out a very important detail. This is a lost Dathomiri precursor society in TSL's era, thousands of years before the familiar later Nightsister traditions. Its settlements sit over older Kwa and Rakatan remains, with newer scars left by offworld interference. That history should be visible in the places you explore, rather than existing only in dialogue. There are also plans for a few beloved familiar faces to appear, and for an appropriate end to the story of a character many of us have loved since K1. I'm keeping those identities and circumstances under wraps. I want those moments to mean something when you reach them, with the player's established history respected. 02 · The full plan at a glance 15 planned Dathomir environments: 14 numbered planet modules plus the separately catalogued Czerka Black Site. 4 areas for a new upgrade. A capital ship to house your companions and travel the galaxy with (If you choose): a bridge, hangar, commons, and operations section. Together with Dathomir, that is 19 planned new locations, plus additions to the existing Korriban cave and Ebon Hawk. Final module boundaries may change; the first build combines some spaces. 1 branching main storyline: 11 numbered stages, expanded into 18 quest-and-route design sections, with 8 side quests and further shipboard and endgame story content. 2 recruitable companion candidates: Xaria and Kaius, with the permanent choice determined by the story and your convictions, not player gender. 43 cast catalog entries: 31 individual roles and 12 population/group entries. The individual roles include Oberon (A Rancor Mount), echoes, recordings, and remains as well as living people. 21 bestiary entries, 12 ambient fauna entries, and 37 flora entries. The bestiary includes creature families, variants, manifestations, and ancient Kwa lore forms; I have done extensive research on Dathomir flora and fauna in countless star wars comics thanks to @Lane and his coordination/knowledge of star wars comics. 4 principal conclusions with variations for companions, factions, civilians, and later events. The design targets roughly 5–7 hours for the critical path and 9–12 hours for a broad completionist run. These are planning totals and playtime targets, not finished-content counts or a release promise. The current playable work is still concentrated on the opening area, characters, encounters, and renderer. 03 · First look: Ichor Gorge Landing This is the first official module, and the place I want to set the tone for everything that follows. Red cliffs and a huge sky, green ichor deep below, broken machinery, ancient stone, and a small landing platform that makes the Ebon Hawk feel a long way from safety. The work behind these views includes route planning, blockouts, terrain and rock construction, vegetation, lighting, water, and repeated checks from the player's path. I'm trying to make a place that holds up when you walk around it, turn back, or look over an edge. I am applying all of my skills as a professional 3D environment artist to this work. The Unreal map is the visual master. Preserving that quality is what led me into the renderer work mentioned further down this post. 04 · The world beyond the landing The planet is planned around connected exploration and a hub-based investigation. You arrive as an outsider, get to know both major factions, and follow several lines of evidence before deciding who deserves your support, or whether to pursue another answer. Current illustrated development map: the surface regions and the passages beneath Dark Mountain. Ichor Gorge Landing, Wildlands, and Rootway Labyrinth: the arrival, dangerous open country, and an optional cave network beneath it, with branching routes, wildlife, and buried infrastructure. Paecian Survey Annex: a precarious neutral hub for researchers, traders, supplies, and investigations. Its dependence on outside commerce complicates its claim to neutrality. Ashen Freehold: the Brotherhood's settlement, with workshops, beast handlers, civilians, and a struggle over what freedom will look like after the war. Dark Mountain Approach, Crystal Spire Lower, and Crystal Spire Upper: villages, memorial fields, a public clan hub, archives, and the seats of ritual and political power. Verdant Scar and Czerka Black Site: a reactive crystal ecosystem and a concealed research operation, where the balance between value of living things and profit becomes an eerie choice. Great Beast Ground and Tomb of the First Keeper: large arena like territory with a creature boss encounter, ancient control systems, and a layered ruin central to Kaius and Oberon's story. Starved Shrine, Siege Pass, and Spirit Crucible: the later investigation and finale spaces, changing in meaning as the truth behind the war comes into focus. After the initial journey, survey beacons are planned to ease repeated travel between safe, discovered places. Skills and companions should open useful options: repairs, alternate routes, evidence, negotiations, and ways to handle creatures. Exploration should reward attention to detail of the world and its ecosystem. 05 · People, factions, and the choices between them The two central powers are the Dark Mountain Clan and the Ashen Brotherhood. Mother Sevrana wants to preserve her people's memory and continuity; Marro Venn leads a movement born from escape, labor, and resistance. Both have genuine supporters, internal disagreements, and actions the player will have to judge. The Paecian Survey Annex, led by Doctor Elira Vane, brings research and outside law into the conflict. Czerka, represented by Operations Manager Halden Rusk, brings transport, supplies, and an interest in owning whatever proves valuable. Korl Vesh operates between those interests as an Irodorian mercenary broker. Another familiar presence, has his own interest in the war. Beyond the principal cast, the plan includes wardens, archivists, researchers, quartermasters, displaced families, soldiers, captives, crew, witnesses, and echoes of earlier generations. Characters such as Warden Vaska, Archivist Mera, Pera Voss, and Quartermaster Seln give the settlements people to return to. The larger cast should make the consequences visible in ordinary lives. The ending structure supports backing either major faction, earning an alternative to their war, or pursuing a darker claim of your own. Trust and fear matter separately. I want different choices to change the finale, return visits, and the stories companions tell about what happened here. 06 · Xaria, Kaius, and Oberon Xaria: already speaking and fully working in TSL Xaria already has a working in-game encounter, custom powers and class, custom voice and dialogue, and post-combat recruitment. I have created a patch for the game that unlocks the party selection screen to have 20 open slots. @Vriff Has also released a 32 slot patch recently, and I will be working with him to combine our patches and make it the best experience for modders and mod enthusiats. Seeing her scene work in KOTOR II was a big moment. She is a seer with her own history and judgment of the Exile, and I want her to feel like someone you gradually get to know. 12-xaria-encounter-opening.mp4 In-game development footage — the creature encounter and Xaria’s opening line. Earlier character model, shown in the test module. Her planned combat identity combines ritual casting, stealth, repositioning, and reanimation: Miststep: Retreat, Miststep: Ambush, Veil of the Clanless, Raise Dead, Ichor Lightning, Ichor Drain, and Ichor Heal. Her longer arc includes a personal quest, influence-dependent conversations, six authored future glimpses, and connections to the wider TSL journey. I'm now rebuilding her head. The current work has separate eyes and improvements to the face, mouth, teeth, and topology. Hair, final speech and blink behavior, and testing the replacement in the game are still ahead. An earlier topology study from the same rebuild, before the latest mouth and dental refinements. Her outfit is also planned for an upgrade, drawing on the garment, armor, and material work I've been doing through my upcoming BetterArmor mod. The whole character needs to work in motion and in conversation. Kaius: a warrior with a history to recover Kaius is the other planned recruitable companion: a Zabrak veteran and beast master whose connection to Dathomir reaches into an earlier war. He and Xaria can both take part in the planet's story, but the permanent companion choice is intended to carry a real commitment. Kaius: character concept. His progression includes four staged Force-healing and training sessions, uncovering memories and restoring abilities. His planned kit combines Ichor Warform, Beast Accord, grip, hurl, and crushing techniques, culminating in Ichor Cataclysm. He also gains a retained summon progression of Boma → Zakkeg → Borhek → Terentatek, so a later beast adds an option rather than deleting the earlier ones. Oberon: our custom rancor Oberon is a named part of Kaius's story and one of the project's strongest completed creature assets. His custom model, rig, animation, and KOTOR II creature build are in place. The armor, scarred hide, bone details, and green accents give him a presence of his own. He has a major encounter, a continuing relationship with Kaius, and a planned signature summon and side quest. The way the player treats that relationship will affect its outcome. I'm keeping the scene itself for the game. The existing companions matter too. The design bible SAO and I have written includes travel reactions, environmental interactions, and shipboard scenes for TSL's standard cast. Xaria and Kaius should become part of the party's relationships, with people like Kreia, Atton, Bao-Dur, Visas, Mandalore, and the others responding in their own voices. AI disclosure: my workflow and the voices I want to be open about this: I use AI in my workflow on Dathomir, just as I do across my other projects and tools. I know some people will disagree with that choice, especially coming from a digital creator and professional artist. I understand that people feel strongly about it. The industry is changing, though, and I don’t intend to be left behind in my own industry. I have developed, written, and managed my own programs as part of working with this technology. As a technology professional, I believe I have a duty to explore new tools in a professional and ethical way. AI is amazing technology, and it has already helped us achieve a great deal on this project. I still take responsibility for what I make with it: the artistic decisions, the quality of the finished work, and how it fits into the game. That includes AI-generated voice work for new dialogue involving TSL’s existing cast. These are new AI-generated performances, not recordings made by the original actors for this mod. My intention is to do the characters justice with carefully written dialogue and high-quality scenes that respect who they are and make the world feel more alive. I plan to include an installer option to remove the AI voices; those lines would remain readable through subtitles, without voiced audio. I’m putting this disclosure here because I want to be honest about how the project is made. I hope that honesty will be met with respect and professionalism, and that discussion will focus on the actual work: the art, writing, gameplay, and experience I’m creating. The two short examples below show the current voice work in game. Kreia: AI voice demonstration 13-kreia-ai-voice-demo.mp4 Kreia’s reaction to Xaria. Development dialogue with an AI-generated voice. Atton: AI voice demonstration 14-atton-ai-voice-demo.mp4 Atton’s reaction to Xaria. Development dialogue with an AI-generated voice. 07 · Quests, creatures, and a living planet The main story moves from the Korriban discovery and Hawk decoding scene through arrival, faction audiences, the First Keeper investigation, three interlocking evidence trails, a commitment, a route-dependent siege, and the Spirit Crucible. Its 18 design sections include alternative branches; they are not 18 separate linear quests everyone completes. The eight planned side quests: A Name for the Beast: follow competing claims on Oberon and decide what his bond with Kaius should become. The Verdant Scar: explore a crystal ecosystem where extraction, aggression, and restraint have different consequences. The Dead Do Not Testify: investigate a murder where an apparently supernatural witness still needs evidence checked. The Weight of Ink: decide what to do with records that preserve family histories and enforce ownership. A Clean White Room: confront a medical crisis involving people whose employer and individual actions do not tell the same story. The General's Shadow: work through Xaria's memories and the Exile's wartime legacy. A Soldier After the War: recover Kaius's past through his staged healing and training arc. Hanharr's Hunt: a conditional companion story shaped by the player's Nar Shaddaa outcome and Mira/Hanharr availability. Alongside the quests are environmental puzzles, skill-led solutions, creature-control choices, journals, unique equipment, ritual items, and consequence-based rewards. The item document currently contains 20 item entries and 13 power entries, in addition to Xaria's seven-power list. That includes story and endgame items, not just loot. The bestiary is a mixture of familiar Star Wars creatures and original Dathomir designs. Its 21 entries cover rancors and Oberon; the Elder Terentatek known as the Great Beast; other terentateks; zakkegs; bomas; borheks; chirodactyls; Dathomir wraids; Kwi; whuffa worms; Vesper Kinrath; Rootmimes; Scar-stalkers; Glowwing Shyracks; Fen Maws; Siphon Matrons; Ash-hounds and Ward-hounds; Starved Husks; Czerka specimen splices; echo manifestations; and ancient Kwa represented through echoes and visual history. The original designs have different roles: a Rootmime hides among hanging roots, a Fen Maw imitates a harmless light over the water, and a Scar-stalker disappears among crystal growth. Some encounters can be avoided, calmed, or approached through a companion. The Elder Terentatek also gives the work on my smaller terentatek mod a direct place in the larger project. Ambient life has its own 12-entry roster: Burra Fish, Vesper Moths, Mourning Cranes, Cairn Crabs, Thornback Gliders, Echo-singers, Hide-pickers, Lantern Beetles, Hush-leeches, Kwa-glass Snails, Scar-grazers, and Canopy Tachs. The 37-entry flora plan covers canopy trees, roots and vines, ferns and ground cover, fungi, hazard plants, water plants, dryland growth, reactive crystal vegetation, and cultivated gardens. Grave Thorns, bloodgrass, lantern lilies, glowing cave fungi, memorial trees, and crops should help each place feel different. Settlements need food, medicine, work, and signs that people actually live there. 08 · Beyond Dathomir: the Foundation One of the largest planned additions is Foundation, a worn Republic cruiser (I haven't decided if it will be a hammerhead or another ship that is equipped with a hangar) that can become a mobile home for the party, with the Ebon Hawk docked inside. The opportunity to command it is tied to the Exile's history. Accepting a title, rejecting what it implies, taking an independent charter, or refusing the offer should all be meaningful choices. Its four planned areas are: Bridge: command, navigation, the galaxy map, and story decisions. Hangar: the docked Hawk, cargo handling, party departures, and arrivals. Commons: dormitories, mess, crew life, and companion conversations. Operations: armory storage, a Republic quartermaster, workbench, laboratory, medbay, and training facilities. The fuller plan adds a first-boarding ensemble, room-specific companion scenes, training tournaments, skill sharing, changing supplies, and reactions for companions recruited later. I want boarding the ship to feel like the party moving into a new place together with proper reactions from each character their first time walking onto the crew deck. Later phases extend that into a conditional Onderon arrival crisis, with attempted negotiation, bridge gunnery mini game, boarding defense, evacuation, and a damaged ship's return; Ghosts in the Fleet, a contained HK-50 investigation; and a Ravager support sequence involving Mandalorian battalion preparation scenes, a basilisk fleet launch from the hangar, a tactical protection choice, and consequences for the people doing the fighting. As you recruit mandalorians throughout the galaxy for Mandalore, they will gather and operate on your warship. You will effectively be building your own Mandalorian army throughout the course of the game and watch them interact on the ship. There are also planned responses to Dathomir in the later Sith confrontations, a Malachor perimeter rendezvous, and a final companion moment looking toward the Exile's future. I'm keeping the reveals and the K1 character's intended resolution out of this post. These additions have to respect the original game's events and TSLRCM's restored content. The Ebon Hawk remains the fallback when a ship feature is unavailable, refused, or belongs to a later development phase. 09 · Why we're building a new renderer I don't want to build the Unreal environment you've seen above and then lose the qualities that made it worth building when it reaches KOTOR. That has pushed us toward essentially replacing KOTOR II's world renderer with our own rendering engine. The current direction keeps TSL responsible for the game, characters, rules, dialogue, scripts, and interface while a separate 64-bit renderer built around Diligent and Direct3D 12 takes on the world visuals, connected to the game's camera and frame. There is already an early live milestone: the Dathomir map has been drawn through that new renderer inside KOTOR II. Early in-game renderer test, September 30. This is the KOTOR II capture; the two main showcase images above are from the Unreal environment. The gap in materials, lighting, effects, and presentation is work still to do. Materials, foliage, transparency, lighting, ichor, character integration, stability, and measured performance all need further work. We also need to prove save/load behavior and compatibility. An image appearing in the game is an important step, but the renderer has to survive normal play. If we can make this work well, its value could extend far beyond Dathomir: more detailed geometry, richer surfaces and lighting, and a modern approach to rendering performance. It could change the scale and appearance of what people can build for KOTOR. That's the possibility driving the effort; I want the finished results to justify the ambition. 10 · The process and the road ahead The project now has a narrative bible, quest and level plans, dialogue, companion and continuity coverage, journals, rewards, epilogues, and environment and creature catalogs. Those documents are much further along than the playable planet. They give the work a direction; implementation is where we'll find out what needs to change. On the art side, the process has been references and concepts, models, cleanup, materials, rigging, animation, and repeated engine checks. My tool Ghost Studio (https://github.com/CrispyW0nton/Ghost-Studio) and the surrounding tool work help connect those stages. I've also used AI-assisted concept and asset tools, followed by inspection, rebuilding, and testing and my own drawings. A first asset or attractive render still has a long way to go before it belongs in the mod. Immediate priorities: bring the gorge and renderer closer to the Unreal master; establish reliable navigation, collision, and transitions and lighting; finish Xaria's head and outfit work; and connect the working pieces into a playable opening. The opening slice is planned to run from the Korriban discovery through the Hawk scene, landing, Wildlands, Xaria encounter, a creature encounter with multiple solutions, and arrival at the Annex. That gives us a real section of the adventure to judge as a whole. The broader production plan has four phases: Dathomir core: the main story, all eight side quests, Xaria and Kaius, essential companion scenes, faction outcomes, and the commission choice. Story development with SAO runs through this work. Foundation's first playable hub: bridge, hangar, initially combined commons/operations, storage, vendor, medbay, companion residence, and the first tour. Later-story integration: the HK-50 thread, Ravager preparations and consequences, Malachor rendezvous, and closing scenes. Expanded ship systems: the Onderon action sequence, separate interior areas, fuller training and skill sharing, and the remaining command-path variations. Each stage needs playthroughs across different choices, planet orders, and available companions, alongside performance, installation, save, and compatibility checks. I'm not attaching a release date to this yet. There is substantial work ahead, and I want the updates to show what is actually getting done. I do plan on releasing this sometime close to the official kotor remake by Saber Interactive. Or sometime after it at least, because I feel there will be many players returning to the franchise at that point as well as new players who want to experience the second game after the renewed experience to the first game. I know I've stepped away and come back more than once. I still want to see the Exile land in this gorge, get to know these people, and leave with a story that feels like it belongs in Star Wars. That's what I'm working toward. I'd love to hear what you think of the two gorge shots, Oberon, Xaria's direction, and the wider plan. Thanks to everyone who's followed the smaller mods along the way. I'm looking forward to having more of Dathomir itself to put in your hands. — ShaolinGhost

It's been pointed out to me that I don't give a lot of details in my WIP threads, so I thought I'd expand on this topic. War on a Nameless World takes place on Lehon. Specifically, it starts on the overlook in the starting area, where a door lies half-buried next to the corpse of a Sith Soldier. The corpse has a datapad which explains the setting: a rogue Sith Lord named Darth Belloq (yes, thats a Raiders reference) has discovered the Trove, a cache of ancient Rakatan weapons that he intends to use to overthrow Malak. The door, of course, leads inside. (I'll be splitting this up into 1 post per area so the screenshots dont get confusing). The Trove will use the Tomb of Tulak Hord as a base. Inside the player will battle numerous Sith Soldiers in hopes of reaching the Trove before the Sith. There will be regular Sith Soldiers as well as Red Elite Troopers. I should clarify at this point that I will be using the same trooper types and color schemes as in my Sith Soldiers Recolored mod Each soldier will drop some low-level gear and an armor that makes them look like the soldier in question. The regular armor isn't very powerful (standard issue and all), and the red armor is decent, but nothing extraordinary. These are the weaker versions of Sith armor, so most of the appeal is being able to look like the soldiers. Naturally, you reach the Trove only to find it empty. Further exploration of the Trove reveals that hiding underneath a landmine is actually a tunnel leading directly to the Sith Base, implying that this is how they got in. You'll have to follow, of course, to stop Belloq. The Sith Base, much like the Trove, is filled with numerous but relatively weak Sith troopers. In addition to the regular and elite troopers, we have the heavy troopers and grenadiers. Their armors are decent, much like the elite armor, but nothing fancy. After you battle your way around the base, collecting weapons and amor, you will find no sign of Belloq or the Rakata weapons. With no other options, your only way out is the front door. Outside the base, you will find a beach where Belloq and his inner circle are waiting. He has dark jedi, Star Forge battle droids, a next-generation HK assassin droid, and 2 types of elite troopers: the Advanced Trooper from the Star Forge, and the new Force Trooper. Belloq's power rivals the Dark Jedi Master in the Ancient Temple, and is equipped with a number of unique artifacts and powerful robes. Each of his inner circle is similarly equipped with powerful weapons and unique artifacts, some of them Rakatan in origin, others not. Normally, this fight would be unreasonably difficult with only 3 people. Fortunately, your crew is able to join you for a massive team vs team battle like none you've ever seen in K1! I try to keep all of the enemies' gear balanced, though in this area's case a lot of it is more powerful. There's a self-healing droid implant that HK or T7 can use, along with a number of decent droid consumables such as flame throwers and oil slicks. The various Dark Jedi have Rakata- and Jedi-tech armbands, gloves and belts that give small boosts to Wisdom and Charisma (the bonuses are small, but nothing else in those categories give such bonuses, which I think makes them worthwhile). The Advanced Trooper armor is the first genuinely powerful armor, as it gives decent Defense for light armor and offers sizeable Force resistance. The Force Trooper armor is even more powerful: as a disguise item with sizeable defense and a bonus to Wisdom, its comparable to the Qel-Droma robes. Darth Belloq wears a powerful Force-resisting glove, dark side robes comparable to the Qel-Droma robes in power, wields Exar Kun's double-bladed lightsaber, which is DS-aligned and gives a small bonus to Hit. One of the Force Troopers also wields Exar Kun's backup sabers, with another trooper carrying a heavy repeater that is almost as powerful as the Baragwin Heavy Repeater. Overall, this battle is meant to be challenging and rewarding, though hopefully not too big of a departure from the higher levels of the game's item quality. Now, I am nearly finished with this mod. I have 3 bugs to fix before I finish playtesting: When you approach Belloq, a trigger is supposed to start a convo which results in the fight starting. I have a fix for this, I just need to implement it. I discovered while making this post that if you enter the Beach with some party members, then come back without them, those party members aren't summoned to the beach. I'll start working on that fix shortly. The most iconic prize, Exar Kun's lightsaber, is a little buggy (as seen in the first post I made on this thread). Now, I've since realized that its because I was using a janky, crusty, 2 days older than dirt version of Kotorblender, but before I figured that out, a friend offered to try making it for me. I suspect it will be a while before he's done, but I'm optimistic that the final result will be much higher detail than whatever I would've made. Once I get that from him, I'll finalize it (and its variants, gotta keep this upgradeable) and finish testing the mod.

I'll work on that in the future.

This was a weird WIP thread. Not a lot of description of what the mod is and not a lot of pictures either.

Hi @Narve, great write-up! I’m the author of the modern driver compatibility patch @Vriff mentioned, and I dug into the engine side of what you ran into. It’s the renderer’s design, not due to an authoring or tooling issue as far as I can tell. There are two different kinds of “bump” in K1, and the .txi chooses between them: bumpyshinytexture + bumpmaptexture is environment-mapped bump. The bump map only distorts the cube map reflection; it never affects lighting. The reflection is weighted by your diffuse alpha: dark alpha shows it, white alpha hides it. That’s why you found alpha controls shine and bump together. In this mode they’re the same effect. bumpmaptexture alone is real lit bump, but only from a dynamic light. The engine picks the single strongest light that isn’t ambient-only and has a dynamic type, and bump-lights against that. Without that kind of light nearby, you see no bump at all. The wet highlight is masked by dark alpha, and without an env map, dark alpha also reads as transparency, which is probably the issue you hit. For the Ebon Hawk: with bumpyshinytexture in its .txi and a mostly white alpha, the bump has nothing to show through, so its content can’t matter. Without that line, a lightmapped mesh with tangent space is meant to get lit bump on top of the lightmap near a dynamic light (renderbmlmtype 0 picks a diffuse-only version, otherwise it adds a specular highlight). But that path looks unfinished in the PC release. It loads its vertex program in NVIDIA’s older format through an interface that expects the newer one, and most drivers reject that. So near a dynamic light the hull may not draw at all, and away from one it falls back to the plain lightmap. I haven’t confirmed this in game yet. One catch worth mentioning: in the unmodified game, lit bump on creatures and other non-lightmapped meshes only ever ran on NVIDIA cards. Are you on NVIDIA? If so, you’re seeing what the game was built to show. PS: I wouldn’t use it to test bump on heads quite yet. Reading the code for this, I found it skips lit bump on skinned meshes that use bumpmaptexture without bumpyshinytexture, and I’m fixing that. The lightmapped bump path needs more than shading, because the game’s own vertex program for it doesn’t load. It’s next on my list. The game has two shading backends, one for NVIDIA and one for ATI. The patch is built on the ATI one so it runs on every card, and the ATI backend never had these modes. The NVIDIA one did, so I’m porting them from it.The ATI path handled most of these rendering modes differently, and the patch was built off of them instead of replicating the NV_register_combiners implementation. If you’d like to experiment with the shading itself, every shader the patch generates can be overridden by dropping an ARB fragment program into override/shaders The lightmapped bump modes will become overridable the same way once they exist.

Not sure what the typical rules are for this, so I thought I'd give an update. I have completed and uploaded the mod for review. I hope its approved soon so you all can try it and give me any feedback you have.

Thank you! And yea it was from ChatGPT lol 😅

https://github.com/CrispyW0nton/Ghost-Studio For anyone following this topic, I completed this tool a while back and it is a very powerful tool for modding both kotor games. Feel free to try it out. I have combined all my original tools into one modding suite

View File High poly PFHC03 The mod replaces the PFHC03 model and textures. To Install 1. Download: PFHC03 2. Copy all files to the Knights of the Old republic's Override folder. (Example location - C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\swkotor\Override) 3. When/if prompted to overwrite files, press okay. 4. If you like the mod; leave a comment or endorse! (It would be much appreciated) Made with love. Submitter Dark Hope Submitted 09/30/2026 Category Mods K1R Compatible Yes  

Why are you referring to yourself in the third person? Why even speak like this if you're reporting a bug? Did you copy & paste this from an LLM? But jokes aside, I have fixed your reported issues in version 1.2.2. If the problem persists, or if there are new problems, feel free to report those too and I shall fix them as soon as I can.

I keep getting errors when trying to install the item restorations mod from the k2CR+1.2.1. Specifically, these files below could not be modded properly: The first error, 'ModelVariation' is the real problem. HoloPatcher hits it while patching a_robe_11.uti, which is the Jal Shey Advisor Armor restoration. The mod’s current Item Restorations component specifically modifies that armor, and K2RC+ 1.2.1 also added the Prototype Mining Laser restoration. Deadly Stream The other thing I don’t love is this warning: Orphaned ini sections found in changes ini: baseitems_row_pro_mining_laser_0 baseitems.2da That strongly suggests parts of the Prototype Mining Laser’s installer configuration aren’t actually being referenced properly. Combined with your previous 1.4.3 run giving an error on prominlaser.uti, this is looking much more like a problem in K2RC+ 1.2.1’s Item Restorations installer/config, rather than something wrong with your PC.

Yes, for short hairstyles the best option is to start from 1. I looked at how different hairstyles are weighted in the vanilla models and noticed that on long tails and other long dangling parts the weight is 0 at the attachment point. I’m not exactly sure what causes this - maybe the length of the danglymesh, or the distance from the attachment point? Or the fact that it’s attached only in a small area rather than across the whole surface of the head? So for now I’ve set roughly the same weights that are in the original model, because I’m afraid of accidentally triggering an unexpected bug somewhere. 😆 Although I myself haven’t noticed any particular difference between weight 0 and weight 1 either.

Hi. I noticed something about these weights: the 1 and 0 regions are completely locked. The 0.5 area is where the deformation is strongest and most unnatural. I try to avoid those weights (the blue and green ones) and start from 1 instead of 0 (like in the original). The animation turns out smooth and natural. Привет. Я такую штуку заметила в весах: 1 и 0 области полностью зафиксированные. 0.5 это область с самой сильной и неестественной диформаций. Я стараюсь избегать этих весов (синие и зеленые). И начинаю не от 0 (как в оригинале), а от 1. Анимация получается плавная и естественная.

It is strange! They could very well reference things that aren't in the vanilla game, but I don't wanna waste time looking through all that (my files are kind of a big mess right now 😅) Anyway, I have decided that I'll just try work around the issue instead of stress over the issue, and hope all goes well!