Diversified Wounded Republic Soldiers on Taris 1.3

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Based on this request thread, this mod attempts to inject a bit of extra variety into one of the minor elements of KOTOR. It makes some changes to the locked kolto tank room in Zelka Forn’s medical clinic in Upper City South on Taris.

In the vanilla version of the game, the room has two placeable square kolto tanks, the floating bodies in which both use the PMHC04 (“Mullet Man”) head. For this mod, those were removed and the room model was edited to add two additional round kolto tanks, which match the ones along each side of the room. Additionally, the glass of the tanks had its texture replaced with one of the other variants in the game that is a bit darker and uses an environment/cube map for a hint of reflection. The empty tanks in the preceding room (behind Zelka Forn) were also edited for consistency. For the sanity of those with OCD, the position of the wall light at the back of the tank room was adjusted so it aligns with the centreline of the room.

 


The floating body model from the kolto placeable was replaced with a new one with clean geometry at the neck join to facilitate using any player or NPC head. Additionally, an all-new female body variant was added, posed to roughly match that of the original male version. Two of these new body variants replaced the original two at the end of the room, with a number of additional bodies placed in the tanks along each side of the room. Zelka Forn’s dialogue when you enter the room for the first time seems to indicate that there should be more present than just the two originally depicted in the vanilla game. Additional body variants not currently utilised in this mod will be released separately as a modder’s resource.

UPDATE: Due to limitations on the number of possible placeables K1 can deal with, outlined here by ndix UR, I have revised the mod to dispense with the use of placeables altogether. The floating bodies are now part of the room model.

 

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Known Issues:

  • This mod relies on editing the Taris Upper City South module (TAR_M02AC). As such, it will not be compatible with any save in which you have previously entered the Upper City South level. Given that is the very first level you enter after leaving the starting apartment on Taris, that means you'll typically need to start a new game to utilise this mod.
  • Per some of my posts in the original request thread, I initially experienced some issues with the tank’s glass texture affecting lighting on the body models (and even outright visibility in one instance) depending on the player’s viewing angle. I believe this has been resolved, but it’s possible the problem may still occur on hardware/OS combinations that I have no way of testing.
  • The floating bodies use these player head models. There is no provision for dealing with a clone of the head the player is using now that the mod has switched to incorporating the bodies into the room model. A future update may replace these heads with NPC heads instead.

Compatibility:

  • Edited versions of both room models for the medical facility (M02AC_02G & M02AC_02H) are required for this mod, so will not be compatible with any other mod that edits those models. They still use vanilla textures however, so they will be compatible with texture mods.
  • The mod will not be compatible with any mod that edits the two entries for the original tank placeables in the module’s GIT (Placeable List entries 0 and 22). It should otherwise be compatible with other mods that alter the Upper City South module, as long as they utilise a properly set up TSLPatcher configuration.
  • Since it has come up in the comments, Kainzorus Prime's NPC Overhaul Mod is compatible, but ONLY if you install it before installing this mod (KP's mod will forcibly overwrite any and all module files, so install it before anything).
  • The floating bodies currently use vanilla player face and underwear textures, so will be affected by any mods that alter those. Future versions of the mod may alter that, however.

Acknowledgements:

  • Thanks to bead-v for KOTORMax and MDLEdit, and ndix UR for MDLOps 2K18 Edition, all of which were required at various points to get this to work.
  • Thanks to ndix UR for many and various discussions and troubleshooting regarding models, compiling, textures, etc.

What's New in Version 1.3   See changelog

Released

  • Finally got around to making the tank glass use custom textures to prevent Jorak Uln's textures interfering.
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Never overwrite the MOD files manually. That will break your game. Skipping pre-existing ones is intended behaviour. TSLPatcher will inject the changes to the existing one. If you have been doing that, then yes, you probably will have to not only restart, but scrap everything and start with a clean install.

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Eeep, soo I need to delete it or do a clean install like you say *groans* Oi vey beauty school's starting to look real good right about now to quote Harley Quinn...

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Figure i'll post this here in case anyone else has the same issue. i was getting very skewed textures in my kolto tanks, it looked like a skybox or something was in there. removing DP_CM_TnkGlass.tpc from my override folder cleared it up for me. i have Manaan Overhaul installed also and i cant see any conflicts

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The textures are just vanilla files that are renamed. Assuming the second picture is what they looked like to start with, that points to some graphical issue on your end, not something to do with the textures themselves. What GPU/video card do you have?

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*Ish half tempted to steal @DarthParametric's hat just for fun* this won't conflict with any mods that overhaul the endar spire, will it? I forgot to ask about that earlier *offers him chocolate chip cookies and ice cold milk*

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Is Version 1.1 (2018) the same as the current one, only without the reused textures being renamed for the sake of compatibility with a different mod?

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Technically that should have been 1.2, but yes. Although not so much compatibility as telling it to get the hell off my lawn.

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Edit* Turns out just needed to restart the game and now looks wonderful.

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So using ShiningRedHD Ultimate HD pack for taris. installed this after it but having issues with the original two kolto tanks not vanishing. any thoughts on how i can get rid of it?

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Could you please make an alternate version of the tank glass to make it more in line with the original glass? I ask, because the reflections don't work too well and a super streaky. That, or help me to replace those textures, because I tried removing the tank tga and txi from my override in favor of using the tank textures that come with the Taris Complete Overhaul mod by shiningred and the soldiers disappeared.

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This is the original pale blue texture without an envmap. Just put it in your Override folder.

DP_TarTnkGlass.tpc

1 hour ago, ElvenLace said:

I tried removing the tank tga and txi from my override

There are no TGAs/TXIs in this mod, only TPCs.

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3 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

This is the original pale blue texture without an envmap. Just put it in your Override folder.

DP_TarTnkGlass.tpc 85.5 kB · 0 downloads

There are no TGAs/TXIs in this mod, only TPCs.

Right, sorry I meant TPCs. I've been modding my game a lot lately, and just got the 2 mixed up. Thank you for the original texture download.

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