JC's Lightsaber Visual Effects for K1 1.2

More and more strong and big.

Difference between this mod and default seems to be small on the screens, but in fact, it looks perfect in game, that's my observation. Thank you for this mod.

I want to say thanks a lot

Oooo sooo nice visual effects *swoons* I loooove this! 😄 😄  😄 😄 

Hey JC, great work on this mod!! When you have time, I was wondering if you could detail just how you replaced the vanilla textures just in case I wanted to make my own. CHeers!!

1 hour ago, mackmitchell94 said:

Hey JC, great work on this mod!! When you have time, I was wondering if you could detail just how you replaced the vanilla textures just in case I wanted to make my own. CHeers!!

I used a free plug-in for After Effects called Saber. (The plug-in is free; After Effects costs many dollars.) It was made by visual effects artists who worked on the Star Wars films.

It has a few shape options, like a line for rotoscoping, but it can also be applied to any layer mask. I used that feature to draw over the shape of the original game texture.

34 minutes ago, JCarter426 said:

I used a free plug-in for After Effects called Saber. (The plug-in is free; After Effects costs many dollars.) It was made by visual effects artists who worked on the Star Wars films.

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It has a few shape options, like a line for rotoscoping, but it can also be applied to any layer mask. I used that feature to draw over the shape of the original game texture.

Yes, I've downloaded After effects, and saber. How would you export the textures from After effects into Kotor? Thanks for your help man, I'm quite new to modding.

The easiest way is Composition --> Save Frame As --> File, and in the Render Queue click Photoshop and change that to Targa Sequence. That should export a TGA file in the correct game format.

On 1/25/2020 at 4:53 PM, JCarter426 said:

The easiest way is Composition --> Save Frame As --> File, and in the Render Queue click Photoshop and change that to Targa Sequence. That should export a TGA file in the correct game format.

thank you so much man!!

So after I change to a TGA file, do I just export it to the override folder for the game?

Any similar update in the works for K2?

On 1/26/2020 at 6:46 PM, mackmitchell94 said:

So after I change to a TGA file, do I just export it to the override folder for the game?

Basically, yeah. You should also duplicate the TXI data, but you might not have to.

On 1/26/2020 at 6:46 PM, mackmitchell94 said:

So after I change to a TGA file, do I just export it to the override folder for the game?

I was too lazy to take screenshots and then I forgot to do it the next day and that was a week ago.

But yes.

Have you considered doing compatibility patches for some of the more popular additional saber colors mods? I'm mostly talking about crixler's, but that's more out of a distate for the non-optional flickering blades 

Animated textures aren't viable because the game has a resolution limit of 4096x4096 and that reduces the potential number of animation frames. Any other solution would require an edit to the model, and may be feasible, but it won't be something I can manage for quite a while due to my lack of modeling skills at present.

I love this mod, I really wish there was a variation that made the blades a bit thinner like the prequel and sequel trilogy but they still look great.