Bastila and Carth Romance Removal 1.1.0

AUTHOR: Leilukin
FILE NAME: Bastila and Carth Romance Removal.7z
LATEST VERSION: 1.1
CONTACT: E-mail to contact@leilukin.com, or message to Leilukin on Deadly Stream

1. DESCRIPTION:

This mod removes Bastila and Carth's romance by removing all romance-related dialogue from their conversations. This is achieved by removing all gender-exclusive dialogue, including player dialogue options, since in the vanilla game, Bastila's romance is exclusive to male player characters, while Carth's romance is exclusive to female player characters. With this mod, you will no longer be able to romance Bastila or Carth, regardless of the player character's gender.

This mod is for players who want to go through Bastila and Carth's conversations and complete their personal quests, but have no interest in romancing them. I have made this mod's changes to Bastila and Carth's main dialogue modular, so you can choose to either remove both characters' romances, or only one of them.

This mod also provides a Leviathan Change component to change who gets tortured by Saul Karath on the Leviathan during the interrogation scene, by having Saul torture Bastila if the player character is female, or Carth if the player character is male.

2. INSTALLATION:

Extract Bastila and Carth Romance Removal.7z you downloaded to anywhere you like, as long as it is not within the KotOR directory.

Run Install.exe, and you will see the mod installer provides four install options:

• Bastila Romance Removal
• Carth Romance Removal
• Leviathan Change: No lev40_saul403.dlg in Override
• Leviathan Change: lev40_saul403.dlg in Override

Depending on your preference, you may install both "Bastila Romance Removal" and "Carth Romance Removal", or only one of these options. Once you have schosen the installation option you want, select your KotOR game folder as your KotOR directory path, click the “Install” button and let the installer do its job. If you want to install both options, you need to run Install.exe again and repeat the steps.

Before you install the Leviathan Change component, go to your KotOR directory and check if you have the lev40_saul403.dlg file in your Override folder. This will determine which installation option you need to choose when you install the Leviathan Change component. To install this component, choose the appropriate option depending on if you have lev40_saul403.dlg file in your Override folder or not, select your KotOR game folder as your KotOR directory path, click the “Install” button and let the installer do its job.

If you have installed other mods, when you install the "No lev40_saul403.dlg in Override" option of the Leviathan Change component, you may receive a warning about the installer skipping the lev_m40aa.mod file because it already exists in your Modules folder. Do not need to worry about this warning, as it is just the way I set up the installer to ensure my mod will be installed properly if you are not using any other mods.

When you install this mod, two new folders named "backup" and “uninstall” will be created by the installer in the same folder as the installer. Do not delete the folders or any of the files within the folder if you are planning on uninstalling this mod.

3. UNINSTALLATION:

Run Install.exe and select your KotOR directory where you installed this mod. From the “Tools” drop-down menu, select “Uninstall Mod / Restore Backup”, then confirm to uninstall the mod.

If you have installed more than one options, you need to run Install.exe and repeat the step to uninstall the component, until your backup folder is empty.

4. KNOWN ISSUES:

None currently known. If you find any bugs or problems, please let me know.

5. MOD COMPATIBILITY:

Any other mods that modify any of the following dialogue files may conflict with this mod:

• k_hbas_dialog.dlg — Bastila's main dialogue
• k_hcar_dialog.dlg — Carth’s main dialogue
• lev40_saul403.dlg — Saul Karath’s interrogation scene on the Leviathan

I have set up TSLPatcher to install this mod by patching the relevant dialogue files to improve compatibility with other mods as much as possible, but it is still not fully guaranteed to be compatible with every other mods that modify the same dialogue files.

This mod is compatible with KOTOR 1 Community Patch (K1CP). I recommend installing my mod after K1CP.

If you want to use KotOR 1 Restoration (K1R), you need to install this mod after K1R. If you want to install the Leviathan Change component, you must select the "lev40_saul403.dlg in Override" option.

This mod is not compatible with any romance mods for Bastila or Carth, including JC's Romance Enhancement: Biromantic Bastila for K1 and my Carth Onasi and Male PC Romance.

6. PERMISSION:

You may use this mod's assets in your own mod. Credit is appreciated, but not necessary.

The only exception is the spliced voiceover files from the Leviathan Change component of this mod. Do not redistribute these spliced VOs or use them in another mod without my permission.

7. CREDITS:

OpenKotOR for Holocron Toolset and HoloPatcher
Fred Tetra for KotOR Tool
tk102 for DLG Editor
Vriff for NeoDLG
JCarter426 for SithCodec

THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT SUPPORTED BY BIOWARE/OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT OR LUCASARTS OR ANY LICENSERS/SPONSORS OF THE MENTIONED COMPANIES. USE THIS FILE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND NEITHER THE ABOVE MENTIONED COMPANIES NOR THE AUTHOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR COMPUTER FOR THE USAGE OF THIS FILE.