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Revamped FX
MOD AUTHOR: Olegkuz1997

FOR WHICH GAMES: For Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1-2

Description:
It's a fairly simple pak retexture of some of the game's (most notable) visuals. Some of them just don't look good, and some of them look downright awkward, which of course is forgiven for the game's seniority. I did it for myself, but who if anyone needs it, take it.
My personal goal was to update the quality of the effects without slipping into tastelessness and to keep them generally true to Bioware beautiful art design. The insides of the mod:
1. Sparks displayed during every combat action in the game look a more colorful (honeyed) and leave a small tracer as opposed to the pale yellow vanilla ones.
2. Lightning, Force Drain, etc. look a bit brighter, but generally with the same shape of the curves and colors (blue for Shock, purplish blue for Storm). Death Field color have been slighly corrected, and the shades are generally more compatible with each other. Also increased resolution of discharges on bodies.
3. Grenade blast marks look similar to the original ones, but with improved resolution and transparency.
4. Smoke became blacker and thicker.
5. Explosions became more decent, but this is just AI upscaling, not new textures. Maybe it's because I almost never use plasma grenades. Also replaced the texture of the droid fire gimmicks. Not perfect, heh, but at least it's not out of place.
6. The texture of the burning bodies became more sympotic thanks to transparency and less like a ridiculous orange shield.
7. The effects of the “fire sword” (Master Power Attack etc) are less intrusive, but the original idea and visual distinction are preserved.
8. Also various little things like blaster bolts, campfire, ice, carbonite etc.

Note:
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In the “Optional” folder there are alternative texture options, namely:
Spell outline without small lightning bolts in a circle, visually cleaner (fx_conjure).
Less intense fire blast texture. Matter of taste. I've been told it's less irritating to the eyes.
Textures of the starry sky and nebulas. Not exactly FX but because why not. That gets rid of the “checkerboard” arrangement of stars and has a deeper black tone.
Opengl32.dll - shader that increases the effect of bloom. Throw it into swkotor folder. All the above screenshots were made using it.

Installation:
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Drop tga and tpc files in your game’s Override folder.

To uninstall:
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Take them out again.


What's New in Version 1.0.1

Released

Packed the most problematic textures into tpc, which minimized the stuttering and virtually eliminated it. LQ textures are no longer needed. Replace files in Override, delete tga files with the same name.

Added opengl32.dll - shader that increases the effect of bloom (brightness and richness of FX).

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Since both games use the same game engine and FX-textures, this mod will work fine on Kotor 2 as well.

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