Leaderboard

Hi everyone I'm posting this update in part to show you guys some images and the Intro Movie/ crawler mockup. I'm posting the mockup video in hopes to find someone who can do the real intro movie for the mod. The mockup is done in Blender. The person could take this file and make it look better. At the end of the video you see part of the space station break off,. There would be an explosion there. If anyone is interested in doing the actual intro video, please contact me by DS message. Link to video: RoR intro movie mockup

That just means you have a section that isn't being used, so it depends on what the sections are.

No worries, I believe it is missing a few details here and there. by the looks of the error log, you do not have any changes being made to baseitems.2da IE : you have Table0=baseitems.2da in the 2DAList but you do not have [baseitems.2da] elsewhere in the .ini file. So for example references an entry for TSLPatcher to look for which is [traps.2da] [traps.2da] then references an instruction and further entry that changes values within traps.2da so in your case you need. somewhere in your changes.ini file along with any changes it might make, all of which can be added manually or generated with changes.ini by comparing an edited version of the file with an original unaltered file.

Yes you can update utc files that way. As for the dialog, it might be wiser to just inject your edited file into the .mod directly as if a mod alters it first, something would definitely go wrong, or install it to the Override folder. Regarding append.tlk, I don't know if the readme covered it, I remember checking out a mod that already used it in order to understand the syntax. This is how I use it in my own project. The replace.tlk file is a feature in HoloPatcher for replacing existing strings, a feature TSLPatcher does not have. In order to just use the append.tlk feature from TSLPatcher I believe you would want the following. Where the amount of StrRef entries match the amount of entries in your append.tlk file, you can then reference that StrRef value later in the changes.ini as I do with the following planetary.2da entry. I hope that helps.

Thanks, if you have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions feel free to let me know. In regards to updates, I keep my DIscord server regularly posted with progress on the project. But the latest change as of an hour or so ago is that I finally managed to change the colour of the dialog and the hardcoded text colour values in the executable. Took a lot of creative thinking to get there but I got there in the end! The majority of these values are accessible and can be edited with ease in the .gui files, but for whatever reason some of them are hard coded into the executable file. Frustratingly I still have to track down the dark green which is used for the border of some buttons that are also hard coded into the executable. But very soon I will finally have 100% of the GUI recoloured, while I could have just left the dialog green and put the time towards fixing other things, I just couldn't handle it, it drove me nuts and just had to be done. Everything has to be perfect! Still hoping I can get a section on the forum specifically for this mod project as I would love to put out a range of polls about what to add or not to add and how to consider tying everything together, as we all know the possibilities here are endless and tackling all this solo has been mighty troublesome, time consuming and stressful. Really want these games to be the best they can possibly be. Once I have tracked down the next set of values that need changing, I will be sure to add that information to my tutorials. Thor110

Unfortunately it is difficult for people to properly write the documentation while simultaneously writing the programs themselves. That I know of there are a few undocumented features in TSLPatcher, though the only one I can currently recall is the one I used most recently which is the HACKList which is now documented in HoloPatcher's readme.

I think that's an oversight by the writer of the readme so you aren't actually missing anything, you are correct. Place them in a separate folder for now, but after generating your changes.ini file, all of the changes you have made to files should become instructions in the changes.ini file, at that point you will want the original files for the reason it mentions. To be honest I would potentially suggest using HoloPatcher as it has a few new features and is actively being developed at the moment.

Well reinstalled using mod sync and was able to load into the garage. Yay. Hopefully reinstalling and then running the save game doesn't cause any issues but I don't think it should since I had I think most of the same mods installed previously.

That's a pretty awesome looking tool. Thanks for the head's up about it. I somehow installed the Kotor 2 mod build without any issues despite the huge list of mods I installed, but it's entirely possible I made some mistakes with this mod build given how many mods I installed with it. So having a tool to automate that and ensure I'm not messing up is honestly a lifesaver to think about. Very excited to try it.

Given the size of the mod build and the amount of mods in it, I would imagine other mods modify that level so it could be another mod. The mod build is also very thoroughly tested from what I understand though I haven't had the chance to try them out myself. KotOR Mod Sync is fairly new, so it's understandable that you weren't aware of it, hopefully it helps speed things up a bit.

Well, I feel very stupid right now. I had previously checked my device manager to see if any other devices were showing up there that shouldn't have been. Everything looked fine to me so I moved on. I have a joystick on my desk that I thought was not plugged in as I have not played any games that use joysticks for a long time, so for the hell of it, I checked behind my pc and....lol. Of frickin' course it was plugged in. I unplugged it. Problem seems to be gone for now. I think the joystick was flagged as something generic like "USB Input Device" or "HID Compliant Device" in my device manager, so I assumed it was just a driver for something else. I'm still very confused why this problem only occurred after cutscenes and I otherwise had no issues (would have thought the joystick would have interfered all the time), but I am willing to let that mystery lie for now lol. Thanks for the help guys. This should make future playthroughs a lot smoother for me.

I figured out the issue, it for some reason did not modify my appearance.2da when I installed the mod. To fix the issue if anyone else has it, I opened my apperance.2da file that was in my override folder and added "P_HK47_01" in the racetex column

I haven't played ME for several years now, but for ME1 if you have an AMD CPU you'll want the "Silent Patch" which fixes broken lighting on character models on Noveria - https://cookieplmonster.github.io/mods/mass-effect/ There was an alternative mod that did the same thing before that on Nexus (might still be there) but it was laced with adware. Here's an exhaustive rundown of what is happening under the hood to cause the issue for anyone interested.

There's a lengthy readme included with TSLPatcher which I read from time to time, though for the most part I read existing changes.ini files and took note of how they worked in order to make my own, I also make use of a few simple batch scripts I wrote to make lists for large numbers of files. But for smaller mods, most things can be done using ChangeEdit to generate the changes.ini file for you.

Okay, so I'm making a mod for KotOR 1 and one of the changes is that Bastila is becoming a Consular. I need some advice on how to proceed with her build after you re-recruit her on the Unknown World. Here are the options: 1. I could just put her back to level 1 and let the player decide, but this makes the fight with her 4th -wall-breakingly easy. 2. I could just create an optimal build for her so that she shows up strong as hell. Her level 1 stats are going to be 12, 18, 12, 10, 12, 15. Same as normal. At levwl 20 she'll 27 powers (like in KotOR 2) plus Affect Mind. She 'll have Master Two-Weapon plus 4 more feats. How should I build her? What powers should she get?

Should be simple enough then, TSLPatcher's ChangeEdit can automatically generate the differences for the 2DA files and from there you can probably just add the dialog and character sheets to the override folder. Just edit her character sheet accordingly after tracking down which level contains the correct character sheet.

For now, classes.2da, classpowergain.2da, dan13_dorak.dlg, feat.2da, featgain.2da, npc.2da, skills.2da, tar03_brejik031.utc, and the party members have all been modded. I almost forgot that I need to figure out how edit Darkside Bastila, I need to change her class and build. Then I'll either do an early release or I'll move onto base items.2da, and then start editing the weapons individually. Originally, I started updating the classes to K2 standards and adding other QoL features like lowing character levels to 1, etc. At some point the big idea became about eliminating the desire to save levels on Taris. To do that, I've elected to make the Sentinel a main character exclusive choice, spread it's feats and powers over the first 10 levels and then leave it empty after those 10 levels are gone. This encourages the user to spend those levels acquiring feats on Taris while they can. Obviously, this makes an easy game (even on hard difficulty) even easier so an Impossible difficulty mod is also recommended. Most likely baseitems.2da will get edited before release because I want that extra difficulty from enemies that can actually hurt you.

I would suggest not using KotOR Tool for much besides extracting files, even then it's usually easier to just use ERFEdit, HolocronToolset is also an option to consider. Though I don't know what it might mess up when it comes to dialog files but it has been known to cause issues when it comes to editing files. Also I would suggest looking into TSLPatcher and HoloPatcher for applying your changes when releasing your mod so that changes can be properly applied to the games files. You're welcome and as I mentioned, there are probably a few other branches within that specific dialog that would need removing. I'm not sure what the issue is here, I always have both installed so I have never encountered this problem.

Ah, well in that case you would have to edit the dialog files in question to remove those options accordingly. This would be for Dorak, which is "dan13_dorak.dlg" that is located within the level file "danm13_s.rim" Though it's highly likely that there might be other entries that you might want to delete.

It is that time of year again, time for me to reveal another mod for the NPC Overhaul Series! Our latest mod shall enhance everyone's not-so-favorite/infamous Corporation... Amazon Redux, uh... I mean... Czerka Redux! First and foremost, the one thing you'd expect from a Czerka overhaul mod... the Czerka Combat Suit from RedRob41's Modder's Resource! Do note the image above was taken with RC-K1CP, the cut Czerka Guard is in the Tatooine game files unused so Czerka Redux will change cut NPCs meaning you can play the mod with RC-K1CP, though if you don't use RC-K1CP then that's fine too. Most of the Czerka Guards will wear the Combat Suit, however, some Guards have been replaced with brand new NPC variants... like droids: Some of these droids will have droid shields and utility items like flame throwers, turning those redundant Czerka guys in the background of Chuundar's room from a force to be beckoned to a force to be reckoned... with. Of course, not all the new alternative guards are droids... you do have this Gamorrean here: He's from Brotherhood of Shadow: Solomon's Revenge by SilverEdge9. Speaking of BOSSR, the Technician Armor from BOSSR is also worn by the Mechanics of Czerka Corp: The Czerka Muscle Suit from BOSSR also makes an appearance as a rare Czerka item. Whilst the names and descriptions of these BOSSR items are almost unchanged from BOSSR, the stats certainly are. The Muscle Suit in BOSSR has a +5 Strength bonus, it has been severely nerfed in Czerka Redux alongside the rest of BOSSR's items though the Czerka Muscle Suit in particular is now upgradeable making it somewhat good for a rare item instead of overpowered as it was in BOSSR. And the Czerka Mining Suit from BOSSR is also in Czerka Redux. It is worn by the Miners of Tatooine, if you install Czerka Redux on its own it will give the Duros Miners the Czerka Mining Suit, but it won't be shown.... unless you plan on using Duros: Armed & Ready! With Duros: Armed & Ready, the Duros Miners who have the default Czerka outfit will now wear the Czerka Mining Suit for that extra immersion. Future alien mods of mine will do the same thing, the Czerka alien will have the default Czerka Outfit but with Czerka Redux this Czerka alien will wear the Czerka Armor of this mod. The Duros' head from Duros: Armed & Ready is by JCarter426. Speaking of JC, he made a male version of the Czerka Commoner outfit worn by the Czerka Protocol Officer in his JC's Fashion Line B: Commoner Clothing for K2 mod some years back. With his permission, I've added it for the Czerka Scientists and some other Czerka NPCs in the game. As you can see from these screenshots, this mod is compatible with the gloveless commoner clothing from RC-K1CP! There are two versions of the Czerka commoner clothing, the vanilla inspired one and the K1EP one. Whilst I do not have a screenshot of the K1EP clothing yet, I can confirm that I did use JC's male version to convert the once exclusively female K1EP clothing into a male variant. But whilst I lack the screenshot of the clothing, I can confirm I've added the K1EP Czerka Officer texture: Czerka Custom Officers shall now wear that new Czerka Officer outfit. The Czerka Officer outfits have been revamped in Czerka Redux, the green Czerka Officer outfit is traditionally worn by the Czerka Commander with the cap... now it is worn by Liason Officers and the like. You might be wondering, with all these changes... where are the original Czerka Officers? They're right here: Those 4 NPCs on Kashyyyk and Tatooine are now the ONLY Czerka Officers you will encounter in the entire game, the rest have been modified into new NPC variants. To modify most of these NPCs, I have had to change their appearances from Czerka Officers to Commoners to support the armors. As such, all of the NPCs from this mod are based on the NPC Diversity Pack, meaning if you install the NPC Diversity Pack and then Czerka Redux there will be a seamless transition between the two mods with comprising the other. Once I perform the final touches on the Czerka Redux, it won't be released immediately... for I need to make several patches. The 1st patch is a compatibility patch for the NPC Diversity Pack, this is to ensure people who don't use the Diversity Pack can install the main Czerka Redux mod whilst Diversity Pack players will have to install this compatibility patch to finish the installation. The 2nd patch is an addon for the RC-K1CP mod, I don't think this addon is necessary though it will improve the restored Czerka elements of the RC-K1CP quite well. I will share more info on this secretive addon once it is ready. The 3rd patch is an addon for JC's Czerka: Business Attire for K1. It will give the Rodians of that mod new Czerka outfits and new head reskins. The 4th patch is an addon for the main mod. It will add female Czerka Officers to the game. This includes female guards who you can fight and will have a female soundset at death and female NPCs you can speak to. This addon will utilize DarthParametric's Female Czerka Officer's Uniform Modder's Resource for some of these female NPCs.

Other Projects Yes, though progress has been slow lately as I have been busy with another project that aims to automate conversion of old Unreal Engine games to UE4/5. https://github.com/Thor110/UE2-UE4 Currently it's just a series of batch scripts that utilise existing tools to extract and convert the game files in preparation for UE4/5 but I am preparing to go through the source code for each of the tools and re-work them to deal with any issues present at the moment. Expanded Galaxy That aside, the last update to the Main Expanded Galaxy Repository was 16 days ago, a lot of my time has been spent reaching out to other mod authors and looking for people who wish to join the project, as well as testing which consumes quite a lot of my time unfortunately. The project recently overwent a major overhaul to bring it over to the new HoloPatcher installer, which took quite a while to prepare, it is no longer a drag & drop replacement install and is now a dynamically handled installation similar to TSLPatcher installs, which should make the project compatible with other mods, though I give no guarantees on that because mods can easily cause conflicts with one another. Recruiting Currently the project could do with a few more hands on deck, as expected it is far too grandiose for me to handle alone, though I think I have done well getting it this far on my own. Looking for Testers, Modellers, Texture Artists and finally Writers to join the project, though I did plan to do it all on my own I am starting to think finishing it will be unlikely without a team, I am still holding out hope that as a community we can pool our efforts and resources to unify all of the best content into a single canonical overhaul of both games under the Expanded Galaxy branch. End Goals My end goal would be to create a singular install that totally overhauls both games as well as an additional optional install that overhauls the textures and models for both games. Though it might be better that I wait for one of the open source engine re-implementations to be finished in order to better accommodate the needs of this project. Road Blocks Currently there are still a few roadblocks for me to overcome in order to fully realise the goal of this project, primarily forming a team and keeping things better organised, but additionally I need to work out what the best way forward is for the project, recently I have been reminded of the infamous dialog skipping bug that is present in TSL and I feel like it really is something that needs solving in order to make the project the best it possibly can be. This is however a difficult task and a bug or problem that has plagued the game since it's release and has gone unsolved for a long time. I also initially intended to try and finish the Port of KotOR1 to TSL before shifting my focus back to TSL itself, due to the need to incorporate a launcher and save importer that allows players to carry over their choices from the first game into the second game, but this is becoming increasingly difficult for me to swap between the games and playtest as well as work on both of them, for the time being I have set the Brotherhood of Shadow : Solomon's Revenge port aside in order to help reduce the workload, but the reduction is barely noticeable as that was just a side-project or venture to see how quickly I could get the majority of it reworked for TSL. In Conclusion In short, there's lot's to do and the project may never reach a stage where it is to be considered completed, but I very much hope this isn't the case and intend to continue working on it for as long as I can, getting it all this far has been physically and mentally exhausting, while the majority of the work is fairly easy, I started this project back when I was homeless for a short period of time and at times I find it debilitating to be reminded of that part of my life. However, rest assured I will be continuing work on the project indefinitely, it's very much a life-long project which seeks to revitalise the original games as much as physically possible within the constraints of the TSL iteration of the odyssey engine. Initially I had hoped to get a forum section for the project here on DeadlyStream and to raise regular discussions about what needs improving in the game as well as creating polls that the community could vote on in order to try and determine what changes are best, what fixes should or shouldn't be included and allowing the community to guide Expanded Galaxy to it's final destination. However that didn't happen, keeping up with everybody's thoughts, ideas and opinions on the games is difficult enough, let alone everybody's suggestions for improving the game! There is a Discord server for the project where people can discuss things, though it's been a little quiet as of late, it's very easy to discuss the possibilities for these games endlessly and while that can be helpful at times in order to bring forth ideas and suggestions that might help the project, at times it can leave me whiling away hours simply discussing the semantics of why I don't intend to include or add something to the project. My Thanks Thanks for checking in on the project and many thanks to all those who have helped support or contributed to the project so far. Apologies for the super long response, but I felt it would be best to give a proper summary of what's what regarding the status of the project. Thor110

Hey @Thor110 I just wanted to thank you too for continuing this project. If I had more time and KotOR modding knowledge on my hand I would help but I simply don't. I come back every now and then to check out what cool things the KotOR modding community is doing and this project is always at the top of the list for things I check on. I sort of wish the KotOR modding community didn't have such a strong stance on porting for so long or this project could have started years ago. But regardless I will keep following this!

It appears to be hardcoded and is also likely independent of the attack bonus/penalty cap. This also applies to the attack penalties you get from Flurry and Power Attack. The defense penalties for those are hardcoded to happen as well, but they are actually implemented as a tangible (albeit in-engine) effect you can detect on the character, meaning that they are likely subject to the feats and effects cap.

Legendary is less than 10 bucks on steam right now... If you want to stick with the originals there were unofficial patches for those, but they mostly got abandoned for LE

First off, thank you for attempting to do this massive overhaul for KOTOR 1 and 2. I come back for KOTOR playthroughs every few years; I do this regularly for my favorite games. I'm always pleased to return to Mass Effect because the modding community and their love for that game are why great content mods are still being made even now. While KOTOR gets its fair share of love, particularly here on Deadly Stream, I don't believe I've seen anyone attempt to take all that extra content and put it together, possibly giving us the games Bioware and Obsidian intended. I could be wrong, and I just haven't looked hard enough, but what you're doing is amazing, and I look forward to seeing the mod possibly near its final stages or close. Again, thank you for all the hard work. I'll keep an eye out for future updates. 😁

Is there a tslpatch version of this somewhere? There's no way Ima use this as is. It would have to be the only mod I install that uses those 2das and that's just ridiculous. I have like 30 mods that use those two 2das. Do you need help making a tslpatch? I could do it right fkin now. Its easy as hell. I could make this mod an executable installer in 10 minutes. But like everyone else who does it this way, you dont include anywhere what rows u added to those 2das, so no one can make a tslpatch for this until you supply that info. All u need to do is put those rows in the TSLPATCH Changes Editor to make the changes ini reflect your changes. That's litterally it. Pllllllleeeeease consider downloading the tslpatcher and going thru the setup wizard to make this mod an installer

In order to make my recent addition to my Sith Trooper Texture Restoration mod, I had to convert a standard Sith voice to a Sith Trooper voice. After a lot of trial and error, I've managed to make it sound pretty spot on. (If any of you audiophiles out there have any suggestions for improvements, let me know!) Also thanks to DarthParametric for a couple of batch scripts that we'll be using in this tutorial. Tools you'll need: Audacity (The audio editing software we'll be using) dd (This is a direct download link. dd is a Unix tool for reading/writing files/disks) The batch files attached to this post Setup: Create two folders, one for the input (original) files, and one for the output (new) files Save dd from the link above, and the convert.bat file attached to this post in the input folder Save the addheader.bat, and header.bin files attached to this post to the output folder First, you need the audio file(s) you want to apply the effect to. In this tutorial we're going to be using a Sith voice file from the Korriban Acadamy, but this should work with any voice file (even ones you record yourself). Drag the .wav files from the streamwaves folder of KOTOR into the input folder (The files I'm using are in streamwaves/m35aa/sith13). The audio files that KOTOR uses are mp3 files with a wav header, so before we can do anything with them, we need to convert them to plain mp3 files. To do this, just double-click on convert.bat and let it run. When it finishes, you'll have .mp3 versions of each sound file. Now we're going to apply the Sith Trooper effect. We're going to automate some of it to make it easier, but sadly, we can't automate all of it. To automate it we will create a chain of effects which we can then easily apply to each file. Steps 1-6 creates the chain, and only need to be done once. Steps 7-12 need to be done for every audio file you wish to apply the effect to. 1. Open up one of the .mp3 files in Audacity, then go to File -> Chains -> Edit Chains: A new window will appear. In the bottom left click "add" then give the chain a title like "Sith Trooper Voice Effect". 2. Next click on Insert, and select "Repeat". Click "Edit Parameters" and change the number of repeats to 2: 3. Hit OK on both windows, and you should see it added to the chain. Next we're going to add Equalization. Select Insert again, then select Equalization, end edit Parameters. In the Select Curve dropdown, select AM Radio: Make sure the other settings are as in the screenshot, then hit OK. 4. Select Insert again, and select High Pass Filter. Edit Parameters and set frequency to 750Hz and rolloff to 48db: 5. Hit OK, hit Insert again, select Bass and Treble, and hit Edit Parameters. Set bass to 20, treble to 1, Volume to 0, and make sure "Link volume and tone" is unchecked: 6. Now, (this is the last effect!) hit OK, select Insert, select Compressor, and hit Edit Parameters. We'll use the defaults, but make sure they match the screenshot: Now, we've finished creating the chain, we need to apply it to the audio file. 7. Select File -> Chains -> Apply Chains, select the chain you just made, and select "Apply to Current Project": This will apply the effect, and cause the audio to be repeated three times. We do this because the Compressor effect can cause issues at the start and end of the audio, so we're just going to use the one in the middle that hasn't been affected. You may want to zoom out for the following steps. To do so, hold down Ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel. By default the entire audio file is selected, so click in the blank space to deselect, before selecting sections to delete. 8. Mouse over the end of the audio, and you will see a yellow line to indicate that you're at the very tip: Now click and drag to the left until you see another yellow line, then let go (You will now have the third repeat selected): 9. Hit the delete key on your keyboard to remove the third repeat. Now we're going to do the same with the first repeat. Mouse over the beginning till you see the yellow line: Click and drag till you see the other yellow line: Let go of the mouse button and hit delete. You'll now have your finished audio file: Now we're going to export the file. We'll export it as MP3, and then add a WAV header just like the original files (I've seen reports that plain uncompressed WAV files will work, but I wasn't able to get it working, so I had to do it this way). 10. Select File -> Export -> Export as MP3: 11. Now set Bitrate to Preset, Quality to standard, variable speed to standard, and check "Force export to mono": 12. Save the file to the output folder. Then repeat steps 7-12 for every file you want to apply the effect to. 13. Once you have all of the files you want to add the effect to in the output folder, run the addheader.bat file. This will output .wav files that can be put into the game! You can either put them in the Override folder, or back into the streamwave folder you got them from! Let me know if you have any questions or comments! convert.bat addheader.bat header.bin