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///// 01. Two-Point-Oh ///// First off, thanks to everyone who’s downloaded and offered support through this process. I appreciate all of your comments, critiques and suggestions. Through the creative process, the gears started turning for future plans. Here’s loosely what I’m planning thus far: ///// 02. Planned Improvements ///// Remap the UVs. A lot of the patterns repeat, e.g. details on arms are also on feet, or also on base, etc. I know I wanted to remedy those first and foremost. I wanted the arms to have their own textures, the feet their own, etc. etc. etc. Progressive: Create a UV for each arm and leg, which would increase the work significantly because then we go from 2 pieces to 6. Overkill? Planet rotations. When the map opens and you see the location of each planet, they slowly (and very choppily(?) rotate. I’d really like to smooth that out a bit, as it’s just a hacked together animation. I think it has 9 frames right now? At a minimum, I’d go up to… 18 frames? Progressive: Each planet has its own custom shape and visual identifier. Right now, it’s random Aurebesh numbers (which technically didn’t exist as it does now, same with planet names), but we’ll see. Does it even need those I guess? Maybe it’s actually the type of planet referenced by the terminal, i.e. barren, arboreal, etc. More “Builder-esque”. Until ebmar pointed this out (and it should have seemed so obvious), this is a Rakata structure. I got the Aurebesh (see comment above) in there, but what else can I do to make this more “Builder”? I started looking around at a lot of source photos and ran around the Unknown World location a bit. I think I can change the rock? metal? country? to be a bit more… just “of that world”. Perhaps I made it too sleek in 1.0. While I have the texture itself pretty roughed it, it’d also make sense that some parts got chipped/rotted off here and there. Progressive: ebmar and I have been chatting about having a new sound for the opening of the maps. Dodecahedron. I really hate that thing. I want to make it a sphere or I dunno, just something different. I was so difficult to figure out how to reskin it before. There would be so much more I could do with a different shape. At the very least it’s been given a new UV map. Progressive: Play around with some transparency ideas. ///// 03. Planet Customizations ///// Let’s just go ahead and mark this whole section as “Progressive”. The idea would be to create a star map for every location, customized to that planet. The thing with that is there would need to be at least 4 more placeables created or they’d have to be built into the room itself. Hard to say what the route would be at this point, I mean, there are a limited number of placeables in the game. Anyway, the custom ideas: Dantooine This would just be the base model. Similar to what it is now, though with a violet glow. Tatooine Yellow glow. Sand-blown, sand in crevices and piled around base. Maybe throw some krayt scales in there? Like the dude was using it as a scratching post. Kashyyyk Green glow. This thing has been in a jungle for what, 10k years? Let’s thrown some moss, vines, etc. on there. It’d only make sense that the jungle would start taking it back. Moisture stains. Rust? I’m iffy on that one. Manaan Blue glow. Heavy algae growth. Coral, barnacles growing on it? Korriban Red glow. (durrr) I’m a little stuck on this one because it’s unexposed to the elements basically. I was thinking along the lines of blood splatters and saber burns. Thinking maybe someone fought in that room at some point. ///// 04. Recent Dev ///// The model has a completely new UV map. Every part has its own map to avoid pattern repetition. While I don’t know if I’ll recreate all 3 arms and all 3 legs still remains to be seen. Lots of reading about creating placeables and modding rooms. ///// 05. Future Dev ///// I really don’t care for the end animation of when you open the final star map. It seems so lackluster and very anticlimactic to me. I envision once the final map opens and the coordinates triangulate, you now have a large hud of the starforge. As of now there are just blue streaks and dinky animations (no offense Bioware). All of this really gets into some hardcore modeling and animation and that’s way, way, WAY over my head. I’m using Blender too, and well, it doesn’t like KotOR animations that much. ///// 06. Final ///// So that’s what’s going on at this point. Thanks again to everyone who’s download the mod, given their opinions and suggestions and more. This has been a fun project and I’m hoping it will continue to be so! If there’s anything you’d like to add to the above list or have anything else you’d like to share, by all means. Feel free to follow this post for updated now and then. Cheers, -CO

Seems very professional to me! I bet she could do exactly what you're looking for. Very clear, bright voice in her preview - I'm interested in seeing how she'll darken up her tone for the role.

She's cute... Oh- I mean I heard her voice already! and I think that role would suit her very well.

Interesting site... never knew something like this existed. Pretty cool!

A future pilot has my permission to use any mods I have made or will make for any of his projects.

It's your secret admin power at work. Mere mortals don't have access to it.

Off-topic but you need a stroke or drop shadow on that text. Either that or tone down the background.

From NWScript: int DAMAGE_TYPE_BLUDGEONING = 1; int DAMAGE_TYPE_PIERCING = 2; int DAMAGE_TYPE_SLASHING = 4; int DAMAGE_TYPE_UNIVERSAL = 8; int DAMAGE_TYPE_ACID = 16; int DAMAGE_TYPE_COLD = 32; int DAMAGE_TYPE_LIGHT_SIDE = 64; int DAMAGE_TYPE_ELECTRICAL = 128; int DAMAGE_TYPE_FIRE = 256; int DAMAGE_TYPE_DARK_SIDE = 512; int DAMAGE_TYPE_SONIC = 1024; int DAMAGE_TYPE_ION = 2048; int DAMAGE_TYPE_BLASTER = 4096; 7 = 1 + 2 + 4 so it's bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage. Interestingly, that makes it weaker than any weapon with only one of those flags (with respect to the damage flag alone - all other properties aside) judging by what you say, as it sounds like it can be blocked by any of three things rather than just one.

Mazbe just fade in the wireframe from the left and fade out the original graphic to the right so that it turns from solid into wireframe. The Skyrim VR logo does that nicely.

I'll just throw a concept out there, Canderis. The program is called RevanEditor . . . so what if half of the mask was a wire-frame of the mask?

I'm working on Jolee now, but I love Revan and his voice was the best part of vanilla TOR for me, so I tried to channel some Jeff Bennett for you. EDIT: Added my quick take on the rest of the guys you posted as well. Revan.wav AndTheRest.wav

I was looking for a centralized list of all of the parameters for .txis and what they do, but I wasn't able to locate anything. Here's what I've discovered so far, looking through various KOTOR files. blending Various blending options using the alpha channels of the .tga. (Think Photoshop blending options.) blending additive Used for translucency. Equivalent to Add or Linear Dodge, the color is added to whatever is underneath. blending punchthrough Used for transparency. e.g. grass, hair, etc. bumpmapscaling Increases the intensity of the bump map, i.e. increases the height of the bump map. bumpmapscaling 1 bumpmaptexture Defines the bump map for the texture. bumpmaptexture C_Hutt01b bumpyshinytexture Used with a bump map on a texture that uses an environment map. e.g. If you're using cm_baremetal on a metal texture, you'll want to use bumpshinytexture instead of envmap. bumpyshinytexture C_Hutt01b cube Defines that the associated texture is a cubemap. cube 1 decal Renders the texture on top of anything it's flush with. Black areas of texture will be translucent. decal 1 defaultheight The height of 1 frame for an animation. defaultheight 128 defaultwidth The width of 1 frame for an animation. defaultwidth 128 envmaptexture Defines the environment map for the texture. envmaptexture CM_Bright fps The speed at which frames will cycle when animated. fps 24 isbumpmap Defines the texture is a bump map. isbumpmap 1 mipmap Multiple copies of the same texture in different sizes to be rendered based on distance from PC. With this command, you can force the game to always show the highest mip. mipmap 1 numx The number of horizontal frames for an animation. numx 4 numy The number of vertical frames for an animation. numy 4 proceduretype Followed by cycle, initiates the cycling of frames for animations. proceduretype cycle Here's a more specific example for how an animation would work: proceduretype cycle defaultwidth 256 defaultheight 256 numx 3 numy 2 fps 12 By all means let me know if anything is inaccurate or if you can provide any more information. Thanks!

Sending good vibes your way, all the best.

Thank you so much for the permission! Just so everyone knows, my newborn daughter is currently in the NICU, and probably will be for a month or so, so it will be a little while before I get v1.1 out. So I haven't dropped off the map, just real life is more important right now