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Not really a WIP, more like a "Almost done" but thought I'd share anyways.

Query: What? Yes, you heard that right, what started as what was (probably) a joke made by @A Future Pilot on the r/kotor discord has gotten my creative juices flowing. If you're like me, you might have asked yourself at some point "HK-47 is my favorite companion in the KotOR games, so why can't I romance him?" Well, soon™️ you can! The goal of this mod is to make a believably written, slightly tongue in cheek but also emotionally sound "mini romance" option between a dark sided player character and her/his homicidal droid companion. What do I mean by "mini romance"? For now, I am going to try and keep the scope small while I learn the fundamentals of modding. I have finished a first pass at the script, and will be working on recording the voice over sometime soon to get a feel for how it all sounds when spoken. Right now, it is a total of 2 to 3 conversations, depending on whether you pass a [Repair/Computer Use] (player's preference) skill check on the first try or not. Perhaps this will expand in the future, but right now, I think it gets the job done without needless beating around the bush. This is an optional/additional romance and its not meant to rival/replace any of the vanilla options in terms of complexity. The non-spoilery gist of it is, HK has discovered that he has developed what he sees as a flaw in his programming since he's started travelling with you, that's since grown stronger with every act of cruelty you inflict upon others. The player character has the option to dismiss outright, confusedly entertain his concerns to an extent, or try their best to understand the situation, some of which open up a path to a whole new look into his "abnormality" that's formed. Basically, I'll be using this thread to update with progress and let you know how it's going. Keep in mind, this is my first ever mod and thus I have no idea how long this project will take me. I'm also attaching to this post a design document that features all of the dialogue that I've currently written for the mod, if you're interested. I would appreciate that if you'd like to mention something about it in this thread, that you properly spoiler tag it. Thank you. - UC P.S. Let me make this point for you, so that you don't have to. HKromance.docx

One or two weeks ago, I decided to quickly finish Onderon, thinking that there were only some tweaks to the TG scene and the fixed skybox models left to do. Turns out that I had forgotten about the turret scene and the swoopracing. For the turret minigame I had to add the palace model and alter the visible terrain as the vanilla one didn't fit my skybox design at all. So that's done now except for some lightmap tweaks to make the palace blend better with the vanilla geometry. The swooprace is another thing entirely. I didn't even know there was swoopracing on Onderon and my Onderon landscape doesn't really work well with the swooptrack as that one seems to start outside of the city and then gradually enter it, so neither my normal Onderon skybox nor my skyramp skybox work well for that module. I tried creating a third one from a different point of view but that didn't look great either. I'm not quite out of ideas yet but we'll see how it goes. Anyway, I wanted to share what I have. So here are two renders and two screenshots:

Same. I just tuned those thoughts out after watching TFA and haven't looked back. Star Wars is irreparably changed at this point unless the following movies simply didn't happen. Essentially my feelings are recounted as thus: (If you will allow me the indulgence of using a somewhat recent expression) #NotmyStarWars

Were they? Shows how much attention I paid to them then. Looking forward to seeing a video if it.

Glad you got it working. For future playthroughs you can probably make your life easier by avoiding the Workshop.

If you are using a non-vanilla head added by a mod, you'll need to edit its appearance.2da rows. If it was from the Workshop, then that will mean editing the appearance.2da in that folder, and not the base game or TSLRCM's Workshop folder.

The jacket model is P_AttonBB. Changing the male player modelb column value from N_CommM to P_AttonBB will make them use Atton's jacket when wearing clothes. You'll also want to set the texb and texbevil columns to ****. I'd be surprised if there isn't already a mod somewhere that does this.

OK, I've got these issues sorted. All kotorblender issues. Will be fixed in 1.0.2. One complete typo was making the particle effect on the sphere wrong (Motion instead of Motion_Blur in two places). The issue w/ the lines & symbols being visible came down to my setting of minimum values for alphaMid and lifeExp that didn't include the full range of possible values. I had them set to 0.0, but apparently -1.0 is the actual minimum value. Because there are 50+ emitter controllers, I think I probably relied on logic, rather than exhaustive cataloging, to establish some of the min/max values. And anyone who tries to apply logic to the functioning of the game engine gets bitten eventually... Here's the code patch:

I see he has the requisite pole dancers, as any good Sith lord should. Your envmap turned out pretty good, judging by that shot. Although seeing it with camera movement is always the real test. What did you use?

I am speechless, you just said almost everthing that has been in my mind since the force awakens first came.

For sure, understandable. Here's what I'm working with. This first clip, starmap1.mov, is the default texture/animations, nothing's been touched. First try was using MDLOps 1.0.0. I used the following settings to process the model: I then imported into Blender with the following settings: I didn't change anything with the model and then exported with the following settings: The clip you see in starmap2.mov is the end result. starmap3.mov is repeating the above steps with MDLEdit 1.0.3. In the second video, you can see how plc_starmap_08.tpc and plc_starmap_09.tpc have loaded prematurely. Then in the process of the starmap opening, the particle effects have changed on the rising orb, sphere02 it looks to be called. After that none of the remaining textures (outside of plc_starmap_06.tpc) have loaded and the arms (Map_Arm_01, Map_Arm_02, Map_Arm_03) have duplicated, with one set remaining "unopened". In the third, processed using MDLEdit, the animations are working, though none of the interior textures are loading. Let know if I can provide any more info. And thanks! starmap1.mov starmap2.mov starmap3.mov

I'm pretty excited about this, although I'm kinda sad it won't be for K1

After seeing the Solo film this has made me smile! Even psychopathic droids like HK-47 deserves love!

Here you go: https://www.darthparametric.com/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_PFHC02_Movie-Style_DS_Eyes.7z https://www.darthparametric.com/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_PFHC05_Movie-Style_DS_Eyes.7z

It epitomises everything that is terrible with their early Duplo style. Ugly, blocky, Pringle can-esque.

DS points is just fine. Got to balance out all the LS pollution.

Here you go: https://www.darthparametric.com/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Handmaiden_Movie-Style_DS_Eyes.7z

You filthy robosexual. Best girl-droid Scorpio romance when?

Ah, the ****ing "In ANH the Empire and Emperor got no explanation... REBOOT IS GOOD **** YOU **** YOU" So ****ing tired of this... if you may notice. Well, in the old trilogy that was fine since that's all we needed. If ANH ended with Vader dead and the Empire defeated starting ESB with them alive and in full force would raise tons of questions. As do TFA and TLJ. But instead of explaining how we got an entire 180 on the victory or ROTJ, JJ and Rian give us the finger and "deal with it"... we are supposed to root for the Rebels rebuilding the most pathetic waste of galactic breath ever; the New Republic. A system so ****ing incompetent a rebel fraction destroyed them all in ONE DAY between TFA and TLJ. Wow, I ****ing care for that. That's not the WORST IDEA EVER. World building is important. Continuity is important. Don't just go "but the OT didn't have the Emperor explained so **** SNOKE. **** EVERYTHING. STAR WARS GUYS! STAR WAAAAAAARS" Yeah but the OT also didn't have 3 movies where we beat the ****ing crap out of the Empire only for it to sprout back since JJ and Rian got no ****ing ideas of their own but sh#tting over everything. And so yeah, I got my full right to give these ****ers the finger. And be pissed. Is it obvious I'm pissed at them. And you for repeating this stupid ****ing argument again. How ****ing hard is it to grasp we are 3 movies in, we have had a conclusion and that got completely raped without explanation. You think that's good. Well, good for you since LucasFilm will keep making crappy sh#tty movies without brains you like until it no longer makes profit. Which is probably shorter than you wish since most fans do got taste, do care about the galaxy, don't want this claustrophobic galaxy TFA and TLJ show us where scale is non-existent. The parties freaking idiots all around. I probably shouldn't have written this angry and tired but **** it, deal with it. You want to know how TLJ makes me feel, well here you go. Experience it. Yes, I'm SURE we get answers to that, like who's Snoke, who are the Knights of Ren, what was the New Republic? Why a Rebellion? Why should I care? How did Maz get the saber? Oh wait a second... TLJ pissed all over them. But sweet dreams expecting this time to be the golden goose. As if they will not retcon Rian's sh#t out of existence wherever possible. 1) Who cares. MaRey Sue don't need them. People expect her to train Yoda to add injury to insult. I can see it happen. 2) Who cares? The last time the Jedi rose they failed so miserable why should we care. Oh we want Rey to succeed where Luke failed? **** NO. 3) Who cares? Everyone can use the Force now, Jedi are nothing special anymore. So amazing! 4) Who cares? The New Republic was a ****ing joke. The FO is a joke. The Resistance is a joke. I couldn't care less. Blow the Falcon up with them, see if I care. Probably would have prevented a terrible ninth movie coming. Oh that would have been the best 😕 5) Again, who cares? The previous NR sucked balls. So making another one is just being morons. They should just die. 6) The only worthwhile question, and that's a META question, not a movie question. There are only terrible ways to finish it after Ruin could finish it proper but didn't since he's an assh#le. 7) Who cares? He's dead. How about caring about this before wiping him. You loved THAT after all, didn't you? If they explain it now it's the biggest d#ckpunch in existence. Hey... they probably will do it. And you will love it for some reason even if you went all "But Palpatine didn't get..." yeah, **** you. Anyway, I'm going to sleep.

I think that the situation is not entirely the same. I'm not a reddit user/fan, but, they don't seem to be in the entertainment business having spent 4 billion on an IP that came with an existing established fan-base they needed to sell future products to -- the SW franchise. Then allowed that fan-base to be vilified because they saw that The Last Jedi, and though being a good looking film, thought it was an utter turd that shat on The Force Awakens and the original trilogy, so as to push an agenda at all costs -- even story. These fans no longer trust critic reviews, because they went to see The Last Jedi because critics said it was the best Star Wars film ever. This resulted in the film doing less at the box office compared to The Force Awakens, as these fans did not return to the cinema for repeat viewings. Then when Solo came out, they opted to send a message to Lucasfilm (Disney) by not spending their money to see it. And no I actually don't think this was due to an organised boycott -- lots of fans came to this conclusion on their own, and those that aren't fans, simply decided that a SW film was no longer an indicator of money well spent and best use of their leisure time. Money talks, and a loss of money (revenue) to Disney makes things like Kathleen Kennedy being fired for her role in all this as the head of Lucasfilm, a reality -- even if at the moment they are having a hard time finding someone to take the job after KK made it toxic. It may not make much of a difference, but it is a first (critical) step. Personally, I think the deciding factor will be the performance of SW IX, that will clarify the impact Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi has had on the profitability of Star Wars.