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I figured I'd post some pics as I mess around with various TOR stuff, figuring out what works and what doesn't. I posted these in a status update the other day: And here's the latest experiment: But those bloody envmaps, ugh. So terrible. They ruin everything. Edit: Although @Darth_Sapiens' CM_baremetal replacement is a lot nicer: Edit 2: Sapien's CM_SpecMap is arguably better again. Shiny, but not an overpowering mirrored chrome:

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

As much as I do like TOR, I think giving our dear pole dancing friends a makeover from scratch might be a good idea

Video at last! Statue has been darkened to be more bronze. Also the shader in the pool has been fixed - apparently there was a missing txi parameter that made it look like absolute garbage. Also seen is a new load screen, which was made possible with JC's Load Screen Template @JCarter426

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

Okay, so I've been banging my head over this and here are the results. I double checked the algorithms, tried a number of smoothing group configurations, tried changing weights on the relevant verts... while some attempts produced better results than others, I never could get the seam to go away. I may have fixed the algorithm at least a bit though, so you can fetch the latest BETA at the bottom of this post. So then I looked at the vanilla model. Here's the debug info for the vert in the middle of the back where the seam is (that's actually 4 verts). Their vertex normals do not correspond to any combination of the corresponding face normals. If we look at the situation from the side, we see this (sorry for the bad drawing – it's just an approximation, though I did try to get the ratio between the normals right). The arrows are vertex normals, the lines are edges ending in the relevant vert. As you can see, the vertex normals of both vertices that belong to the Cape are the same and point outwards away from the body. The vertex normal of the vert that belongs to the lower part of the torso (the part under the cape) is equal to the cape's vertex normal, except it is mirrored along the Y axis and so it points inwards. Also the vertex normal of the vert that belongs to the upper torso (the part not hidden by the cape) points inwards, but at a different angle. I don't know why this has to be so. Usually when you want smoothing between faces that share a vertex, you make sure the vertex normals in that location are all the same, pointing in the same direction. But if you try to do the same in this situations, you'll get a seam instead. I also can't see how these normals could be automatically calculated from face normals and smoothing groups (if someone can, please enlighten me). So, the only way out that I can see is to enable the export of vertex normals from max into the ascii and then direct import into the binary model. This needs to be discussed, but if we decide to go this way with all the tools, it'll take a while before everything is synced and ready. mdledit_v1.0.7b.zip

View File K1 Faster Scuba Note: This is included in the KOTOR Community Patch beginning with version 1.8 Everyone hates how slow the underwater section of KOTOR 1 is. Well this is the fix for it! It speeds up your character while adjusting the animation to not make it look bad. The max speed is still slightly less than normal running speed, but it won't take you 20 minutes to get anywhere anymore! Here's a gif: As usual, do whatever you want with this file (if it shows up in Sony's mainframe, it's not my fault). I don't even need credit, but If you wanna credit me, that's cool. Submitter A Future Pilot Submitted 07/03/2018 Category Mods K1R Compatible Yes  

I've added one. Sorry it took so long!

It looks really nice! Keep up the good work. Any chance you're going to make female heads sometime? Greetings from Hungary

https://www.darthparametric.com/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Mira_Movie-Style_DS_Eyes.7z I've added TXIs to the previous archives, so you may want to re-download those.

Hrm, can't say I'm a fan of the new colour to be honest. The original pic looked better to me. The new version looks far too red.