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Hello there, I'm kind of new here with this being my first post but I have had this account for some years now and I also did some modding to this game back in summer 2015. Now I have been messing around with the new tools and I was interested in KotorBlender to create new animations since that's the program I recently learned for modding Jedi Academy as well and I am quite comfortable with it now. So my intention was to create new facial animations but I wasn't sure of the capabilities this plugin offered. I was quite glad when I found out that it has been recently updated and it fully supports animations as well as other models properties. But when I imported a head I was quite surprised to see that the bones in this game are not really bones like Jedi Academy for example but objects that act like such. Thus, I couldn't attach them to the mesh to see how it deformed when trying to create an animation. So I tried creating a temporary bone rig in blender that you could use and attach each bone to each object so that when you move a bone the object also moves. This may seem like it's working on paper but I had so much trouble with transforms that I almost gave up. They are a real pain in the ass. First I tried animating the bones and the objects apparently move with them but in reality they are not changing their transforms. So I tried to copy and paste them from the bones and it seemed to work in the program but in game the face was a total mess. This was because the objects were taking the absolute transforms of the bones that were in a different position that the objects are. What appears to be working in the program has nothing to do with the game and viceversa. So I just parented them and even though the objects would jump to a weird location their transforms would remain untouched as you can see in a test animation I made here: So now how do I transfer the bone movements to the objects? I tried a thing in blender called Delta transforms. This are like offset transforms that only take into consideration the relative location and rotation of an object. This was very useful in a parent/child scenario like this because now I had the original objects location/rotation + the relative transforms of the bones. Unfortunately when I tried it in game it did nothing, probably because the plugin only reads the absolute transforms, the delta transforms are stored in a different field. So I couldn't use this approach. Can the KotorBlender plugin be updated to support delta transforms? It would be really useful and nobody would have to do what I'm about to say for it to work. I needed to somehow transfer those delta transforms to the absolute transforms so that the plugin could read them. There is a function in blender called "all transforms to deltas" that transfers all the absolute transforms to the delta fields and left the absolute ones to zero which is exactly the opposite of what I need. I need to transfer this absolute+relative transforms that I have in the delta fields to the absolute fields. Luckily I found a script that did exactly this but I had to this for every single keyframe which is extremely exhausting and time-consuming. If someone here knows how to code on python can you do a script that does this automatically? It wouldn't be that bad then. So after thousands headaches I finally got it to work in-game: You can also see that the model has those wrongly shaded faces around the jaw. Anybody knows how to fix that? I saw other people having the same issue but I'm not sure how to fix it. I decompiled and compiled the model with MDLOps 1.0.0 since MDLEdit was giving a lot of problems. The point of all these is that you can make a facial animation with a dummy mesh so you can see how it looks without having to load it every single time in game. But I don't know if this is a worth approach with all these problems, if you solve one of those two though then it really is at least for me. I just wanted to share this knowledge to people who may be interested in this or don't know the extension of this plugin. Now I just need to learn animated cameras for the machinima I'm trying to make, does anyone have any tips/tools/tutorials that I could use? Would be really appreciated. Sorry for the long post. And thanks for keeping this community alive!

Unlike almost every other party member, Bao-Dur's dialogue tree branches close off as you progress through them. Eventually, all he has to say is "Yes, General? You got it." which is somewhat dull especially considering how he was a close friend to the Exile. Is there a way for his dialogue trees to not be closed off as you go through with them so you can go through them again if you want to, like other party members?

what robes are these? The screenie is from this page: I've been looking through robe mods and don't see them. Found it: https://www.gamefront.com/games/knights-of-the-old-republic/file/k1-prequel-style-robes

The problem is that a mod like this would require Quanon's approval and I don't think he's been very active as of late. The good news is that something like this is actually fairly easy to do. I like taking DIY approaches for stuff like this so I can walk you through it but the use of the end result needs to be restricted to yourself and yourself only: no uploading or sharing via private message without Quanon's approval since this is based on assets he has made. With that out of the way, here's the tutorial. You're gonna need an image editor such as Photoshop or Gimp. You won't need to do anything fancy but you'll need an image editing software. Grab the following file from Quanon's mod: "P_BastilaH04.tga" and place it in a folder somewhere on your computer. Extract "P_BastilaH04D.tga" from the other mod you have listed, this one contains the dark side eyes that you want. Place it in the same folder as the other .tga file. The "D" at the end of the file name indicates that it is the dark side texture variant for Bastila. Rename that last file to something like "P_BastilaH04D001.tga" or whatever to avoid conflict later on. Now copy the first file, the Bastila texture made by Quanon and rename it to "P_BastilaH04D.tga". This is the one you're going to work on and that you'll place in your override folder in the end. Now open the two dark side textures (the newly created "P_BastilaH04D.tga" and the one you had renamed, I'm gonna assume you used "P_BastilaH04D001.tga") into your image editor What you need to do is simple: You need to grab the dark side eye texture from "P_BstilaH04D001" and move it onto the copy of Quanon's texture. You can do so using a lasso tool, a polygonal lasso tool or any similar mean of selection your image editor might have. Select the eye as best as you can and move it onto the other texture and place it exactly over the existing eye texture. And that's it! Save "P_BastilaH04D" (you need to keep the .tga file format) and copy/paste the file into your swkotor/override folder. I want to add that the dark side eye texture on the mod you've chosen is not of great quality. I suggest you take a look at Shem's movie style dark side transition mod for your eye texture. The following files in that mod use a similar UV map for the eye texture to Bastila's, allowing you to use them without too much trouble: PFHA02d3 PFHA03d3 PFHC04d3 I want to stress again that whatever you chose to do with this, you can under no circumstances share your files without original authors' consent. Good luck.