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02 - [TUTORIAL] - Creating a Merchant - TSL 03 - [ADDITIONAL] - Using ERFEdit 04 - [ADDITIONAL] - Picking an NPC to place in your level - TSL 05 - [ADDITIONAL] - Picking Placeables to fill your level with - TSL 06 - [ADDITIONAL] - Picking Alien Voice Over Dialog for your level - TSL 07 - [ADDITIONAL] - Placement & Rotation 08 - [TUTORIAL] - Waypoint Markers 09 - [TUTORIAL] - Scripting Basics 10 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPT] - Spawning NPC's on Enter 11 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPT] - Making NPC's Hostile! 12 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPT] - Trigger talking to an NPC! 13 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPT] - Make an NPC walk randomly 14 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPT] - Place a dead NPC 15 - [EXAMPLE SCRIPTS] - Starting Conditionals 16 - [TUTORIAL] - Companion Vendor 17 - [TUTORIAL] - Upgradeable Items 18 - [ADDITIONAL] - Door Gallery 19 - [ADDITIONAL] - Main Menu Details 20 - [ADDITIONAL] - UI Customization 21 - [ADDITIONAL] - Recolouring Textures 22 - [ADDITIONAL] - Recolouring the .GUI Files and Textures 23 - [ADDITIONAL] - Different Camera Modes & Dynamically Spawned Grid Of Placeables 24 - [ADVANCED] - Hard Coded GUI Elements 25 - One Line Dialogs 26 - Writing a changes.ini for HoloPatcher 27 - [MOBILE] - Android & iOS Modding 99 - [REQUESTS] - Submit a tutorial idea! I will continue to provide examples that I think might be useful to people, these are all for TSL so far. I hope these tutorials and any others I write will help people continue to make mods for KotOR 1 & 2. These tutorials are getting shorter and less detailed, I may or may not go back and re-write them at some point but if anyone struggles with anything feel free to message me and let me know what I haven't covered very well. Feel free to join the Discord for my project if you need help with anything related to KotOR modding and I will do my best to assist. Discord : https://discord.gg/S3YyfTjMV8 Base Game Scripts & How To Use Them KotOR Modding - Crash Course This 2 hour stream covers the basics of KotOR modding and some of the programs involved, I also regularly stream development of my mod project on Twitch/YouTube. Not all of this covers KotOR modding, there is about 10-20 minutes during the first hour where I get distracted and the second hour of it is mostly me playing games. These are the testing rooms but for K1 the room is lacking a texture but I find this just makes it easier to look through the characters. If anything in any of my short tutorials isn't clear or you don't understand for some reason then let me know and I will do what I can to help. ADVANCED TUTORIALS Utilising the following batch scripts and suggestions might take a while to get to grips with for some users but I would always advise doing so, it's very handy to have the ability to quickly generate a file list or compare things in various ways utilising the power of batch scripting. Comparing Level Contents Let's say you have two levels and you need to compare the differences of the contents. Extract everything from the original level to a folder called "level-a" and the modified folder to "level-b" Run the following batch script inside the "level-a" folder. file-list.bat Then delete or move the .bat file and move "file-list.txt" that it just created outside of the folder. You can also use this script to check that all the files exist. check-if-file-exists-from-file-list.bat You will have to move the file-list.txt and this script inside the folder to run the script. Now run this script at the same location as "file-list.txt" to run a file check against the contents of both folders. compare-files-from-file-list.bat Hopefully this might help someone, where I recently had to transfer all of my changes from manual installs to a TSLPatcher changes.ini file, I found this process helped speed the process up a little bit. From here, you should know which files differ and you can then use ChangeEdit.exe that comes with TSLPatcher in order to generate the differences between GFF files. Compiling Scripts If you have made it this far into the tutorial, you should already be familiar with compiling scripts, however for large projects you might need to recompile a lot of scripts at once, so here is a batch script that I used to do it. compile.bat Simply edit the script so that it points to the location of nwnnsscomp.exe for you and then you will be able to put the script into any folder that you need to compile a lot of scripts in and use it to do it all at once. If the scripts don't work for you, you might need to edit them and read them a bit in order to understand them and then to make sure that you have all of the right files in the right places. Thor110

I didnt mean to be harsh either - you know, there always will be a few jerks around who only think about themselves and nothing else. To be honest, i dont care about any light or darkside points but just for being respectful, honest and appreciative with each other. So dont worry too much about it 😀 You're always welcome to help me out and im glad if you have any ideas, suggestions for feedback!

Well thanks! This is indeed a good question.. and difficult to answer ^^ What i can say, is - its making surprisingly good progress in both quality and quantity, and using e.g. UHQ nature resources recently has helped a lot actually - so, i already can see the finish, but its still some way to go. I know what you mean. But as Malkior said -especially K2 art design is not well thought and if i can achieve a better look- why not? Since those FMV only play for a few seconds anyway- but keep in mind that the game play goes on for hours & hours and its better to have those 10 sec inconsistency instead of compromises in overall visual quality . That doesn't mean I don't try to make it as canon as possible, but I try to up the color variety whenever i can, every area should look unique after all: Especially areas like Telos Military Base & Ravager look too generic in vanilla game, so I also changed the color scheme: Bare steel visible on the edges when turning the camera Countless improvements have been made for Dantooine, including 8k rock textures: WIP skybox: Animated brushed aluminum panels when turning cam: Ultra-realistic 8K grass texture: You can see the sand grain in game: New marble & windows for Onderon, shimmering in sunlight: