Welcome to the club, and from what I can see you've already advanced in areas in 9 months that I haven't in almost 9 years
I'm not sure if you're the same guy I told this to on Discord, but are you aware of the "Swoop Droid"? Not the one that spawns on the Ebon Hawk on the Xbox, but the actual Swoop Droid that was fully voiced and has leftover VO in the game files. Maybe you can use the VO to your advantage here.
I hope you add an option to pick up the turret once you're done with it, and maybe a limit too so the player doesn't just add a thousand turrets to kill a boss. Maybe have it so that you place one down, you lose the turret item, you can speak to the turret out of combat, you pick the dialogue option to "Pick it up", it removes the turret NPC and you gain the turret item again.
Now that is an interesting concept. You might want to adjust the Ritual Beast camera so it shows the enlarged Terentatek.
Now that might be a fun thing to add randomly throughout the game, depending on whether or not it makes sense for something to explode. Maybe you can lock one of the grenade footlockers and if you bash it it explodes.
So I was personally was going to do this for an alien NPC mod I have planned, the install would be modular meaning you could hypothetically install Zabraks and no other species.
But unlike your mod, I was going to use reskins of Bao-Dur's head and I was going to have them strategically replace pre-existing NPCs in the game. For example, the Exchange Debt Collector in the Lower City or one of the Bounty Hunters in Zax's office who I'd deck out in Zabrak gear, this way the Zabraks would speak English and wouldn't need any TOR Zabrak lines.
Are you planning on merging Inyri's horn mask item with the head model itself? If you are would you consider making some female Zabraks as well?
I like that, but my only concern is that you may have to make multiple versions for different screen resolutions.
Cursed!
I do like the idea of this! What sort of stats do you have in mind for the bandoliers? How many bandoliers do you plan to have? Is it possible to have the bandoliers be equipable in the armor slot?
So... like merging Davik's head with his visor so you can see him wearing his mask for example?
This one sounds dubious to me, though I'm sure what you have in mind for this mod idea is better than what I'm imaging.