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There's always the TOR Wookiees. Their original textures are pretty cartoony.

Yes. For normal maps to work, each mesh that the normal map is applied to must have the bumpmappable flag enabled. You can do this relatively simply by loading the model into KBlender, selecting any appropriate meshes, and enabling the flag in the KOTOR properties section before re-exporting.

Episode Two's development of ROR goes well, however, this post isn't about Episode Two - it's about the bug fix update 1.0.2. Since Logan has once again gone awol to deal with his new job, I have been left to develop Episode Two's Nar Shaddaa. Of course, should I somehow complete the entirety of Episode Two without Logan to the best of my abilities we are left with the risk of the mod going into limbo again as I can't physically go on to 100% finish the Episode without Logan. So, here is what I am doing to avoid that happening. I am trying to learn how to create quests for Kotor II, something I haven't delved into before... until now: (the typo shall obviously be corrected before released ) This is something many players were expecting when they first played Episode One, and were disappointed for when these characters played no role in their playthrough. Their side quest was cut towards the end of Episode One's development for the same reason Obsidian Entertainment ended up cutting a bunch of stuff - to ultimately save time and release the mod before June of 2025. Now, in bug fix 1.0.2, their side quest is being brought back. The original side quest that was planned had mercenaries spawn in who would harass Beedo, the Rodian, who were sent by Tokro, the Hutt, to get him to pay off his debt. The player could negotiate to get them to backoff or fight them to save Beedo. You would then go to Tokro who, as a businessman, wanted you to plant a bomb on some cargo crates in the spaceport module (these crates are where the Beast Rider encounter happened in the Onderon Spaceport) belonging to a rival company. Doing so would result in a CorSec Officer spotting you to which you could either hand in the bomb and confess to Tokro's crime or you could convince the CorSec Officer to leave you alone and have the bomb planted. This version of the sidequest was cut for a few reasons. First, the mercenaries were to spawn after you went to the Royal Palace and recruited Uldir - instead a bug would occur where they spawned immediately upon entering the module. Second, the old scripts from 2011 were so broken that only some of the mercenaries went hostile and/or left if you convinced them to backdown. And third, no matter how much you nerfed the mercenaries they would always one shot kill the player and Drayen due to how weak you were that early in the game. And as for the setup of Tokro's actual quest, the idea was that the bomb would explode the cargo in transit meaning it'd blow up in space. However, the idea that a Jedi Padawan, in the company of their Jedi Master, and Uldir, a Police Officer, would even contemplate doing this side quest for even a minute wouldn't make too much sense. Not to mention that, if you were to confess and surrender the bomb to the CorSec Officer, Tokro technically wouldn't cancel his debt as you didn't deploy the bomb. These bugs combined with the logical inconsistency of the quest resulted in me deciding to cut the quest as I'd rather focus my energy on making progress instead of banging my hand against the wall trying to get this quest to work. The new quest is still in its infancy of development, but the new version I'm writing has it so that there are no mercenaries and that Beedo, instead of his landspeeder being damaged by the mercenaries, is now trying to sell his landspeeder for the 10,000 credits he owes Tokro. You'd go to Altol Cantina where Tokro can be found and you would mention Beedo to Tokro. Tokro would then tell you that you cannot realistically pay off Beedo's debt even if you were to use the "givecredits" cheat as his debt is 10,000 credits plus interest. He reveals himself to be the CEO of a Corellian banking company and that he will be willing to drop the debt if you were to find a banking manifest that has ended up in the Agrilat Swamps due to the Tyrena disaster. The manifest shall be found somewhere beyond the damaged landspeeder, meaning you'll have to complete the Esbek Hotel murder quest before you can retrieve the manifest. When this update is released, I shall tell you's all here where the manifest can be found. Once you return the manifest to Tokro, he will cancel Beedo's debt and the quest will be over. I do have plans to add a Dark Side ending to this quest where, instead of giving it to Tokro, you give the manifest to a Czerka NPC who'll use it to blackmail Tokro into making a deal with Czerka. This Czerka element will not be added in this next update and will be added in another update unless Logan disagrees and either changes or rejects the Czerka idea entirely. There may also be a second optional side quest, if it can be made for update 1.0.2 I shall reveal more details here, if I cannot be made for update 1.0.2 it might have to wait until update 1.0.3 or Episode Two's release. This update will come in the form of a ROR Addon/separate mod as I cannot obviously update the mod myself and Logan doesn't want to risk accidentally releasing Episode Two files in this update. So that means update 1.0.2 will be a separate mod that you'll install after ROR and it won't be added into the actual ROR until Episode Two is released. Update 1.0.2 will come with a plethora of very minor, but very good, bug fixes to certain modules of ROR Episode One that I won't delve into until the mod is actually released to which I shall post a changelog of all the changes made in update 1.0.2. By developing this side quest I hope to achieve two things: give you, the players, something to enjoy to whilst Episode Two is underway, and to give me the experience necessary to develop and finish the planned Episode Two side quests independent of Logan so that there'll be less for us to do before Episode Two's release. Please let me know what you think.

This will hopefully be the first of a few mods which I will be developing to enhance the atmosphere, visuals, and overall experience of Korriban. There are already some great mods out there which improve or upscale the appearance of commoners and others throughout the game but one section of the game and its characters always stood out to me as rather "unpolished": the Sith on Korriban. Out of all the planets, I always felt that Korriban was one of the most neglected in both K1 and K2 when it came to visuals in particular. There were even multiple mods which improved the appearance of Czerka employees, including those on Korriban, so it only felt appearance to do the same for the Sith students, teachers, and masters. This mod will port the robes from the Trayus Sith Academy on Malachor V on K2 and many of the Sith will be wearing them according to rank: students will wear "low" robes, teachers (including Yuthura) will wear "mid," and Master Uthar will wear the "high" or "Dark Jedi Master" robe as shown. All of the "Lite" Sith NPCs will also be upscaled and given the same heads as they are given in K1CP which I would highly encourage players to install before installing this mod but it won't be a requirement; similarly all of the Lite NPCs who are switched to "female" based on their file names in K1CP will be given the same treatment here but with the clothing overhaul as mentioned above. There will be two main options for installation: "Clothes Only" which will only change the NPCs' clothes but have them all keep their vanilla heads, and "Clothes & Heads" which will give unique heads (many of which will be ported player or minor character heads from K2) to all of the NPCs whom the player more directly interacts or converses with. Sith who will be out studying or excavating in the Valley will be wearing the "Dark Jedi Padawan" robes which use the player robe model from K2. Most of the textures used will be from a combination of mods by @Effix, @Dark Hope, and @90SKand I would like to thank them for their willingness to allow me to utilize their mods for this project. I should hopefully be able to finally get the project released within a weak or so.

Made some changes after doing some additional testing on the mod. Lashowe, Mekel, Shaardan, and Jorak Uln will now keep their original unique heads and will merely get upscaled textures. Some additional errors with texture-assignments for models were corrected so it should be ready soon.

Not exactly, no. The original source was Jakarro, an NPC from one of the expansions that was a lot beefier than the vanilla Wookiee model they had: The bits for Hanharr were modelled mostly from scratch I think, from memory. The Zaalbar belts were taken from one of the scrawny Wookiees and sliced and diced to fit the new model: And of course there was some massaging required to get the model to fit the KOTOR Wookiee rig.

It was never released. It was just something I was playing around with. But here are the models and textures if you want to try generating some new textures. If you produce something you like you're welcome to release it yourself. Although it seems I never got around to remapping the Zaalbar belt meshes to fit into a more reasonably-sized texture. I can probably do that for you if you do decide to release it. Re-exporting the models with the vanilla names would also make life easier. There's also presumably the issue of female Wookiees needing a replacement in such a mod. TOR does have a scrawny Wookiee model that would work I guess. TOR_Wookiees.7z