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Late answer, but this could be a possibility ye depending on how much content in introduced in my mod. However, it would require a lot of balancing for the enemies. Raising to 30 could already be pretty cool. We'll see how things go as time goes by

I've been doing heavy development on a new version of the Holocron Toolset. This is a comprehensive and significant refactor and partial rewrite. Version v4.0.0 is now available for beta testing. Anyone wishing to try it may run one of the commands below depending on your OS, which will always launch the latest version retroactively: **Windows (PowerShell)** ```pwsh powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"; uvx holocrontoolset ``` **Linux / macOS (bash/zsh)** ```bash curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh && uvx holocrontoolset ```c Please post bugs in the kotor toolset's official discord: https://discord.gg/34QZKtThkU. Here you will also find our announcements, be able to post suggestions to recommend new features, and stay up to date with announcements. Source code as always will be available on <https://github.com/th3w1zard1/PyKotor>. Bugs may be posted here as well. If you prefer KOTOR tool or other options for comprehensive parsers and editors I suppose you may ignore this post completely and enjoy your day as normal. Otherwise suggestions, feature requests, and bug reports are appreciated to be able to further improvement of these modding tools for all. Thanks.

I was just wondering since I'm sure the question will arise. I'm not sure I'd ever use it myself given I don't "play" the game anyway these days, I just do beta testing for K1CP and the occasional personal mod.

Today's little demo: This patch was originally put together by @LanguageWriter123 (see here). He and I worked together to see what it would take to port this over, and today I decided to give it a shot, and I'm very pleased with the results! cc @darthbdaman as you asked about level caps earlier

Hello there fellow modders! Inspired by Thor modding tutorial series (extremely useful ressource!), I decided to help people out there but with a more visual approach to the process. Here is my youtube playlist with my current tutorials currently covering Holocron Toolset and basic module edition, Basics about Blender/KotorBlender and texture editing : Youtube Tutorials Playlist . My next tutorial will be about converting models from K2 to K1, or the opposite operation, using MdlEdit. Know that I'll be streaming next week as well on my youtube channel (either on Friday or Saturday night) and it will basically be for people to ask whatever they'd like me to cover regarding modding. I hope i can help some people out sharing my modding knowledge Cheers!

Thank you to everyone who commented on this thread. I never would have been able to put this together without y'all's help.

The author still doesn't follow this thread! You're better off sending them a PM. Or tag them. Hey @DarthRevan101, read the last few posts.

Oh and one thing I'd personally love to see fixed at the engine level would be to introduce alternate start in the Pazaak mini game! That has always bothered me immensely and it's actually fixed in K2. In the original game the AI has an unfair advantage as the Player starts each new round, making it statistically more difficult to avoid the so called "bust". I have produced a small mod that aims to make the mini game better overall but the best improvement would Indeed be this, if you could pull it off.

You can set up TSL Patcher/Holo Patcher to do that for you using tokens. If you read through the readme included with TSL Patcher, it'll explain how tokens work.

For those who are hungry for updates, thanks for all the kind words and support. As holidays are around the corner, my free-time has been a bit taxed lately as I strike the balance between KotOR things and spending time with my and my fiance's family. (Not to mention keeping up with my real job 😬) However, I did spend some time formalizing some of the various "wishlist" features, as well as other pending investigations within the repository issues view. Most upcoming work on my radar for this project is of the unexciting sort. I want to adjust the way I'm modelling game objects in the patching framework to better reflect the underlying inheritance in the base game (i.e. Functions that take a CSWCObject can accept a CSWCCreature, which is derivative, as valid input, etc). I also want to improve/expand the address database system. Right now, they're being stored in plain-text TOML format, which is fine at the current scale, but as this project has grown, this system is already becoming unwieldy. I'm looking to swap to using SQLIte, such that we can have efficient, live, swappable local databases that we can just dump address data directly out Ghidra into. Finally, kotor 2 reverse engineering just needs more work. Kotor 1 is in a great place, such that if we were only targeting that game, I could really accelerate this project. But since I'm endeavoring to provide a solid framework for both games, some TL&C is required to get kotor 2 at least somewhat up to speed. I likley will be giving DarthOuroboros's GhidraMCP suggestion a shot to see if that can accelerate things more here. As a lot of the work to be done is mostly comparative reverse engineering, which I hope falls into the low-complexity class of problem that AI typically excels at. As always let me know if there are any questions or suggestions! P.S. @ajdrenter Galaxy map stuff would be pretty interesting, I've added an issue for me to investigate that at some point in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

What do you mean by "future skill checks"? There are already skill checks in dialogue that add more skill based dialogue responses should said skill be a certain level. So this is the Loganverse team's latest rebrand I take it? As SH has already said, they seldom collaborate with others or share their own assets with modders. I had no idea who this is, I tried searching for them on YouTube and the only thing that came up was a Let's Play channel. The thing about Kotor Machiminas is that what you see on screen isn't as deep or as complex as the scene itself depicts. You might see an awesome scene with combat and the like but in reality what's going on behind the scenes is that NPCs are being directed to do things via JC's Toolbox and what you might think is an epic cutscene might actually be 5 separate choppy in-game cutscenes that were recorded and edited together to look like one scene when in reality they aren't. When it comes to any sort of animation, what isn't seen on screen doesn't need to be animated - this is especially true with 3D animation. I say this because something that might look cool in a Machimina might not actually work properly in-game as a mod. Remember how Revan and Kreia used Darth Malak's Lightsaber pose? In-game the ability to use blasters, the ability to use security on a door, or dialogue animations might be broken as those were never seen in the movie and thus could be left broken. Even if you ignore the fact that SWST and Varkor take their time making VO, there only value as voice actors for the ROR mod is for the character Revan and we aren't even up to writing that character's dialogue let alone finalizing his script. There will definitely be voice acted characters before Revan, so why would we want famous examples like SWST and Varkor for those characters when we can have unsung actors play these roles and do a good job at those roles (and not take 3-5 years to produce the lines for those roles too). And should by some miracle we do finish the entire mod and get to voicing Revan should these two be unable, unwilling, or no longer be here to voice the character we will inevitably have to look for different people. We are working on Episode Two and the patch for Episode One, though SH is right in saying that a collaboration at this stage is very very unlikely. I can assure you, work for Episode Two is well underway and it is going well without a major collaboration at this present time.

CapitaineSpoque, how about integrating LevelCapMod (50) into your mod? I mean this: https://deadlystream.com/topic/11814-kotor-1-level-cap-mod-to-level-50 It seems to me that given the expected character balance changes/new abilities in your mod, synchronizing these improvements with possible larger-scale upgrades (up to level 50) could give KotOR a fundamentally new gaming experience.

I really like the new reskin, specially the stone and lightning textures. I would add a little more color in the hallways, but that is just my personal opinion. I also like that you made Assasins have lightsabers, perhaps you could diversify them further if some of them had dual sabers (even one normal length and one short). And I still think some rooms could have more placeables (like the antechambers to the training room in front of the archives), or some placeables shuffled from the Dantooine enclave layout (for example, I think the dorm room with the lockboxes is the exact same one as the one in the Jedi Enclave, that could be changed to be more distinct), although I don't know if that is in the scope of the mod.

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 28 - Hard Coded Class Selection Values 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

Hello all, thanks to Fair Strides for pointing me here. Anyhow I'm pretty happy for anybody to do anything with any of my mods or files. No further need to ask for permission with anything from now on.

@Gaak78 Haha no worries, you speak your mind It's great to have people actively participating even if it's only sharing ideas. Happy holidays too

@Gaak78 Keep in mind that none of those HD footages are my work. I've mostly used Unreal Cinema project footage and HobbitVFX aswell for hyperspace transition. I could reuse the hyperspace transition arrival for anything else. I was wondering about maybe doing the same work for Kotor 2 TSL, as i know some people would enjoy this. The same philosophy could be applied to other mods as an optional install. Atm kinda busy with my own things but still a possibility. If anyone can find some 3D artists that are willing to do some HD footages, i'd be extremely interested aswell especially for a Sleheyron thing Cheers,

For better or for worse ? I hope it's only for the better ! The only issue I encountered is that the module is now sometimes lagging a little. And actually, it isn't a lightsaber but a crystal. And it's not exactly a reward for winning the Tournament. I'd like to make a new version of the Gamorrean Stronghold such as what I just did with the Pazaak Tournament on Manaan, but I guess I'd need to seek permission, and a 17 years old mod... Not sure I'll ever reach out to the author.