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Hello there! It's been a long while since i've been there, since i've been mostly active on discord. I felt like i could share some WIP here, just to show that the project is still alive New ranged weapons sounds and visual effects Vulkar recruitment Manaan fast travel Workbench and lab station crafting system Undercity Floating mine for K1 That's pretty much it from the videos i did. I'm still in silent mode for now, but i'll have a lot more to showcase hopefully in the future. I'm currently working on the apartments content, the undercity and the vulkar base. Further areas are sewers and black market. We're slowly getting there

I know I'm a little late, but how about this? Before: After: Before: After: A few notes on the edits: The Manaan freighter is slightly larger than the original ones on Taris. I chose to keep the Manaan sizing instead of trying to scale them down. I relied on the in-game lighting instead of creating new lightmaps, which is why the new freighters look somewhat darker than the originals. While I was at it, I also patched a major hole in the bottom of the upper freighter's platform. High Quality Taris Freighter.zip

Having a quick look at it, the main issue is that the landing gear is split out to a dozen other meshes for animation, which makes it way more of a pain to deal with. Fortunately though most of the work is in the main body which is all one mesh. I'd suggest putting that on its own 512x512 map, and then group the landing gear into its own separate map that can be 256x256.

The wrecked ones should be OK as-is, they look like they already have a similar detail level as the Manaan/Nar Shaddaa freighters. To clarify, for Taris I just borrowed the higher-quality freighter model from Manaan as noted by Dark Hope in this thread:

FYI Folks, many new patches have been released. https://github.com/LaneDibello/Kotor-Patch-Manager New Aspyr Fixes: Lightsaber Hilt rendering - Lightsaber modders rejoice, the hilt textures no longer disappear Bump Map Restoration - bump maps are back! Others: Allowing all 12 of the K2 Portraits to be visible on party select - Modders can now use a slot for a recruitment mod by using whatever slot the user isn't using for mira/hanarr, and no longer need to utilize the armband while using partyswap. Wiring for Good and Very Good Alignment heads. - If any modders want to take up making good and very good alignment heads, these were in heads.2da already but there wasn't any exe logic calling to them, it now works at 70 and 90 alignment. Also working on a patch to expand the max dynamic lights to 9 instead of the vnailla 3. All of J's fixes have been ported as well.

It's recommended to install KOTOR 2 Community Patch before PartySwap.

@HDR1 Yes, I have been informed of the KotOR Patch Manager feature that provides a potential replacement for the PartySwap item. The PartySwap item is not used for anything other than adding Handmaiden to the party, so in theory removing it with KSE should not cause issues, at least game-breaking ones.

I can't believe my eyes. This is so cool. You should publish it.

Hello friends, I am currently developing a patch for K2 that extends the active Party from 3 to 5. I've got a lot of it worked out: Adding to party from party select screen Combat, Skill Usage, Quest Reward Experience Propagates to 4th and 5th slots Buffs/Debuffs can be added to 4th and 5th slots. The icons display. Autolevel up will autolevelup 4th and 5th slot members. Most movement related bugs are sorted, still some quirks with pathfinding and spawn location to sort out GUI has been fixed to show 4th and 5th slots. 4/5th slots can react to conversations, start dialogue, gain/lose influence. Things still needed: 5th slot doesn't show level up icon. (Shouldn't be a difficult fix) Scripts that hard code iterating through the party with 3. These will all have to be changed. In menu portraits don't show, researching fixes for this. Coming to a KOTOR Patch Manager Near You, some day, don't ask. I'm working on it.

so far, so good. Still a lot of work to do, but yeah, i play with partyswap.

Vanity and good business-sense. The backstory I have in mind for it is that the arena was built by a non-Hutt businessman on Sleheyron, and he named it after Nal Hutta to honor his Hutt overlords (and more importantly to bring their business to the arena).

Here: Ratgo Door Fix.zip I just wish one of you miscreants could tell me how you're managing it. I have never been able to recreate it. Edit the save to add in an armband that runs a custom script to close the door and reset its plot state, load the game and fire the script, save, test the scene triggers correctly and exit, edit the save to remove the armband.

Sorry I've been slow to update this thread. A lot of the discussion has moved to Discord for better or for worse. But I'll try to put major updates here when I can. @DarthOuroboros Regarding a Lua machine, I had considered this option previously when I was planning out the script extender, but discarded it as the scripting community is already very well established, and asking people to adopt a new scripting paradigm might be a hard sell. However, that's not to say there'll never be a Lua machine implemented as you describe. There's room in the patching project for all sorts of ideas and features (provided someone is willing to create them). It just isn't currently on my or anyone elses docket to look into that.

[TUTORIAL] - KotOR Modding Tutorial Series These tutorials should be enough to get anybody started making levels for the game using the available resources and tutorials / tools etc IMPORTANT NOTE : A lot of the tools I use are outdated now that Holocron Toolset is out, however I still prefer working with each filetype as I am use to the programs that edit them directly that I use throughout this tutorial. So if you are using Holocron Toolset or KotOR Level Editor, things will be different, but the general idea should be the same. I suggest trying out Holocron Toolset if you want an all in one program for editing levels, it does everything KotOR Level Editor does and most of what all the tools I have below do, except perhaps findrefs, dencs, kotor gui editor, walkswitch, anicam, ptheditor and lip synch editor, but it does everything the rest of the programs do and it might even do some of the things from the programs I just mentioned, I am not sure! Available Source Material & Tools These are the tools I use for modding the game. Lots of source material is available on DeadlyStream as well as many tutorials, some old, some new and very detailed information on the filetypes and the game itself, so make sure to have a good look around. .nss scripts for every script I have been able to access from both games are available in the GitHub repositories for my project. Some scripts from KotOR1 require the files to be trimmed of some excess bytes, there is some information on it around here somewhere and I will post a link to it when I next find it, the scripts in question are some of those from Tatooine, Manaan, Kashyyyk and the Unknown World. Actually Decompiling Scripts Steam KotOR Tool Issues KotOR2 Expanded Galaxy Thor110/Expanded-Galaxy-Main: Expanded Galaxy Main (github.com) KotOR1 in TSL Expanded Galaxy Thor110/Expanded-Galaxy-Port: Expanded Galaxy Port (github.com) Brotherhood of Shadow : Solomon's Revenge in TSL Expanded Galaxy Thor110/Expanded-Galaxy-Hood: Expanded Galaxy Hood (github.com) PLEASE do not redistribute the entire project anywhere without my express permission, but feel free to learn from the source material to make as many modifications to the game as you wish. If you wish to work on the project or contribute by offering or allowing your mod to be included with the project feel free to contact me on here or elsewhere. In future I might go beyond these basic scripting tutorials and add other types of tutorials such as texturing and modelling that are focused around KotOR2 TSL or working with others towards making a comprehensive KotOR modding guide. Most material I write will be aimed at KotOR 2 TSL, though a lot of the structure of the game is very similar between them both if not almost identical. For now here are some really basic written tutorials for getting setup with Blender and modding for KotOR or just messing around with the models from the game. I will continue to work on these providing screenshots and more as necessary. The first two blender tutorials here are a little outdated, there is a new version of KotORBlender for example which can import MDL files without the need for them to be converted to ASCII. I advise having a folder with all of the games model files ( mdl/mdx/wok/dwk/pwk ) and related files ( .lyt/.vis ) as well as textures ( swpc_tex_tpa/swpc_tex_gui ) And even all of the .gui files, this way you can use that folder to instantly import an entire level as well as properly display .gui files in the KotOR GUI Editor. Blender Tutorial 00 - Getting Blender Setup ( OUTDATED ) Blender Tutorial 01 - Asset Editing ( OUTDATED ) Blender Tutorial 02 - Creating A Placeable Blender Tutorial 03 - Character Editing Blender Tutorial 04 - Level Editing Outdated Tutorials & Intro Individually written and quite specific tutorials, mostly scripts and guidance towards achieving specific goals or tasks. 01 - [TUTORIAL] - Creating a Module for TSL using a KotOR Map! The first tutorial should be a great guide for porting a level from the first game into the second game as well as that it shouldn't be too difficult to work out how to do it the other way around from there on out! These are some useful links that I have found around that might guide you towards making mods for the game. Useful Links for learning to mod TSL & KotOR Thor110 In the following post in this topic are many more tutorials that I am working on to guide people through the process of making mods for KotOR.

Make T3 An Actual Character I was actually thinking of doing something like this after my next K2 playthrough, to make sure it's (his?) character remains consistent. My full idea would include a potential retcon for T3, to help develop a backstory their character in a KotOR-like manor. In KotOR T3 is supposed to be a brand new droid, and this could easily be used to explain it's non-existent personality, since it hasn't developed a distinct personality yet. The retcon would change that somewhat. It is explicitly stated in the game that Davik commissioned T3 so this opens up some options. In my idea T3's memory core was a stolen Republic code breaking droids core that was partitioned, rather than memory-wiped, to preserve it's high level code breaking capabilities, while suppressing any undesirable memories or loyalties. Revan could use Computer Use to unlock new memories and abilities in much the same way as using Repair on HK. This would also be a good excuse to give T3 it's quirky personality rather than a fresh-off-the-production-line default. Like many characters T3's backstory would involve the Mandalorian Wars and tangentially Revan, to help create a connection between the two, rather than just "I own you, do what I say". Of course that would all be optional dialogue. Just giving T3 some more dialogue and interactions independent of that would also be part of the mod, assuming I can wrap my head around the scripting necessary. Since the level-up unlocking of dialogue is used for the other characters I think I could basically just copy-paste simple scripts like that, and adding T3 interjections to dialogue based on whether they are in the party or not is mostly just finding the right dialogues in the first place. Inter-party dialogue is a different matter, as it would largely necessitate unused or forgettable dialogue from the other party members to avoid repetition. But there isn't a lot of this in the first place, and if I remember correctly I think it only takes place on Taris. Although it was years ago, I have worked on building dialogue trees before, so I am sure I can do that. If you have any specific requests or concerns let me know, and I'll keep them in mind while working on this.

To anyone who thinks they are a master of KOTOR combat... Are you willing to put that to the test?! I'm pleased to announce that my Sleheyron mod now features a special challenge: The Arena of the Glorious Jewel! Face off against infinite waves of randomly-generated enemies with some serious mechanics! Strategize each wave and build the best character you can to see how far you can make it! And to celebrate Star Wars Day, I have a special contest related to this mod: Do you think you have what it takes to be THE champion of KOTOR? Well now's your chance to prove it: Join up in a contest where you'll compete against other Knights of the Old Republic to see who can make it to the furthest wave of the arena! And whoever makes it furthest will win a Star Wars game Steam key from me! (Within reasonable price range, and maybe it doesn’t even have to be a Star Wars game)... If you're interested in partaking in the contest, click the Discord server link here: https://discord.gg/9vSBSh8a And, of course, the Sleheyron mod can be downloaded here: I hope to see you all in the arena!