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Besides being not able to spell, it's a 2DA edit that was literally already done 20+ years ago. So new for zoomers I guess? But muh Nexus pennies!

What does "generatinal" mean?

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

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.

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.

File updated.

IMHO, it's in poor taste to advertise your mod here when it's hosted on another site. If you think your mod is worthy of being shared widely, why not upload it here?

Aye. It's been a nice trip down memory lane as it were with everyone contributing in surprisingly-chronological order for the most part. Mind you, with remembering how much progress was made, I'm actually thinking I could take some time soon (around birthday and school stuff) and finish up the missing bits for an actual SG release. Might be a few things left on the cutting room floor, but it'd be what it'd be with time as it is. I think I'm looking forward to this.

Well Aqualaris was reused in the Edge of Darkness mod by @90SK which I did some upscales for as well. I would suggest limiting the posts to Scrapyard Games stuff moving forward though as that's what the work (and the original post) is primarily about. If folks are interested in the other materials that @Quanonwas kind enough to offer, I am sure folks will make their own threads (or Discords) to discuss them in greater detail.

given how helpful Sith Holocron has been in motivating me to get my hands on all these different iterations of Scrapyard Games, I figure it's only fair that I showcase some of his (work in progress) upscaled textures. Of the ones he's done so far, the main ones he's upscaled that show a vast difference on my 1080p monitor are the textures for the Barracuda, which are miles ahead of the old ones. BEFORE AFTER The results here really speak for themselves. I'm not someone who typically uses texture upscales, as most of the vanilla textures in these games are good enough for my standards, but this here is just leagues ahead and will definitely be included in the modder's resource. ...If you're wondering why the HUD looks so blown out in these screenshots, its because for whatever reason when I take screenshots in these modules, they come out with extremely low exposure, which I've corrected in an image editor to reflect how it actually looks in game. Here's what it looked like before. Zack Snyder's Scrapyard Games much? Again, no clue why it only does this in screenshots, regardless of my brightness setting. Sith Holocron says its probably an issue with the way the lighting is baked and that I should ask for some assistance with having it rebaked in here, so if anyone has any insights on that be sure to sound off. I'll also say that its very cool that the takeoff and landing cutscenes have been found, major props to @Stoney for that. Sith Holocron and I had all but accepted they were lost to time and that they'd have to be remade from scratch. Insofar as using the 3ds Max files as a base to re-export in higher quality as per Quanon's suggestion, that's not something in my area of expertise but if anyone would like to take a crack at it, that would also be fantastic. I'm far more active in the OpenKOTOR discord than in here, so if you're interested in collaborating on the modder's resource or something else Scrapyard Games related, you'll get more timely responses over there. I'm currently in the process of asking if its allowed to post discord invites in public threads, if I get the go ahead I'll edit an invite into this post. To leave things off, as a fun little bonus to show some of the other stuff you can expect in the modder's resource, here's one of Quanon's (and seemingly Glovemaster's too, if the suffix QGM is anything to believe) Aqualaris modules, specifically 501QGM, the Recreational Zone. This one absolutely took my breath away when I first loaded it, and the screenshots really don't do it justice, I highly implore you to download the zip titled "Aqualaris" in Quanon's original post here and walk around there yourself. I'd love to know what the story behind this mod is.

I have high quality voice overs that I commissioned from Fiverr for two of the SG characters if anyone is willing to complete the SG as it's meant to be. In addition, several folks had volunteered to do the various small parts and I have those files as well. Any chance that I can get @GroovyCarrotand @Quanonre-record their cameo lines? Even recordings on your phone in a sound dampening environment (like a car) would likely be an improvement than the original recordings made over a decade ago. I've waited a long time to see these videos. I sure won't make you guys wait!

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.

If you're working on a lightsaber hilt mod or any texture using a bump map, you may be interested in my recently published fixes on KOTOR Patch Manager that restore both in the Aspyr versions of the game.

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.

Definitely gonna take a look at this, despite the search for assets being mostly over. Rest assured that you and @Stoney will both be credited alongside Quanon, Glovemaster, Fair Strides, and Sith Holocron as Scrapyard Games contributors in the modder's resource. One thing I will clarify/reiterate for everyone however, if I have not made it fully clear, is that this modder's resource is not intended to finish Scrapyard Games or even encompass all of the assets of Scrapyard Games. This is in part because I don't actually know how to make KOTOR mods, the entirety of my technical knowledge in this game is module related, no scripting. I recognize this is very much backwards as to how most people learn these skills, but it is just how things have turned out for me. The modder's resource is going to contain *just* the modules, stripped of NPCs and such. With that in mind, no, I do not plan on including voice lines. If the wind ends up blowing the right way, I may *someday* make a modder's resource of every single version of all the Scrapyard Games files I can get my hands on, organized by date, but I make no promises. This, however, I could justify either including or releasing as a separate modder's resource. The Barracuda is a cool looking ship which actually appears in more than just Scrapyard Games (I have what I believe is an unfinished Sleheyron module with the Barracuda in it.) and it'd be a small enough undertaking to pluck it out.

Hi there, Letstrit. I've looked at the files and after some tinkering, fix is to rename the new custom UV name from "UVMap.001" to the default "UVMap". It seems that the Blender add-on expects for a UV to be named the default way "UVMap". It uses this specific one when exporting. And if no UV is named that way, it skips and the mesh disappears. Hope this helps

Not particularly difficult for the most part, if you know what you're doing, but not the ideal first mod for someone who has no experience. This would require multiple script edits, dialogue creation, cutscene creation, and the ever-thorny issue of dealing with adding/replacing vanilla companion/NPC dialogue.

Almost a year ago now, the first Episode of the Revenge of Revan mod was released to the public - allowing you to play the first visit to Corellia. Now, in the Big 2026, I am here with an update to the mod's ongoing development. Despite the silence here on Deadlystream and, sadly, in the ROR Community's Discord server, development of the mod is going well. ROR Episode 1.5 is slated to appear on Deadlystream at some point this year. This will be a ROR Addon which will be uploaded here on Deadlystream and will be installed after ROR Episode One. ROR Episode 1.5 will add bug fixes, quality of life changes, and even the much requested side quest, into ROR Episode One. The content which will shall experience in the ROR Episode 1.5 Addon will be included in ROR's Episode Two update which will add Nar Shaddaa to ROR which can be played after the Party leaves Corellia, instead of end credits as there is now you shall be teleported to Nar Shaddaa and the game will continue with new areas, NPCs, and side quests to play. In the mean time, I am displeased to announce that the current Revenge of Revan Community Discord Server is going to be discontinued. In its wake, I am pleased to announce that I shall be making a new Revenge of Revan Community Discord Server to replace the old one. The problem with the original ROR Discord Server, the one that Logan launched with the release of ROR Episode One, is that Logan was both the sole Admin and didn't use Discord meaning it is vulnerable to spam attacks as no one active in the Discord dev team can do anything to stop the intrusions. This new Discord Server is obviously the best solution I can implement to curtail the spamming problem in the ROR Community as I, and active member of the community, shall be at the helm as Administrator. I do hope that, with the launch of the new server, that players like yourselves shall be able to engage with the community without having to deal with spammers. It is advised to all users in the original Discord Server to leave and join the new one. I shall get around to posting the old screenshot leaks from the old Discord Server and into the new one, alongside some brand new screenshots previewing the current work. Here is the link to the Discord Server, please let me know if the link is not working for you.

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.

I wish there was a way to access all the mods once on PCGamemods.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is a fun game to play, at least as far as character leveling and battling your way through the game is concerned (so many of the sidequests being broken as all get-out, not so much). Which is good, because if the story as-is was the main draw of the game? I might have donated or pawned my Xbox copy and never looked back. Because... hot take: The majority of KotOR II's writing is crap, especially in regards to the Jedi Order and the Sith Triumvirate. Now, there are some things and concepts I like, but there's a lot (especially to do with the areas just mentioned) that has grated on me more and more with every subsequent playthrough. So, I'm going to cover the things I have problems with and pitch fixes for them (marked with underlines). Now, I realized a lot of these fixes cause contradictions with Legends storylines that referenced this game, but you know what? Serves Legends right for having mindlessly rubber-stamped practically every non-Lego game that came out after SotE as canon (especially The Force Unleashed). And for the NJO novels. * Letting the player decide whether Revan embraced redemption or reverted to evil. Letting the player have it either way as far as Revan's gender is concerned? That's all fine and dandy (that is, aside from the sloppy coding not checking this properly especially wrt the stupid Jedi Masters). But KotOR II also tries to let you choose whether the first game had the Light Side or Dark Side endings (hence why the galaxy is so jacked-up) but that. Doesn't. Actually. Work. Because except in the situational alternate Dark Side ending, THE STAR FORGE DOESN'T GET DESTROYED on the Dark Side path. The Dark Side ending of KotOR 1 is: "Revan kills Malak, reclaims the Sith empire and the Star Forge, is poised to conquer the galaxy." With something like the Star Forge in play... trying to have it both ways like KotOR II does just doesn't work. I'm sorry, but no. Revan needs to be locked in as Light Side. * Most of the attempts to tie the Sith Triumvirate and their crap, and the Trayus Academy, to the first game need to be excised. 1. Revan already had a secret ancient Dark Side MacGuffin facility that was part of what factored into their going Dark: it was called the Star Forge. 2. I'm sorry, but I think if Revan and Malak's empire used the Trayus Academy to convert Jedi then Malak would have taken her there rather than Lehon, no? 3. If Revan was sending suitable captured Jedi to Trayus as well as "disappearing" Force-sensitives from the ranks to send them to Trayus (and this seems too big a thing to keep secret from Malak), then somehow I don't think the Dreshdae Academy on Korriban would have been so blindly welcoming to defector Jedi and supposed defector Jedi. And would have been screening students in need of "correction". 4. Subtext in the first game seems to strongly indicate that Revan was Vrook Lamar's Padawan. Chris Avellone's Mouthpiece Kreia doesn't get to usurp that. Chuck it all, work in a nonconflicting setup for the Trayus Academy. * Speaking of Kreia... Ugh. Just... Ugh. I think the game would almost be better off without her, but she's a little too enmeshed to be chucked so some rewriting will have to suffice. Chris Avellone has said: "When it came to the narrative, a lot of thrust for the storyline came from an examination of some interpretations of the Force that were coming out of Episode I, II, and III, mostly the fact that the Force seemed to have a will of its own and it had a plan for everybody in the universe but that plan didn't seem beneficial for a whole bunch of people, result in a lot of death and destruction, and then lastly the idea that we didn't really have any choices over our actions; it was a lot of predestination. As a role-playing game designer, all of those things kind of bothered me" (quote found on Kreia's Wookieepedia page, but it's not the original source). Hence Kreia's extreme bitterness towards the Force and its will, to the point that she's trying to kill the Force. But there are some major problems with that thrust. 1. The timeline proves that Avellone is either fibbing or mis-speaking in that interview, because TSL predates RotS and so RotS (and interpretations of the Force based thereupon, including a more competent examination of "the will of the Force" from Matt Stover's novelization) can't have actually been much of a factor. 2. Speaking as a prequel fan I don't seem to recall people talking that much about "the will of the Force" in the films. 3a. While those interpretations may have been present in Expanded Universe novels and whatnot of the time, they don't really match up with what the movies themselves (OT or PT) show (indeed, the movies themselves would seem to portray predestination as false - "Always in motion, is the future," remember? Avellone referencing that makes this writing even more painful- and actions that assume predestination as dangerous and self-destructive), or George Lucas' conception of the midi-chlorians and the Whills (which is more along the lines of destiny-as-choice, same for George Lucas' personal beliefs). 3b. George said in 2003 that what he was exploring with the prequels was how someone would fall into evil ways, and that his conclusion was the inability to let go and move on in the face of change and loss - which is exactly what we see with Anakin in the prequels; "will of the Force" has nothing to do with it, nor is it said to (at least in the movies). 4. All of that being said, Chris Avellone's counter-interpretation of the Force as mouthpieced through Kreia comes off as more than a little shallow and knee-jerk. It's made worse by the fact that the narrative doesn't offer much in the way of counterarguments to the interpretation given through Kreia, so it feels like the game is shoving that interpretation down your throat. For me at least, this is amplified by the fact that you're rarely if ever allowed to actually counterargue any of Kreia's philosophical attitudes. Rebuff? Yes. Counterargue? No. Something else Avellone said is that the lesson he hoped players took away from KOTOR II was "it's okay to question the franchise." Well, as far as I'm concerned he couldn't have blown that one harder if he'd tried. Because what I took away from this game was "It's not okay to question my super-negative intepretation of the Force and I'm gonna viciously staple it to your forehead." Rebalance the narrative to present good counterarguments to her interpretation in-story (both spelled out in dialogue and implied through actions in scenes) and also maybe tone Kreia the f*** down in places. Or, in lieu of toning her down, maybe change the story so that the Jedi Masters are overtly trying to draw her out (only to get more than they bargained for)? Just rewrite things around her hard enough that the game as a whole isn't cramming her view of the Force down your gullet (even if Kreia herself still is) * Kreia's prophesy re: Mandalore is dumb for various reasons even in the context of Legends (I'm sure Karen Traviss in particular probably had a few things to say to Avellone about that one). Rewrite it for accuracy or just chuck it outright and never look back. * The Jedi Masters' verdict on Dantooine feels very forced and abrupt, especially given Kavar and Zez Kai-Ell's individual reactions to a Light Side player. The first couple times I played through the game, I actually thought both Light Side and Dark Side players got this scene and it didn't properly take Light Side players into account (because, well, it honestly doesn't). As it stands, this is an unacceptable mess. Fix 1: Insert sufficient buildup to actually justify the verdict Fix 2: Change their reasoning for why they're doing what they're doing (maybe along the lines of "Under better circumstances, we would be content to let this be, but there are dangers"?) Fix 3: Change what they're doing and the setup for Kreia's intervention entirely * This game's presentation of the Battle of Malachor V doesn't seem to quite jibe with what the first game told of the last battle of the Mandalorian Wars. Not sure of a fix here, admittedly. But... It does feel worth commenting on. * It feels like there's a bit too much information critical to plot logic walled off behind Influence with party members. * The game tries to pull the same "trying to toughen the galaxy up for an outside threat" retcon on Revan that was elsewhere attempted in Legends re: Thrawn. It doesn't really work with Revan (it was semi-plausible with Thrawn, at least as an original, pre-corruption-by-Palpatine motive), although I'll admit that trying it with Revan still isn't nearly as bullcrap as people using it to try and excuse Palpatine and the Galactic Empire's sins. Regardless, it should probably be chucked. * Rewrite the timing and wording of HK-50's drugging of the Exile and sabotage of the Harbinger to better fit with the established info about picking up the Ebon Hawk and investigating the Sith warship I realize this is a huge undertaking, and not everyone will feel the same way I do about the narrative... But I feel it would be worth doing.