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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

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.

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?

OK, I have completed the lightmaps and submitted the finalized mod for approval: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2973-high-quality-taris-freighters/. The lightmaps should bring the freighters' brightness much closer to vanilla levels. In other news, I have put together a rough draft of DarthParametric's I-Wing on the roof of the Sandral Estate. I still need to lightmap it, but I have attached the current draft for reference in the meantime. Since DarthParametric's model already included seats and control console boxes, I did my best to finish off the inside of the cockpit frame and made the glass transparent...but of course you can't see most of the interior from the ground anyway. I think the transparency still enhances it, but if people prefer, I can black out the windows instead. Dantooine I-Wing (Draft).zip

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

Sure, I'll work on that next after I finish the Taris Freighter lightmaps.

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!

The I-Wing was already there in the vanilla game, I'm just swapping in DarthParametric's remodeled version. I always assumed it was the Sandrals' personal ship or something like that. (Screenshot stolen from Wookieepedia)

View File Collar fix patches for JC Cloak mods Description I love the Kotor 2 style jedi robes, who doesn't? its probably THE jedi robe used in modlists now, and yet I think the black collar in JC's original kotor 2 mod looks weird to me. Luckily two mods came out that fixed that issue, Heyoranges collar fix mod and Shems Cloak revival retexture. Then I realized that DarthParametric's JC's cloaked jedi mods still have the collar problem, meaning they'll look out of place with the texture replacements. This mod is moreso an override patch to replace DarthParametrics JC's cloaked roebs to match with whatever collar fix you choose Installation: YOU MUST INSTALL JC'S CLOAKED MOD AND DARTHPARAMETRICS JEDI MODS FOR MY MOD TO WORK: -JC's Fashion Line I: Cloaked Jedi Robes for K1 -Diversified Jedi Captives on the Star Forge (Also install TSL Robes compatibilty patch in the optional files) -Jedi Diversity on the Star Forge -Dark Jedi Wear Robes After the mods are installed, its just a simple override loose file process, all you have to do is download and extract this mod, and pick the specific folder of the mod your using (Or all if thats the case), select the folder of which collar fix your using, and drag the files into your override folder in the swkotor folder and override all files when prompted to Recommended mods: I highly suggest you pick either Heyoranges collar fix mod or Shems Cloak revival retexture, as they give JC's cloaked robe collars and they just overall look nice. I've made two seperate folder for whatever texture your using for whatever mod you chose to use. Thigns to note: I chose to do the simple gloved brown robe textures cause thats what was originally used for DarthParametrics mods. It may be a little hard to tell texture file is which, so refer to the images (Or look at Shems Cloak revival retexture or Heyoranges collar fix to pick which one you prefer more) Credits: - JCarter426 for his amazing Jedi cloaked mod -DarthParametric for his awesome jedi mods -heyorange for his collar fix retexture and giving me the insperation to make this patch -N-DReW25 for giving me permission to use Shenms Cloaked Revival textures for this patch Submitter HeartMan Submitted 05/14/2026 Category Mods K1R Compatible No  

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

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).

Bendak Bounty hunter non-darkside hash is missing so I can't sync. Tried redownloading and to no avail. Can't sync as is. Edit: NVM for some reason there was .zipped version in the downloads folder instead of the .dlg? No idea how that happened but I deleted it and it worked after that. Thanks for all this BTW. A lot less tedious than doing it manually.

First picture seems to be broken UVs on the left and bad/non-existent lightmapping and a missing emissive panel on the right? What about the second picture? UV misalignment? Not matching the layout on the right? And what's the module/s and the specific locations?

Yeah, the ultimate price was this resort villa at a paradise beach for you and the party members to hang around with. All members would hang around a certain spot. Just doing nothing much really, just like on the Ebon Hawk. Like having a sparring match with the hand maiden on the beach, having Hanharr kick a beach ball out in the ocean... Visas and Mira sun bathing at the pool... Atton hanging in the sofa, Boa Dur working on the tv set... dumb things like that. One other crazy idea was you could play the "pod" races from the game on your console in front of the tv. It would just load one of the races via a script... If that's even possible The corridor that goes up was the "loading/ spawn point", it would then transfer you back to the Hangar Bay at the ramp of the Barracuda. Walkmeshes can't cross each other, not even when you're higher up. It blocks you off like a wall. Don't think I ever got the waves to behave properly, it was one of the many emitter tests areas I made. We just lobbed this extra level in for fun. The whole mod was setup to be just a bit of fun and giggles. Very not in line with the theme of the game. Me and GloveMaster had many wild big modding plans... Ah, the fun times of being younger and having loads of free time.

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.

It would be cool if I could work with models. Unfortunately, that's not my area of expertise. But if someone took it on, I'd redo the texture. File updated.

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.