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Thanks - I'll try it myself tonight, I appreciate it!

Is this referring to the UTI's in the Saber Console folder?

I would recommend maybe re-installing. Run ALL executables in Compatibility Mode for XP svc pack 2 or 3. Also, make sure that the SWKotor2 folder read-only checkbox is UNCHECKED. - by default, should be a non-issue, but sometimes Windows will set it automatically Start with Vanilla & Updates, then any HD/Upscaling mods/fixes, TSLRCM, M4-78EP, then install the parts that do heavy modifications (Extended Enclave, Alternate Ending, animation fixes). After that, any mods that add levels, then any mods that ADD items/clothing, THEN install any texture mods. This is just my suggestion - It's worked out well, and my SWKotor2 game is humming along fine :-)

I think it depends on how they are given - is it random throughout the game, or are they going to be in specific places, like finding 1 on Taris and another on Tatooine? Man... I'm excited to get these into my override

Man those look intense...like equal-opportunity crystals (between Dark Side and Light Side, I mean... ) I just had an idea - what about naming some of the crystals after real gemstones? Not all of them, gotta have your mark on them too, but I always thought it was kind of cool how sticking a ruby, diamond, sapphire would change the color of the saber blade, and with your multicolored blades I think this would work perfectly. This is a link to a gemstone chart that just gives a visual to what I mean http://www.ajsgem.com/articles/gemstone-color-chart.html and the star wars wiki... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_crystal We can PM if you'd like. Either way, they look awesome!!!

Oh man...That looks fantastic! #2 for sure - it's exactly what I was seeing in my head. I've been trying to envision the color since Anakin Solo's lightsaber blade color was described in the New Jedi Order books. It looks great, Rece - I can't WAIT to get it into my override folder...

Yellow->Orange I vote for #2! Looks almost like flame - if there was a brief second of Red in there it would look pretty cool too What about an amethyst color change - a flicker between pink->white->purple? Maybe throw some blue-ish in there somewhere...? Also - is there any way to increase the flicker/color-change speed? It would look really cool if the alternate color(s) were more of a part of the "flicker" effect than the color of the blade itself

Thanks Fair Strides!!! Tutorial posted HERE . TO ALL - Any pointers on ways to help make my future tutorials better or easier to understand would be awesome! Thank you all!!! Wouldn't have been able to do this without your insight.

Relax everybody - I was just poking fun at myself, wasn't supposed to sound like I was crying for some acknowledgement. Getting a late start on learning how to do any kind of modding so I'm WAY behind the curve here... And my bad on the double posting, thank you for fixing it

So... I made a complete tutorial last night (PST in U.S.) and posted to TUTORIALS section - It's not visible at all, even to me. Is this normal? I assume it's not visible because the moderators have to approve it before anybody can see it, including the tutorial creator. Sorry, my first tutorial for KOTOR

This is in reference to the forum topic discussed HERE. This tutorial is to show step-by-step instructions in how to manually change appearance.2da to resolve the transparent character issues that some have reported with certain textures. * Models used are from the Battle Hardened Mandalorians mod by Canderis - only using this as example as I experienced this issue with this mod, and it's a really cool re-texture... Some textures containing alpha channels show up as transparent in-game: This is how you fix it. It is highly recommended you backup you appearance.2da file before proceeding. Extract appearance.2da using KOTOR tool. - you can open it by double-clicking on the appearance.2da file in your Override folder Find the model you are trying to fix. In this case, I'm looking for Alien_Mandalorian. Highlight the row(s) and scroll to the right until you see the envmap tab. Most of the entries in the field should read DEFAULT. Change DEFAULT to read CM_Baremetal in all of the models that you have transparent textures for. Go to File->Save as appearance.2da.b.... into another folder. Copy to the override folder, overwriting any files with the same name. When you launch you game, the characters should now show all texture maps as they were meant to be: And that's it

Screenshots, I know - not in front of my computer when I wrote this... Detail - better the resolution, the finer I can make lines and details. I don't know, on MINE it seems to make a big difference in how pixelated the textures look. At 40962 in TGA they are slow to load and can be a little twitchy on animations. However, in 40962 in DDS they look great (compared to 10242 & 5122). I'll try to get some screenshots together 2nite. [ Mod Note: Please don't double-post. There is an "Edit" button at the lower-right of each of your posts. In the future, please refer to the Site Rules. Thank you. ] and...guessing by the overwhelming response, I'm thinking that all of my previous post is common knowledge and I'm showing off my newbie-ism...

So... I did something stupidly awesome yesterday... By stupid, I mean dumb, and by awesome, I mean very informative(for me...). I wasn't sure where to stick some of this, but since most of it is related to the TGA>DDS Converter I thought I'd put it in this thread. If everybody already knows all of this, then that just proves how far behind the curve I am... I was thinking about how textures needed to be resized to be the square root of something in order to be processed by DDS converter. Except I was getting errors with anything that wasn't 10242 or 40962. Then it hit me - sq rt of 4096 = 64 , 1024 = 32, 256 = 16, etc ---- WHICH ALL EQUALS PROCESSOR (or Game-Engine Processing) ARCHITECTURE. So all textures have to be equal to 22, 42, 82, 162, 322, or 642 (pixels = 4x4, 16x16, 64x64, 256x256, 1024x1024, 4096x4096 respectively, and ONLY THESE SIZES will work with the TGA > DDS Converter. Other sizes will obviously work if kept in TGA format I tried coverting something that was 1282 (which is where the stupid/dumb part comes in...hyuck hyuck!!!) which ends up equaling 16384x16384 pixels. First of all, I don't recommend trying this - Adobe PS had my system (6-Core AMD + 8GB DDR3 RAM + NVidia GeForce GTX 710) completely maxed out on all resources just trying to process & modify an image that high-res, and the file size ended up being 1GB, soooo..... do it at your own risk... And here's where I need some help - I edited the TGA for PCHMA01 at that resolution. I sharpened and cleaned up as many of the facial details as best as I could (which took about an hour to process because of the size). I had the hair and goatee so sharpened up that it actually looked like HAIR. Then I reduced the image size back down to 4096x4096, converted to DDS, and saved to my override folder. When viewing the PC in-game, his hair (the hair that I super-sharpened) shimmered and I'm not entirely sure why...like now it was picking up on a bumpmap or cubemap - my understanding of texture-maps is below novice, at best. So... am I right? What made them shimmer/sparkle? I've read numerous forums regarding mappings, and I think I'm close to something kinda big here (maybe just big for me... ) without enough general knowledge to be able to clearly dictate what is actually happening. Feel free to PM me or re-submit this to another thread if needed.

Hey all!!! Just thought I'd give everyone an awesome heads-up: GOG is selling a whole bunch of Star Wars classic PC games for next to nothing if you buy them in their bundles: Saber Bundle Blaster Bundle Sweet...