DarthParametric

Edit his DLG (man26_echmerc1.dlg) and set k_pman_reprec01 as the script in the exit node (R1). Although that script was intended for a DLG with a different owner. Not sure what happens when you try to grab the nearest object to an NPC with the NPC's own tag. If it doesn't work you'll need to make a custom script, like so:

void main() {
	
	SignalEvent(OBJECT_SELF, EventUserDefined(10));
}

Although possibly it might also need a small delay. Alternatively, the script could go in the EndConversation slot of the root node instead of in the exit node. Check out some other ambient NPCs for how this sort of thing works, like in Taris Upper City.

The related DLG is man26_repneg.dlg and the script responsible is k_pman_reprec01 that fires on R12 (exit node of the initial scene). The source is here:

https://github.com/KOTORCommunityPatches/Vanilla_KOTOR_Script_Source/blob/master/K1/Modules/M26AA_Manaan_Ahto_West_manm26aa/k_pman_reprec01.nss

which just signals a UserDefine event to the merc. So you check the merc's UTC and look at his script list to find his UserDefine script, which is k_pman_merc_d, the source for which is here:

https://github.com/KOTORCommunityPatches/Vanilla_KOTOR_Script_Source/blob/master/K1/Modules/M26AA_Manaan_Ahto_West_manm26aa/k_pman_merc_d.nss

The event itself is

case 10:
	ActionForceMoveToObject(GetObjectByTag("man28aa_nilko_exit", 0));
	ActionDoCommand(DestroyObject(OBJECT_SELF));
	SetCommandable(FALSE, OBJECT_SELF);
break;

This is a pretty standard exit script. It adds a move command and a destroy command to his action stack, and a SetCommandable command immediately. This is why he is non-interactive. If you comment out or delete the SetCommandable (or change it to TRUE) and recompile the script then you'll be able to interrupt him.

On 6/10/2025 at 7:31 AM, Froggy89 said:

This seems like it would take a ton of manual labor and time to place each one

There's not really any other practical way to do it. At least for something that needs curation like the archway there. If you want to put them on regular trees, you might be able to get away with some sort of cloner that distributes them across the selected meshes. I assume Blender has something like that. Although you may need to duplicate the trees and subdivide them to create enough geo for that to work (that sort of thing usually distributes based on verts or polys).

Btw, Odyssey has backface culling, so have you doubled up your planes? I'd also suggest in cases like this that you add some subdivisions and put it in whatever Blender's equivalent of a curve deformer is to add some more natural-looking droop.

If all else fails, attach all your files for someone else to look at on their end.

I recall I had a similar issue once in TSL where I tried to edit an existing walkmesh and could not get the room links to work properly afterwards. I can't find the files for it, so I can't check what the resolution was, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I put the walkmesh under the A node. @JCarter426: Do you think you could try searching the Reddit Discord server and check for anything about the Mando camp on Dxun and edits to the shuttle hangar walkmesh? Although even if that does prove to be the case, I would most likely put it down to TSL shenanigans. You shouldn't need to do anything special to get a walkmesh working in K1.

I assume this is what you're talking about? https://deadlystream.com/topic/5632-black-line-in-middle-of-face/

You could try the Humus GLOverride linked in that thread. Alternatively, you could try a wrapper for DirectX 12 or Vulkan (the Zink archive) - https://github.com/mmozeiko/build-mesa/releases/latest

https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2750-swtor-saber-hilt-resource/

29 minutes ago, Forceboat said:

there's no sign of this

5 hours ago, Untold Prophecy said:

need to know how they can be implemented as drops without manually adding them to a container or NPC's inventory

So you want them as random loot? Given the specified level range, this is presumably for TSL. Its vanilla random loot table script can't be decompiled via DeNCS, but @JCarter426 has been beavering away at an alternative for years. I'm not exactly sure what your options are for either including it as an addon for that or trying to integrate it into the vanilla system.

Try this instead - https://deadlystream.com/files/file/916-loadscreens-in-color/

22 minutes ago, Bespokey said:

Still making rounds?

I extracted those models from the beta in mid-2011, rendered them out and posted the image on LucasForums. Whoever put it on Imgur swiped it from there. I still see it pop up on Reddit and so forth occasionally all these years later, even though it's hideously outdated.

22 minutes ago, Bespokey said:

would you consider making me a Lord Scourge Hilt standalone?

I'm not really in the saber making business any more, but you don't really need someone to model you one from scratch when you can just pull the model from TOR. I'll have a poke around tomorrow. I can probably provide an asset dump of the meshes for anyone that wants to set them up for KOTOR.

22 minutes ago, Bespokey said:

https://imgur.com/render-of-all-currently-available-lightsaber-hilts-5G9JJ (single and short)

It's hilarious that picture is still doing the rounds 14 years later.

There are two options if you want to apply a command to multiple NPCs with the same tag. The first is a loop iterating through every creature in the level (useful if you need to deal with multiple sets of tags), the second is to call the GetObjectByTag function multiple times, each with a different nth index to grab each creature. Check the full command:

// 200: Get the nNth object with the specified tag.
// - sTag
// - nNth: the nth object with this tag may be requested
// * Returns OBJECT_INVALID if the object cannot be found.
object GetObjectByTag(string sTag, int nNth=0);

Identifiers are 0 indexed, so the first creature is 0, the second 1, and so forth. So to get the 5th Tach, the command would be GetObjectByTag("c_tach", 4). Since you didn't specify an index, the compiler is pulling in the default index 0.

In this case, I'd actually go with a combined variation so you can add a bit of randomness to things. Like so:

void main() {
    
    object oTach;
    int i;
    location lPath1Run = Location(Vector(327.34, 206.69, 7.71), 0.0);
    
    for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
        oTach = GetObjectByTag("c_tach", i);
        DelayCommand(1.5 + IntToFloat(Random(3)), AssignCommand(oTach, ActionForceMoveToLocation(lPath1Run, TRUE)));
    }
}

Since pathfinding is pretty terrible, you may have to introduce additional delay between each to prevent them running into each other. You could probably just pad it by also adding in IntToFloat(i) in the delay value, which should force each subsequent value to increase while still retaining some randomness.

I have no idea if KOTOR actually supports Chinese, since it was never released in that language. I think Neverwinter Nights does though, and Odyssey is based on Aurora (NWN's engine).

Start by referring to these links:

https://wiki.xoreos.org/index.php?title=Xml2tlk

https://wiki.xoreos.org/index.php?title=TLK_language_IDs_and_encodings

In theory you'd convert a UTF-8 XML with strings in simplified Chinese to a binary K1 TLK using Xoreos with the following command:

xml2tlk --cp936 --kotor dialog.xml dialog.tlk

The language ID would need to be changed at the top of the XML file

<tlk language="130">

based on the table from the link above.

You can get Xoreos Tools here. Here's a vanilla English K1 XML if you need it:  dialogK1.7z

But the actual translated text is only half the job. As I mentioned above, Odyssey uses a font sheet, not a font file. It's an image with each individual letter of the alphabet in a position that is defined in the accompanying TXI file. There are about half a dozen or so font sheets in K1. They have separate ones for the different resolutions apparently, plus additional ones for the end credits and the cheat console. A font sheet itself typically has a plain white RGB (aside from icons like controller buttons). The alpha channel is a mask. Here's a vanilla English example:

Since Wizard's tool doesn't support DBCS languages, you can try this older tool to generate a font sheet and TXI - https://deadlystream.com/files/file/535-kotor-font-tool-nwn-font-maker/

I'm not sure if that will work either, but it's worth a try.  Unfortunately the texture sheets it creates are quite low resolution though. You'd need to duplicate the sheet TGA and TXI to match all the vanilla filenames:

fnt_console
fnt_credits
fnt_creditsa
fnt_creditsb
fnt_d10x10b
fnt_d16x16
fnt_d16x16a
fnt_d16x16b
fnt_dialog16x16
fnt_galahad14

Although I'm not sure if that last one is actually used.

Odyssey (KOTOR's engine) doesn't use regular fonts, it uses a font sheet (i.e. an image of the characters). So language is effectively "hard coded" unless you edit the font sheet. There is a tool that will help you do that - https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2375-kotor-autotranslate-tool/ - but unfortunately it doesn't support DBCS languages. But it might at least help you create a custom font sheet manually.

I assume you already converted the translated text back into a binary TLK file? I'm not entirely sure if the TLK format even supports DBCS languages.

If you're talking about a cutscene playing when loading a module, then the two avenues are either the module's OnEnter script (defined in the ARE and/or IFO), or the OnEnter script of a trigger placed over the module's entry point (script defined in the UTT, placement in the GIT).

The former is

https://github.com/KOTORCommunityPatches/Vanilla_KOTOR_Script_Source/blob/master/TSL/TSLRCM/Modules/907MAL_Malachor_V_Trayus_Core_(cutscene)/k_907_enter.nss

which looks like what you want.

Why would you make another separate patch mod? You could have submitted them to K2CP. Hell, you could have just asked to take over management of K2CP.

Added a manual reconstruction from bytecode to the repo - https://github.com/KOTORCommunityPatches/Vanilla_KOTOR_Script_Source/blob/master/TSL/TSLRCM/Modules/907MAL_Malachor_V_Trayus_Core_(cutscene)/a_904sion.nss

It can be disassembled into bytecode though.

a_904sion_BYTECODE.nss

Looking at the academy DLG, the anim it uses is 10006. All those earlier ones are probably K1 references that DLGEditor is listing that don't work in TSL.

You should be able to crib what you need from vanilla scripts. In this case, the end of the scene between Kreia and Atton in the polar academy ("Sleep, murderer") should be exactly what you want. I would guess they literally just kill him rather than applying an animation.

You're far better off scripting animations rather than trying to use the dialogue animations.

Apparently so. V_FreightL01 is the actual original, which is 1024x1024.

"Extract"? You mean get the name? It's LDA_FreightL01. It also has a normal map, LDA_FreightL01b, but it's unused.

Any should work. There are a few free ones around:

https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

You can read this tutorial post for some general information about how to hex edit for your specific resolution. If your resolution was 1920 x 1080, for example, at the appropriate offsets I posted above you'd replace 80 02 with 80 07 and E0 01 with 38 04.