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  1. DarthParametric
    Ah, I had forgotten that the source textures were available. I'd never downloaded them, so was only going from what I had on my HDD. Looking at the heavy blaster source, it looks like it would be easy enough to get a psuedo-height map out of that just by turning off the colour layers, although it might need some manual adjustment/cleanup in a few spots. Here's a quick and dirty example: Although if you were going to go that route you'd want to turn off all the highlights on the diffuse and rely on the normal map for that detail. But to be honest I'd just stick with SS's vanilla textures. They are more than good enough on their own.
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    The other thing is that SS's textures - presumably on purpose - have a lot of grain. Trying to generate normal maps from colour images usually ends poorly at the best of times, but the grain in this case would make for a very noisy normal map. A noisy normal map is a bad normal map. Additionally, the source texture is pretty low res. It works fine in the game given the size of the blasters, but again this makes for a poor normal map when taking into account the effect of compression artefacts. The thing to keep in mind is that normal maps are not magic. Adding one doesn't inherently make a model look better. On the contrary, a poor normal map will make it look worse.
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    I'm guessing that's a bad normal map, or bad UVs on the model. The "weathering" you are seeing is presumably compression artefacts. Edit: Ah, I see what it is. You used the w_hvyblstr_003 texture to generate the normal map. It has those details on the "magazine" (or whatever that bit is). I think you'd be better off just not using the normal map. SS went to the trouble of faking height detail in the texture. A half-assed normal map is going to make it look worse, not better.
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    Yeah it's a legacy of the vanilla models. SS left the bullethook in the same position: To be honest probably the only time anyone would notice is in a screenshot like that. If you wanted to adjust it, decompile the model and open the ASCII in a text editor. Look for the bullethook. It should be something like this: node dummy bullethook parent w_hvyblstr_003 position 0.0001741 0.354063 0.108606 orientation 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 endnode Change it to: node dummy bullethook parent w_hvyblstr_003 position 0.0 0.375 0.108606 orientation 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 endnode And recompile. See if that makes a difference. If it still looks off, you could bump the Y position to 0.395 and see how that looks. N.B. if you have made your own custom model then your parent name will be different. You don't need to touch that, just the position values.
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    The bullethook and muzzlehook probably didn't have their positions altered to match the new model geometry. What's the original model name?
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    The H body already has a yellow texture variant. Probably a good starting point.
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    There's probably more mileage in pulling the helmet off the spaceman and sticking it on one of the regular armoured bodies, then using that as a basis for a retexture.
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    The quote is specifically regarding the model. It's not applicable to the texture, so nothing to worry about there.
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    Looks like Brejik with a beard and a tattoo (and some weird shading over the nose/brows). And maybe with Gadon's eye texture? The link posted by milestails is still live - https://deadlystream.com/topic/4861-anyone-have-spacealexs-k1-enhancement-pack/
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    Tsk, tsk. Kids these days. No patience.
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    There's a mod that switches the PC version back to a human, but I'm not sure there is one that gives him a unique appearance.
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    With the full set of combat animations they can use any weapons. Sabers was the original request, and yes, I doubt the Sith would care how many limbs they accidentally lop off.
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    You can just run the installer a second time with the correct changes.ini and it will fix the problem. It will overwrite the models/textures and edit the Couscant row of planetary.2da. That's probably easier than trying to edit it manually if you don't know what you are doing.
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    Not sure. Photoshop 6.0 is a good possibility, it came out in 2000. Or they may have still been on 5.0/5.5. Alternatively, they might have been using PaintShop Pro 6 or 7 which was pretty big at the time. I'm not sure there's any hard evidence either way. We do know for sure they used 3DS Max for the modelling though (probably v4, the same one GMax is based off).
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    That's because most textures mods are pretty crap. If you see "HD" anywhere in the title, nine times out ten you can just roll your eyes and close the tab. The aforementioned redrob is one of the few modders that I could unequivocally recommend when it comes to textures.
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    Ah, sorry, yeah. The Twi'lek body textures are the same in TSL as K1, all 256x256. It's the head textures that have some larger 512x512 versions in TSL. Although there are the twin assassins. They have larger body textures, and it's just the standard Twi'lek female body model. You could repurpose those. There are already a few mods based on those. A notable one being @redrob41's Luxa mod, which makes a nice hot pants version. That's cool. I don't remember seeing that thug one. The chest kind of reminds me of an armour in TOR that I quite like.
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    Head textures? Those are no better in TSL, so you'd have to see if there are any mods that have made a higher res retexture. None spring to mind.
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    With the rules regarding porting changed, it probably makes more sense to port the TOR Selkath over. Come back in another 12 months.
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    LookupGameNumber is always set to 2 by default (it is TSLPatcher, after all). It doesn't matter unless it is enabled. I'm guessing LookupGameFolder=0, which means it is disabled.
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    Speaking of the TSL textures, there's one there that I don't even remember seeing in the game, but it would probably make a good basis for some colour variants (probably more so for females): Edit: Here are a few quick palette swaps for the female version that you could add as new variants or replace existing ones with - https://www.darthparametric.com/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Commoner_Female_Texture_Variants.7z
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    You could do something like VP's Onderon Traveler Clothing mod and swap the commoner clothing models out for that. And now with the porting rules being relaxed, you could back-port it to K1. There are also some higher res commoner clothes texture variants in TSL, which again could be back-ported to K1.
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    Ah, my bad, for some reason I interpreted SH as suggesting the lines be re-recorded. As far as "true" meaning goes, I don't think there is any. You (or someone else) will just have to headcanon something.
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    Wouldn't adding subtitles be better if you want to know what they are saying?
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    You can see all the pertinent model/texture details here - https://swtor.jedipedia.net/en/npc/jedi-entity She uses the same head as Jedi Knight companion Kira Carsen.
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    I think the Reven head would require some fairly extensive texture work, as it has those scars/wounds. There is no unique appearance for Meetra that I can see. They just used a generic NPC and slapped a ghost VFX on it.