DarthParametric

When it's done. I'm still messing with the female version, but I have been busy with work so haven't had much time this week. There was a lot more work required to cobble the female version together, seeing as the hooded version is male. It seemed ok, but I hit a snag where there is an odd head tilt when equipped. It's also offset in the character creation screen (I set it as clothes for testing). I can't figure out what is going on with it. I removed all the extraneous head bones and helpers but there was no change.

You don't need a copy of appearance.2da in your Override folder. The mod is set up to supply a vanilla copy if there is no pre-existing one present.

The page is archived, but not the mod itself - https://web.archive.org/web/20110128113057/http://www.lucasfiles.com/index.php?s=&action=file&id=1388 Still, knowing the author was EnderWiggin and the original file name was Extra_Starport_Visas_Mod.zip might help someone dig it up. While Googling I stumbled across a forum post where someone listed a bunch of mods they had archived, including this one. Our very own milestails chimed in requesting copies for his collection, so perhaps it would be worth sending him a PM about it.

No, a number of head models are reused with minor, typically texture, changes (for instance Luxa in TSL is a pink textured version of player head PFHA01 from K1). A lot of the generic NPC heads are the same in both. There are also a number of K1 head models that remain in the TSL files, but are unused in the game.

The K1 robe is the large model for body I, seeing as TSL only uses medium. Only the female texture remains in the TSL assets as I recall, but it works for both sexes. You may want to look at the silver robes mod I posted, as that has some UV fixes.

Right click on its entry in your Library, go to Properties, then in the window that pops up go to the Betas tab, choose legacypc from the drop-down.

Are you running this from Program Files? Tried running it from somewhere else? Running as an Admin?

Somewhat bad timing on my part, but after much wailing and gnashing of teeth I finally managed to get my remapped version to compile without looking like a Cthulhuian horror, if you are interested in another retexture with a sane UV layout. There are two versions. At one point I was playing around with keeping the original hands to see if that fixed some of the problems. It didn't, but seeing as my hand UVs admittedly suck, I figured I might as well keep the old hands as an option. http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/tsl/%5BTSL%5D_Vima_Sunrider_Clothes_Remapped.7z I didn't do it for this version, seeing as you won't notice in a seated NPC, but I figured for a player-wearable mod the backflaps should probably be changed to dangly meshes. They are a bit static as-is.

The problem is that the animations aren't in sync. Even if they are playing the same animation, like an idle, they are played separately. Here's the Handmaiden as an example: The only way to prevent that is to have the head and body as a single model, which means a disguise for players and party members.

Done with the vanilla meshes, so there's no need to bother Sithspecter for permissions. It uses his flowing robes model as the Supermodel though, so it requires that his mod be installed. One issue is that the lightside Starforge robes texture would need to be adjusted. It was never intended to be used with the cape and belts, so those bits require a retexture. I haven't tried it with the female model yet.

It's feasible, albeit not super practical, to remove the hood. If you remove the hood from that model it leaves a giant hole. So you'd have to swap out the torso for the PMBJ torso, but then you'd have a gap above the cape, so you'd also have to hack off a chunk of the back of the original torso and mate it all together.

It's possible, but if you just set it up as a typical multi-part model like regular robes then you'll run into the same animation issue you get with other hoods up items like the Handmaiden Robes. Namely, the head model and the body model are each separately playing animations out of sync, so you wind up with inevitable clipping as the head turns one way and the hood turns another: The only practical solution is to continue to also set the maskless robes as a disguise, just like the masked version. Then you have to deal with the missing head issue. The brute force approach is to have a separate appearance.2da entry for every single player head. Alternatively, there's a script-based approach, but that is not without its own potential issues.

He pretty much wants automated install options in practice. I can see the utility of it.

You should look at section 3.8. Setup List of the TSLPatcher readme. I think that's the route you'll need to go (i.e. essentially 2 different install options).

Seeing as there was a bit of spare UV space, I decided to try out a second version with the addition of the collar from one of the player armours: Here are the compiled models of both versions with placeholder textures (as pictured above) and UV templates: http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/misc/DP_Helmetless_Mandalorian_Armour.7z

I remapped the neck plug and did a quick test in TSL:

It's relatively straightforward to make a new version. The main problem is that removing the head/helmet leaves a giant hole in the torso. I plugged it with a piece of the naked body mesh and rejigged things to smooth out the shape a bit. I just did a quick and dirty adjustment of the neck plug UVs for testing purposes, so there's a pretty nasty seam in the pics. I'll have to have a look at where those islands can be best squeezed in. The map looks pretty packed, although removing the head should obviously free up some space.

No. While it looked ok at first glance, there were a bunch of issues that required fixing. It ended up being shelved.

You'd probably be best off just giving them custom appearance.2da rows.

Lol yeah, that's Bioware's UV mapping for you. Seriously their early 3D stuff must rank amongst the worst in the industry. There's not much you can do with it if you want to stick with the Replacer (i.e. hex editing) approach.

Here's a TSL version: http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Vima_Sunrider_Clothes.7z And if anyone wants to do a proper texture for it, here are some additional assets that might help: http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Vima_Sunrider_Clothes_Texture_Assets.7z

Here's a blue eye variant of the texture - http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/tsl/[TSL]_Edited_Comm_W_F_Vima_Sunrider_Blue_Eyes.7z I did experiment a bit with the dangly bits from PFBH04 last night. It didn't look too flash to be honest. I'll compile a standalone TSL version of the outfit when I get a chance. For the screenshots above, I just did a very quick override test in K1.

As I mentioned above, in reply to your previous post, the Comm_W_F head, AKA Balaya, is still in TSL and with an improved texture. Here it is colour matched to the K1 version: The eyelashes of the original shared the same UV space as the hair tie, so I broke those out in order to allow for a coloured hair tie instead of black. I also repositioned the UVs for the rest of the eyelids while I was at it, to better match the skin tone (the originals were split with one using hair texture, the other face texture). Here's the edited head and texture, if you want to use them Kexikus: http://dpmods.wheb.org/files/kotor/tsl/%5BTSL%5D_Edited_TSL_Comm_W_F_Vima_Sunrider.7z