DarthParametric

The vanilla Carth head in both games uses P_CarthH01. What do you mean by "player head"? If you are using a mod to make Carth a selectable head for the PC, then the texture could be named anything.

Chances are with modding that if you think you're done, you're probably not done. A couple of points I didn't address regarding skinned meshes: You can delete elements of a skinned mesh and still retain intact skin weights on the remaining portions. However you can't add new geometry without destroying the weights (basically it all boils down to vert ID numbers). If you want to merge two or more meshes into a single mesh, you'll have to recreate the skin weight data. When butting up two skinned meshes like this, you need to make sure that the weights for each paired vertex are identical, otherwise you'll get bad deformation and see gaps. I skipped over discussing it here because all the verts around the neck hole in the torso are weighted 1.0 to torsoupr_g, as are the bottom row of verts on the collar. But that's something to be mindful of when doing this sort of thing. Similar examples in KOTOR are splinting meshes at the shoulders or wrists (because of the engine's bones-per-mesh limit). If you look at those you'll see they typically try to minimise the number of bones at the split to one or two for simplicity. It's also debatable whether this is the "right" way to approach this problem. There's usually more than one way to skin a cat, as they say, and you could resolve this issue in an alternative manner. The obvious way would be to reshape the existing collars, adding in weighting to the neck_g bone. That would eliminate the need to mate two different meshes together and edit the UVs, but I considered it the more laborious approach for me personally.

OK so here is how I went about the fix. We'll use PFBFS as the example, as the issue is most pronounced in the small models, along with the PFHA01 head. I should also preface this by saying this following is predicated on working in Max. I'm unsure if GMax will support all of it. I know in the past I have said "it's easy, just do XYZ", only to discover GMax doesn't have said ability. To start with, here is a closeup view of the problem areas. The back of the neck is particularly bad in this example, with a large section clipping through right down to the base: There's also the issue at the front with the center front vert clipping past the front of the collar. From the wireframe of the collar, you can see the reason for this is that the front of the collar is pushed inwards, past the front of the neck: As I stated in the previous post, the G model doesn't have the same issues. The collar is shorter and wider, and unlike the F/H models has weighting to the neck_g bone: We can take advantage of this fact and use the G collar to replace the existing F/H collars. So, on to the fix. The first step is to load up the G model and obtain our donor collar. Because of K1's three different sizes, this process will need to be repeated for each of the L, M, and S models, giving you three donor collar meshes, one for each body size. I'll just show the process with the S model, but the steps are identical for each. With the PFBGS ASCII model imported, select the Torso mesh and then Hide Unselected. It helps to hide the texture if those are loaded, and additionally change the object colour from white so it's easier to differentiate meshes in wireframe/edged face modes later on. Change to a side view and swap to a lasso selection mode. Unfold the Editable Mesh modifier in the stack and select the Element sub-mode. Now in the viewport select the collar elements: Switch back to a perspective view and ensure you have it all selected: Now Select Invert and Delete. That should leave the collar by itself: This is probably a good point to rename the mesh from Torso to something more appropriate, like Collar_G_S. Select the Skin modifier in the stack and find the Advanced Parameters section. Under that click the Save button, which will prompt you to choose a location to export an envelope (ENV) file. This file records the skin weights for each vertex in the mesh. We'll need this once we merge the donor collar mesh into the recipient model: Now you can Unhide All and, with the collar mesh selected, Select Invert and Delete. Now the only object in the scene should be the collar mesh. Save this as a Max/GMax file, then do a Reset to create a fresh scene. Import the PFBFS ASCII model. Just like with the G model, select the Torso mesh and hide everything else, disable the texture if necessary and change the object colour. Select the collar elements: The difference is this time we want to delete the collar, like so: Now go to File -> Import -> Merge and select the saved G collar file. In the Merge dialogue that pops up, select the collar mesh and hit OK: Now the collar mesh will be in the scene, although it won't mate cleanly with the hole in the torso: We'll need to do a bit of vertex shuffling to make a seamless join. The first step is to hide most of the torso mesh to make things easier to see. Go into the Polygon sub-mode of the Editable Mesh and select the ring of polys around the neck hole: Now Select Invert and hit Hide under the Selection section of the Polygon rollout: Now there's a minor adjustment to make in the Torso mesh. You'll see the back of the neck clips inside the collar, so we need to drag that out a bit: Select the Torso mesh and go to the Vertex sub-mode of the Editable Mesh. Select these two verts: And move them back past the collar: It is important to only move these verts, and not touch the verts connected to the rest of the torso. With that done, select the collar mesh and go into the Vertex sub-mode of the Editable Mesh. Go to Tools -> Grids and Snaps -> Grids and Snaps Settings and make sure only Vertex is enabled and toggle Snaps on in the toolbar. Now comes the process of selecting each vert around the collar and snapping it to the appropriate vert on the torso. You'll want to have Edged Faces enabled in the view settings to make things easier. Snaps can be finicky, so you may need to make use of Undo a lot until you get the hang of it. Hiding as much unwanted geometry as possible helps a lot here to avoid snapping to the wrong place, as well as making it easier to access verts amidst intersecting geometry. Additionally, because of the mismatched subdivision between the two meshes, the torso will need to have a couple of verts snapped to edges on the collar in order to close all the holes. All this is easier to demonstrate in a video: Now we have the collar cleanly mated to the torso, It's time to load in the skin weights. Unhide All, then with the collar mesh selected, click on the Skin modifier and under Parameters click on the Add button at the top of the Bone list. This will pop up a window of all the objects in the scene. Select the torsoupr_g and neck_g bones: In the Advanced Parameters section, click the Load button and find the ENV file you saved earlier. You'll get a a Load Envelopes window where you can match bones. Because we are using the same names, hitting the Match By Name button should be sufficient (although for future reference, bone names are case sensitive). If you left the original bone list untouched, you'll likely have a long list of extra bones in the Incoming Envelopes column. That's fine, you can safely ignore those. They have no weights as we deleted the rest of the torso mesh they were originally assigned to. Hit the OK button: You can hit the Edit Envelopes button to make sure your weights imported correctly: The final step is to address the texture. Because life is never that easy, each of the F/G/H models have completely different UV mapping, If you assign one of the F textures to the collar, you'll see its a mess: Because of how texture variants work, we'll need to edit the collar's UVs to match the F texture layout. To do that you'll want to check the UVs of the vanilla F collar (I probably should have mentioned that before you deleted it - whoops). It looks like this: Back with the G collar, add an Unwrap UVW modifier above Editable Mesh in the stack. Obviously the existing UVs will not be anywhere close to right: The interior section is pretty easy to fix with some rotation and scaling: The outer ring though will require a bit more finessing. First it will require a Flip Horizontal, then some Scale Horizontal to get it roughly the right width. After that, switch to Vertex mode and shuffle verts until you have something in the ballpark of the original layout: You don't have to try and slavishly copy the original to the pixel. Just get it looking more or less the same. You can see here I actually shifted the front seam (righthand side in the UV window) back a bit compared to the original, as the texture kind of fades out to mush further to the right. Once you are happy with the result, right click on the Unwrap UVW modifier and choose Collapse To. It is important to choose this and not Collapse All, as well as making sure the modifier is underneath the Skin and Trimesh modifiers. Otherwise you'll destroy those. And that is pretty much it. All that remains is to make the collar mesh a child of the base, export, and compile. Then you can test in-game. Edit: One additional step I missed. It's not entirely necessary, given that the G collar seems to work fine, but to be doubly sure you may want to pull the front verts out a little, like so: And here's the final result with the PFHA01 head:

View File Female Armour Collar Fix This mod edits the models for the the female Class 7 (PFBF) and Class 9 (PFBH) armours. Along with Class 8 (PFBG), these three armours all feature a fabric collar. However, in the case of the F and H models this collar lacks any weighting to the neck bone, and due to its shape and height is prone to experiencing clipping of the neck with some head models. As the G armour apparently doesn't appear to suffer these issues, the collar from this armour (with some adjustment) was grafted onto the F/H bodies. The amount of clipping is somewhat variable depending on the head. It also seems far more prevalent on the small body size, but I have provided fixed models for all three body sizes. Compatibility: The UVs of the armours are unchanged, so they are still fully compatible with all vanilla textures and any retexture mods that stick to that layout Obviously the mod will not be compatible with any other mod that replaces the same models Permissions: This is intended as a half enduser mod, half modder's resource. People are free to include this content as part of other mods as long as credit is given. Acknowledgements: Thanks to @ebmar for making me aware of the issue via a screenshot for his Janice Nall mod Thanks to @bead-v for MDLEdit and KOTORMax Submitter DarthParametric Submitted 01/02/2019 Category Mods K1R Compatible Yes  

The female Class 8 / G (PFBG) model has a much shorter collar than either the Class 7 / F (PFBF) or Class 9 / H (PFBH) models. Additionally, the collar in the G model has skin weights for the neck bone (neck_g). These two factors mean it doesn't appear to suffer any clipping, or at least nothing notable. The collar in the F/H models is completely weighted to the upper torso bone (torsoupr_g), which is equivalent to the lower neck bone in head models (necklwr_g). That makes the collar entirely rigid in regards to head movement. The male G and H models have neck weights on their collars, although the F models still lack them. The general shape and proportions though in relation to the male heads seems like it precludes them from the same clipping issues. I've uploaded a fix for it here: @ebmar, if you are interested in learning how to go about it, I can post some step-by-step details.

Got an error trying to compile Mission's head model after making some skin weight adjustments: Report: ASCII model: P_MissionH-kotormax.mdl.7z Version was 1.0.102 Beta (might want to have version info automatically added to the report). Oh and another bug - saving the report just results in an empty text file.

Oh you were asking about the healing. I thought you meant what script controls their animations. The heal is added to the end of k_ptar_duelend.

Should be in their OnUserDefine scripts I would think.

Yes. It's set in appearance.2da, the values for the modelb/texb columns. In TSL they replaced the class clothes with the commoner clothes models. Have a look at K1's appearance.2da and you'll see the values you should use and change the appropriate rows for your player's head (or all player's heads). The three different classes use the three different sizes, small, medium, and large. Soldier is large (PMBBL/PFBBL), Scout is medium (PMBBM/PFBBM), Scoundrel is small (PMBBS/PFBBS). You should only need to put DH's texture in the Override folder.

The class clothes are already there, just unused. DH's texture will work fine.

Redrob's mod also overrides tar02_duelorg021.dlg, which will negate the speaker/listener changes I made to that dialogue, and break one of the view screen updates, but it still shouldn't affect dialogues with duelists (at least not due to anything I did). I gather K1R has the Pazaak tournament in the cantina? It seems like they added a bunch of custom stuff to the module, but I don't believe they made any changes to the dueling ring elements besides adding the announcer as a physical NPC (which uses new content, not vanilla stuff).

I never encountered that myself during testing. The mod doesn't touch the dialogues of Bendak or the other duelists. It does make some script edits, but nothing that should change any of the quest progression. What other mods do you have installed?