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yes. But keep in mind that you start the game as such and spend a noticeable amount of time as such.

The PFB and PMB .tga files. I must re-warn you though, that I cannot recall which heads have new body skins, so it is entirely possible that the head you want has a body of textureless white when you play. Your best bet is to wait for word from redrob41 as to which are which. If you do decide to do this, keep backups.

For most of them, yes. It's as simple as deleting the body textures from the installer; you'll get a bunch of errors reported but it works. Unfortunately several heads are assigned to new skintones so deleting these new skin bodies causes their related heads to have blank white bodies. Can't recall which skin colours are new and which aren't tho.

Using Kreia's full Darth Traya appearance changes her clothes too. Swapping out just her head puts her black head-thing and neck-cover on. These cover more of her skin than her normal robes, so copying and pasting just the vein-y grey face results in a smaller section of her DS face on top of a larger section of her normal face. This is the 'gap' I mentioned; I've tried 'greying' that larger section but can't get it to look right. For one thing the veins abruptly cut off. Edit for greater clarity: here we have normal Kreia. I'm looking to have her darkside skin and eyes transplanted in. The hands are easy enough. The face is the problem. And here we have Kreia in her endgame look. As you can see her head has all this black stuff that covers areas which her normal look does not. So copying her disease-face onto her normal .tga file leaves a 'gap' of normal skin that no matter how I try, I can't reshade to look right. i.e. I need a proper modder for this who is halfway decent at texture editing. Normally the hood obscures most of this 'gap' but I keep noticing it. It also becomes painfully obvious in the few scenes she has her hood down.

Anyone willing to do a reskin of Kreia to give her the Unfortunately just copying said face from the relevant .tga file doesn't work. It leaves a strip around the edge that no matter how I recolour, doesn't look right. This needs the work of a proper texture editor, as opposed to my blundering attempts.

Right then... I guess 2015 just plain sucked for everyone else in terms of fictional things...

I have a zipped version of 1.2a; if Tyren gives permission I'll send it to you.

2015 has, as you may have noticed, been and gone. Yes, it was a year with problems. But lets have a look at the good stuff. Consider this thread an invitation to gush on all things fictional. Star Wars, Games, Films, TV, Books, Fanfic, whatever. List it and gush - there shall be no judging of you here. Feel free to challenge opinions and get into discussions, but please don't get too serious about it. I'll start. Ant-Man - I loved it. The casting, the characters, Michael Douglas! I was concerned that it wouldn't be good seeing as most of the MCU has been a bit of a meh-ish slugfest, but by goodness am I glad to be wrong!

Fair enough. I'd be inclined to disagree due to him being a council member, but whatever.

That's my point. He's a Jedi council member in ep. 3. Then he falls off the face of the universe. Seems like a pretty big unknown to have lying around. They might just give him the same treatment as Depa Billaba and Luminara Unduli, but until then I'm suspicious.

The real issue of bringing in Legends material is which material exactly. It's not as if there's a great deal of consensus on which bits of the EU were good and bad... Re: Revan, that for me is very dependant on what version of Revan is brought in. I have no desire for the SWTOR take on Revan to be salvaged. Or they could be a vision. I'm more curious as to why a Jedi Council member (Colema Kcaj) is still unaccounted for. Seems like an important person to lose track of, especially since we know jack about him.

Freeze-frame reveals Darth Maul tattoos... Are we seriously not done with him yet? Maybe this time they'll remember to give him a personality... On this plus side, more Rebels should be just what I need to wash the aftertaste of TFA from my mouth.

The matter on if it was different enough will probably come down to personal taste, there's hardly any sure-fire way to tell if something is 'too similar' or 'not different enough'. I can respect your opinion on it, but for me it unfortunately was. My basic opinion on it was 'kinda good', but if you're gonna reboot something, you should really justify it by making it spectacular imo. btw, the Han scene was brilliant for that reason. I just wish the rest of the film had more stuff that good.

Most welcome, although why do you assume I'm a man? Just kidding, I am... Or am I? POWER OF ANONYMITY! I'm on GMT. Glad I don't need to be up till 11-12... I'm currently judging it as a standalone film; as the first of the new trilogy, I feel it needs to establish itself on its own merits. 'History repeats' would be a good theme, but it should be possible to have more deviation imo.

1.) You don't appear to possess an accurate understanding of what a Troll is in terms of the internet. 2.) tl;dr destroys your response. You cannot construct a valid counterargument without reading the argument. 3.) Projection of what you 'bet' someone said or did also destroys your response, for the same reason. 4.) May I ask which of this forum's rules are archaic? 5.) Just because a rule is old (archaic), does not mean it is wrong or outdated. 6.) There is nothing wrong with an argument. If Doctor Evil has a differing opinion on a subject, he is entitled to voice it, providing he remains civil and does not violate this forum's rules. And on that note, I am going to voice my own argument to Doctor Evil's opinion on the subject of Abrams 'copying' SW ep.IV: I agree, he did not plaigurise, nor did he admit to it. I do however feel that his film clings too much to the known path. It feels more like an adaption than a sequel and I feel it needed to establish its own identity. It was kinda good, but I'll probably have forgotten most of it in ten years since there wasn't a great deal of uniqueness.

As a follow up, if anyone wants the fixed .git file, PM me with your email address and I'll email it to you. VP, if you're interested in updating with the fixed file then by all means PM me.

Well, I guess I've waited long enough. Here's my overview. I'll break it down. You might want to grab a hot drink or a snack if you plan to read my entire comment. First, let me set the scene. I was fairly sceptical at first, mostly because Disney seemed so sure it was going to be a success that it seemed to heavily tempt fate. Then it came out and I began to hear positive things about it from my friends, some of which were not fond of Star Wars. So I began to get optimistic and it was with tentative hope that I went to watch it with. I was also on total media black-out on anything related to the film. Consequently, I was not spoiled. I did hear the Jar-Jar theory, but it was only a theory, a theory I'd already heard in fact. It started well; Stormtroopers asserting themselves as a credible threat, Kylo Ren likewise with his 'stop the blaster bolt' trick and making people unable to move and all. BB-8 gets sent off on the run and things don't look good for the heroes. Then we meet Rey, who is a hybrid of Jarael and Luke Skywalker with a somewhat unique flair added. I can look past that, provided she doesn't turn out to be a long lost Skywalker. Rey establishes herself well and is nice and relatable. Meanwhile, a Stormtrooper is empathised. This is good. It's not a new concept, but this is the first time it has been approached this way AFAIK. He busts out Poe and they get some good bonding and banter before sh*t gets real and Poe dies. This is good because we really start to sympathise with Finn and Poe's death conveys the weight of the threat, since he has plot significance and had got to know him well. BB-8 finds Rey and they sorta bond, then Finn finds them both - as do a sh*tloada Stormtroopers and an excellent chase scene happens involving them stealing the Millennium Falcon. I don't really have an issue with the Falcon just happening to be there - it's long been established that The Force can be pushy when it wants to be. All the while, Finn shows how his total lack of a childhood has made him somewhat clingy and Rey tries to show how independent she is, but in the attempt only serves to demonstrate how immature she is. This is excellent character establishment. then they get jacked by Han and Chewie, who ware looking for the ship anyway. Han and Chewie have been looking for the ship for some time, but they have bigger concerns - a bunch of pirates or smuggers. Then Han's cargo gets let out and we have another excellent sequence as it tries to eat them all. Then the Falcon gets away and we get a little bit of explanation on the state of the galaxy. A little, but not much. Han and Chewie are brilliant in this btw, Han being killed off so soon is quite frankly a waste of Ford's talent. It was at this point that I began to cynically analyse which of the main four old faces was gonna get the axe (Luke, Leia, Han or Chewie). I cynically expected one of them to die because betting that all four of the actors would physically be able to make it to the end of the three films seemed a tad too optimistic. It also ups the stakes and if there's one thing we've learned in fiction it's that the elderly are expendable. Chewie got it in the EU, so the question was who would it be this time. I quickly ruled out Luke, since it became quickly apparent that he was going to do f**k all, if anything, in this film. They land on some planet and Han teaches Rey gun safety. This is good. So they go and see Maz, who I loved. Then the problems start to creep in. First problem. Is anyone else getting tired of planet-killing weapons yet? At least the Mass-Shadow Generator and World Devastators were interesting twists. Has it not become alarmingly apparent that, in the words of Mira: "Mass-slaughter weapons only cause trouble."? Also, maybe this was just me, but why was 70 odd years of technological development being used to make a weapon that was less efficient than the last one? A sun for a planet and a bunch of moons? Just make five death stars and connect them together. Also, could we have a little subtlety on the Nazi enemies please? We aren't five. Seriously. Red banners? Shouty nationalistic speech? Second problem. Why are we only finding out about the f**king new Republic mere moments before it gets taken out of play? Why is the planet destroyed of NO VALUE to the watcher? It's just some random thing that exists, then doesn't. We as the audience don't get the full weight of if say, Coruscant, Tatooine (ignoring why they would bother destroying Tatooine) or Bespin were destroyed. Way to f**k it up. Third problem. How is Anakin's lightsaber here? Wasn't it last seen dropping down into the atmosphere of a gas giant? Who the hell bothered to go and trawl all that viscous cloud to find it? Then the Stormtroopers find the good guys and Finn gets his ass handed to him since he's never used a lightsaber before. This is good. Then 'the resistance' finds them. They're called the resistance because the Rebellion is presumably now the Republic, which just blew up. Apparently they figured we couldn't handle the idea of there being a new rebellion. Poe is suddenly alive - way to completely undermine the threat of the enemy and the stakes, guys! Then Leia and 3PO arrive on the scene and are wonderful. At some point (I can't remember when) it got established that Kylo Ren is Han and Leia's kid. This means that he is now directly competing with Jacen Solo. It also means that Supreme leader Snoke is in direct competition with both Vergere and Lumiya. So lets talk about them both now. One word. Underwhelming. Snoke is a pastiche of every generic evil villain and is cripplingly boring. His only merit is how calm he remains when everything goes wrong. Andy Serkis is the master of emotion and the face - he is being sinfully underutilised. Vergere and Lumiya were both much more interesting characters, but also much, much more sinister villains. Jacen (oh sorry, Kylo) suffers from the 'Darth Revan' effect. That's probably not what it's called, if anyone knows the name for it then please tell me. Basically he was much more interesting, threatening and engaging before the mask/helmet came off. His actor does good work, but the direction of him when he's not wearing the mask is awful. He also comes across as pathetic the more we find out about him. As for how he compares to Legends-Jacen Solo, I'll reserve judgement until we find out the exact circumstances on his fall. Back on track plot-wise. Rey is abducted and quickly shows affinity with The Force, prompting Jacen to leave her alone with one lone Stormtrooper. This is their top guy. This is their Vader. They have just lost so much of their menace. The heroes plan a mission to destroy the Starkiller (that was a nice little shout-out, kudos to whoever put that in) involving X-wings and a tiny bit to hit on the surface of the station. Finn, Han and Chewie also go to rescue Rey after infiltrating the situation. This is where it starts to smack just a tad too much of familiarity. And here we have a massive problem. Why is Leia not going with them? The Leia I remember would have grabbed a weapon and joined them on the Falcon. Also, y she no Jedi? This is also the point where I ruled out Leia from dying, seeing as she wasn't gonna be anywhere near danger. Unless they'd actually had the resistance base destroyed. Oh wait, that would have been a real plot twist wouldn't it? So Rey breaks herself out (In hilarious and spectacular fashion), meets up with the others and they proceed to do their sabotage. Then Han runs into Jacen and I lock him in as the one to get the chop. I'm right. It's reasonably well done and Chewie's and Leia's reactions were superb. But it didn't have the punch it should have, to me at least. And then things go straight off a cliff. I can appreciate that Jacen is injured, but his opponents are total novices in the weapon they are using. He should still beat them both. This is the guy who took down the new Jedi order (total cop out by the way). He the First Order's top enforcer. He should be able to adequately cope with an injury and two novices. The heroes should have made their escape having been forced to flee. The second reason he should not have lost is because the First Order has now been thoroughly de-fanged. Their superweapon is gone, Jacen is now a total joke, Snoke was never threatening to begin with and Stormtroopers got mowed over by the crateload at the end. So who's left? Phasma? She was disposed of with pretty laughable ease. They now have to build at least two more films off the back of an enemy who can't be taken seriously any more. So there is celebration, Rey goes off to Ireland (coz Ireland is now a planet). R2 wakes up for exactly one scene. Mark Hammil gets paid an extortionate amount to do very little and I'm left wondering what exactly could threaten our heroes now. Overall. Kinda-good. It started well, but after Maz it just slid downhill to an anticlimax and I was left feeling unsatisfied. It's unoriginal. Nostalgia and callbacks are good but this clings to familiar ground so much that it's kinda sad. This is a reboot. It needed to be as good or better than what it's rebooting over. It wasn't. It needed to go in it's own direction, something new. It needed to smash it out of the park. It failed. Instead it took the coward's way out and served us watered down recycled EU that was less engaging. I'd very much appreciate if someone photoshopped an image of Stewie Griffin in his house made of Brian's books, with DVDs and blue-rays of ep. VII in place of the books, while uttering the line: "My house is made of mediocrity!" in glee. Yes, it's better than the prequels. Fish in a barrel. I can see what attracts casual fans or new audiences, but as a long-time Star Wars fan, it has nothing new or interesting for me - apart from the Falcon chase scene on Jakku and the cargo freighter sequence. But near enough everything else I've seen before, often done better. They also took the cowards way out on who they killed off. If they really wanted to show us they were serious, they should have killed off one of the new main characters - preferably near the end of the film after we'd spent some time to get to know them. All Abrams has done is show that he has not enough creativity and too much nostalgia. He has destroyed any faith I had that he will take this in an interesting direction. [edited to '*' some swears, sorry about that fellas. Also edited to clear up some grammar and refine some points.]

I always thought a better idea was to either have her say nothing or very little (stock lines) in the Dantooine meeting. Some people are just quiet and Vash never came across as especially socially eager - she talks the least in the council recording IIRC. I suppose a hilarious alternative is her literally wondering in after the Dantooine meeting and wondering what the hell happened...

Please answer the all relevant questions in this thread, posting each question followed by your answer. The TSLRCM troubleshooters will not help you until you have done this. Since you have no additional mods, you only need to answer the first set of questions. You must answer all of them however, even if the answer is 'not applicable'. The "READ ME" in the "READ ME FIRST" and "READ ME SECOND" topics is not a suggestion. Thank you in advance.

I'll just assume that's a sound and logical response since I have no idea what decompiling is... or compiling for that matter... Oh and just to be clear on the exact problem - the cutscenes play properly and both the camera pan watching Sion and the one watching the ship coming in work fine. It's just that the ship is already docked. i.e. it pretty much appears out of nowhere, fully docked after the second .bik movie and I get to stare at nothing happening until Kreia says 'He has come'.

Why would the Spacesuit model affect the animation of The Harbinger? I'm somewhat of a novice with regards to models but that sounds kinda... illogical.

I have an issue here. When the Harbinger comes in to dock, there is no animation of the ship flying in and docking - it is just there, already docked. So I have to stare at a docked ship not-docking for about half a minute.. Using TSLRCM 1.8.4 + M478 1.2 also using the RoR playable humans for TSL mod. Not an especially urgent issue, but an issue none the less.. Uninstalling this mod fixed the issue so I am certain it is this mod causing it. Not sure if it's due to an incompatibility or an error or whatever though.

Gonna be honest, I found most of the MCU so far pretty meh... In any case I'm not sure you realise how unsalvageable the Civil War storyline is. It was a planetary alignment when MUA2 got it right. Odds of it happening again are pretty slim. On the bright side: Black Panther