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I noticed that in KoTOR 1 there's a lot of Sith Apprentices and Dark Jedi that you have interactions/battles with, but from what I understand the term "Dark Jedi" is used for practitioners  of the darker aspects of the force that have no allegiance to anyone but themselves, they are mostly turned Jedi that have no specific affiliation with a certain group. This is what I've picked up from the Darth Bane novels anyway. 

So is it correct to call the random Dark Jedi you encounter Dark Jedi and not something like Sith Acolyte, or Sith Student / Apprentice? And maybe change the names of Sith Apprentices to Sith lords or something like that. Even in Dark Malaks/ Revans army there should be Marauders/Assassins and Sith lords. Just my thoughts. 

I'm loving your little WIP threads!! 

Love the card design so far! Yeah I did think Uno when I first saw the card designs but I think they look great still. 

There'll always be a special place in my heart for Xedii / Xarwarz but there's a reason Jorak Uln has the most amount of downloads on this website hahahhaa.... Next level reskinning!!

Their overseas marketing is thorough and aggressive.

 

I've looked at some of his hilts but I didn't realize he did both the Revan versions. They should be good references, at least.

 

I also have a bit of bad news. I was overlooking this issue until I had to deal with it, but I happened to discover during testing that it was even worse than I anticipated. It seems that upcrystals.2da has a limit of a paltry 128 lines, so there can only be 128 color crystals. Meaning what I wanted is nowhere close to possible. I had planned for 10 colors, 6 crystal types, and 15 hilts for a total of 900 "crystals" needed. And we can have 128.

 

Needless to say, there will be some downsizing. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean scrapping a lot of it. It's still possible to have every combination of the above, so long as it isn't in the upgrade system. In other words, you'd have to change the color crystal through the new saber workshop console, and it couldn't have any power crystals put in it, just as I'd planned to do for the exotic lightsaber types. With that in mind, I'm putting off making any decisions until I finish a bunch of models I know I'm going to want in the mod no matter what.

 

I can say for now though that my crystal ideas are scrapped, which is a shame because that was originally the point of the mod. I thought I could get around the model limit by having crystals that change only the stats... but it turns out there's an even worse limit for that. With 10 colors and 6 types, we'd only have room for 2 hilts. Even my plans for Heart of the Guardian and Mantle of the Force are now in question. But I don't want to decide anything right now. No point in worrying about getting assets into the game if the assets aren't done yet.

I thought K1 had a restriction on how many models a single Baseitem can have, and I always thought that it was 250 models for each Baseitem? 

The 2da limitation in K1 limits how many UPGRADEABLE lightsabers you can have but if you're creating/interchanging lightsabers from a dlg file from your Saber workshop that shouldn't be an issue. 

Try placing this file in the Override folder:

k_swg_hk47fix.ncs

I like your skin so far, especially the blue lights!

But in K1 there's an awkward placeable limit, as stated here which you should be wary about. 

I would like to nominate Fairstrides + Darth Parametric for helping myself and others, providing great advice and assistance when asked and just for being there when you want them to be! They've been a great help!

When SpaceAlex designed this mod he didn't want to use the module folders, he wanted everything to be within the override folder where possible. I've played multiple playthroughs of his mod and it always amazes me how much content is in it. 

Or rather what doesn't it do?

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20151021142725/http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=189937

 

IIRC only Korriban, the Unknown World and the Star Forge wasn't covered by his mod. The biggest bugs were certain modules spawning the same NPCs twice or having other strange effects but it was never anything game breaking. His goal was to make K1 feel more alive by adding more NPCs in certain areas, add a better diversification of items and appearances, enhance the battles and also adding different/better choices to completing certain parts of the game. 

He's also added a better hierarchy to the various factions, like the Mandalorians, Dark Jedi + the Wookies. 

It certainly isn't just an appearance overhaul!

What particular textures would everyone personally recommend out of this pack - if I was willing to go through them one by one?

Czerka, Twileks, Armor, Commoner clothing reskins are my personal favourites. But I'd first change the unique characters, then the commoners or background NPCs in the areas like: Taris - Taris Nobles, Kashyyk - Wookies etc. 

It wouldn't be difficult to make a complete overhaul of most of the games characters with what he's already released, it would require a lot of extracting and messing around with .UTC files with the KGFF tool though.  

Your work is amazing!

It is pretty awkward for modding haha. It's annoying not being able to have BOS / K1R together as it's definitely the placeables.2da file causing the problem. 

So this why I had issue with a newly added computer panel in BOS when I played it alongside K1R, thanks for clearing this up!

I've used placeables.2da in some of my own mods, puts me off using it now for K1 haha. 

But like the upgrade.2da can't you get around this by placing dummy lines within the .2da file to be able to add more of your own lines in the .2da file? Please see the below as an example for the upgrade.2da file that corpsecotillion typed out here:

"In a thread from a couple years ago (http://deadlystream....ghtsaber +addon), Rece discovered that the upgrade.2da file does this weird thing where after row 31 it wraps back around to row 1, so any crystal you put in row 32 onward will change to a different crystal when you hit the assemble button. The good news is that there is a workaround, but it requires using filler rows. After some serious experimentation I was able to get 14 custom upgrade crystals to work in my game, but any more than that and you'll end up with the crystal changing phenomenon again. Without changing any vanilla upgrade rows, you can only add 7 of your custom crystals to rows 25-31, and then additionally you can add 7 more to rows 27-53. That means rows 32-46 are filler. Type whatever you want into first two columns. It really doesn't matter what you put; the rows simply need to exist as placeholders. Set the upgradetype column to anything EXCEPT 0 so it doesn't interfere with the other upgrade crystals."

You can play Kotor on the Xbox One? I'm so getting one now haha. Is it remastered? 

Okay, so aftermarket cards are just all the non reference/FE cards. Palit and Zotac are two manufacturers of GPUs, so getting one of theirs would be a good thing.

 

Yay all my ducks are lined in a row now. Happy bunny. Such good advice on this website!!

Holy sh*t, you're spending some $3000 on a NASA build so you can play Kotor at 1000FPS? All the power to you, but you could spend probably 1/3 of what you're paying for all of that and get a build that can play all of those games at max settings with 60-120FPS and several graphical mods.

I do want to buy a Bugatti Veyron for the nice looking cup holders! 

I now have a problem where the guy on the phone said they have Founders Edition and that they sell Palit / Zotac GPUs. But the support team say they sell aftermarket cards and that they aren't Founders Edition. Confusing. 

Here's some info on "Aftermarket cards". From what I read they aren't Founders Edition. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4manyj/eli5_what_are_aftermarket_graphics_cards_and_what/

From your expertly written replies I now know so much more about Graphics Cards! Nvidia are cruel haha. $100 more for a worse specs GPU is nasty haha. 

I emailed them and they said: 

I actually use a lot of USB ports for various different reasons. I have 2 x 8TB Seagate External Harddrives, 1 x 2TB Seagate External Harddrive and a 250GB External Harddrive (I have 150GBs worth of Kotor files copied on all of them 'cause I'm that weird about collecting and not losing the mods!). A Xbox gaming PC controller. A wireless mouse and a keyboard. 

I have recently bought a PS4 Pro for the playing of BLU-RAY movies. The DVD Drive is for games and software etc. 

You've really got me paranoid about my Graphics Card now haha. The founders edition are more expensive than the rest aren't they? Is that why you advised not getting it because it's Overpriced? And... why do people get two Graphics Cards? And do you know if I'll be able to install another one and maybe another internal SSD card in the future with my PC case?

Many thanks to both of your advice. 

I'll download all the tools available and work out how to make the mods run smoothly!

@Deadman: That last paragraph hurt my head trying to get around it haha! You had me until Modkit lol. 

I'm still not completely understanding the Creation Club thing for Skyrim. Looks like a commercialised version of modding. 

Everyone please be aware I've took all your advice and have made a few amendments of my original post regarding your suggestions. 

If it's 531W max, I'd keep the 650W or at least 600W. 750W would be total overkill though. IIRC something like 80% usage is ideal for the PSU, so that's why 600 or 650W is better here than 550W.

 

About the SSD, OS installation and general PC building: The website you ordered from looks like it assembles the computer for you, but you might want to check that. If it doesn't come assembled, Qui-Gon Glenn is right in that it's really not that hard to build a PC from its parts by just following the instructions coming with those. However, in that case, it might still be a good idea to ask a friend who has some experience with building a PC to assist. I don't think that will be necessary though and if it comes assembled, then the OS is most likely already installed as well. They probably know that you want your OS installed on your SSD, but it wouldn't hurt to specify this in a comment added to your order.

 

Finally the GPU: As you can see here, there's tons of different versions of the same GPU (GTX 1080 Ti in this case), so usually you choose one of those based on reviews and cost. But your website only has a general GTX 1080 Ti listed and no manufacturer with it. That could mean that they use the Founders Edition (which, btw, is the version released by NVidia itself) or that they just have one special brand they always use. I'd write them an email or something to confirm this and if it is the FE, I'd skip the GPU on their site and order a better one elsewhere. That of course takes some more time for researching which one to actually get, but should give you some more FPS and save you some money. So you could just go with whatever they install too as the GTX 1080 Ti is definetly a great GPU no matter which version you get.

 

Oh and a final thought: In my eyes a fan controller is not really necessary, unless you specifically want to manually control your case fans. The easier and IMO sufficient way of handling case fans is to have them connected to the motherboard and set the motherboard to control their speed depending on the temperature. That's a thing of personal preference though as manual control allows for better finetuning, but I'm just too lazy to have to do that.

I'm about to give them a call on installing the OS on the SSD Drive and if their Graphics cards are founders edition or not. I'll be back

Edit: They stated that their graphics cards are by Palit / Zotac. Is that bad?

You know about Nexus - it's usually enough. Everything worth looking at is released there for these games, IMHO.

If you are curious, you may also want to check Steam Workshop for Skyrim mods (it's possible that some authors release their work only there).

Witcher 3 Mod section on CD Project RED forums may have links to some rare small mods/tweaks.

Thanks for the advice DeadMan, some really good posts about tools but I doubt I'll delve into actually modding it until my Kotor projects are completed lol. 

It wouldn't hurt to keep an archive of some mods, as modding is in a dire state with Bethesda rolling out more Creation Club content for Skyrim, and I wouldn't put it past them to eventually attack the Nexus.

I'll quickly scoop up all the mods I can find then. 

I did have Skyrim on PS4 and they didn't allow mods that went past modifying existing data or something like that. Whereas Xbox allowed all mods which was strange. 

Are incompatibilities an issue with either games? 

This. PSU tend to give lower power output when time passes, so some reserve never hurts. For a system like yours I'd recomend something with 650W or more. You will also benefit from it if you decide to upgrade your system in the future.

So I should change my Power supply to this instead of the 550W: 

Corsair 750W TXm Series Semi-Modular 80 Plus Gold, Ultra Quiet

I'm such a twit I thought the more power would break the PC haha. 

I look forward to seeing your new set up once it's done!

I look forward to showing you

No fancy lights on anything though. 

I didn't post the Windows license part but here it is: 

I have now ordered a 500GB SSD card instead of 250GB. If I fill that up should I buy a larger SSD drive in the future?

Apologies have I got a better PSU than I need? Or do I need to upgrade?

Won't the OS come installed on the SSD or do I have to move the files across? 

Gaming monitor it is then!!

You could easily play those games on a GTX 1080 or even a 1070 (actually, only Witcher 3 can really take advantage of these. Skyrim and the KotOR games really don't need the latest GPU generation) and an i5 core. But then again, your system here is certainly future proof.

 

You could save some money and get the latest i5 processor instead as the i7 only offers a few % of extra fps in games, but if you need a fast processor for other applications, there's certainly nothing wrong with getting the i7.

And about the GPU: Just make sure not to buy the Founders Edition, but one of the other editions as the FE is usually the least powerful and ridiculously overpriced. Not sure which one you're currently looking at, as the manufacturer is not currently in your list but as long as the reviews don't say that it's overly loud you should be fine.

 

Other than that, my only recommendation would be to get a 500GB SSD as 250GB can fill up very fast with just the OS, some software and one or two modern games.

 

Oh, and make sure that your power supply has actually enough power for your GPU/CPU combination. It probably has but it's better to check before ordering it. BeQuiet has a great calculator for that on their website that also works for non-beQuiet power supplies of course.

And you probably don't need to buy an extra power cable. Every power supply I ever bought had one included and even if it doesn't, you can still use your current power cable.

How do I check out if it's a founders edition? It doesn't say 

Funnily enough when I went to buy it they recommended I switch down a level in my power supply as I didn't need the stage up from my current choice. It done it via a power calculator. I didn't put the correction on there but I have now edited my original post to this: CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY.

Here's my power calculator: 

Can you get an external SSD or is that a stupid question?

I've recently bought a 49Inch 4K TV, would you advise on getting a PC monitor also?

How do you load an OS on the SSD?

I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 before, or is it different when I purely have Windows 10 on the PC? What options that stand out do you advise to turn off?

I also read somewhere that sometimes the CPU can be too powerful for the computer have I gone too far with mine? Also, why do people get two graphics cards? Do you know if I can pay a PC technician to add further things in the future?

Sorry for all the noob questions lol!