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Not bad for a Kotor fan film. After listening to Nihilus, it almost sounds like he is reciting the lyrics to a song from 1997 called "Ameno" which is in latin. weird... never occured to me before

Good job. One of the issues with Jolee is he is bald and wrinkled. So everywhere there is a hard seam/cut, there is going to be difficulty in hiding that. Why they put those on the front of the forehead is beyond me. It almost makes one want to smooth out the head geometry a bit and then paint new skins on the modified head.

LOL, The idea that Snoke travelled back in time to trick his young self into doing his bidding is silly... "Mwahahahaha! I just got myself to do my own evil bidding" *wrings hands evilly* then he can later resent himself for making himself do all that terrible crap...

Ok, my mistake. that is something i am not experienced with yet. I have attempted it some in other games, but even then my work was corrected by others.

I like the idea that Shmi was trapped in a lab by Palpatine where he experimented on her as Pelagueius taught him how to irritate the midichlorians, it actually kind of fits, and if it was his underlying motivation to create clones of himself with that method, it would fit right in with the other novels and Dark Empire (still one of my favorite comics in the SW universe), her subsequent escape and enslavement were all part of the will of the force, they put Anakin in the correct frame of mind to be let down hard and be a perfect emo sith attack dog. His anger, pain, frustration led to him joining Palpatine, and then having resentment towards Palpatine for stripping everything from him... So with that i have a circumstantial theory about Kylo Ren... and Snoke Han and Leah were never really going to live happily ever after, its a nice idea for romantic fans but that didnt happen. Instead Han knocked up Leah and it ruined her political career since it was at the wrong time, so, she decided with him being gone all the time, still gambling, still pirating, still smuggling, still bar hopping, it was time to break up with Han. Han doesnt like that much, but later finds out he has a son, and the little boy wants to see his dad. Kylo decides to run away and chase his dad down and his force sensitivity allows him to brave Nar Shadda and find his dad in a seedy bar. Han is surprised his son is there and reluctantly lets him tag along. After a series of adventures the two grow close like father and son should, but it is not to be forever. An unfortunate event happens. A group of bounty hunters are now after the aging Han, and he and his boy get separated, he loses the falcon during a drunken gambling escapade, and Kylo is presumed missing, although he himself has been captured and sold into slavery by a Hutt crime lord who is out for revenge on Solo for killing Jabba. Kylo is bought by a very religious aristocrat, who annoys the crap out of Kylo so he runs away, and eventually joins the Knights of Ren to become its Chief warrior. All this time Leah and Han have been trying to get over the supposed loss of Kylo only to find out their son is their worst enemy. And this is the circumstantial evidence for saying that Snoke is actually Jabba's Cousin... Somehow Kylo has developed stockholm syndrome and would rather be hanging out with someone that wants his dad killed, and the remnant of the empire are stupid enough to follow a shadowy Hutt who claims to be a Sith and has a scary hologram of a giant Munilist. That and Snoke is a name befitting a Hutt. Snoke turns out to be one of the few Huttese that has actually learned to speak basic, and is quite learned and intelligent, which would make him an ideal candidate for a Sith lord, but he went another direction instead, which was to use his money and power to con the remnant of the empire into rebuilding and rebranding itself as a power house with the sole purpose of getting revenge on Han. They all believe they are the empire reborn, and everyone else gets caught in the middle of this strange revenge plot.

DP if i had a better PC i would love to try skinning those, but as it is, i cant sculpt in blender for crap due to the GPU overheating and lagging really bad, and i imagine painting would be the same. Shame, cause i have all these cool brushes i would like to test out.

^^^^ Thats about right

yeah i have a copy of some of those too, and AFAIK he did release them for modders resources, but he might want some of them back for his new work.

yes the corpses have to be replaced as well, and they are in there in the models (plenty of corpses to work on) i have been waiting for a mod specifically just corpses that does more than retexture them. It would be kind of neat to see damage specific corpses too, like frozen or burnt, but that is another topic...

Looking it up is not hard, but reading every line of the source material they used to populate the wikI is. From a business perspective, hiring a team to ensure continuity between all the overlapping story lines would be insanely convoluted, and that is where the controversy would start, by people arguing over what to cherry pick and what not to cherry pick to include in the canon. So they took a machete to the overall plot in the extended universe and that was that. I think when they put out tweets and "confirmations", take it with a grain of salt, plus its getting to the point where they want so bad to be original they change things around, but yet keep them the same, because they keep having to go back to the original movies and characters, this makes the execution of it terrible. It is kind of funny really "oh we are doing something original" and then they go play the same notes and beats in episode 7 only not as good or compelling as in episode 4. "no we're not doing that" but then they go and do it anyway. "we don't want to copy or gain inspiration from any of the old material" but yet again they do just that. At this point they are not even the slightest bit convincing. I think the fan base could actually come up with better material than they could at this point.

Something tells me that due to controversy surrounding the different story lines, the books, comics and movies, Disney went pragmatic and chucked it all regardless of whether or not any of it had merit or depth. But on the other hand it could be seen as lazy, or the typical corporate nonsense we all know about from jobs. I'm kinda at the point where I want to see them sew it up and be done with it, kind of like Harrison Ford insisting on being killed off in ep 7. It has degenerated to glow stick waving form of Idiocracy. If you asked anyone pre-episode 7 how the jedi knew about bane, it was simple. His effect on the force was so explosive when he snuffed out the other Sith the impact was felt by all Jedi, and the pattern emerged of "the rule of two" from observing it: from that time through the majority of SW films. Even in the books, games (JK series) etc, there was clearly a difference between Sith and run of the mill Dark Jedi. Sith were more powerful. This is not by any means original of them to claim Snoke is not a Sith lord and just training dark knights/minions, how many times have we seen something similar in SW lore? I have my own theory that would make it all even more diabolical but i might be wrong. I think Snoke=Plagueis (the Munilist) and the larger than life character is actually just a really well done hologram. That his ability to create life gave him the last laugh over Palpatine and he is much more sinister and cunning in his plans. If that were true then it would be a morality tale on how you can't really be sure if you have gotten rid of the bad guy or not, because the layers are deeper, and deeper.

yeah i have a few types of helmets in my models. My WIP thread has quite a few in there) And these were an attempt to do what the OP suggested, only i gave up months and months ago, never got far with it. RL issues, PC probs. It's whatever now. Not really a big deal if nobody wants them. Or i could attempt to make them as an alternate at some point and take the suggestions from this thread. I was actually trying to go for the look you were getting from it, because i figure most security forces would be using very old but still serviceable equipment, even if it was from the old republic era. Case in point the hammerhead, Z-95 headhunter, etc... continuity of style so to speak. I do like the picture of the republic troopers (TOR story board) and i think i have a helmet roughly based on that for another mod i was tossing around, but it is different enough not to work as a republic helmet.

I already have the helmet models done, but my PC troubles have them on the back burner. I still have to skin them. Or if someone wants they can take them over and finish them. The bodies is another thing, but yes they need work badly. Never liked the whole teardrop/appleseed helmet and wetsuit uniform.

Thanks FS. I am not sure if I will be able to release anything else or not. Of course I still have a ton of content I was just finishing up on, and the problem is in my aging laptop. The monitor took a dump on me and I was unable to access my linux desktop from the secondary monitor at all to switch display settings. I inadvertently logged in to xfce desktop which does not allow you to change the display settings by right clicking on the desktop and could not see anything on the laptop monitor, even with a flash light (an old trick for when the lights burn out behind an lcd screen) so I had to reinstall on a second partition or risk losing all my work. I have to backup and compress my playonlnux/wine versions of kotor or they will not work as virtual drives but that is a lengthy and system intensive process which can take a while to complete. Then I have to import them just so, or they wont run. Once I get that done then I have to attempt to reinstall both blender and an older version of blender that was a headache to get installed. Gimp is no issue, already done. I am already backlogged with a lot of other issues, and this just adds to it. In over my head is an understatement. As you can see im just getting around to replying here. If i cannot seem to get anywhere with these issues, i may have to hand off what i have so far to someone who is able to test and put the finishing touches on a few things.

Technically one could just take snippets from a few words such as vowels and hard consonant sounds etc to make a library of tones, and then they can be used to map an artificial voice like Microsoft Sam. Once you have the voice mapped you can pretty much type the dialogue, have a reader speak the dialogue, record that, and them go clean it up with Melodyne (make it more human instead of clunky). The pauses or breaths can be added or tweaked in a sound editing program like audacity. Unfortunately all the dialogue is pre recorded in the KotoR engine and a script fires to call the correct sound file for a conversation. There is no way I know of to change that on the fly. There are easier ways to determine or change what audio is called in a conversation than by a terminal in game. So far my search has turned up empty for any Linux users, but I did manage to find out that if anyone wanted to they can get the Morphvox pro download for windows (I might try it) and there are a ton of add-ons that change your voice real time. With a little tweaking and maybe a few tutorials, it looks like it would be very possible to get pretty close to any of the character voices for new dialogue. Still have not found out how to sample existing audio and change my voice yet, even though I know it is possible. A little off topic but I got off on a tangent and now I am checking out some really cool natively run Linux games (Like The Dark Mod: a really well put together Thief style game) which is updating right now. Ok enough of that.

Technically you can voice sample and then convert the voice to sound like the original actor voice. Various pay to play sound programs can do this easily. So say you sample the voice of han solo, you could easily create new dialogue that sounds like harrison ford did some new voice acting. Most of these programs are pretty high end for mac but I am pretty sure there are some almost free alternatives out there that can be played around with. One I used to have on windows vista was Celemony Melodyne, which was a very dynamic sound altering program. Another one called Cantor was useful for creating new computer generated voices that sound so real it blew my mind when I heard a female voice I generated plugging it into predefined notes that passed for human singing. With just a little tweaking, I turned it from almost the midi style wonky keyboard sample voice to something more fluid and soothing. Combine the effects from both programs and the results are amazing. I can look around and see if I can find something that does what you want for new dialogue (voice altering) but there are no guarantees a free program exists.

A giant inflatable hammer with squeak toy noises? Or if dual wielded - could be big wooden fork and spoon with a chef's hat? A rolling pin with a chef's hat?

i always find old files in my mess of hard drives. only thing missing from the baseball bat is some light sabre buttons lol. might as well go all the way since theres a lore friendly logo on the bat itself. you could also do an aluminum version and one that is obviously scarred and used.

no that was essential to the story really. if you look at it, luke finally successfully confronted vader (not fighting, but confronting as in attempting to save him) which made luke a true jedi, and vader did restore balance to the force, he was the chosen one, by tossing palpatine down the elevator shaft, he brought balance back, and saved himself, although he took a path that mace windu did not appreciate, it was the only way to get close enough to defeat palpatine. in the eyes of the force it was necessary. i just dont like the marketing campaign introduced with the kid centric characters that try too hard to include kids, when in reality kids are going to gravitate to and were doing so with star wars anyway, they didnt need to make star wars more kid centric. i understand why lucas did it, not just for the toy sales, but for the broader audience, but it makes me roll eyes a bit. as far as the whole dark vs light argument, im more of a blend between the two. i believe like many early jedi that you must embrace both the dark and light parts of yourself, not supress the dark side, and not go completely dark. both are essential tools/allies. the wars between dark and light began when people began to favor, or push one or the other, or restrict the use of one or the other. i think people should be able to choose what they use when they need to

for good reason.

If i didnt like it i would not be here, but yeah i dont like the slippery slope lucas fell down when he started with the ewoks in episode 6, and yes my favorite of all of them is episode 5 (sets the bar for the rest really)