N-DReW25

17 hours ago, zbyl2 said:

I just thought the animation was a bit shoddy and didn't really add anything to the scene. It existed because there was a GP's note to have one. I remember that I even created the first version of it (that was probably worse?). If someone thinks I'm totally wrong about this, I'm willing to hear the argument, it can be modded back in in about 10 seconds.

If the general public says the cutscene should be removed/they don't care if its removed then maybe it should stay removed, however, it is totally justified having it in the mod as the dev note requested it.

What we could do instead is add it to a submod which can be downloaded by players if they REALLY wanted to have the old scene, to this day we can still get Mandalore stepping on a landmine in 1.8.6 thanks to the tweak pack submod!

TSLRCM also has a number of custom content to make other restorations work, like "Mira's escape from the Jekk'Jekk Tarr" has a few modder written lines for Visquis to make it all work and the Rebuilt Jedi Enclave and the revamped Carth intro at the Battle of Telos use extensive modder made content... but if we removed said custom content the players probably wouldn't like that as this custom content made the restored content better (despite it being half custom content).

On 9/5/2022 at 3:23 AM, zbyl2 said:

* Telos: Rebalanced the HK Factory

(This image is a joke... I don't like wasting 10 minutes fighting a single HK-50 droid before wasting another 10 minutes fighting his HK buddy!)

On 9/5/2022 at 3:23 AM, zbyl2 said:

* Nar Shaddaa: Removed animated camera from the Red Eclipse boarding cutscene

The one which flies from the boarding ramp and into the Cockpit?

Why was this one removed?

19 hours ago, horsti772 said:

If I have M4-78 installed I personally like the option to fight Vash in the Enclave. Sadly that's not possible with the Extended Enclave patch. Would there be a possibility to add an option like the original Extended Enclave did? (Or am I the only one who does weird stuff like that? :D)

Considering the M4-78 mod is literally infamous for having Vash die on M4-78, can you forgive me that I didn't know about the Easter Egg ending where Vash goes to Dantooine if the other Jedi Masters are already dead?

19 hours ago, horsti772 said:

Also I think I found a bug. If the player kills the 3 Jedi Masters and goes into the Enclave alone, the cutscene with Kreia starts where she sits down, then she says "The years have not been kind to us both, it seems.", then the screen goes black and nothing happens.

I looked it up in DLGEditor and the Dialogue ends there:

So what you're saying is the original EE mod had the blank red dialogue fade to black with the blue response dialogue executing a script to continue the Enclave whereas my mod removed the blue response thus removing the script thus breaking the game?
If that is so, I'll get around to making an update.

I've been meaning on updating this mod for a while now, I'll hopefully get around to it soon!

On 8/15/2022 at 9:12 AM, Darth Imperitus said:

@N-DReW25

What I enjoyed about the mod were the dialogue changes, script changes, new animations

Stuff like that, especially the new animations, will be its own mod. However, the dialogues which get modified will be done so after much consideration due to the need of compatibility with other mods.

You probably aren't going to see party member dialogue get animations and then released as a mod friendly 100% compatible mod... but I'm fairly certain 75% of other dialogues can be given fresh animations!

On 8/15/2022 at 9:12 AM, Darth Imperitus said:

and the changes you made to different areas like Kebla Yurt's shop and the Upper City Cantina; the way you rearranged Kebla Yurt's shop makes much more sense than the way it was laid out originally.

Kebla Yurt's shop can be made into a mod without much worry.

On 8/15/2022 at 9:12 AM, Darth Imperitus said:

I liked how you had the ability to change the cantina music using the console in the music room

This can also be made into a mod, however, the music from ROR will not be present. As a ROR writer, I can confirm that the music in the original ROR Demo (made in 2010-2011) may be replaced with modern music at some point (This is merely an opinion held by most of the ROR Team and there are no concrete plans to change the music as of now, but I do personally think changing the music is on the to-do list for the far future).

On 8/15/2022 at 9:12 AM, Darth Imperitus said:

and how the player character eavesdrops on the two dueling fans discussing their favorite duelists after the match. Small elements like that add more interaction to the game.

That is something I'm surprised people actually liked, whilst I could make this into its own standalone mod I'd like for it to be compatible with the Taris Dueling Arena Adjustment mod so this one might be done later.

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I liked how you rearranged the dialogue and made it possible to get through all the different dialogue options when talking to an NPC without having to cycle back through the same dialogue or having to exit out of a conversation and click back on a character when you want to ask a different question. It makes it less tedious.

I think I recall doing something like this! I remember one of these was the Republic Officer recruiting mercs on Manaan, if I can find these fixes justifiable I might even add it to my Unofficial K1CP Tweak Pack mod!

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I also liked how more vocal your companions are when they interjected during a conversation; they spoke different lines of dialogue that I hadn't heard before, probably because they're dependent on the sex of your character or party composition.

I recall adding Carth randomly interjecting in more dialogues on Taris, I could make something akin to this in the future though my primary concern with a mod like this would be compatibility with other mods.

I also recall modifying Carth's romance dialogues so that the players can hear very specific romance dialogue lines if the player was male,  these lines I added were rather neutral and didn't reference gender or romance so it did spice up the cutscenes.

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  Did Sarna use an alternate voice over? Her voice sounded a bit different. It made her seem more genuine.

Sarna's dialogue was actually recorded twice, I simply swapped out the audio recordings in vanilla for the audio recording which was left out of the game. I do remember I actually restored the bribing Sarna and Yun Genda for Sith Uniforms regardless of gender. This here can be restored in a restored content mod which is also in development!

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The new music was great and added a lot to the ambience of the game. Honestly, I'd grown bored of the game's music so it was refreshing to hear something different.

This is also a very possible mod for me to make, though the problem for me would be deciding where each music track would play.

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One of the best parts about the mod was the encounter with Bastila on the Rakatan Temple. The fight plays out more dramatically with Jolee and Juhani disabled. The way you reworked the dialogue was excellent. It made the scene more dramatic. I liked how there's a pause in the fighting, an exchange of words, and then the fight continues with your two companions. It felt like an real showdown. It reminded me of one of the duels from Episode I or III.

I believe that was lifted and heavily modified from the K1 Enhancement Pack, as always I can probably turn this into a standalone mod but I'll have to look into it to see what I'd need to do to make it compatible with other mods which alter the same scene.

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One of the few things I didn't care for were some of the Jedi robes. They were a bit too low res for my liking and were incompatible with the Cloaked Jedi Robe mod. 

As much as I am sad to admit this, the K1GI Jedi Robes were partially a disaster.

The idea was that K1 Jedi Robes remained in-tact whilst K2 Jedi Robes replaced the Star Forge robes. I ended up removing much of the vanilla robe drops due to it being kinda weird to find Jedi Master Robes in a Krayt Dragon cave or in Master Uthar's personal footlocker, but since I didn't add these robes in other locations in the end the only K2 robe the player could've worn was Jolee's robes.

I might see if there's a way to recreate the K2 Jedi Robes replacing Star Forge robes using the Cloaked Jedi Robe mod but don't keep your hopes up for this one.

Just keep in mind, the "low res" Jedi Robes were actually the default 512 x 512 resolution of the base vanilla game... but if you play with HD Ai upscale mods then yes they would be "low res" in comparison to those mods.

16 hours ago, DeathScepter said:

i always enjoyed this mod, N-Drew, great deal and I will wait for a future version of this mod.

The mods in development probably won't outright say "K1 Gameplay Improvement" on the title, but you can probably notice right away that a mod of mine is a successor to the K1GI (even if its entirely new content you've ever seen before). If the mod modifies multiple and/or adds new appearances then you can count that it is a K1GI successor mod.

@Darth Imperitus

8 minutes ago, Arson Hole said:

Either it's cancelled, or they removed to make way for a more polished version.
It wasn't perfect, (hell it was damn-near unplayable in some areas) but it'd still be a major shame if it was cancelled, as there are still a lot of things I liked about it 😕

What Arson has stated right here is exactly why it was taken down!

In my quest for K1R compatibility I decided it was best to make the mod compatible with the K1 Community Patch instead as many, many players requested I add the bug fixes from that mod.

However, K1R and K1CP all had the same problem... it was far easier to start again and build the mod from the ground up with my improved 2022 modding knowledge to present a far better mod experience.

And here's the best part... it's not cancelled!

 

The K1GI mod will live on in the form of various smaller mods which can work with or without each other and will be compatible with the K1CP mod (And probably K1R as well).

I am on the verge of publishing a Czerka NPC Overhaul which will add K1GI's Czerka content + new Czerka content into a standalone mod which is again compatible with K1CP and most other popular mods.

I can also confirm that similar "NPC Overhaul" mods with different themes are also in the making! 

23 hours ago, Salk said:

N-DReW-25,

thanks for this new interesting modification. But I think you need to include the .mod files else the TSL Patcher won't be able to make the necessary .utc changes for users that do not have such .mod files already in their /modules folder.

True, though I did state that I recommended users install the K1CP, K1R or NPC Overhaul to get the .MOD files in my readme.

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Please install either the K1 Community Patch, K1R or the K1 NPC Overhaul FIRST before this mod!

Simply click on the TSLPatcher.exe, select your option, click install and sit back and watch the TSLPatcher do its magic.

But if you, or anyone else, feels that I should make this mod compatible with users who don't use K1CP, K1R or NPC Overhaul I can add the compatibility in.

Hello, I'm N-DReW25: a writer for the Revenge of Revan mod.

The mod's development is going well, though any discussion of the mod's development can be done in the return of ROR thread as this post is concerning another topic.

During the development of the ROR mod, I've personally thought up something called a "Revenge of Revan Addon mod" or "ROR Addon" for short. A ROR Addon is a mod which is designed to work with the ROR mod and can only be used with the ROR mod (A mod which was made for K2 which is also fully compatible with ROR isn't considered a ROR Addon, though a "What's compatible with ROR" thread might be opened upon ROR Episode 1's release!).

Originally, I thought I would be announcing the ROR Addon concept sometime after the release of ROR Episode 1, however, due to the release of a recent mod I am pleased to announce that a new ROR Addon has been made which I can happily show the general public without leaking anything from the modern ROR mod which is still in development.

And the first (and hopefully not last) ROR Addon is called: "High Quality Aliens: Yoda Species"

The Revenge of Revan mod currently has not one, not two, but three Yoda species NPCs. Whilst I have made 3 skins, currently only one of the Yoda NPCs is used in the mod though since none of you realistically know who "Ulon Tuain" is I might as well call it "High Quality Aliens: Yoda Species".

This here is now Ulon appears in the ROR Demo and how he will look in the future releases of the ROR mod:

And here is how Ulon will appear with the HQ Yoda Species ROR Addon installed!:

Disclaimer: Every Jedi Council member in the ROR Demo had names, you could only see them in the dialogue feedback menu once the Jedi Council cutscene ended. Just because Ulon Tuain has a ROR Addon made for him and the fact that I've revealed his name to the public doesn't make him "important" in the grand scheme of the ROR plot, as many of the fine details of later content of ROR is still up in the air it is possible that Ulon Tuain might just be "a Jedi Council member" character and that's it, or it might be possible that the Jedi Council members will play a bigger role which hasn't been written in yet... we just don't know (in 2022).

And the dialogue is of course experimental, if overall community feedback dislikes the Yoda speak then remove from the mod we will! 

So when will this ROR Addon be released?

I am not certain of that, and I have two very good reasons as to why this mod might not be released soon.

1) ROR Episode 1 hasn't been released yet: If I released this mod tomorrow then the players would only be able to play this mod with the ROR Demo which was released in 2011 (How many of us are playing the ROR Demo in 2022?)

2) Stormie's ported model hasn't been thoroughly tested: When I imported the model into MDLEdit (One of you model modders probably had a stroke reading that) I received an error message.

This is very, VERY likely the result of MDLEdit not being prepared to load a "custom model completely built from scratch using modern 3D asset creation techniques" (as Stormie puts it). MDLEdit probably had a stroke as the following was the error message I recieved:

As you can see from my screenshot, I believe the ported model works just fine in K2... however, I think it might be best to wait some time and hope Stormie himself ports his work to K2 and I'll just use that model instead.

But I want it now!
 

I am also very, VERY open to the idea of releasing all 3 High Quality Yoda skins for ROR as replacements for the original Vandar mod. That means you will be able to pick one of the 3 ROR Yoda's and have it replace the Vandar texture in K1 (You WILL require Stormie's original mod to be installed first!)

In-conclusion:
Let me know what you guys think of both the High Quality Vandar reskin and the concept of Addon mods for the ROR mod! 

Do you think ROR Addons are a good idea? Would you play with Addons when ROR is released? Do you think this is a bad idea? Should I release the Yoda skins for K1? Let me know what you think in the comments, your feedback (good and bad) would be helpful for Logan and the team!

All credit goes to Stormie97 for the original model and texture!

11 hours ago, Sith Holocron said:

I know Vander appears as a hologram in TSL. Any chance of TSL version down the line?

Vandar also appears in the Full Jedi Council mod by Kexikus who modified Vandar's sitting animation. The problem with the original Vandar sitting animation is that, due to his size, he would sit as if he was a normal NPC which meant he didn't "fit" on any chairs so I believe Kexikus modified his animation to make him float above the ground so that it'd appear as if he was sitting in his Jedi Council seat.

5 hours ago, EAF97 said:

Here is a new updated look for Yuthura Ban, with Dark Hope's texture for her head and oldflash's Sith/Jedi robe texture for her robe. Let me know what you guys think.

This might be my personal opinion, but unless you intend to use Dark Hope's texture in your mod then you probably shouldn't use it in your preview screenshots. It'll seem misleading to the players and while it does sound stupid I assure you there are definitely players who would assume Dark Hope's texture is included in your mod based on nothing but your screenshot.

If you are INDEED planning on using Dark Hope's texture, might I ask why? It'll look silly to include a 4K head texture for a single NPC when the goal of your mod is to "Overhaul" the already existing NPCs in the game. You'd either have to give other NPCs 4K heads of similar quality or stick to not having a Yuthura head texture in the mod (You could always recommend player's use Dark Hope's mod without including it in the package).

And for her robe, did you get permission from OldFlash to use the texture? OldFlash disappeared years ago and there (at least to my knowledge) is not way to contact him, did their mod something written in their readme which states modder's can use this texture in their own mods as long as credit is given?

5 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

It wasn't a stylistic choice, it was a performance optimisation. I very much doubt Bioware's original vision for the game was characters looking like there were taken straight out of the original Tomb Raider.

I actually have a handful of pre-release screenshots of the game which shows actual NPCs in the place of Lite NPCs in the final release, so you probably are correct.

The Lite NPC Restoration feature really is just to satisfy my own OCD and for the lovers of the original Tomb Raider.

4 hours ago, Sith Holocron said:

So I had a random thought: What sort of things should be in a KOTOR/TSL mod trailer?  And what sort of things shouldn't be bothered with?

Keep in mind that I'm thinking of larger scale mods: think planet mods, arena mods, or any of the larger content mods. 

Other questions I was thinking about: what's a good length of a trailer?  If you wish to get into specifics like teaser trailers compared to a a final release trailer, feel free to do so.

That would depend on exactly what the mod does.

A trailer is kind of like advertisement, your trailer should pitch the mod to the audience and should make them want to download your mod. The key to making a good Kotor mod trailer is to get things like the music, footage and other special effects to work with what you're presenting.

A common error I see Kotor mod trailer's make is that they record their mod footage with either the game's background music, background ambient noises or NPC chatter when these sounds would be best left out of the trailer. If you wanted to show an NPC talking, go into the sound menu of K1 or K2 and turn down the music and background noises to 0 whilst keeping the NPC dialogue up, in-game, you will only hear the NPC speak and the rest of the game will be silent.

This would be useful if you wanted to have GLIntercept flyby shots of an area and the scene faded into another scene, you wouldn't want to have a soft flyby of Manaan hearing the loud crashing of the ocean's wave only to fade into Tatooine and unnaturally go from ocean waves to dust winds with no transition. Or you wouldn't want to loudly hear a ship take off in the background when an NPC is talking.

If needed, you could use the vanilla game's/mod's sound effect files and add them in your video editor so you, the trailer maker, can choose when these sound effects play to complement the trailer instead of them being an annoyance in the background (A spooky Korriban mod trailer for example would do great with some Sith whispers and background screams which we hear in-game). 

In addition to the in-game audio, you'll want to make sure whatever music you picked isn't 'too loud'. I remember one of TSLRCM's old trailers having a part with Kreia narrating something and all I can hear is the Sith theme screeching over the top of her... the lesson we can learn from that trailer is: make sure the music isn't loud enough to overshadow the narrator and/or mod footage you are trying to showcase.

When it comes to things like music, your pick should 'work' with the 'theme' of your mod. Is your mod an action packed custom content mod? You probably wouldn't want the K2's Rebuilt Enclave music playing for that. Many Kotor trailer's have music and features which work with their video theme, but sometimes these video features don't work whether it be with the video itself or with the mod you're showcasing. I could use various Kotor mod trailers as examples but I wouldn't want to draw criticism on the mods or their authors (Even if their trailers aren't good, most of the times the mods are amazing!).

I would like to reiterate what Malkior has stated: I think that a trailer should only be made when the mod is essentially complete (You can discuss and plan it privately before hand, but that's it). You wouldn't want to have a trailer with half finished/poorly made content or, as Malkior put it, have a trailer which shows pre-rendered content which isn't even in the mod (If that was to be done, it'll only leave a bad impression on both your "mod" and yourself as a modder).

If it's a teaser, it can be as short as 20 seconds or as long as a 1:30 depending on what exactly you want to show. The teaser should only 'tease' the mod whereas the trailer hence why it should be on the shorter end of the stick, whereas a trailer you'd go all out and do a 1 minute or 3 minute trailer, of course the timing of your trailer will be different depending on what the mod does: Does it rely heavily on combat? Is it voiced? Is it custom content? Is the mod big? etc. Trailers shouldn't really go for longer than 4 minutes I would say.

10 hours ago, MarkXT9000 said:

Its 12AM here in Philippines and my mother is monitoring me to go to sleep, so I can't post screenshots of the bug happening, i'll do it tomorrow afternoon.

No problem! Get back to me when it is convenient for you, there is no rush.

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Though I can assure you that the least time it took to wait to have the cutscene hang was the very start of the cutscene (where G0-T0 is floating inbetween his minions) and the longest time was the G0-T0 hologram giving a warning to his minions ("if this knowledge is bled to them, your lif"-- game freezes).

So it's seemingly random?

That last comment you mentioned, that sounds as if the game is freezing at the moment the camera is supposed to change.

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I'm not sure a "critical file involved", no error window was given when the game crashed during that cutscene. Has to ctrl+alt+del and open task managed to force close it.

Don't worry, I don't expect you to find the file for me. I highly suspect the file that might be causing this is the .GIT file for that module.

When you are ready, can you attach the "352nar.git" file inside your Override folder here so I may have a look at it?

4 hours ago, MarkXT9000 said:

Bug: Whenever the first G0-T0 scene (with GenoHaradan, Twin Suns, HanHarr, and 3 HK-51s included) is shown, somewhere in the middle of the cutscene, the game freezes where the only way to close the game while freezing is to push ctrl+alt+del and choose Task Manager to "Kill" that game.

If you can, would you be able to tell me where exactly the cutscene crashes? You can tell me this by screenshotting/quoting what the last line of dialogue an NPC says before the game crashes.

4 hours ago, MarkXT9000 said:

Mods I installed: Most of them are from the official mods from r/kotor KOTOR 2 mod build (TSLRCM, Partyswap, Extended Enclave and its compatch installed), but with additonal mods from outside of that list
Dustil Restoration
Dynamic John Williams Original Trilogy Soundtrack
Balance Tweak Patch
JC's Feat Fixes
Main Menu Widescreen Fix

So you have the entire Reddit mod build installed I take it? 

That build was built around the idea of simply improving the vanilla game, added content such as M4-78, GenoHaradan Legacy or Dustil Restoration etc. aren't part of the build due to custom content mods being developed with different levels of efforts (People hate M4-78 for its content, Dustil Restoration goes out of its way with custom cameras, GenoHaradan Legacy tries to restore the incomplete GenoHaradan plot etc).

For this bug, we'll need to figure out what mods in your build might be conflicting with GenoHaradan Legacy. Since you got halfway through the cutscene, I highly doubt it was the texture mods as they'd crash the moment the cutscene loaded.

Do keep in mind, when Goto says his final line where he warns the Bounty Hunters not to work with the GenoHaradan or else he'd kill them the camera will change several times showing the faces of the bounty hunters, could a critical file involved in that cutscene be stuffing it all up perhaps?

2 minutes ago, Sith Holocron said:

I don't understand why he missed the link in the post directly above his.

It could be because Deadlystream in 2016 didn't display the mod's image like it does now, but I agree with you whole heartedly: how on earth didn't he even read the entire thread before asking that 5 years later?

6 hours ago, Dameee said:

90SK did you ever do it?

Is this what you were looking for?
 

On 1/16/2022 at 6:32 PM, Vabulletizer said:

Hello there, i saw a topic asking to release an update for this mod, but unfortunately there was no any progress, i would like to know, it is even possible to get these two mods to work correctly together?

In my experience, the hardest thing about compatibility is merging the Korriban tomb's TSLRCM content with the mod's content WITHOUT restoring the vanilla bugs.

On 4/26/2022 at 10:06 PM, Revanbeta50 said:

Yeah let's see if I can get the other modders availability 

You certainly won't be getting modders for this project by making your own copy of this very thread.

This user created this thread and managed to follow the rules when creating their post and yet the community didn't have answer to give!

Keep this in mind, Vabulletizer asked their question in a reasonable and sensable manner and was ignored... in your thread you wrote the following:

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Please help us in this matter so I can kill her AHAHAHAH 💜

From what you have shown the other modders on this site is that you cannot follow most of our General Posting Habits, Spam or Bumping rules... why would any of us want to work on a project you are requesting?

On 4/25/2022 at 4:21 PM, Revanbeta50 said:

And as I siad I have a computer

Then you have everything you need...

3 hours ago, Revanbeta50 said:

No reply????? AHAHHAHA 

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/297/368/17f.jpg

@CortisolHow do rotate an object inside the 3D Module Editor?

9 hours ago, Revanbeta50 said:

if possible please help us with this because I can't ues the appearance file so I can't really use the mod how it was fully meant to be unless someone makes a patch for mobile compatibility 

I have stated in your other thread that a BOSSR mod for Android "might" be possible, but I can assure you, never in our lives will an Android version of the NPC Overhaul mod be compatible with the Android of Kotor 2... EVER!

On PC, the NPC Overhaul mod has a very delicate system of TSLPatching. This TSLPatching method mainly consists of injecting NPC files directly into the .MOD files in the modules folder, this is because many NPCs in Kotor 2 use the exact same file name as one another and the only way to modify these NPCs is to place them directly into the .MOD files to prevent a conflict.

This mod is a real b*tch to install even on PC, it is a core reason why people don't like this mod. The TSLPatcher injection method has to be injected into each .MOD file and if you don't know what a .MOD file is it's essentially the file which contains all of an areas data (Citadel Hangar, TSF Station, the Citadel Apartments and Ithorian Compound areas are called 201TEL.mod, 202TEL.mod, 203TEL.mod and 204TEL.mod for example). Because there are about 80 areas in Kotor 2, that means you have to install the NPC Overhaul mod up to 80 TIMES just to install the mod properly, and this is on PC.

Only people who are super dedicated to a modded Kotor 2 would install that mod, what makes you think a modder would put themselves through that installation process if the chances of NPC Overhaul being compatible with Android is less than 20%.

9 hours ago, Revanbeta50 said:

I know it's possible u guys did kotor 2 tslrcm for android why can't u do this 

Let me explain: