N-DReW25

11 hours ago, DeathScepter said:

Potential Idea: Use Kotor 2 heads that fits your mod.

That's part of the plan, though I won't be using the direct K2 skins. You won't see K2 player heads or unique heads like Vaklu as new NPCs, instead, I shall use reskins of K2 heads whether they be my own or by others (with permission/modder's resource of course).

On 12/7/2023 at 11:52 PM, DarthParametric said:

You could source new head models from TOR, although the textures are a bit too cartoony to use as-is. At least the earlier stuff anyway. They have been trending towards a more realistic style in more recent updates, at least for unique NPCs (not that I have actively played for a while).

The cartoony parts are a real sticking point when it comes to the humans. That could be a future possibility, though I do have quite a few modded heads already on my list before I'll need to start scrapping the bottom of the TOR barrel for resources.

But using TOR aliens might definitely be a good alternative!

The development of ROR goes well, but who am I to neglect my own mod series.

For months, I have been conflicted with my "clothing" mods like Smuggler's Deluxe and Onderon Fashion. This conflict has been enflamed with the release of the Fat Commoner Body Models Modder's Resource mod as it would allow me to add fat commoner NPCs to the game in a similar method as the two previously mentioned mods.

This "conflict" of mine is the fact that there simply aren't enough NPCs in the game to have my planned Smuggler, Onderon, fat, new commoner clothing, flight suits and Dantooine scavenger outfits all made for generic NPCs. My NPC Diversity Pack with the "GIT Edit" is one method I'm adding new NPCs to elevate this, but at the end of the day I am just not satisfied with the results... mainly as those previously mentioned ideas are only SOME of my ideas.

A mod I also wanted to make was this "more generic heads mod" which would increase the generic heads from 2 to 5. If this mod would ever come to fruition this could result in 5 white, 5 black, 5 asian and 5 hispanic generic commoner heads with male/female and elderly variants. This mod would increase the number of generic heads from 28 to 80, but these numbers would cause two problems. First, it'd conflict with the previous clothing mods like Smuggler's Deluxe and Onderon Fashion and second, I'm simply unable to make enough heads to reach my goal of 80 without sacrificing quality.

So instead, I've put the "more generic head mod" on the backburner and I've worked on something easier and possibly even more efficient. Now, after showing you three paragraph of bad news, get ready for the good news! I present to you, the latest mod for the series:
 

The Galaxy of Faces mod is a mod which shall add new "unique heads" to the game, what do I mean by "unique"? Well, in the game files NPCs like Gadon, Davik, Vrook and Malak are considered "unique" whereas NPCs like Marl, Shen Matale, Eli Gand and countless more all use the generic heads seen throughout the game. This mod adds modded custom heads for many of the NPCs in Kotor with unique names and personalities that lack any unique head in the base game.

In the meantime, here is an awkward screenshot of Nemo and his new head!

But that leaked screenshot won't be the only thing you'll see of this mod, for once this mod is approved you can play the first release of this mod once you follow this link!

I'd just want to say I am REALLY digging these screenshots, great stuff!

I wish you well on your project ahead, and I really hope we see your work finished and released sometime in the future.

I'd like to ask, is your first language English or do you primarily speak another language (Like Russian for example?).

On 11/10/2023 at 4:14 PM, JasonRyder said:

Your second and third ideas here sound the most promising! But I look forward to both your and other modders' future NPC diversity-type mods! 

Thank you for the compliments! If what you say is true I'm sure you'll like what I have to say next.

The NPC Diversity Pack was quietly updated to version 0.6.0 on the 20th of October, and with it came all 3 of the ideas I posted above.

The 1st idea can be seen in this screenshot, the guards of Davik's estate are now Gamorrean Guards:

The 2nd idea has also been implemented, the old Nemo style Jedi NPCs have been removed and in their place you'll now see generic NPCs in the multi-colored Jedi Robe item. For example, Nemo will now wear his blue Jedi Robes instead of his default cream colored robes you can't wear. Since this idea is spread across the game, I'll simply show you the updated Star Forge Jedi:

Future mods I make will once again alter these specific Star Forge Jedi so obviously once those release players will want to install the NPC Diversity Pack BEFORE those mods. Jedi Robe mods are compatible with the NPC Diversity Pack, in the screenshot above if you were to have JC's Cloaked Robes installed those Jedi shall have cloaked robes. If you wish to use DarthParametric's Jedi Diversity on the Star Forge mod, you'll have to install that mod AFTER the NPC Diversity Pack mod in order for his mod to overwrite my changes.

And the 3rd idea has been implemented in the form of a new installation called "GIT Tweak". Git Tweak is more like a demo/test of greater things to come, currently it only modifies the tat_m17aa/Anchorhead module and it does exactly what I said it'll do... it ensures that every NPC listed in the GIT file is unique instead of a duplicate of an already existing NPC.

So... why didn't I announce this earlier? Why haven't I announced my next mod?

Around the middle of this year, the development of the Revenge of Revan mod intensified and for the first time in a while meaning I had things to do... meaning development of the NPC Diversity Pack and my other NPC mods have been slowed quite a bit. Unfortunately, you might not see much of this project series as much as we'd like to... though do know it's for a greater cause!

Whilst Logan is infamously known for keeping his mod under wraps I can say this: certain "elements" of my NPC Overhaul series shall be carried over to the Revenge of Revan mod in some form or another.

To discuss the Revenge of Revan mod, please visit this thread. I shall return to this WIP thread once I have updates for the NPC Overhaul Series.

10 hours ago, EAF97 said:

Were some of those files custom-made by the mod authors who posted them or would they just have been extracted from the game's hidden files using Kotor Tool?

I'm going to be honest with you, I misremembered the "Garrum and Tar'eelok" mod with the one you linked. I knew that mod contained a .RIM file so I always thought that mod would be more difficult to crack.

Though after investigating the files of the Sharina Fizark mod... it should be a LOT easier to use the source files and remake it from scratch (my point about directly using their files outright in my mod still stands, recreating the content from scratch is the way to go).

On 10/4/2023 at 3:19 PM, EAF97 said:

https://www.gamefront.com/games/knights-of-the-old-republic/file/sharina-fizark-restoration-1

@N-DReW25 if I'm not mistaken the script/file to make the Sharina Fizark restoration work is actually on GameFront and if I recall can also be extracted in the danm13 module using Kotor Tool. For this one it only needs her Dantooine .utc file and 3-4 script files which are all provided there and can just go straight into Override in order to work. Wouldn't it simply be possible to mine some of these cut details using Kotor Tool in order to "restore" them? Websites like GameFront also have a number of really old uploads of these files, which would make it easier

I could... though if I were to just take the files from the Gamefront mods I'd need permission from their original mod authors to add them to the RC-K1CP.

23 hours ago, 134340Goat said:

Oh, crap, how did it take me two months to see that this was a thing?! Despite its flaws, I've been an avid K1R fan since its release, so this is huge to me

I've heard talk of a "K1R Lite" to fulfill pretty much the same purpose you mentioned - compatibility with K1CP while also perhaps avoiding some of the more controversial changes - and I'll be ecstatic to play through the game again with as fully realized as possible a version of that! With the integration of Leilukin's Juhani mod and whatever else gets added in with the.... K1RCCP? What was it again- oh, RCK1CP. Yeah, when that hits, I'd love to give it a test!

The next update is planned to be a small one, though it will contain the Leilukin Juhani restoration as previously mentioned.

This WIP thread is more for me to leak what I'm working on and discuss cut content that I find, you can play the RC-K1CP Demo here: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2345-restored-content-for-k1cp-demo/

I've just updated the mod page to include a list of what's currently restored, I'm also considering 'balkanizing' the RC-K1CP installation process so the player can install what they specifically want so they might avoid controversial changes (The Vulkar Base from K1R comes to mind, though a possible restoration of the Simple Weapons feat or Party in Naga Sadows would also be considered controversial if I added them to the main installer).

I actually used Sleheyron as an example earlier, his WIP thread has been radio silent for a whole year but today he's posted something!

Check it out, it's a whole video preview... and any of us who actually make mods will know that the content shown in that video wasn't easy to make. Just goes to show that some "dead" mods are still kicking behind the scenes!

4 hours ago, Samriel said:

Mod is pretty much dead despite the dev best intentions.

Not all mods end up completed or get even past the demo stage.

Too bad.

I wouldn't necessarily say the mod is properly dead... the mod author is still determined to see it through to the end even though he isn't active on this forum.

For fans following the project: Logan did, at one point in the past, cancel the project due to health reasons and only resumed development after several new modding tools were released which made world building much less tedious for him. Even though he's back to developing ROR those health reasons likely haven't gone away, when we consider this (alongside the Covid-19 pandemic and the global recession it caused) there are no doubt valid reasons why the development of ROR has been significantly delayed.

At the end of the day: modding is a hobby and no modder is obliged to the mods that they've made or developed... so if a modder has health problems, employment obligations or other private issues it's common sense that modders focus on any of those reasons rather than their mods.

As a ROR team member, I know ROR's behind the scenes development, but since I'm not Logan I cannot promise anything... though I can say if Logan was 100% certain he wanted to stop developing the mod he would announce it. As an insider, I can say development is still on-going, though fans should treat ROR like Sleheyron... SithSpecter hasn't cancelled Sleheyron though at the same time the Sleheyron thread has seen no activity for well over a year now.

I personally have faith that SithSpecter is still working on Sleheyron albeit in total secrecy so that he may develop at his own comfortable pace. Like with Sleheyron, players shouldn't be tallying the days or checking for ROR/Sleheyron updates all the time, these mods will come when the developers are ready and when they release it'll catch us by complete surprise.

Good work! I look forward to seeing more WIPs in the future! 

I have released version 0.5.0 of my NPC Diversity Pack!

Before version 0.5.0, the players (you) had to install the mod several times over to get to experience the full mod. These 3 TSLPatcher installations were named as if they were mods and each had unique features... the "Diverse Galaxy" mod swapped out NPC heads, the "Fashion of the Old Republic" mod swapped out clothing and armor items and "Lite of my Life" upgraded Lite NPC appearances.

In version 0.5.0 onward, the Fashion of the Old Republic and Lite of my Life mods have been merged with the Diverse Galaxy mod meaning you'll install the Diverse Galaxy mod ONCE and you'll get the features of Fashion of the Old Republic and Lite of my Life... this should make the installation process easier!

This mod shall still have optional installations as of 0.5.0, the "Sounds O' Plenty" mod that changes NPC soundsets still exists and I've added a 2nd optional mod called "Diverse Weapons", the Diverse Weapons mod shall swap the weapons of NPCs to diversify the weapons they use. No longer shall every weapon use a Blaster Rifle and Pistol, they might use Blaster Carbines, Heavy Repeating Rifles, Ion Blasters, Sonic Rifles etc. And do keep in mind the NPCs will NOT drop these items, they are merely aesthetic in nature.

Future plans!

I make this post mainly to share some future plans I have for the NPC Diversity Pack going forward, I've created quite a few mods for this NPC Overhaul Series so much so that I don't want to "clutter" Deadlystream with my future NPC mods so I've decided to take two mod concepts and add them directly to the NPC Diversity Pack instead.

My 1st mod idea is this... Davik's bodyguards are quite annoying, there are about 20 of them in his Estate yet only 7 unique UTC files exist for them meaning you might see 5 clones in a single area. A way I thought about fixing this was to replace them with Gamorreans, they make logical sense lore-wise as Gamorreans and gangsters go together like butter on toast and most importantly we won't have to worry about the clone effect as Gamorreans all look the same anyway. This will have to be tested as that'd mean ALL of Davik's Guards would be forced to use Melee only meaning the player could literally be chased through the Estate if the player is overwhelmed.

My 2nd mod idea involves the Jedi, I'm sure we're all familiar with this image down below:

If from the NPC Diversity Pack, though my mod idea would have these guys removed. In their place I'd have EVERY single Jedi NPC wear the default Jedi Robe item, this will effectively remove the Nemo and cut Jedi Council Robe models from the game.

This idea was made primarily for compatibility reasons with future NPC mods I make involving the Jedi. With the successful release of the Hearts of Beskar mod, I'm currently deciding which NPC faction I'll make a dedicated mod on... I do have plans for the Jedi, but I believe having Jedi NPCs wear the default Jedi Robe items would be the best blank slate for them instead of what I have thus far.

And my 3rd idea, if it works out, shall totally revamp the NPC Diversity Pack. As with the before mentioned Davik's Guards, many NPCs in Kotor suffer the problem where there exists 20 or so NPCs in one module but only 7 UTC files exist resulting in clones.

Unlike the first two ideas which could be added to the Diverse Galaxy installation, this idea would be its own separate installation as it seems a bit too far extreme for the NPC Overhaul style Diverse Galaxy installation. Let's say an area has 20 NPCs but only 7 UTC files, that means inside the GIT file there are multiple NPCs sharing the same "TemplateResRef" tag in each STRUCT... this is what causes the cloning effect.

This idea is more of a 'fix' for that, instead of 20 NPCs with 7 UTC files sharing those 20 STRUCTS I'll instead create 13 new NPCs bringing the number of UTC files to 20. I'll then go through the GIT file and add my new UTC files to the STRUCTs ensuring the 7 vanilla UTCs remain though the remaining 13 STRUCTs that previously cloned the 7 original UTCs will now have their own unique NPC occupying the TemplateResRef.

If you aren't a modder, you might not be able to understand what I mean by this... so let me tell you how this will look in-game? Places like Anchorhead and Ahto City have this problem where the module has 10 or 20 commoner NPCs but will have anywhere between 2 to 7 UTC files thus resulting in clones. With this GIT fix, every single commoner file shall be unique which will allow to diversify these areas even further than what I've already done in the NPC Diversity Pack.

Let me know what you guys think, I'll be sure to share screenshots when I'm further into development!

I am pleased to announce that my Hearts of Beskar mod has been released to the public! Once an Admin approves the mod it shall appear in the following link:

This is the 1st "big" mod as part of the NPC Overhaul Series, for now I'll shall focus on the "smaller" mods that are still in development before I jump right in with another big mod. When I have more content to leak I shall return to this thread, though if anyone wishes to ask questions I'm more than happy to answer them.

16 hours ago, DeathScepter said:

Well I know your mod is a dedicated Restored mod.  Also adjusting prices to make them more sensible and increase prices if you are going to add traits to them. Also with Broken/overpowered equipment should be end game equipment only if you are planning to keep them broken as is. So it is alright to  adjust them to make them fit to that stage of the game

Yeah, I'm strongly considering readjusting the stats of the broken cut items where I see fit... especially with the Cinnagar Plate Armor and Mandalorian Armor. Speaking of the Mandalorian Armor, in the upcoming Heart of Beskar mod found here I've replaced the Mandalorian Armor with an item called "Echani Heavy Armor"... I'll probably have to make some sort of patch for these two mods when Heart of Beskar is released and RC-K1CP restores the Mandalorian Armor.

20 hours ago, Salk said:

Hello, N-DReW25!

I'd be interested in the full restoration of the complete set of Bavakar packages. Have you perhaps made any test about them and checked they work properly and there is nothing incomplete about them? Also, we see here that one of the Dark Jedis on Kashyyyk was supposed to have one of these three items. Do you perhaps know where the other two were originally supposed to be found/bought?

Cheers!

These implants should work correctly: the Bavakar Cardio Package does +2 Constitution, the Bavakar Reflex Enhancement does +2 Dexterity, the Bavakar Memory Chip does +2 Intelligence, they all have unique icons and they all cost 2000 credits. Whilst the Bavakar packages do work, I have found a few items which one could consider 'broken' in a way...

A common pattern with armor items for example is that the item ID will be called something like "g_a_class4001" and each time the value goes up (4001, 4002, 4003 etc.) the armor gets stronger and more expansive. Though this doesn't seem to be the case with the cut Cinnagar Weave Armor item which has a Defense Bonus of 6, a price of 2000 and the item ID "g_a_class4004" whereas the Massassi Ceremonial Armor item which has a Defense Bonus of 5, a price of 3000 and the item ID "g_a_class4005".

Those two items are inconsistent, if it were consistent I believe the Massassi Ceremonial Armor should have a Defense Bonus of 7 instead of 5... though obviously that's just my educated guess so this might be a feature of the Unofficial K1CP Tweak Pack instead of RC-K1CP. The reason I bring this up is because the Bavakar packages are entirely consistent with the other implants, the +1 Attribute Implants cost 1000 credits, the +2 Bavakar Implants cost 2000 credits, the +3 Attribute Implants cost 7500 and the +4 Attribute Implants cost 15000. The jump in price between the +2 and +3 Attribute Implants is quite steep though it does make sense considering how much stronger a +3 in Attributes is when compared to the +2.

And one final thing about inconsistent stats for cut items, the cut Cinnagar Plate Armor and Mandalorian Armor both have the EXACT same stats with a Defense Bonus of 10 and a Sonic Resistance 25 even though the Cinnagar Plate Armor cost 4000 credits and the Mandalorian Armor costs 9000 credits. This is made worse by the fact that Mandalorian Armor is a class 8 (g_a_class8004) armor whilst the class 9 (g_a_class9003) Mandalorian Battle Armor with a Defense Bonus of 11 costs 4000 credits.

But to actually answer your question; the Bavakar Reflex Enhancement shall drop from one of the Kashyyyk Dark Jedi. The Bavakar Cardio Package actually already drops from Sasha the Selkath if you kill her, I may add a 2nd Cardio Package so Light Side players may obtain this item. And finally,  I do not have any evidence at this time to prove that the Bavakar Memory Chip was intended to drop in-game like I can the Reflex Package... I'll decide at a later date an appropriate area in the game where this item may be found. I hope to pick a location that makes sense, so that when the player realizes it's a restored item they'll go "Huh, I never noticed!"

I've been tinkering with some cut content, and I'm sure once you all read about you'll all agree with @Marius Fett about the content being "fairly unsubstantial".

The 1st bit of cut content is the easiest to explain and the easiest to implement: Alternative Dark Jedi Loot on Kashyyyk.

In the game files, the UTC files for the Dark Jedi trio on Kashyyyk share the exact same name as the Tatooine Dark Jedi Trio. If you aren't familiar with UTC filenames these NPCs are named "tat17_darkjedi01", "tat17_darkjedi02" and "tat17_darkjedi03", my guess is that Bioware developed the Tatooine Dark Jedi Trio encounter first and went on to copy & paste this encounter on Kashyyyk.

But in Kashyyyk files are several unused Dark Jedi UTC files called "kas22_darkjedi02", "" and "kas22_darkjedi03". This is just my assumption, but it's possible that Bioware intended for the Kashyyyk Dark Jedi to have the word "kas" in their filenames like every other Kashyyyk NPC but realized it'd be quicker to simply copy & paste the Tatooine UTCs and scripts to Kashyyyk.

The interesting thing about these unused kas22 Dark Jedi is that their loot does not match the final tat17 Dark Jedi, the loot is very similar to the tat17 Dark Jedi which seems to indicate that the kas22 Dark Jedi loot was an earlier draft for those NPCs before we got the final product.

Here is the loot comparisons between the two Trios: orange represents a direct change between the two versions, blue represents a cut item found on the Kas Dark Jedi and green represents a new item added to the tat17 version.

This should be easy to implement and shouldn't be too controversial, I don't intend to replace the tat17 Dark Jedi with the kas22 Dark Jedi in the GIT file... instead I'm going to add some of the kas22 loot into the tat17 UTCs. I say some because I don't think it'd be for the best to create an identical copy of the kas22 loot, if I did that the player would lose a Yellow Crystal, a Short Lightsaber and a Violet Lightsaber (At this time, I'm not restoring the Dark Jedi Lightsaber).

 I want to merge the two so the player gets the most out of both Dark Jedi Trios, the player shall get the chance to receive the (rather weak) Verpine Ocular Enhancer and the cut Bavakar Reflex Enhancement implant whilst keeping the Violet Lightsaber and Short Lightsabers.

And the 2nd bit of cut content is the: Alternative Upgrades.

In Kotor Tool, the UTI files have 4 sections called "General", "Properties", "Description" and "Comment". In the comment sections of certain UTI files are some notes left behind by Bioware developers.

For example, I shall use "Calo Nord's Battle Armor". In the vanilla game, his armor has Defense Bonus +9 and  Damage Resistance: Resist 10/- vs. Cold, Fire, Sonic. If you upgrade it the stats become Defense Bonus +12, Damage Resistance: Resist 10/- vs. Cold, Fire, Sonic and Immunity Critical Hits/Mind-Affecting.

But if you check the comment section the armor stats would've been Defense Bonus +11, Damage Resistance: Resist 10/- vs. Cold, Fire, Sonic which would become Defense Bonus +12, Damage Resistance: Resist 10/- vs. Cold, Fire, Sonic and Immunity Critical Hits/Mind-Affecting when you upgrade it.

Most upgradeable armors are like this, their upgraded end result in the dev comments are exactly the same as they are in the final game but the base stats are different. In the vanilla game, the base defense bonus is low and the upgrade would add between 2 to 4 defense bonus to make it strong whereas in the comments the base defense bonus is higher with the upgrade only adding 1 extra defense bonus.

Other than that, there are a few extra things I've learned about upgradeable armors: the Echani Fiber Armor and Republic Mod Armor comments were unfinished so there's nothing to edit here but most interestingly the Verpine Zal Alloy Mesh has an unfinished comment... I can't say what Bioware had planned for the Verpine Zal Alloy Mesh but this note does confirm that, at one point, the Verpine Zal Alloy Mesh was intended to be upgradeable before it was scrapped. I'm thinking of editing the Verpine Zal Alloy Mesh to start with a base Defense Bonus of +11 and upgrades will make it Defense Bonus +12 with Damage Resistance: Resist 25/- vs. Cold, Fire, Sonic as it is in vanilla.

Whilst I've studied the armor UTIs, I've yet to inspect all of the weapons though I can confirm there are comments there as well. I've only checked the Vibrosword section thus far and I can tell there are some ancient gems written in here with old concepts and scrapped features.

Below is a copy & paste of the intended upgrades for Bacca's Ceremonial Sword:

22 hours ago, Darth Imperitus said:

Thanks for making a restoration mod that is compatible with the K1 Community Patch. I don't care what anyone says. I think restoration mods like K1R are essential and add a lot of replayability to the game. I disagree with "most players." Personally, I find cut content is fascinating and I think it's worth restoring if feasible. Anything that adds more content to the game and enhances the experience is fine by me. It was really frustrating not being able to play K1R and K1CP together and have both mods working on a permanent override folder. It really annoys me how some people on another website actively discourage players from playing K1R and belittle all the hard work that went into developing it. I hope this mod carries forward the legacy of K1R and retains a lot of the great content that it restored while adding more and providing a more seamless experience. I'm really looking forward to it!

I wouldn't say most players dislike K1's cut content, I believe that if the players have to chose between just K1 restored content and many bug fixes most players would rather play with K1CP and its many bug fixes. That is the reason why my most recent mods aren't compatible with K1R, K1R is buggy due to the Dev Team being non-existent in 2023 so I might as well stick with the big mod with an active Dev Team that most players already use.

But with the release of the RC-K1CP mod, this won't have to be the case... if players want restored content they can now install RC-K1CP on top of the K1CP mod and get the best of both worlds without the hassle.

2 hours ago, Leilukin said:

Yes, my Juhani Dialogue Restoration was made specifically for players who want the cut Juhani dialogue but do not want to use K1R. You may integrate my mod into your KotOR 1 restored content mod if you want to.

Thank you, I shall get the integration out in the next update! 

I have returned with more Hearts of Beskar leaks, this time... on Kashyyyk!

On Kashyyyk, the player encounters a pack of Mandalorians using the Kashyyyk wildlife to train as they use Stealth Field Generators to ambush their prey.

Most of these Mandalorians shall be replaced with the previously revealed Mandalorian Marauder who appears once on Dantooine though shall appear numerous times on Kashyyyk!

As I revealed earlier, the Mandalorian Marauder are a Neo-Crusader Mandalorian variant who only ever appeared in a Star Wars Miniatures toy series. Brought to life from a texture lifted from the K1 Enhancement Pack modder's resource by SpaceAlex, the Mandalorian Marauders shall use melee weapons against the player!

However, the Marauders aren't the only new Mandalorian threat you'll encounter in the Shadowlands...

 I introduce to you... the Mandalorian Shock Trooper!

The Mandalorian Shock Troopers are based on the Neo-Crusader Shock Trooper, they're called "Mandalorian" instead of "Neo-Crusader" to maintain consistency between the other Mandalorian variants of this mod. If you look on the Wookieepedia page for the Shock Troopers, you might see that their armors don't match the screenshots presented here:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/68/Neo-Crusader_Shock_Troopers.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130421185101

But if you go to the Wookieepedia page for the Neo-Crusader Assault Armor, you'll realize that canonically the Mandalorian Shock Troopers wear the same Mandalorian Assault Armor that appears in the Kotor games!

This armor is Neo-Crusader Assault Armor!

So if my Mandalorian Shock Troopers are the same as Neo-Crusader Shock Troopers, why don't they look the exact same?... for the same reason the Imperial Storm Troopers don't look like Phase 1 Clone Troopers, in the comics the Neo-Crusader Shock Troopers only appeared once in 3963 BBY whilst Kotor is set in 3956 BBY. In Hearts of Beskar, the Shock Troopers simply have updated armor (and it's totally not because I can't make a unique Shock Trooper model).

Again, special thanks for 90SK for making the Shock Trooper skin... these Mandalorians couldn't have been brought to life without your good work!

What's left for the Hearts of Beskar mod? Well, I need to finish the Lehon Mandalorians and I need to finish the placement of Mandalorian items throughout the game as placeable loot, merchant loot and enemy loot drops... speaking of loot, I've made much progress on the Taris and Dantooine Mandalorian loot that'll be found in the mod! These changes shall be leaked in their own dedicated leak!

On 7/25/2023 at 1:36 PM, Spectrometer said:

1. I noticed Komad Fortuna kept his standard brown robes in the Eastern Dune Sea, I remember that in the other NPC Overhaul mod his clothes were changed to an armor, and that to me makes a lot more of sense, as he is in the middle of the desert and tells you he has been tracking the Dragon for some time. Perhaps you would consider giving him some sort of armor?

So here's my reasoning for Komad's Clothing.

This mod is part of a "series" of other mods that also affect the NPCs similar to other past NPC Overhaul type mods. The idea behind these mods is that you'd install this mod first and you'd install these other mods to further diversify the NPCs found in the game.

Komad is actually impacted by one of these mods, it's called the K2 to K1 Clothing Pack!

A feature of the K2 to K1 Clothing Pack is that it takes the K2 default clothing and makes it a new clothing item without replacing the K1 default clothing. In the spoiler below, you can see the K2 default clothing and K1 default clothing... with this mod you'll be able to see both outfits in-game, this makes the mod unique as most mods tend to replace the K1 clothing with the K2 texture instead.

In this mod, Komad will wear the K2 default clothing in the Hunter's Lodge but in the Desert he wears a rugged K2 outfit, the same outfit seen in this image here:

He wears that specific outfit as the player can assume he's wearing the same clothing as he wore in the Hunter's Lodge, though when he entered the desert it got dirty.

That's my reason as to why Komad wasn't affected in this mod, though perhaps you are right... maybe Komad should wear proper armor.

On 7/25/2023 at 1:36 PM, Spectrometer said:

2. I like the change of Saul Karath's bodyguards from the Dark Jedi model to the Sith Apprentice one, because that is one model we don't see too much, but it looks a little awkward in how the two look exactly the same, specially if you have an HD reskin of them like I did and their faces can be seen clearly. I don't know well how to solve this, you could change one of the two to the Dark Jedi model but it would break the symmetry of the shot centered on Saul. Regardless, it's a nitpick but I wanted to tell you.

Truth be told, I can't remember adding this change though I'll be sure to investigate this so I can be sure!

I think it might be for the best that I remove this change and bring back the Dark Jedi, as I've said earlier this mod is intended to be the "base" mod which is installed before other mods as part of my NPC Series so making the 2nd Dark Jedi unique from the 1st is kind of out of the scope of this mod.

And unfortunately, down the road in my NPC Series will be mods which add other 'NPC variants' to replace Saul's bodyguards. At the current time, I'm working on a Mandalorian mod whose progress can be checked in this thread!

Though I do know DP's Dark Jedi wear Robes mod already does just that!

On 7/16/2023 at 1:29 PM, DarthParametric said:

Which is exactly what I was suggesting. Just bypassing the need to ask for permission, since you'd leave supplying the content to the enduser.

Again, exactly what I was suggesting. You create an installer framework on your end with everything except the raw assets. You'd have to create some stuff yourself from scratch, like certain scripts and so forth, but primarily what I was suggesting it for was the big ticket items like level models.

That might certainly come in useful for the more complex restorations like the Pazaak tournament! Are PyKotor and HoloPatcher new or are they currently in-development? I haven't seen many mods with these installers (Assuming they're installers by the word 'Patcher').

On 7/16/2023 at 1:29 PM, DarthParametric said:

The binary content is in the releases section. The script source and ini data is presumably what you are actually interested in though. Especially since there's the possibility of needing to merge them with K1CP alterations to those (or related) scripts that have happened in the time since that mod was first made.

Yeah, it's not a full solution if you want to replicate K1R, hence why I only said I had done some of the work. You'd have to make some additional script changes to prevent one or the other being blocked (IIRC it's in the module's OnEnter). And DLG alterations, assuming there's not already vanilla provision for it.

Yep, this would be a good stepping stone to form the basis of an Armor restoration... I do believe the DLGs are already setup expecting the player to interact with the NPC already wearing a Sith Armor disguise (So you'd speak to the NPC with the intent to get the 2nd disguise) but that dialogue isn't seen in-game as the NPCs disappear when the first armor is obtained.

For anyone else reading this, the RC-K1CP Demo has been uploaded and can be found in the following link once it's approved by an Administrator: 

On 7/13/2023 at 1:16 AM, DarthParametric said:

Well you don't really need to. While DS rules mean you can't rehost a modified version of K1R. there's nothing stopping you creating an installer setup that relies on the enduser downloading K1R on their end so you can make use of its content. Current changes being made to PyKotor (the backend of HoloPatcher) make the installer side pretty feasible, and it's even probable with the Nexus API that you could automate the downloading of K1R if you wanted to go that far. At the very least you could automate the extraction of the assets once it was downloaded.

That's of course assuming there's anything worth going to that much hassle for. I assume it would mostly be the level related stuff you'd want from it? Not that I personally think any of that is actually worth restoring in the first place.

I... don't think that'd work; my main goal is to make a restoration mod that's compatible with and is installed after the K1CP and I see K1R 1.2 as being too broken to do that without intervention. In a hypothetical scenario in which I had full permission to use K1R's assets, I'd mainly strip it down, like you would an old car for parts, only to take the assets and files I'd need to recreate K1R's restored content.

Using the Injured Sith Apprentice as an example, I'd extract the scripts, triggers, dialogue and NPC coordinates from K1R's .MOD files and create a TSLPatcher to inject these 'raw' K1R files into the K1CP .MOD. Of course, not all the restored content would be that easy, I'd have to edit the scripts, journal and 2DAs to account for any new conditionals and whatnot.

But your last comment sums up my attitude on K1R quite well, I'm quite content with creating my own restorations from scratch... anything that's over the top complicated (for me) that would actually require me to fish out files from K1R just isn't worth the hassle... I can live without a Pazaak Tournament for example.

On 7/15/2023 at 8:00 AM, JasonRyder said:

Here are the most important things I'd like restored: 

These will come eventually, but let me explain point by point as to why these might be delayed for a time (they'll come in future updates eventually!)

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-Outcast children in the Taris Undercity

K1R had a bug where the Outcast Children would wander out of the Village gate and into the Undercity, I'd have to experiment with the random walk script to see what I can do to prevent that from happening. I suspect the Outcast adults who walk around are walking on a set path so I might have to replicate that.

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-The Taris Sith Governor dropping the Governor's Robe and Sith War Sword items.

Real easy, though I'll have to make some considerations here.

The Governor's Robe has 1 Defense Bonus and -5 to all saving throughs, it'd be suicide for the player to wear an item with those debuffs. I do intend to restore the actual Dark Jedi Robe item at some point so I might consider removing the debuffs and the Defense Bonus as, assuming the player only uses K1CP and RC-K1CP, by the time the player finishes their Jedi training they'll have the brown Jedi Robe and the black Governor's Robe that share the same stats... I don't want to encourage players to wear Sith Robes upon becoming a Padawan... by not having any Defence Bonus on the Governor's Robes it makes the brown Jedi Robe on Dantooine actually useful and on Taris the player can give the Governor's Robes to Bastila to replace her default Clothing.

Though that might be subjective, so I think it's better to wait and receive feedback then for me to add Governor's Robes with no Defence Bonus on day 1 release and get complaints.

And for the Sith War Sword, it's actually already restored in the mod... it's on Lehon.

On 7/13/2023 at 12:54 AM, N-DReW25 said:

Unknown World:
* Restored the 5th locker of the Rakata temple armory (which contained an unused weapon!)

I was hoping to keep it a surprise hence why I didn't say what it was, though do not worry... I do intend to add more Sith War Swords in the game at some point.

However, you must keep this in mind... there are only 5 Double-Bladed Vibroswords you can obtain in Kotor with 2 of them being on Taris. Since the Sith Governor already drops 1 of 4 Double-Bladed Vibroswords, if I replace his Double-Bladed Vibrosword with the Sith War Sword that'd reduce the number of Double-Bladed Vibroswords in the game to 4. Since you obtain a Double-Bladed Vibrosword through killing the Hidden Beks, a Light Side player would then be restricted to just 3 Double-Bladed Vibroswords and I do plan on replacing the Dantooine Mandalorian's Double-Bladed Vibrosword with a modded weapon in another mod so then it'd become 2 Double-Bladed Vibroswords.

But... I do intend to make loot mods that could add more Double-Bladed Vibroswords in the game either through enemy drops, placeable loot or merchants... so it's possible that once these mods are made and released I might consider restoring the Sith War Sword on the Sith Governor.

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-The Hidden Beks walking around near the Bek base

This shouldn't be too hard to recreate, I believe K1R borrowed a script from one of the old Lower City Restoration mods from Filefront with permission... though a random walk script that prevents them from stumbling into the Canderous cutscene in the Lower City shouldn't be too difficult.

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-Shuma the Hutt on Dantooine

Here's a little something I learned in ROR.

When the player talks to an NPC, that NPC will rotate to face the placer... if I just add Shuma to the Enclave if I where to speak to Shuma from his left the Hutt's entire body is rotated to face me... that's considered a bug.

You see; with Ajuuur, Zax and Motta their NPC file is locked facing a single direction and if you try to speak to them from their left the player is instead teleported in font of the Hutt and a static camera is pointed at the Hutt as they talk to try and hide the teleportation.

This is why Ajuur and Zax are pressed against a wall with couches to their left and right, its done as a way to force the player to stand in front of the Hutt when they interact with them... the idea is that if the player is standing in front of the Hutt as they try to talk to them it'd be even less obvious that the player was teleported, without this elaborate 'freezing the Hutt' and teleporting the player feature the Hutt NPCs would rotate their entire bodies and it'd look real stupid.

Why do I mention this? I'd have to recreate this sort of teleportation system with Shuma if I'm to properly restore him.

What's worse is that I have evidence that Shuma was intended by Bioware to appear in the Enclave apartments, and those apartments are usually occupied by S'olaa the Pazaak Player, the Matales and Sandrale NPCs and the Droid Widow lady.

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-Iriaz on Dantooine

This shouldn't be too diffcult.

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-Garrum and Tar'eelok, the Twi'lek Jedi Master and Padawan on Dantooine

If all the associated dueling scripts exist in the game files, all I'd need to do is add them in-game and add triggers to fire their dialogues.

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-Sharina Fizark on Dantooine

This one isn't so easy for a non-scripter like myself.

I think I'd need to modify the on-enter script for the Enclave and I'd need to modify this script to see if the flags for giving Sharina Fizark the credits are active. If these flags are active I'd then have to spawn her in using the script.

This is definitely one of the restored content features I'd analyze to get an idea of how this content is supposed to be restored, though I do believe there are independent Sharina Fizark mods I could analyze.

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-Juhani's cut dialogue

Didn't @Leilukin restore this already?

Her mod's permission does say this:

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6. PERMISSION:

You may do whatever you want with this mod, including using this mod's assets in your own mod. Credit is appreciated but not necessary.

If that's the case, I might integrate her mod with my own at some point.

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-The Rakatan Band on the Unknown World and the puzzle to unlock it

I personally haven't studied this cut content in the files, and I've never played K1R far enough to encounter it.

All I know is that is exists, and it looks complicated... out of your entire list this here might be the most unlikely one to be done by me any time soon

23 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

That one is pretty easy. I already did some of the script work for having multiple sets of disguises in a standalone mod - https://github.com/DarthParametric/K1_Taris_Sith_Uniform_Disguise_Extension

The TSLPatchdata folder in this one only has a changes.ini and the info.rtf, no files. However, I should be able to recreate the scripts using the sources files and rewire the changes.ini to inject its content into K1CP's .MOD files.

This is a great first step, though I've read the readme for this mod and I'd like to ask about this last bit.

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Changes the requirement to access the Lower City elevator to all party members wearing a Sith Soldier disguise rather than just one. Adds extra disguises to the party and interrogation scenes in the Upper City North Apartments. 

So the Sith Guard at the elevator will check for two Sith Soldier disguises and Gadon will take two Sith Soldier disguises... but the way you get the second disguise is that the backpack at the party will carry two Sith Soldier disguises and a second Sith Soldier during the interrogation will drop a second Sith Soldier disguise?

I bring this up as, in the cut content/K1R, the player was supposed to attend both the party and the interrogation. You'd pick up one disguise from one event and you could wear it to another, the interrogators dialogue would change if you're wearing a Sith Soldier disguise and the party Sith won't invite you into the party if you're wearing a Sith Soldier disguise.

I'm sure many of us play the Kotor 1 Community Patch (K1CP), it's the 4th most downloaded mod on Deadlystream after all! 

And I'm sure many of us might also know that the K1CP isn't compatible with the Kotor 1 Restoration (K1R mod)... you might be wondering, why is that? K1R is similar to it's K2 cousin, TSLRCM, in that it restores cut content, fixes bugs in the vanilla game and it expects you to install it first and any other mods installed afterwards need to be made compatible with it.

But K2 was rushed, Obsidian was forced to leave content unfinished and cut the rest to make way to make way for a release before the 2004 Christmas sales... this not only gutted much of the plot but it also left a plethora of bugs upon release. TSLRCM undoes all of this by restoring much of Obsidian's intended content for early 2005 and fixing many of the game breaking bugs. K1, on the other hand, wasn't like this. What was cut by Bioware was stuff that most players agree was *actually* cut for a good reason, and the bugs in the vanilla game weren't nearly as bad as they were in vanilla K2.

In K1R's "prime" from its full release in 2015 until K1CP's first release in 2018, K1R competed with many mods that were incompatible with it such as Kainzorus Prime's NPC Overhaul Mod... and since all K1R had to offer was minor and controversial restored content and minor bug fixes many players, including myself, opted for the much better incompatible mods.

With the release of K1R's 1.2 update, there have been a handful of critical bugs in the mod with some capable of breaking the game. This would normally be fixed by the Dev Team behind the mod, but one by one the original K1R Devs left the Kotor Community with only 2 K1R Devs remaining in the community. The mod's leader, ZM90, also vanished... without him, it's impossible to update K1R as he's the one who hosts it, more importantly, we can't obtain permission to update K1R or use assets from K1R.

With K1R being seen as undesirable by many and with no hope of it ever being fixed, the developers of the newly emerging K1CP mod abandoned K1R compatibility... just over 5 years later and K1R has become a obsolete relic of the past whilst the K1CP has become the ultimate bug fix mod for K1 standing alongside TSLRCM in importance (Not anywhere near as close, TSLRCM is still King... but its far superior to K1R).

Some modders might still make their mods K1R compatible, but I don't bother since K1R has those before mentioned game breaking bugs... why on earth would I put in the effort to make my mods K1R compatible if your game is guaranteed to break because you installed K1R? I'd much rather focus on K1CP compatibility as their dev team is active, are willing to fix bugs with their mod and are still working to this day to fix more vanilla bugs.

So this creates a problem... many of us play K1CP, but we can't have Restored Content due to K1CP being incompatible with K1R, and no one can update K1R as the original K1R Devs have abandoned the community... so how do we update K1R? How do we get K1CP compatible with K1R if K1CP Devs refuse to do it?

My answer: forget K1R...  The K1 Community Patch has already taken the mantle of the "main Kotor mod" from K1R and we can't change that, but we can work with this!

This thread is a WIP thread for an upcoming mod, one that you will install after the K1CP mod, one that will restore Kotor 1's cut content whilst having K1CP and it's many, many bug fixes installed!

I present to you: Restored Content for the K1 Community Patch or RC-K1CP for short!

Now we have to keep our expectations in check... this is currently a one man project, and I alone cannot recreate K1R in its entirety from scratch... though I can, however, restore much of the lesser restored content like impossible difficulty before working my way up to the big leagues like the Vulkar Sublevel.

Much of what can be restored is limited to my own modding abilities, so if I can't restore the Vulkar Sublevel constantly requesting it won't make me restore it... it'll be restored when I'm able to restore it, and if that time is not now it'll be some time in the future.

You might be wondering; won't this impact the development of my NPC Overhaul mod development? The answer is no... that is because the first release of the RC-K1CP Demo is ready for release!

In the coming week or two, I'm planning on releasing some screenshots from the mod to demonstrate what the mod has thus far alongside a YouTube video of an ambitious restoration. Once these are posted here, I shall release the RC-K1CP Demo here on Deadlystream for you to try out!

Updates for the RC-K1CP shall be done in two ways; they shall be done in either content updates which adds restorations and bug fix updates which fixes bugs with the mods. As with any other mods, I'd like for players to be ever vigilant for possible bugs and to report any if bugs do arise!

RC-K1CP does not follow the same "rules" as K1R and TSLRCM did, so you might see some restored content K1R avoided or never knew existed... so keep that in mind! With release version 0.1.0, you shall enjoy the following restorations from the RC-K1CP. 

And lastly, there are some things you might consider 'cut content' which might be added to the RC-K1CP. If this cut content was found in pre-release screenshots between 2001-early 2003 before the games release it could be added to the K1 Pre-Release Pack instead and if it's from the XBOX version but was cut from the PC version it might be added to the Knights of the Old XBOX mod (which is due for an update anyway).

What do we think? Do you have any suggestions or recommendations? Anything you dislike in K1R you don't want to see in RC-K1CP?