ajdrenter

I think my issue with the camera is that there isn't another place in the game that has this sort of moving camera cutscene. It's not that there's anything wrong with it, but it doesn't fit the rest of the game. I think just fixed angles that hold for a few seconds each and then cut to some of the more key angles would feel like part of the vanilla game. I would also prefer it without fade in/out. Just direct cuts would be better I think.

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah. There are a myriad of small and annoying alignment issues plaguing this sort of mod. Scaling is handled entirely by the .txi files associated with each font. If you export the font textures as .tpc from kotor tool and then use ndix ur's tpcview you can get these txi files easily. Notable issues are the one shown above, as well as a similar issue with saveload_p.gui. More minor things are just general font alignment issues where letters are just not quite in the right place. It's all pretty easy to set up in a short amount of time, but I never felt I had anything complete enough to release. What could be done, is just to specify a separate font in problematic gui files, and just live with small text for those few elements. Honestly though I've just resigned to playing in 720p with a lot of anti-aliasing. The problems that seem unsolvable are due to the apparently hardcoded size of list entries, such as savegames, items, feats, and of course status summary items. 

So I've been working on a TSL font scaling mod for 4K. Most of it works really well but I have some font alignment issues specifically with the statussummary_p.gui file. I had similar trouble with saveload_p.gui but I was able to get an acceptable result by modifying the font alignment value from 18 to 34. In this case the font alignment value is 17 and I can't get the proper text to display. The string it shows when aligned just says Experience Gained or something similar and not the typical (XP) and numerical value message. I've tried modifying all sorts of values, offsets and dimensions but I feel I'm just stumbling in the dark here.

For that specific crash, try changing your "Disable Vertex Buffer Objects" setting in swkotor2.ini.

Ok so I had a look at it in game and the model actually references both the custom lightsaber texture and the stock blue texture. I've replaced the stock references with references to the custom texture. Here's the fixed model and textures.

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After you install InSidious's mod from here you can try this. Delete w_lsabregdin42.txi and w_lsabregdin42.tga from your override. Then put this file I am attaching into your override.

Here's the model from the community patch tweaked for better alignment with HQB. I tweaked it last night but I wasn't sure anybody would want it. Per the thread and what I was doing it's the TSL version.

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I figured it out. This is a vanilla bug and it happens in the base game. I noticed it inside the Exchange module on Telos, when Slusk send out his guard droids to kill you. Basically what's happening is that there are five different War Droid appearances in appearance.2da. Slusks war droids use the second one, I think. I noticed that if I set something to the first War Droid appearance it looks fine. The first entry has a blank in the racetex column, and of course the texture references are baked into the model. Somehow the racetex column is replacing the image for every map on the model. So I have sort of fixed it by setting all the racetex columns as blank, but then I don't get texture variations. I think the correct fix here is to just recompile the model five times with each texture variation and change the race column maybe? Not entirely sure.

  On 1/24/2021 at 3:14 AM, DarthParametric said:

The problem is that integrated guns use the droid's racetex texture due to how appearance.2da works. SS has a fix, it just hasn't been uploaded yet.

And I thought I was being clever.

I think I've found a bug with this mod. The repeating blaster rifles on the War Droid model are textured with C_DrdWar01 instead of the weapon texture. I actually found this accidentally while trying to replace the repeater mesh with the higher poly one using kotorblender. I thought I was doing something wrong at first, but I've tested this now using your unmodified files and an unmodified game and I get the same result. The version for KotOR 1 is textured correctly, and I've tried just converting that model with MDLedit but I get the same issue. I have also had success replacing the gun mesh in blender and it works in game, but I get the same texture bug there as well. Just to reiterate, the bug happens with unmodified files from your mod, and an unmodified game.

Also I'd like to say High Quality Blasters is my all time favorite KotOR mod. It's not even close.

  On 1/13/2021 at 1:52 PM, DarthParametric said:

No, Xoreos Tools doesn't properly convert all textures. The best solution is to use ndix UR's TPCView - https://deadlystream.com/files/file/1552-tpcview

Not only  does it correctly convert them, but it also exports a TXI for any texture that needs it. To mass convert, select the TPCs, drag them over the TPCView window, hold down the ALT key, and release.

 

I must've looked at the title of that program and assumed it was just a viewer. I can finally say goodbye to xoreos and your batch script LOL.

Grab xoreos tools which includes a converter for various formats (inlcuding tpc) to tga. 

Get it here: https://xoreos.org/downloads/index.html

  On 1/6/2021 at 8:59 PM, Thor110 said:

This is a great tool! Really handy to be able to see the menus and their contents using a folder of the gui textures and .gui files, one thing I have noticed is that the program cannot be opened twice.

Which could prove useful for my project and other people for transferring values from one file to another though actually I could just use K-GFF editor + this in order to easily transfer values for my project but I am not sure which way I will do it yet.

Thanks for the awesome tool!

I don't have any issues with multiple instances of the application open at once.

One problem I've had is that scrollbars all have the same coordinates and size, like they are all shown with the same attributes of the first one listed. This makes it a bit annoying to adjust them.

  On 12/27/2020 at 11:18 PM, Sith Holocron said:

I covered this here.  However I'll quote relevant part and highlight it:

 

My bad, I missed that part. I certainly wasn't suggesting that you or anyone go to the trouble of taking screenshots of all these mods. I just know that, to me, the original screenshots from a mod author (and the author's website and style really) are a big part of the history of these mods. As the purpose of this whole thing is mostly preservation, that's where my mind goes. So yeah I wasn't suggesting new screenshots, just the archiving of all material relating to these mods such as author screenshots, descriptions, readmes, artwork etc.

I certainly hope I haven't offended as that was not my intent.

Edit: I should also add: I am grateful for this community and its members, and especially to those of you who take steps to preserve the storied modding history of these games.

Okay but like Redhawke's old website had screenshots for everything, just as an example. Or say Darth333, her website has screenshots for these mods.

You can see some here: https://www.geocities.ws/d333mods/

I have redhawke's screenshots somewhere as well but I can't remember the wayback URL.

Is it possible to upload as many of the original screenshots for these mods as possible?

I think when I was doing it I had decided on "Pilot" for Carth and "Warrior" for Canderous

I was doing this at one point I think by restricting by class and then I was just making new classes for individual party members. Probably not a great idea, using feats seems a lot cleaner.

When a file is dropped in override I believe it overrides any file the game looks for by that name. Modules can have files inside of them that have the same names as files in other modules. TSLPatcher can inject files into modules such that the injected file won't interfere with any other file by that name, like files that may exist in other modules. When the file p_bastila001.utc is put into the override folder, that file will be loaded anytime the game looks for a file with that name.

Anyways I am sure that is the difference causing you an issue. As to why she turns invisible, I don't know. I would extract the p_bastila001.utc from lev_m40aa and compare them.

Would you be willing to make PC portraits for vanilla heads as well? And perhaps a Juhani with Redrob's catlike head model? 

So what you need to do is, search your registry for the string "deadlystream". It should take you to some saved install info somewhere in the registry. Delete the whole key and then when you run the installer it will ask you where to install. TSLRCM does the same thing.

File Name: Hi-Poly Tin Cans Crixler's Crystals Compatability Patch

File Submitter: ajdrenter

File Submitted: 01 Jan 2018

File Category: Mods

These are just models from the hi poly tin cans mod compiled and named for the new sabers added by crixler's crystal pack.

All credits to original authors.

Click here to download this file