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19 minutes ago, A Future Pilot said:

I just tried out the mod and I really like it! I do have a few suggestions though:

Many thanks, AFP! Appreciate it- go on then, as I'm all ears

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1. I think the blade is somewhat overpowered as an item for the player. The stats are fine when she fights you, but as a receivable item it’s significantly stronger than anything else on Taris. I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem, as fighting her will probably be one of the last things you do now that she’s stronger, but I think it’s too strong. I’d recommend making it not upgradable, and possibly reducing the base damage as well. The blaster may need to be reduced as well, but I haven’t really checked it out much yet.

Yes! Thanks for the suggestion! The idea of having the sword to be non-upgradable is awesome- I get the picture, and I like it! Have it noted to be applied for the next update. And yes, reducing the base damage could be a possibility too, I'll take a visit to the .uti soon.

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2. I think the blade and sword should be renamed to “Selven’s Vibroblade” and “Selven’s blaster pistol” to make it fit in better with vanilla item names.

Actually, having the blaster named as "SS-SL7 Rapid Blaster" and the sword as "DM-SL7 Vibrosword" was just an idea to honor the designer of the base texture and the base modeler of both the blaster and the sword; SithSpecter and DeadMan. As putting the SL7 there was just an alias for them being customs. I'll consider this

Oh, in fact on Wiki stated that she carrying a Vibrosword, and then I'm using that as the guidance. I actually kind of forgot when in vanilla gameplay, which one is she carrying; a blade or a sword. 😅

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3. There are some misspellings in the descriptions of the items. I’d be happy to rewrite them for you if you’d like

Be my guest! So, here are them .utis to ease things up hopefully 😊:

• Blaster: sl7_rapidblaster.uti
• Sword: sl7_vibrosword.uti

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4. There are a couple lines in her dialog that sound kind of artificial because of the effects you applied.

Yes, that's because of her voice being pitched down. Strange though I did not apply any filters or using multi layers for the voice there; it was all natural result. Unfortunately I can't fix that "glitch". Did you happen to know what's causing the problem? As it seems I'm still going with the new voices, as I believe they suits the now her better. Thanks for pointing that out AFP!

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I want you to know I think overall you did a fantastic job (I LOVE the new look and difficulty!!), and these critiques are just my opinions, and not to put down what you did at all

Many thanks again! I am so happy to hear that. I take that all in both the LOVE and the critiques- and very much appreciated!

On 7/9/2018 at 7:00 PM, DarthParametric said:

Could still use a little bit of touchup around the beard. Oh, and the UV map.

Revan_Head_d_v3.7z

TOR_Revan_Head_UV_Map.7z

Tempted to get a touch with the texture, here it is: Revan_Head_d_v3 [Edited - Subtler].tga

I can't tell how the end-result is, as there are no required resources installed on my PC. I hope someone can give me a screencap of how it looks, as I can only guessing that it would be a bit too sharp and kind of suggesting that there would be some unwanted noises there, sooorryyy 🤣

11 hours ago, N-DReW25 said:

I have a bit of a concern about the stats. Now I may be wrong but from what I have heard Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing may "not exist" in a way, they might be left over resources from an older Bioware game. I know in K2 the Zabrak Vibroblade had 2 piercing damage but "piercing" didn't exist thus didn't work so in TSLRCM it was swapped for "unstoppable" damage. Regardless, I still think those are a bit overpowered. Perhaps if you used those weapons on your main character you should test how strong they actually are in a fight. If it makes fights very easy that is a problem.

Nice! Appreciate the input- many thanks! It seems I'm going to tweak the stats again and having it fixed in the next update using your recommendation as the benchmark. We'll see, as this stats was given referred to the plot that this Selven was designed to be encountered after all side-quests on Taris has been done; before the PC is going with Canderous to get the Ebon Hawk on Davik's Estate, that is the time in particular.

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I approve of the Stealth Field Generator, Nerve Implant, Scope and Neural Gear loot but I think that belt is too overpowered for Taris (It adds Dexterity +2 and Saves All +4, it is also found on Mika Durins inventory after the Leviathan very far from the Taris section of the game). Perhaps remove this belt from her droppable loot (Keep it on her for balance but don't drop it) because overpowered items aside isn't she wearing a Stealth Field Generator.

Thanks for the approval! And again, I'm considering your recommendation. Actually, the belt was intended as a "reward" from beating Selven. As the now Selven is much harder to fight, I thought it'd be nice to prize the player after beating her with something efficient, especially on this stage of the game. And for the equipped Stealth Field Generator; it was for immersion purpose- referring to her being always able to elude the authorities, in spite of the level of security stacked against.

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Last thing, that looks like a player head model so why not have her wear the neural bands and have it display on her head?

Yes, having her not wearing the Neural Bands was intended too- and it's for appearance reason. There is a plan in future updates to have the Neural Bands looted from the footlocker inside her apartment, instead of her remains- along with some stuffs that I'm not 100% sure of.

On 7/10/2018 at 10:30 AM, N-DReW25 said:

What are the stats of the new weapon?

For the blaster [SS-SL7 Rapid Blaster]:

And for the sword [DM-SL7 Vibrosword]:

Feel free to leave feedbacks with anything; specifically the attribution of these items. I'll be needing those- many thanks then!

49 minutes ago, jc2 said:

Congratulations with your release of Selven! 

Many thanks jc2- much appreciate it!

I'm looking forwards to another mods from you! As now I'm free from that WIP syndrome [lol], I can continue my playthrough and hopin' to meet Shanilia soon! :fingerscrossed:

1 minute ago, DarthParametric said:

Congrats on the release. Now go actually play - and finish - the game.

Hahah! Many thanks, DarthParametric!

Yes! It seems finishing the game would be the main motivation now, as there is this mod that needs me to actually finished the game. Can't wait no longer! 🤞

[Completed: July 09, 2018]

Been thankful that the plan's running as intended. The mod was submitted today, and its been released now- thanks moderators! And with this update, it is being confirmed that; the 1.0 version of Selven "Legends", is finished. 🎇

So, do really hope you enjoy the mod as much as I do!

I'm leaving an extras here for that bit of entertainment. See you on the next update!

Any updates of current development will also be posted in thread's introduction post.

4 hours ago, Sith Holocron said:

Not if you consider SWTOR as canon!  From Wookieepedia . . . 

... Ahuff also linked Ulgo's sacrifice to Revan's defeat of Malak.

Thanks for the details! Okay, have to admit that their stories deserve the amount of respect they deserves, and they are reasonably linked. Sorry Ulgo's!

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Don't mess with poor Trask.  It's bad enough he had to be a tutorial spouting sacrificial lamb. Don't pour salt in the wounds!

Hahah- I know! It is just from @Xuul's latest livestream my view of Trask was kind of distracted. Some noticeable quotes regarding to Trask from that stream:

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"Don't be like that! Trask saves our assess on Endar Spire!"

"No- that was a suicide! He's an idiot literally throwing himself to death."

"lols."

5 minutes ago, UnusualCharacters said:

Ah gotcha, a kind of alt-timeline approach to have broader ramifications for the SW universe as a whole? I dig it.

That's a very nice term to explain it. And thanks man- appreciate that!

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Having some Trask Ulgo name drops might be cool because he's the only House Ulgo trace that we have in KotOR. I don't know how extensive you're going but maybe a character that talks about their "goody two shoes brother Trask who doesn't have the guts to get his hands dirty with assassinations" or something similar from an Ulgo member the PC happens upon.

Could that be... that Trask... was, a traitor!? Hahaha! Thanks for the ideas man- they are awesome! Keep them noted for now, but it seems them ideas so amazing can't say "hold-on" to that really. Let's see how things goes.

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Might be cool, and if there's ever a need to voice such a character...

That was uber cool. Ah-ha, gotcha! Can't really think any alternatives really 👊

15 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

head_human_caucasian_revan_m_d.7z

Would this work with KotOR?

3 hours ago, UnusualCharacters said:

Well, possibly by his great great great grandfather  TOR takes place 300 years after KotOR. I don't believe any members of House Organa are named as active members during KotOR. I think you would have to make up some history if a name is necessary for your mod.

Nice, it would be less-difficult to make-up some history rather than stick with the actual fact to tell the truth lol. No, a name is not necessary right now. But I always have this thought that Selven actually have an important role with canon if, they really are connected. For example; point to the fact that Selven work as a freelance assassin for the highest bidder, it would be possible that She actually have an offer tabled by House Ulgo to wipe out House Organa back then. But maybe, that offer from Ulgo's was not tempting enough for her and meanwhile, Organa's tabled her a more interesting killing contract. So, she goes to work with House Organa then. So, here's the theory; if at that time she goes to work with Ulgo to wipe-out Organa and the assassination attempt was a success, maybe we wouldn't have Leia Organa on canon then. I haven't told you the plan anyway. So, the plan is to expand Selven story without distracting the canon KotOR storyline, and I believe, some research would be necessary.

34 minutes ago, UnusualCharacters said:

"If an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist." - Wookiepedia (presumably)

I would assume that they were never given a first name if the wiki doesn't have anything on it.

So, there's nothing valid about it yet then? I am sorry if I don't follow you 100% UC, what I mean is; so there is still a possibility with "assuming" her being employed by for example; Charle Remmot Organa?

Greetings, fellow Jedi!

Did anyone happen to know which member of House Organa whom possibly employ Selven for murdering an entire family of House Ulgo along with all their bodyguards in 3956 BBY; as referenced on Wookieepedia?

Many thanks!

1 minute ago, Oaks said:

It didnt.

What I need is something to work with TSLPatcher.

My bad! I thought it was something about editing some lines inside dialog.tlk. 🤣

On 7/5/2018 at 9:34 AM, DarthParametric said:

The lines are in dialog.tlk:

  <string id="113781">*** &lt;CUSTOM30&gt; Sith assault troopers remain ***</string>
  <string id="113782">*** 1 Sith assault trooper remains ***</string>
  <string id="113783">*** Sith Troopers have boarded the Ebon Hawk, prepare to repel boarders. ***</string>
  <string id="113784">*** All Sith assault troopers defeated ***</string>

You'd need to edit those lines.

Hope what I'm doing is not out of the discussion here.

Some added points to DP's explanation; there's this tool- "TLKEd" by @Fair Strides that can edit strings inside the dialog.tlk, I'm actually working with some typos with it. I did that with K1, and I'm not really sure if it will work with TSL. But as the bundled package itself is called TSLPatcher, I assume it will work like a charm too.

A short example of how to run with it:

• Run TLKEd, and open the dialog.tlk file located inside the game installation folder.

• Go with the "Tools" button and click "Search...", after that you will get this appearance. And then on the "Text string" column, type what you wanted to find, and only with the keywords are fine; in this case they are "Sith assault troopers remain". Click the "Search" button on the left bottom of the window.

• From there you will find bunch of strings with the assigned keywords. Sorry that I don't have the proper screencap as I'm not yet install TSL on my PC, but everything is quite simple down there; just don't play around with anything 😁 Click twice [or access] the intended string, and this window will pop-up. There, edit the entry with your likings- and after you've done with the editing, Save the changes been made.

• From there, you will be shown this window again. If you have convinced no further changes were needed, save-overwrite the old dialog.tlk with the new-edited dialog.tlk. You can safely close the tool after.

Hope that somewhat helps!

9 hours ago, A Future Pilot said:

addheader.bat

header.bin

These two tools are amazing! They efficiently reduced the size of a packaged .WAV's [which later be converted to .MP3s] files for about 50% - 60%! I mean, it is obvious they're not as efficient as the Miles Sound System but facing the fact that Miles' is no longer "available", these tools are the best to be having- right now! Thanks!

1 minute ago, DarthParametric said:

Haha, see? I told you to ditch the normal map. It's not really needed for what you are doing. Well, not this version anyway.

Haha- yes! These two lines from you are the main influence on the decision. Thanks!

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Adding one doesn't inherently make a model look better. On the contrary, a poor normal map will make it look worse.

But to be honest I'd just stick with SS's vanilla textures. They are more than good enough on their own.

and for the font,

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By the way, looks like you need to connect the bits of your font together there. You might want to try switching between upper case and lower case, as usually those Star Wars fonts have provision for extension pieces to link letters. It should look something like this:

Thanks for pointing that out!

Nice one DP! It seems you manually connected them, hahah! Actually, I have some ready to use Star Wars' fonts but I'm not sure I have one that resulting as what you did there. 🤔

As for that font; too late to notice- I go with the "hollow" version instead of others 🤣

[Updated: July 07, 2018]

Well, life does strange.

Spends most of my time fiddling around with normal map but in the end- with this update; I decided to not uses normal map either on the head, body, blaster and the sword's texture. 🤪

The reasons are:

• The normal map is not effective on my case, as it's obvious that I'm not advanced at optimizing this feature- I can't get the most from it.
• I'm having new ideas with the looks especially with the armor, and I can't get them out with the normal map being utilized.
• Obvious, with the normal map being taken out the size of the mod could be reduced about 2.5 MB so, efficiency counts.
• Well, the new appearance somewhat pleasing for me so-

What's happening on the new looks?

They are:

• Selven get new pair of eyes.
• Her armor got some metals injected.
• The blaster and the sword had their looks slightly altered; noticeably with the reflection, and I am certain- they all blend more with the game now.

So, with the closing of this update is presented to you; yes- this is the final form of Selven "Legends" version 1.0:

Any updates of current development will also be posted in thread's introduction post.

8 hours ago, Storyteller said:

Hello my fellow TOR dogs and Star Wars fans,  Im Madgi.

Hellow Madgi, welcome to DeadlyStream! I'm eb by the way

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id like to dip my toes into modding  and eventually work in some quests and will definitely appreciate the wealth of knowledge found in these forums.

Imagine my excitement when I discovered this gem of a community! I'm very excited to discuss games and modding in general with you all. 

Cheers 🍻

Nice! I always loved quest related mod, and I'm eagerly anticipating for your mods; especially for KotOR, as I'm not yet dip my toes either on TSL or ToR for now. One at a time- hahah!

1 hour ago, djh269 said:

"I dragged all the contents along with something called a TSLpatcher into my KoTOR folder and it doesn't work, I'm quitting modding"

You deserved an infinite dark side points for suggesting that lols.

Anyways,

[Updated: July 05, 2018]

I believe the look of the blaster have been finalised now; as the achieved result was pleasing as-is, and the shade and tone of the blaster is fitting with Selven itself.

Along with the updated look, the problem with the "flaky" normal map on the texture and the muzzle glitch on the tip of the bullethook has been resolved.

Any updates of current development will also be posted in thread's introduction post.

5 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

I need to provide some back-of-the-box quotes as well.

"Yeah, it was OK I guess"

"I haven't uninstalled it yet, so there's that"

"If you are a fan of mods, this is a mod"

"The most fun I've ever had extracting a ZIP archive"

These would get along nicely with the new icons hahah. And more quote's suggestion: "I had fun with the patcher though" 😂

1 hour ago, Sith Holocron said:

You're not rid of me yet...

No mortals can get rid of you.

31 minutes ago, Sithspecter said:

I'm totally including this for when I repackage High Quality Blasters.

Haha! Think you should get DP's approval before then SS 😁

On 7/3/2018 at 10:03 AM, DarthParametric said:

The other thing is that SS's textures - presumably on purpose - have a lot of grain. Trying to generate normal maps from colour images usually ends poorly at the best of times, but the grain in this case would make for a very noisy normal map. A noisy normal map is a bad normal map. Additionally, the source texture is pretty low res. It works fine in the game given the size of the blasters, but again this makes for a poor normal map when taking into account the effect of compression artefacts.

The thing to keep in mind is that normal maps are not magic. Adding one doesn't inherently make a model look better. On the contrary, a poor normal map will make it look worse.

Thank you DP! This understanding is what is needed- appreciate it a lot!

On 7/3/2018 at 11:34 AM, Sithspecter said:

Seeing as how my blasters have come up in several posts, I will try to clarify a few things.

The muzzles I kept in a very similar location to the originals. I think the power blast muzzle looks the strangest, as its model does have the most volume and extends back behind the muzzle hook. The regular muzzle flash is right at the tip of the barrel. In addition, many firearms have ported muzzle brakes so that the flash actually does come from porting around the barrel tip.

The textures were made grainy and a lower resolution as to blend in with the overall game as best as possible. Higher resolution source files should be in the modder's resource should you need them, with or without the grain as well.

Yes SS! I do must confess I've been causing this trouble for being lazy here. My bad! The fact is, I already downloaded the modder's resource you suggested, but at that time I already do the work with the low-res texture coming from the "High Quality Blasters", so I keep going with that. It seems there cannot be compromise on quality; if you were really looking for that quality. Lesson learned. And I do appreciate your effort which made the textures grainy and low-res as to blend in with the overall game as best as possible. I do believe that is an important thing which often being left out.

On 7/3/2018 at 12:11 PM, DarthParametric said:

Ah, I had forgotten that the source textures were available. I'd never downloaded them, so was only going from what I had on my HDD. Looking at the heavy blaster source, it looks like it would be easy enough to get a psuedo-height map out of that just by turning off the colour layers, although it might need some manual adjustment/cleanup in a few spots. Here's a quick and dirty example:

Although if you were going to go that route you'd want to turn off all the highlights on the diffuse and rely on the normal map for that detail. But to be honest I'd just stick with SS's vanilla textures. They are more than good enough on their own.

Appreciate the details! I'm going to start to work with what's inside the modder's resource then; as I am still, looking to get the most of the normal map from utilizing it with the blaster. 🤞