Ashton Scorpius

@DarthParametric Thanks, that helps a lot. And takes some pressure off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been helping @Salk restore a second crashed pod in the Undercity. This involved some heavy terrain modification, and the last step on my behalf is to render a couple of new lightmaps. I want to keep them as close to the originals as possible, and would appreciate help figuring out how.

I've been able to get the Mental Ray renderer working after following Quanon's tutorials. I replaced all AuroraLights with Omnis and have somewhat been able to match the baked lighting. I'm mainly having issues with shadows. From this, you'll probably see what I mean.

And an in-game comparison:

I know that I still need to adjust some lighting and probably add yellow lights around the pillars for the shadows that're missing. How do I achieve softer/lighter shadows like the original lightmap has?

6 hours ago, Dodo00d said:

But for some reason only the model loads but not the textures, so ingame I get the correct armor but in white without the textures.

Any idea what could have caused this, I followed all your instructions.

I'm getting the same thing. Taking a second look I realized that I gave you the wrong supermodel, try converting to binary with this one instead.

I doubt this will fix the texture, but I don't see anything else wrong with the model. I'll keep looking.

s_female03.zip

9 minutes ago, Thor110 said:

I was wondering, do you perhaps know the way to determine what supermodel a model should use? I myself just tried to follow your instructions, but no matter the supermodel I put into the folder it doesn't accept it.

If you click on "Header" under the model hierarchy, it lists the supermodel.

Not exactly sure what you mean by this, can you post a screenshot?

To expand on what Thor said, here's specifically how to convert to a KOTOR II model.

First, you'll need the s_female02 supermodel from K2. The files can be extracted with Kotor Tool, but they're tricky to find so I'll attach them to this comment.

At this point, you can place the model and its texture into the override folder, but they won't work in-game. I assume that by replacing sentinel clothing, you mean replacing what default clothing looks like when equipped. KOTOR II uses commoner models for the PC's default clothing so you'll need to do some manual editing of appearance.2da.

Kind of a lengthy explanation, but let me know if this works out for you.

s_female02.zip

With regards to the Miles files, I've messed around with them before trying to solve legacypc fullscreen crashing (only ever been able to play cutscenes when disabling sound drivers). The files aren't exactly interchangeable between the two versions of the game. The Aspyr version uses two Miles DLL files while legacypc uses one, the contents of the Miles folders aren't the same, and we can't change how either exe initializes Miles. You've probably gotten the DLL entry point errors on startup.

The Aspyr version's bug with lightsaber hilt textures is hard-coded. If nothing else works, then your dialogue issue likely is too.

Here's some information about the mod from the Wayback Machine. Maybe you could track down the people credited to see if they still possess the files.

Otherwise, here's a couple of similar mods I found:

• Boba Fett's Weapons and Armor
• Movie Mandalorians

Have a question about the 1.8 update. I saw these changes mentioned in the changelog:

⦁    Tweaked the script that adds Jolee to the party in the Upper Shadowlands to hide the switch between NPC and Party versions

⦁    Made Jolee and Juhani wear their unique clothing when they first join the party

Do they consequently have the same effect as this mod?

Also, obligatorily, congrats on the release 👍

9 minutes ago, DarthParametric said:

What's the actual mod?

I presume this

In Blender, smoothing groups work by marking edges as 'sharp', and due to this I don't believe KotorBlender's capable of properly importing and exporting smoothing group data. In my experience it just negates them entirely.

If you have edges marked cyan (indicates sharp) in that area, I'd try unmarking them. If that doesn't solve the issue, I can take a look at your ascii model in 3ds Max.

On 8/9/2019 at 6:11 AM, DarthParametric said:

• Added a new blue Twi'lek male head, ported from TSL

Is the head's name being kept twilek_m05?

5 hours ago, uwadmin12 said:

Nah its just checking newer version of kTool from a server that's been taken down. It's a bit annoying.

If you haven't already, you can disable checking for updates under Tools -> Options.

I'm trying to run KOTOR II (Steam, legacypc) on a new system and went through the process of widescreen patching and converting cutscenes. Everything's working fine, except for movies won't play. Instead, the screen goes black and I have to click for it to continue to the next scene. The three movies at launch do play properly. This is before I've installed any other mods.

I've gone back and made sure that I properly patched with UniWS, changed values in swkotor2.ini, and hex edited the executable. Here's what I've tried doing that hasn't helped.

• Running in Windows XP SP2 & SP3 compatibility modes
• Disabling soft shadows, v-sync, frame buffer effects, & VBOs
• Disabling fullscreen optimizations
• Disabling my Radeon graphics profile settings for K2
• Verified integrity of game files (then re-patched)
• Checked for relevant driver updates (there were none)

The only thing that does work is running in windowed mode, but I refuse to play the game like that (especially since it doesn't even take up the full space). Anyone know of anything else I can do other than switch to the Aspyr update?

Just got a new PC too and had to add K2 to the registry. This is what worked for me.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\LucasArts\KotOR2]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Knights of the Old Republic II"

For KOTOR I, each head model can only use one texture variant, so you'd need to create a duplicate of Mission's head model.

If you extract and load her head model in MDLedit, right click the header to change the model name (i.e. to Mission_PC) and edit the textures to something else as well (i.e. missionbb01_PC and missionh01_PC). If you then save the model files under the new name, rename the textures you want to use for the player head, and edit the heads.2da entry, it should function properly. You'll also probably want to edit the texa column for the new Mission entry in appearance.2da to whatever you renamed p_missionbb01.tga so that the default clothing has the different skin color as well.

Hope this helps.

@JCarter426 Thanks for attaching that ascii. The torso skins aren't moving with the animations.

Edit: After removing and adding bones again, the skin now shows up and animates, so that's progress. Detached from the arms, though.

5 minutes ago, JCarter426 said:

What about loading animations onto the model in Gmax? It's possible the meshes are there, but the skin data is messed up and sending them off into an unseen part of the area.

How does one load animations?

3 minutes ago, JCarter426 said:

Hmm, if you import the ASCII you exported back into Gmax, are the torso meshes there at all?

They're still there.

@JCarter426 So I just tried using KOTORmax's fast link tool instead. Didn't change anything.

4 minutes ago, JCarter426 said:

Did you use the Fast Linker in KOTORMax/KOTORBlender, or just your modeling program's link tool?

I used gmax's link tool. Does that cause issues like mine?