So I'm looking for a bit of insight. I'm replaying KOTOR for the first time in years and thoroughly loving it, especially with some of the mods provided here. I got to Dantooine and met Juhani for the first time and I realized how much I dislike KOTOR1's Cathars (I know, lots of people complain).
Ultimately, what I'm trying to accomplish is swap her with either a Twi'lek or human model. I've already reverse engineered a mod to find out how textures work and put a custom twi'lek skin, albeit unsuccessfully, over her face. It stretching over the Cathar model looks rather entertaining.
My question is, how does one swap the actual model that the textures map to? I've been playing with KOTOR tools, and tried a handful of things I thought would be successful, but alas, haven't had much luck. I'm not looking for a new mod, just the methods to swap out existing resources, if it is even possible. For example, if I wanted Juhani to look like Mission. Can a few files be renamed to Juhani's reference ID and call it a day? or is it more than that? Any tips and guidance is appreciated.
Thanks😎