PapaZinos

This is just a quick announcement that v1.1 of Ultimate Ebon Hawk Repairs for TSL is now available to download. With this update comes an animation fix edition just like for K1, which will remove that blinking light animation that blinks not just the ship's lights, but the surrounding wall as well. I recommend using that version alongside the recommended mods listed in the mod page's Compatibility section for some high-quality replacements for those animations. The new version also fixes a slew of lighting and UV errors, missing geometry, and a fixed walkmesh for the medbay.

I understand that to be the result of the shaders Bioware was using, and to be intentional behavior. I believe those panels are meant to be reflective surfaces, hence the bouncing light at different angles. A quick and simple way to remove them would be a retexture mod that does not contain those reflective panels. I know the Ebon Hawk textures in the KOTOR 2 Unlimited World Texture Mod do not contain those panels. It was made for TSL, but like most texture mods will work for both games.

It's no issue at all, I am happy to clarify. My recommendation would be to make use of the animation fix edition, alongside an animated texture mod for the Ebon Hawk such as Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (not including Galaxy Map) or More Subtle Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (still not including Galaxy Map) by Sith Holocron, Dark Hope, and Xarwarz. Swapping out the animated models for animated textures gives you that nice sci-fi look and feel without making you wonder why every time a light blinks on the Hawk, the surrounding wall blinks with it.

The animation fix version contains alternate versions of "m12aa_01b", "m12aa_01f", "m12aa_01g", and "m12aa_01p", removing those blinking animations that mesh poorly with Ebon Hawk textures.

The placeable textures are named PLC_HyperSc01 and PLC_HyperSc02. There are some mods out there like this one (which was made for TSL but the .tga and .txi files work with K1) which provide upscaled alternatives to those textures. You could also copy a new version of the LEH_scre01 and LEH_scre02 in your override and rename them to PLC_HyperSc01 and PLC_HyperSc02, but I could not tell you how the UV mapping for that would look on the hyperdrive.

Those UV fixes are just general corrections to some texture applications, and are separate from the animation fixes. All of the relevant animations are fixed in all release versions of the animation fix mod. That includes the cockpit, navigation, main hold, and medical.

The animation fix for the K1 Ebon Hawk is now available here. I expanded the mod's scope to include the model fixes I made available to TSL. The "animation fix" version is the one to download for anyone looking for a solution to the issue reported in this thread. Either version of the mod will work natively alongside K1CP and Taris Escape Sequence Adjustments so long as it is installed after those.

View File Ultimate Ebon Hawk Repairs for K1 When dealing with crime lords, beware. Davik Kang's prize ship has a state-of-the-art security system -- it is filled with hulls gaps to suffocate the lungs and texturing errors to boggle the mind. If we want to get the Ebon Hawk flying safely, we ought to patch things up. The goal of this mod was to provide all of the same fixes provided by Ultimate Ebon Hawk Repairs For TSL to your K1 game. This mod patches the same issues as Ebon Hawk K1 Fixes 2.0 by ndix UR, as well as many of the others I worked on for TSL. The latest version includes some big improvements to the alignment of the ship's geometry and animations to the monitor textures it uses. I have included in the download a folder labelled "Animated Monitors"; these files serve provide significantly higher-quality alignments to those using either "Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (not including Galaxy Map)" or "More Subtle Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (still not including Galaxy Map)" by Sith Holocron, Dark Hope, and Xarwarz. I personally recommend using those texture mods for the monitors, and installing the contents of the included "Animated Monitors" folder to your override folder after installing the rest. See the Installation section for more details. If you would like to simply remove the blinking animations entirely, you can find an alternate version of the mod for download in PapaZinos' Alternates to do just that. Installation: Download the 7z file and extract the contents of the "To Override" folder to your game's override folder, found in the same directory as your main game executable. For Steam installations, this would be "Steam\steamapps\common\swkotor". 7z files can be extracted with Archive Utility on macOS, or with programs like PeaZip on Windows and Linux. For those using my monitor texture mods of choice, either "Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (not including Galaxy Map)" or "More Subtle Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (still not including Galaxy Map)" by Sith Holocron, Dark Hope, and Xarwarz, make sure to install the contents of the included "Animated Monitors" folder to your override. To install, simply copy the files included in the "Animation Fix Edition" subfolder to your override after copying the files from the "To Override" folder. Select "replace" when prompted. Uninstallation: Remove the files in the Included Files list below from your override. Included Files: Compatibility: Users should expect full compatibility with any other mods, so long as they do not modify/replace the above files. For compatibility with the KotOR 1 Community Patch and Darth Parametric's Taris Escape Sequence Adjustments, simply install this mod after those ones. Looking to introduce some much-improved ship animations that are made for their textures? Sith Holocron, Dark Hope, and Xarwarz have authored both "Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (not including Galaxy Map)" and "More Subtle Animated Ebon Hawk Monitors (still not including Galaxy Map)", both of which do the job well. I recommend using either alongside the files in the "Animated Monitors" subfolder aforementioned in the Installation section. Acknowledgments: I would like to thank Symmetric, Purifier, Ndix UR, and seedhartha for making importing to Blender simple using KotORBlender, and Cortisol for making file extraction easy with the Holocron Toolset. I also want to give a shout-out to muitafruita for suggesting including the medbay walkmesh fix from TSL to K1 as a way to improve PC spawning. This modification is not supported by Bioware, Lucasarts, Disney or any licensers/sponsors thereof. Use of this modification is at your own risk and neither the aforementioned companies nor the author may be held responsible for any damages caused to your computer via this modification's usage. Submitter PapaZinos Submitted 03/30/2022 Category Mods K1R Compatible Yes

Yes, these will be compatible. I can offer an alternate version that adds the panel from the communications room to the cockpit for a compatible version.

Okay, I will be releasing v1.1 of Ultimate Ebon Hawk Model Repairs for TSL as soon as I hear back from staff on current technical issues with uploads. It will include an animations fix version to download that removes the blinking animation from the computer panels throughout the ship. Up next will be a fix for K1.

View File Telos Model Repairs Chodo Habat and pals were strong-armed out of their control of the Restoration Project before they could complete their work. This means that some key components for a healthy ecosystem were never imported from Dxun, such as water and physics, leading to some funky model errors. There are streams with invisible water, floating leaves, floating rocks, illusory rocks, UV errors, and one hole in the ground exposing Telos to the great void. Let's give our Ithorian friends a hand. Installation: There are two versions of the mod available to download, one of which has been made for compatibility for users with High Quality Skyboxes installed. Download the 7z file for the version of your choice, and extract to your game's override folder. For Steam installations, this would be "Steam\steamapps\common\Knights of the Old Republic II\override". 7z files can be extracted with Archive Utility on macOS, or with programs like PeaZip on Windows and Linux. If you are upgrading from a previous version of the mod, be sure to remove that "Telos_Model_Repairs" folder from your override after installing the new version. If you are using the High Quality Skyboxes compatible version of the mod, make sure to remove 231teld.mdl and 231teld.mdx from your installation of High Quality Skyboxes in the override folder to ensure you see all changes made. Kexikus has generously allowed me to incorporate the necessary model changes from High Quality Skyboxes into the compatibility version, so that these mods may be compatible. If you installed High Quality Skyboxes via Steam, you can find the relevant mod files at "Steam\steamapps\workshop\208580\2312186259\override". Uninstallation: Remove "Telos_Model_Repairs" from your override folder. Included Files: Compatibility: Users should expect full compatibility with any other mods, so long as they do not modify/replace the above models and walkmeshes. High Quality Skyboxes works alongside the compatibility version of this mod. Texture mods that do not alter the above models are fully compatible with either version. Some other great, compatible mods for Telos to check out are Telos surface 4k Retexture by coremar, TSL ORIGINS - Telos Overhaul by Jorak Uln, and Kotor 2 Unlimited World Texture Mod by facemeltingsolo. Acknowledgments: I would like to thank Symmetric, Purifier, Ndix UR, and seedhartha for making importing to Blender simple using KotORBlender, and Cortisol and Fred Tetra for making file extraction easy with the Holocron Toolset and KotOR Tool, respectively. I would also like to thank Kexikus for allowing me to merge the necessary changes to makes this mod compatible with High Quality Skyboxes. This modification is not supported by Obsidian Entertainment, Lucasarts, Disney or any licensers/sponsors thereof. Use of this modification is at your own risk and neither the aforementioned companies nor the author may be held responsible for any damages caused to your computer via this modification's usage. Submitter PapaZinos Submitted 03/24/2022 Category Mods TSLRCM Compatible Yes

It's just a matter of deleting the animations and some small lighting adjustments for the geometry whose default state is the darker phase of the animation. I don't expect it to take so long.

I'll try and get a fix up for this within the next few days, this is just a model issue.

Here you go. K1CP does not affect the engine room, so there is no compatibility issue. m12aa_01l.mdl m12aa_01l.mdx

Here is a version of the engine room with LEH_light04 switched out for LEH_light02. If you want to use a different texture, let me know. Edit: This is for TSL, if you were looking for a K1 version just ask. If you want to play around with it any further than a texture swap, importing to Blender or 3ds Max is the way to go. 003ebol.mdl 003ebol.mdx I will also attach this second version, which has been UV edited to match the orientation and size of the other models using that texture, as this is more likely how you imagined it looking. 003ebol.mdl 003ebol.mdx

If you are looking to make a new texture, you can use either Kotor Tool or the Holocron Toolset to find which texture applies to those lights, edit the texture after converting to tga or make something new from scratch, and place the result in your override. The Ebon Hawk is module 003ebo, and the engine room is submodule 003ebol.

Just a quick announcement that a new version of Ultimate Peragus Models Repair is now available. It includes a slew of new fixes, most notably that Atton will now actually be standing in the administration level proper on the asteroid exterior map. The new version has also been released alongside the new Harbinger's Arrival Performance Enhancement for TSLRCM so as to restore proper lighting to the Harbinger bridge for those using that mod.

View File Ultimate Harbinger Repairs The Harbinger is a victim of double-sabotage, by both a group of cult assassins and one crazed protocol droid, who did their jobs a little too well. There are missing pieces of the ship's hull geometry, UV errors, lightmapping issues, and broken animations all throughout the ship. Let's fix them up! Installation: Download the 7z file and extract to your override folder, found in the same directory as your main game executable. For Steam installations, this would be "Steam\steamapps\common\Knights of the Old Republic II\override". 7z files can be extracted with Archive Utility on macOS, or with programs like PeaZip on Windows and Linux. This mod also includes an optional 16x upscale of the cracked window texture, which can be found in the "Additional" subfolder. Simply take the .tpc out into the main mod folder to activate it, if you wish. Also, be sure to uninstall version 1.0, "Harbinger Bridge Repairs", if you previously installed it. This mod is made for and tested on PC, so if you are attempting to install this for a different platform, you will have to let me know how it works for you. Uninstallation: Remove the folder "Ultimate_Harbinger_Model_Repairs_v2.0.1" from your override. Included Files: Compatibility: Users should expect full compatibility with any other mods, so long as they do not modify/replace the above files. For this mod I have fixed up 56 of the shipd's total of 57 submodules, so it will not likely be compatible with mods that replace any of the area models for the ship. The mod is therefore not compatible with "Harbinger Hull Fixes" by DarthParametric, though it fixes the same issues, as well as a great many more. This mod may be compatible with other lighting mods such as "A Darker Peragus REDUX" by Malkior, and "...A Darker Peragus" by Canderis. The four lightmaps included in this mod are all custom-made and named, so there should be no file name conflicts, it is simply a matter of how they look in-game against those mods' lightmaps. This mod is fully compatible with visual improvement mods such as Kexikus' "TSL Backdrop Improvements", and most any texture mods. It also includes an optional upscaled version of the cracked window texture that I recommend, which you can find in the "Additional" subfolder. Acknowledgments: Huge thank-you to Symmetric, Purifier, Ndix UR, and seedhartha for making importing to Blender simple using KotORBlender, Cortisol for making my life easier with the Holocron Toolset, and ndix UR for making image compression convenient with tga2tpc. This modification is not supported by Obsidian Entertainment, Lucasarts, Disney or any licensers/sponsors thereof. Use of this modification is at your own risk and neither the aforementioned companies nor the author may be held responsible for any damages caused to your computer via this modification's usage. Submitter PapaZinos Submitted 03/17/2022 Category Mods TSLRCM Compatible Yes

View File Harbinger's Arrival Performance Enhancement for TSLRCM Full Description: The mysterious arrival of the Republic hammerhead warship is one of the most ambitious and engaging cutscenes in TSL. Unfortunately, ambitious cutscenes can be a harbinger for more than just a man with severe psoriasis -- players may experience issues ranging from cutscenes stuttering and looping, loading screens before and after loading a new module mid-cutscene, breaking animations, to game windows minimizing and skipping the cutscene entirely, permanent black screen, and even game crashes. Thus this mod's mission was twofold: 1) Provide a range of general improvements and fixes that everyone will benefit from regardless of cutscene performance, as well as 2) Create a more stable version of the cutscene that generally performs well on any device. I am happy to report that results have been exciting: 1) General improvements - Atton now always faces the correct direction when speaking to you - Kreia actually shows up meditating in the morgue when you hear her speak, rather than standing right behind Atton - Kreia no longer visibly stands behind Atton in certain earlier shots of him speaking - The Peragus mining facility asteroid is no longer right outside the Harbinger window before it actually enters the asteroid field 2) Performance improvements All in-game portions of the cutscene are now rendered in the same module -- your game will no longer be trying to load an entirely new module twice over, all while trying to play pre-rendered cutscenes. This means that your game's mid-cutscene workload has been drastically reduced, and so issues known to occur specifically with the Harbinger Arrival cutscene are much less frequent. I have also scripted in "guardrails" for many minor glitches that can occur mid-cutscene. Note that this is not a 100% guarantee players who were having issues before never will again; TSL is nearly old enough to be legally considered an adult in the US, and its pre-rendered scenes are just not optimized for many modern machines. However, this mod was tested on a non-gaming laptop now a few years old, with the game running from an external hard disk drive, on a modern operating system, in full-screen mode, with several different visual mods installed. This meant that attempting to run the original Harbinger cutscene 10 times translated to the cutscene failing to play without major issue 10 times. After switching to the new version, any types of issues, major or minor, were encountered less than 1 out of 10 times. Hopefully, even a potato from your local grocery store can now successfully play the Harbinger Arrival cutscene, so long as it can generally play most TSL cutscenes successfully. Harbinger Enhancement_compressed.mp4 For reference when it comes to performance, this footage was recorded on an old laptop, with the game running on a modern operating system from a hard disk drive, with multiple other programs running in the background, and the following mods installed that can be seen in the video: - Ultimate Peragus Models Repair 1.2 (responsible for restoring proper lighting to the Harbinger, showing the administration level proper behind Atton, and other model fixes) - Harbinger Bridge Repairs (responsible for fixing several geometry errors, two visible during cutscene) - KotOR 2 Remastered (AI Upscaled) Cutscenes 1.0.0 by Naelavok (responsible for the upscaled pre-rendered scenes) - TSL Backdrop Improvements by Kexikus (responsible for the much-improved skybox seen from both the catwalk and the Harbinger bridge) - Improved Peragus Asteroid Fields 1.2 by Vasilii Zaytsev (responsible for the static 3d asteroids surrounding Peragus II) - Peragus Large Monitor Adjustment by Sith Holocron (responsible for that excellent HD computer monitor before Atton) - Kotor 2 Unlimited Worlds Texture Mod (responsible for the nicer-looking textures throughout the level, from the catwalk to the asteroids) - Ultimate Character Overhaul REDUX (responsible for the HD character textures) TLDR: This mod 1) stabilizes the Harbinger cutscene so that your game is much less likely to experience issues 2) places Kreia in her usual meditation spot in the morgue for her dialogue, and 3) fixes a number of minor issues with the cutscene. Installation: Download and run the installer, or else follow manual installation instructions. For Steam installations of TSLRCM, direct the installer to "Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\208580\485537937", and not the main game folder with the executable. 7z files can be extracted with Archive Utility on macOS, or with programs like PeaZip for windows and Linux. The installer is a .exe file, which can be run natively on Windows, or with programs like Wine for macOS and Linux. For an existing game, use a save file before going to the asteroid exterior. Save files made any later will not be affected. Uninstallation: Take 104per.mod out of the provided backup folder and place it in your modules folder at the location you installed to, and select replace when prompted. Take a_con_atton_end.ncs out of the provided backup folder and place it in your override folder at the location you installed to, and select replace when prompted. You can safely delete 104per.lyt and 104per.vis from your override folder. The files 104pera.mdl/.mdx/.wok come from Ultimate Peragus Models Repair, you can keep or delete these at your discretion. Additional Tips For Improving Game Performance: If you are having trouble running pre-rendered scenes in general, you can try the following: -- Go into your graphics settings, and under advanced options, disable frame buffering. If that does not work, try lowering or disabling all options. If the pre-rendered cutscene plays afterwards, you can up your graphics settings afterwards for normal gameplay. -- Try running the game in windowed mode, rather than fullscreen. Close your game and open "swkotor2.ini", found in the same folder as your main game executable (for a Steam game, that's "Steam\steamapps\common\Knights of the Old Republic II"). Under both "Display Options" and "Graphics Options", change "FullScreen=1" to "FullScreen=0". Restart your game. -- Uninstall/disable any non-essential mods that may relate to the cutscene or the area it takes place in. Peragus in particular also suffers from memory overflow if you play the game too long in one sitting. This can cause dialogue to start skipping, or for issues with game cutscenes. This can usually be avoided by: -- Quitting and restarting the game once in a while: doing it once before heading out to the asteroid surface, and again right before attempting to leave the Harbinger engine deck (the third and final level with the spooky lights) is usually enough to avoid problems. -- Avoiding skipping dialogue yourself, which can sometimes lead to memory overflow. If you do skip a lot of dialogue, quitting and restarting the game will fix the issue. Compatibility: Users should expect full compatibility with any other mods, so long as they make no modifications to the scripting or dialogue of the Harbinger's Arrival cutscene. For instance, if you are installing N-DReW's Mini Mod Collection for TSL, be sure not to add the included 104atton.dlg or 104kreia.dlg to your override, or remove it if you already have, as that would create a major incompatibility. This mod is for players using TSLRCM version 1.8.3 or higher. You may view this mod's changes.ini inside the "tslpatchdata" folder for a complete list of every altered module element. Feel free to check out "KotOR 2 Remastered (AI Upscaled) Cutscenes" by Naelavok for higher-resolution cutscenes, if you have not already. There are some other great mods out there that improve the visual quality of the cutscene. "Peragus Large Monitor Adjustment" by Sith Holocron, "KotOR 2 Unlimited World Texture Mod" by facemeltingsolo, "TSL Backdrop Improvements by Kexikus", and "Ultimate Peragus Models Repair" by yours truly are all compatible with this mod. "A Darker Peragus REDUX" by Malkior and "... A Darker Peragus" by Canderis are also compatible. Acknowledgments: Big thanks to Cortisol for the Holocron Toolset and Fred Tetra for KotOR Tool for making file extraction, module editing, and .mod file building easy, Fair Strides for the DLG Editor, JdNoa and Dashus for simple script decompiling with DeNCS, Blue for the KotOR Scripting Tool, Symmetric, Purifier, Ndix UR, and seedhartha for making importing to Blender simple using KotORBlender, and to Stoffe and Fair Strides for easy .mod extraction with ERFEdit, and for making inter-mod compatibility infinitely more feasible with TSLPatcher. Have a bug to report? Please click on "Get Support" and give a detailed description of the issue you are experiencing. This modification is not supported by Obsidian Entertainment, Lucasarts, Disney or any licensers/sponsors thereof. Use of this modification is at your own risk and neither the aforementioned companies nor the author may be held responsible for any damages caused to your computer via this modification's usage. Submitter PapaZinos Submitted 03/17/2022 Category Mods TSLRCM Compatible Yes