BabylonAS

I guess the story of Ahsoka Tano has some parallels to that of KotOR 2's main character. Both were weighted down by their past, having fought in wars and seen so many people die due to their actions. Both had left the Jedi Order shortly before it got decimated, and both have witnessed it being reborn. Therefore, a mod that allows using Ahsoka's appearance for the Jedi Exile in TSL seems to be quite appropriate, even more so than the K1 version. At the very least, just like Ahsoka did in Rebels, you can have the Jedi Exile say: "I'm no Jedi". The model itself is well-done, even if subject to limitations of a game made two decades ago. Though the forehead accessory clearly gives out The Clone Wars' season 7 finale as inspiration, the overall appearance — including the dark-colored civilian clothing — evokes comparison to Rosario Dawson's portrayal of Ahsoka in The Mandalorian (which also had her lekku be shortened, just like this mod). Unfortunately, the mod suffers from a resolution mismatch between Stormie97's highly detailed head design, which uses 2048×2048 files, and Effix's lower-res, 512×512 textures for the body and clothes. This is especially apparent when the character is in underwear only (like during much of the Peragus events), further accented by an improper connection between the head and body parts. Also, I've found some clipping issues with the dancer outfit (as seen in the attachment). The back lekku also clips through certain hooded robe models. This was noted before the mod's release when a user tested the head model, and Stormie97 even mentioned a possible workaround, that is flattening the hoods on problematic models. Alas, no such patch has been given. Likewise, custom robe/armor models added by 3rd party mods would have to feature their own patches if their authors want them to be compatible with this custom head. Finally, there's something that no mod like this could easily change. The game has been written with a human main character in mind, and it shows in things like dialogue with the Bumani Exchange entrance guard, as well as the Jekk'Jekk Tarr. While minor, these issues do break immersion a bit. But again, it's not specific to this mod, and it's not easily fixable without overwriting certain elements of the core game, which is well beyond the scope of a player appearance mod. It's quite unfortunate that Stormie97 didn't have time to fix the model issues or add the Siege of Mandalore outfit as they planned. But I hope to see the mod improved further. Despite the issues, it's pretty good, especially since it adds a model for a Star Wars species not previously seen in the game (which is worthy of praise by itself). Ahsoka Tano is my favorite character in Star Wars, and I've enjoyed playing as her imaginary distant ancestor/relative. Her fans will be delighted in using this mod together with TSL's expanded lightsaber color selection, which includes "viridian" (in reality yellowish green, a bit like Ahsoka's original shoto, unless changed by a mod) and silver crystals, allowing players to recreate all her lightsaber sets. The only missing thing would be custom lightsaber hilts. But that's a story for another mod... P. S. I'd also love to see a more visible dark side transition, based on Ahsoka's appearance in TCW's episode "Altar of Mortis" when she was temporarily corrupted by The Son.

Does the ambient lighting on surfaces require framebuffer effects enabled? If it doesn't, then looks like I have a bug - though it might instead be due to an alien iGPU of my Intel Core i5-1135G7... On characters and placeables the effect works fine. That said, there is a bunch of other mods that I've installed afterwards, so maybe I might only need to edit something with Kotor Tool? UPDATE: Here is a better image of the bug, now involving a placeable:

Oh well... I've just had the unique lightsaber vanish too, after a visit to the workbench. It's been almost three years now and the mod is unfortunately not updated. I assume I have to manually cheat in the lost 'saber after applying the patch? Using the body & lightsaber option combined with mori42's Real Cathar Head, by the way, the latter further augmented with an upscale by ShiningRedHD. Sadly the body seems less detailed when wearing the armored robes.

Do I have to install the main mod (not the compatibility patch) before or after the Jedi Diversity mod?

I’ve just made Atton a Jedi Sentinel and he has got a bunch of free feats. Is it intentional? I assume the same would happen with a few other trainable companions.

I decided to start all over again with the Aspyr port - I ran out of ideas and hope on how to get the Legacy PC version work under Wine without crashes. Hence I redownloaded the mod, and now I've noticed that several texture files are missing yet are still mentioned in changes.ini. The files in question are P_AhsokaBB01.tga (the jacket) and PFBTG_Ahsoka01.tga (the outfit Atton Rand would see first).

So I take it the mod won't work correctly on Aspyr's updated release of TSL?

It seems like I’ve got more issues with this mod. First, I can apparently confirm Elwood288’s comment about Ahsoka being allergic to Jal Shey and Zeison Sha armor sets, as I’ve managed to find Jal Shey Initiate Armor aboard the Harbinger and tried to put it on my player character, only for the game to crash. That was a single case though, as I didn’t find other Jal Shey or Zeison Sha sets yet. Second, while I’m not sure if this is actually related, I’m having crashes when doing the quest involving Ramana the Twi’lek dancer, namely after I manage to liberate her from servitude under Doton Het. While trying to investigate this, I’ve come across a file in the game’s folder, called AR_ERROR.LOG. It only has one line: “Names Differ: N_TwilekF pftam”. pftam.(mdl|mdx) are files added by the Ahsoka mod, while N_TwilekF is quite obviously the female Twi’lek model. Again, I‘m not sure if the crash is caused by Ahsoka or perhaps some other mod, though the AR_ERROR.LOG provides somewhat suspicious evidence. I use a slightly modified Snigaroo’s updated K2 mod build from r/kotor, with ShiningRedHD’s texture upgrades and the Ahsoka mod installed in place of the Canonical Jedi Exile mod. Unfortunately my game is currently being plagued by loadscreen crashes that I don’t know how to bypass (I’m running it on Linux in Legacy PC variant, hence workarounds that are usually suggested like disabling Framebuffer Effects — which I did — don’t help), therefore I might be unable to devote enough time in order to investigate issues with the Ahsoka mod. However, overall I’m pleased with it — it feels especially interesting to play with Ahsoka’s appearance considering the fact that both she and the main character of KotOR 2 ended up leaving the Jedi Order, and so just like her, you can choose to say “I’m no Jedi” 😄