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If i remember correctly, there should be an option either in the .git, or the .are from the modules to give this possibility or not to the player.

2 hours ago, JasonRyder said:

You're making great progress! Say, one thing I noticed is that the Hidden Bek Combat Suit and Hidden Bek Heavy Combat Suit aren't blue like the other Hidden Bek armors. Will these be re-colored? Same goes for the Black Vulkars. 

I won't be recoloring them for several reasons. Having every bek members in blue make them way too uniform for my liking is the main reason (I enjoy having at the very least a little bit of contrast). These armors are only skins, and won't have any differentiated stats from the default combat suit and heavy combat suit (it's just as if the gangs added their logos on top of the preexisting armors in my mind). Finally i'm not skilled enough to do something very good looking  

Hello there everyone!

As always, i'm in the middle of thousand different projects for the mod, but I felt like providing an update for the current WIP lower city and hidden bek base  

The new hidden bek appearances

The lower city

The hidden bek base

The project goes further and further! Not as fast as i'd hope, but still we are very slowly getting there! 😅 For the people interested, i've created a discord channel dedicated to the project. It is not very active at the moment, but i post some screenshots or videos here and there so if you want to be up to date with some work in progress you can see it in there. You can also directly provide some feedback. It'll be way more active once i'll release the alpha build obviously!

My discord for the project

See ya next time! 👀

48 minutes ago, StellarExile said:

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/eveve4fybr24n/Q_SellOut

Pretty cool! Ive looked at the ressources, you can tell Quanon's ambition! Entirely new planets made from scratch in 2008... What a madman 😄 Unfortunately most of the stuff in there is far from a playable state. I don't know if Quanon would be willing to dive into fixing all of this honestly. I'm already very grateful that he is currently helping us restoring the most playable stuff from all of this (ie Korriban modules) but who knows?

We'll see in the following months how all of this work takes shape. There is a long road ahead of me 😅

10 minutes ago, StellarExile said:

It was in his old files in his MediaFire account. Want me to post it?

Ye sure!

1 minute ago, N-DReW25 said:

I'm fairly certain these "chambers" I refer too are either an exact, or near exact replica, of the vanilla crystal cave chamber with the crystals.

 

 

If you were to "cut out" the crystal models from the Dantooine crystal cave and apply them to the model of the Korriban cave in the "chamber" I've listed above I'm sure it'd make for a very convincing crystal cave.

Ye it's very close indeed. I'll see about this, as i said i want the Korriban and Dantooine's crystal caves to stand out, with more crystal formations than the other planets. If i add crystal formations to the other planets, it'll be more likely a single or two crystal formations maximum. At least that's what i envisage right now. All of that being said it wouldn't be that hard to create a brand new crystal cave using this asset, only downside would surely be the lack of colored lightmap on the walls and ground, even if maybe an aurora light could be decent enough  

1 hour ago, N-DReW25 said:

Do you think you can convert one of the empty "chambers" of the Shyrack cave into a crystal cave? The "chambers" I refer to is the 3 big rooms between the entrance and the big opening at the end with the bridge where the Terentatek and Tomb entrances are, Thalia May and her friends occupy the far right chamber whilst the middle and far left chambers are empty.

Its totally doable yes. So you have something equally as big as the vanilla crystal cave in mind right? 

57 minutes ago, StellarExile said:

Do you happen to know if the lava planet ones will be involved too?

Lava planets? I didn't even know this was a thing   

10 hours ago, Spectrometer said:

Very impressive work! I didn't even know there was a Korriban depot module. Would it be too difficult to port to TSL? Thinking out loud, I think these could be great for the Revenge of Revan mod or any other total conversion mod.

No this would be rather easy if anyone wants to do it  It would require using mdledit and importing maybe some textures from K1.

43 minutes ago, N-DReW25 said:

Personally, I would go for the easiest route of making custom content that non-modders would appreciate. In the words of HK-47 - "Doing more with less. It is 'art."

 

Of course, you've just fixed the Shadowlands and Czerka Depot modules and you appear to be moving on to fix the Tatooine temple - you're definitely doing more than less. I personally didn't even think the Czerka Depot was that bad, all you had to do is lock one of the rooms with the broken walkmesh and everything would've been functional.

Sometimes I think I'm a bit of a perfectionist, tweaking details that 99% of people out there won't even notice. Maybe (surely?) it's too much at times and I should curb my enthusiasm a little sometime. Although I have a hard time stopping myself haha.

43 minutes ago, N-DReW25 said:

Your planned cuts may make or break my following suggestion, but I think the Krayt Dragon in the cave should be protecting the cave that leads into the Tatooine Temple instead of the Star Map. Off from memory, the Tatooine Temple has a bunch of isolated rooms and the big central pit where the Star Map would've been. I think these rooms should all be locked and you should move room to room unlocking puzzles on computers or fighting Rakata Droid boss fight in order to prove yourself "worthy" to the Rakata security systems to advance into the next room until finally you enter the Sarlaac room.

 

Perhaps the Sarlaac has been dead for thousands of years but through the Rakatan computers you learn that the ancient builders would sacrifice slaves and rebellious Rakata into the Sarlaac as part of an ancient Mayan influenced ritual, perhaps these computers can also reveal that this temple was built before the Rakatan's orbital bombardment that turned the green Tatooine into a desert and that the resulting climate change and the lack of sacrifices slowly killed the Sarlaac. Perhaps this security system that requires you to unlock the doors was altered by Revan in the same way he/she altered the Kashyyyk Star Map's security system, some of the correct answers to these questions in these computers could've been set by Darth Revan and so you're given the choice of answering the way Darth Revan would've answered them or you're forced to fight Rakata Droids. And just like on Kashyyyk, if you do Tatooine last the computer recognizes you as Revan.

 

Also, if it is at all possible, I'd add some form of "Crystal Crystal" as I know there was a divide in the cave area that lead to a big open cave room (though I suspect that's the area you'd want to cut).

Very interesting ideas, especially regarding the kind of Mayan vibe i really like that. George Lucas had a passion for anthropology after all.  I kinda already planned to add crystal formations to secondary planets. I think i'll keep it to 1 or 2 crystals max, because i still want Dantooine and Korriban to stand out in that regard. But still, would be cool to find a unique crystal formation lost in the Kashyyk shadowlands, in the burried temple on Tatooine, or at the bottom of the ocean for Manaan.

A little treat for today... As you may already know, @Quanon had pulled out custom modules for K1 in the past (I think only one thing got playable at some point, the Beta Korriban Temple Mod. ). These custom modules were really ambitious and I love the overall aesthetic, specifically the Korriban ones. Well I'm delighted to announce that Quanon has opened the doors to its superb resources for us recently!

He is currently fixing his models so we can import them into blender (these models were made with older tools, and it tends to be broken with nowaday tools) and edit them freely. The first pieces from this collaboration are done, and you can see his custom module in video. All the models are Quanon's original work! Ive only edited the module walkmeshes, overall lighting/fog (because obviously, there is no lightmap), added small fallen rocks at the entrance, a little smoke effect in the sith chapel and animated light to the central piece, and finally fixed some texture uv maps. @Quanon is still working on this and there will be more rooms to this module!

Congratulations to @Quanon and huge thanks to him, the assets are GORGEOUS 🥰

35 minutes ago, SithNadd said:

Absolutely. As I believe a certain Jedi Knight once said: "This is where the fun begins..."

Will the fixed area models be released as a modders resource similar to what you did with the Shadowlands module?

I'm itching to start adding some content in myself now that there's a fixed set of models out there.

Absolutely, the Czerka depot is currently waiting for approval  Most of the stuff i'll be pulling out along the way will be released as modder's ressource hopefully!

1 hour ago, Mephiles550 said:

Actually nevermind about my question regarding Ludo's tomb, I rewatched your video for it. What you did with that is beyond impressive. I thought you just ported the TSL version of the Shyrak cave, the one that has the exit to the surface blocked off, into Kotor 1. I thought that meant it was basically an empty module. I think what you actually did was merge the portion of the TSL cave that has the Ludos Tomb (the tomb entrance on the far edge of the cave) with the rest of the Kotor 1 module. That means all the content from the original Kotor 1 cave, like the students and the Terentatek, is still the same. That's amazing. I've seen people merge hallways and doors, I didn't think anyone would be able to merge all that rough geometry in the cave. Well done!

To be honest, it was not "that hard" to do either. I used K1's shyrack cave as a base, and then partially removed and replace the stuff with K2's shyrack cave  A bit of modeling involved but nothing impossible  So ye basically the cave is exactly the same as K1, i only added the corridor extension + changed the minimap.

1 hour ago, Mephiles550 said:

A silly thought I had one day while looking at this module was it would've worked great as an underwater area in Manaan. Add the Manaan surface animated background in place of the white void, darken the lighting and have the character slowly explore in an environment suit. The giant Shark could've been in the sarlacc chamber instead. I feel like that would've been much cooler, but that's a pretty radical idea. 

Haha funny enough i also thought about a submerged rakatan thing for Manaan, and i was already planning on adding some rakatan statues here and there in the bottom of the ocean. Quite an interesting idea still, I'll think about all of this.

3 minutes ago, SithNadd said:

That Czerka depot certainly looks a lot better after a bit of TLC from you. Sorting that area out was one of the things on my 'things to do some day' list, but it looks like it can be crossed off now, which I certainly won't be complaining about!

Big ol' area to fill with content though, so I look forward to seeing what you decide to fill it with.

Indeed! Fixing the models is the "easy" part, filling the area with npcs and exciting stories to be told is something else  

52 minutes ago, Mephiles550 said:

Regarding the Tatooine Temple, a neat work around I saw in the edge of darkness mod which reused this module was that the module had a much darker ambient lighting effect around the player, so the area would only get lighter if you walked in that direction. It wasn’t really possible to see the white void beyond because of this. This is in TSL however and idk if this effect would be doable in KOTOR 1 

I feel like if this effect can be replicated you might be able to get away with how the outside part of the map looks. I think they were trying to replicate the Dantooine Ruins which you can see has a very vast and spacious detailed area outside of the bounds. It looks like they didn’t even start that part in the cut module. 

I feel like the biggest problem with the cut temple module is definitely its messed up walk meshes. Some places you need to find just the right spot to go around the hallway. I always thought this could be fixed by just placing junk objects or rakatan ruins objects in the areas that you can’t go on, kind of giving the player a makeshift pathway of sorts. 

Two things i've definitely thought about: Making the area darker (especially since it does not currently match the lighting from the back of the Krayt dragon's cave) and having some rakatan ruins/additional rocks to hide rough area transitions/texture transitions and so on. For the walkmeshes, i will hopefully entirely fix them and it shouldnt be a problem, I won't use the default ones because they're very broken. I will most likely redo them entirely. I will take a look at Edge of Darkness to see how it was done thanks for poiting this mod out  

I will reuse some assets from the base game to fill the gaps in the Tatooine temple. The Dantooine ruins and the shyrack cave have similar geometries so i can surely use some of their part, finally the unknown world temple summit may be used aswell. One thing I do not understand and you might be able to clear it for me, is that some portion (especially the rakatan ruins) are entirely enlighted, just as if these parts were out in the open (their ceiling part at least). I thought about having these parts "burried" (just like Dantooine ruins) but still i'm wondering, do you think it was intended to have portion of the levels both under and above the ground level?

1 hour ago, Mephiles550 said:

btw beyond restoring the Korriban module, you did a really cool job with even adding a custom transition room to the original module, working door and all! Great stuff

Ty  I've basically reused the room that leads to the sith academy and mirrored the ground from the adjacent room to have accurate lightmaps.

1 hour ago, Mephiles550 said:

btw for your Korriban Ludo Kressh mod, how did you plan to add the TSL version of the cave module to the game? Were you able to essentially remake the rogue students quest and port all the dialogue and scripts from the original cave into the new one with the tomb?

Atm my very rough idea is to have the key to this tomb lootable in Naga Sadow's tomb. I don't really get what you're talking about with the rogue students? Are you talking about the two twileks and the woman you can meet in the shyrack cave?

Hello there!

Pretty happy to announce that 2 of the 3 cut modules are now completely restored and are already released as a modder's ressource here on Deadlystream for anyone to use 🥳

The Kashyyk cut module didn't need much work at all! It was all about editing the .vis file, adding a fog effect in the .are and providing a minimap. This is all done! My plan with this module will surely be as i said earlier, making it the specific area where you encounter the ritual beast. I have nothing yet very clear in mind, but I wish to make the ritual beast encounter much more memorable, i've already planned to make this specific terentatek the size of a fully grown rancor to distinguish it from the others  

The Czerka Depot cut module needed much more work. There were a lot of models broken, with missing parts such as ceilings/geometry holes, various errors like walls flying few centimeters in the air and so much more. I also partially fixed the most hideous lightmaps. I am not yet skilled enough to correct everyone of them, there are still some rough lighting transition from one room to another. Some walkmeshes have been fixed aswell, and some textures too. Finally i've provided a custom minimap aswell!

Czerka depot screenshots:

Very proud of all of this work, especially the Czerka Depot module. Not perfect at all but its already so much better than what was there, and its entirely playable now

It leaves us with one last cut module: The tatooine cut rakatan temple. This is the module that requires a TON of work. The walkmeshes are atrocious, some lightmaps aswell and so are the room transitions, there are a lot of missing elements especially in the rakatan ruins... For this one, I cannot "just" repair what's in there, because there is too much stuff missing. I also think that i'll do some few cuts, because some portion of the level are too broken and beyong repair. There is still enough from this module to be used and repurposed into something both unique and playable. 

The biggest theory out there is that this module was supposed to have some kind of sarlacc maw encounter, which would make sense judging the last "pit" room. I still don't know how this area would play out, aside from maybe 1 unique crystal formation and few rakatan lore. If you have any idea, feel free to share!

Anyway, still a lot of work to do! You can check the cut modules i restored in the video I'm providing  Peace!

4 hours ago, Salk said:

Personally, I approve completely of your various improvements above. I assume you edited various room models?

Great job!

Indeed! Especially since there is a ceiling regarding the amount of placeables you can add to K1, so i've integrated everything into the module models themselves and edited the walkmeshes accordingly  

Hi there!

I just wanted to share some screenshots for some of the wip areas.

Hidden Bek Base:

Undercity:

Vulkar base:

Cut Vulkar laboratory:

I love revising the areas and go into the details part. Really makes the areas feel more alive! It's been a ton of fun

Hello there! 

We all have seen numerous aborted project, i want to keep this topic alive and relatively up to date! I'm working on this 90% of my free time and i'm determined to see this project finished at some point (Thor has been a huge inspiration in that regard, seeing his own project take life over his long working years!). 

I said in the last post that i was going to cover force powers (and I will at some point ), but i felt like showcasing a bit about the extended vanilla areas or new modules. The new modules will mostly be imported from TSL, because they're ready to play with proper lightmaps, minimaps and all of that. All of this is mostly concepts, so the content still needs to be properly implemented.

Extended areas from Vanilla

New modules

Of course, the content remains to be implemented. I can't wait to see all of this properly take shape! I spared you some unnecessary details (like editing the .are to make the minimaps accurate...) that had to be done. Very exciting stuff that still doesnt mean much until it gets properly fleshed out  Work in progress, as always. Gotta keep in mind that this is a marathon, not a sprint!

I'll showcase more of the mod in the following weeks/month. I've introduced 3 more feats by the way, i'll show you all of this next time hopefully 🥳

Ive fixed this for my own mod. I also removed the middle armor piece because it was poorly rescaled. SithNadd is right, all you have to do is to edit the module model and the .git for the placeables location.

12 hours ago, Salk said:

Oh okay! Sorry, I didn't realize it was a movie. In KOTOR, a cutscene is a dialogue file.

My bad  

2 hours ago, Salk said:

I attempted to do something similar in the past but your result is vastly superior. Could l bother about providing a few more details about your solution? What is the name of the effect and how can it be used in the game?

 

Ho so as i said, this is a cutscene. Nothing happends in actual game  I used Glintercept for free camera, edited the hideout module to have carth walk between the workbench and the bed and perform the talking animation, then i recorded the footage. After that i simply stitched together some copyright free human sound effects, T3-M4 soundtrack from TSL and Carth lines. Finally i used the green screen eye blinking, i blurred the footage i recorded and converted the files to .bik   

1 hour ago, Salk said:

The awakening is very nice. How did you create the eye opening blurred effect?

Nothing too fancy, i used a copyright free green screen eye blinking effect  

A small informal update on restoring Carth's cut dialog after Taris crash and the Enclave Sublevel modeling.

Carth's dialog restoration, and post pod crash revisions

Enclave sublevel modeling

I can't wait to add proper content to the sublevel, i'm really proud of the near final result  

14 hours ago, djh269 said:

I tinkered with HK-47 to get him to go into stealth mode way back when, I'm interested to see how you did it (I probably missed something simple haha).

Hello there! So basically, i have done the same thing as force camouflage, with some more steps to make everything work. Here is the detailed process if anyone wish to do the same thing.

In K1, the force camouflage feat itself does not do anything and is purely cosmetic. If Juhani can go into stealth, it's because she has got a stealth belt equipped into her creature hide slot. The stealth belts are obviously not equippable on droids in vanilla, but there is a column for this in baseitems.2da (Droid can use, or usertype, something like that). You can put 3 different values in there, 0 so both humans and droids can use the item, 1 so only humans can, and finally 2 so only droids can.

However, i couldnt "just" change this value for the stealth belt, because it would cause the default stealth belts to be equippable on HK/T3 in their shield slots. So what i did is that i copied the Stealth Belt row in baseitems.2da and created a new row dedicated for droids only so it would not affect the default belts. 

There is also an annoying limitation that i couldnt get around with K1. In vanilla you cannot select the stealth skill in the GUI. I thought i could fix this by editing the Skills.2DA file, because its possible in there to edit if a class has access to a dedicated skill. However, even after opening the skill to the combat droid class, if you you try to click on Stealth and allocate skill points there with HK, you get a message telling you that droids cannot use Stealth. However, if you specify a higher "recommanded" priority number for Stealth than the other skills, you actually get skill points invested into stealth by clicking "Recommanded" in the GUI.

This was not working really as i wanted it to be. Finally, a character cannot go into stealth if they do not have at the very least 1 point in their Stealth skill (even if they have items that provides them stealth skill point bonus). So basically, i've added 2 skill points into Stealth to HK by default when he joins you, so he is able to use the thing. I've changed his hide items type for his upgrades by the newly created stealth belt row dedicated for droids, and i've made each upgrade increase his stealth skill so there is still a progression. The belts also provide the newly created feat for HK, which is the same as G0-T0 in K2 btw. Purely cosmetic, just like force camouflage, but it tells the player the new passive.

Kinda convoluted, but it works and that's all i wanted  

Also, while we are talking about HK and his hidden items...

In K1, I noticed yesterday that HK's unarmed animations were broken (just like T3). He does have 2 unique melee animation, but It's broken because he didnt have a proper "pause" animation and dodge animation inbetween his melee hits. In K2 this has been fixed by Obsidian, the only thing they removed from K1 model is an animation for poison (cohesive, as droids cannot get poisoned in the game). So i've converted K2 model and now HK has got his unarmed animations fully working (same process as T3!). I'm wondering if I should provide HK some dedicated unarmed feats with his upgrades. Seeing this big robot perform kicks is hella terryfying lmao 😄