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Luke never said he, "Flew his T-16 back home." Luke said: "I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-sixteen back home. They're not much bigger than two meters." You aren't using actual quotes, you're writing down what you remember as a "quote". Any evidence of a T-16 is beyond the movie itself. The audience has to assume that this T-16 is a ship. You can't have the movie stop and show schematics of a T-16, its purpose, classifications, etc. You have to use context clues to determine some things in a movie. Using your logic of using only evidence from the movies, we have no idea what a T-16 might be without assuming. Is it a speeder? Is it a turret? Is it a ship? He never says he flies it. The audience doesn't see this T-16 being flown. Luke clearly flies a speeder in the first part of the movie, so is he referring to that? Or is he just overconfident and bluffing to look more impressive? We never hear anything more of it. Are we serious? What does a pilot in Star Wars fly? Oh, the audience must never assume it's a ship!! Yeah, when Finn says "We need a pilot!", he must be referring to a speeder...as the pair run towards two ships. And I'm sure Rey would say, "We have one!" again referring to a speeder. Are you kidding? Clearly the obvious answer is a ship. She doesn't exactly have time to list her flight qualifications while being attacked by TiE fighters. Have you watched the movie? Is anything about Rey cocky and overconfident? Why the heck would she feel the need to "look more impressive" while under attack from First Order forces? I keep saying it, but here it is again: All I'm saying is that Rey had the competence and skill to pilot the Millennium Falcon and get it into orbit. That's it.

He was referring to hitting a 2 meter target, albeit with beam weapons as opposed to a self-propelled projectile like a proton torpedo. He was merely commenting on the feasibility of hitting a target that size. Luke: "It's not impossible. I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-sixteen back home. They're not much bigger than two meters." As a matter of fact, she does! She says it in the movie: Finn: "We need a pilot!" Rey: "We've got one!" That's no, "I'm the best mechanic in the quadrant," (I've already proved she's a skilled mechanic, there's no use arguing that point), or "I fly freighters for fun," (honestly, who would fly freighters for fun?). And I can apply the exact same logic to Luke's flying of the X-Wing: He just knew how to fly because he had to fly later in the movie. You won't apply the same scrutiny to Luke that you do to Rey, setting a double standard here. Convenient to ignore what's canon in order to try to push your argument. All I'm saying is that Rey had the competence and skill to pilot the Millennium Falcon and get it into orbit. That's it. You won't listen to evidence that clearly shows why she has the piloting and mechanical skills, and you criticize her use of said skills in the movie as "capability of anything". Again, you've got it all wrong. Luke and Wedge went into the trench as a last resort, not a first resort. That's why you have the Y-Wing bombers in the attack with the X-Wing fighters covering them. The goal wasn't to send Luke up for a trench run. The goal was for Rogue Squadron to cover Gold Squadron while they bombed the exhaust port. Wedge and Luke did fight TiEs, so I do have a point. He would have needed dogfighting and squadron skills. He couldn't have been put into a flight simulator for prep. The Millennium Falcon arrived at the Rebel base only a short time (likely hours) before the Death Star run. During this time, apparently all that Luke did was attend mission briefings, get fitted for a flight suit, and depart. Either way, a couple hours in the sim ain't going to cut it.

You seem to be using the Expanded Universe as well, since in no canon source do we ever see Luke Skywalker flying the T-16. You want me to just ignore canon sources? It says she was actively repairing it herself, but she was having to use parts she could have sold, thereby reducing the meal portions she received. She worked with the other scavengers once they found her out, and was wary of them at first. Then she did fly the thing back to the spaceport. She's on the backwater planet because her parents dumped her there, and she's working hard to get by. She's reluctant to leave the planet (as shown in the move when she wants to go back to Jakku) because she believes her parents will return. That's why she sticks around. I can justify that she is that skilled because she didn't ask for their help, they noticed that she wasn't providing the amount of ship components she normally did, and they followed her and found her out. Only then did she reluctantly work with them, only to be betrayed. As or the reasons why she isn't in a maintenance shop in the city... There's no evidence that says she didn't work part time as a mechanic on the side. Heck, she worked often for Unkar Plutt who owned the Millennium Falcon. It stands to reason that, given her mechanical skills, she actually did maintenance on the Falcon. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. The article said she used the computer display from the Y-Wing, essentially a computer monitor. What she found and plugged into it could have come from a wide range of ships, including Imperial Star Destroyers, which would likely have alien language databases and flight simulators aboard. Your'e really reaching with that last question. But even in the movie we see several languages spoken on Jakku. Even small regions have differences in dialect, not to mention the fact that there are a number of aliens on Jakku that might not even be capable of speaking Basic. Knowing multiple languages can always help. Don't know what this has to do with anything? The deal with Jakku is that it's a planet where there was a huge battle between the Empire and Rebellion and now scavengers pick the bones. Maybe the unique life experience is 10 years scavenging parts and learning what parts do and which ones are important, rebuilding various assemblies that are worth more together than apart, building a speeder from said parts and assemblies. And she the ship was intact, just needed repairs. She didn't assemble the whole thing. I've already cited precedent for Rey operating vehicles, specifically a light freighter. If you have issues with the source, that's your problem, but it's canon, so deal with it. The second half is laughable. Han is going to carry around necessary components (however large they might be) in his pockets? How is he going to make a quick getaway? It's ridiculous to suggest that simple controls such as landing bay doors would be complicated enough that anyone but the owner would have a difficult time. In the Empire Strikes Back, for instance, we see Leia piloting the Falcon...through an asteroid field. Is she not capable of flying the Falcon either? She doesn't have any mechanical or starship experience. She's a diplomat from a highly wealthy planet. The Falcon is apparently easy enough for her to pilot without too much hassle. Okay, once again, I've given you canon sources that have Rey flying a freighter before she flies the Falcon. Case closed. Ah, the autopilot. I'm very familiar with the autopilot. I'm a commercial pilot and I have quite a bit of experience using autopilot systems. If one is unfamiliar with even the particular type of autopilot, they can be difficult and un-intuitive to use. The autopilot does quite a bit, and we can surmise that it might do a bit more in the Star Wars universe, but it's no replacement for training. "All the pilot would need to do is outmaneuver the enemy pilots" Please. Luke and the others were clearly being forced to engage in dogfighting before starting their attack run. Since the TiE is clearly the lighter and more maneuverable fighter, the X-Wings would need to take advantage of their speed, superior shielding, and firepower to beat the TiEs. They weren't going to get away from them by doing a few barrel rolls. Luke would need to be able to help his wingmen out and know various maneuvers and other team tactics to defend against, evade and destroy the attacking TiE fighters. These sort of teamwork exercises take lots and lots of practice. For more info, check out this excellent fighter pilot documentary (link). Without spending quite a bit of time integrating with Rogue Squadron, Luke would be just about worthless as a pilot with them.

"Likely served" does have basis. Rey built (and maintains) her speeder (link). A person who can build and maintain a vehicle from scavenged parts clearly has mechanical tendencies. In addition, during Rey's scavenging career, she found and repaired a nearly complete ship, the Ghtroc 690 (link). In addition, Rey had a formidable amount of mechanical knowledge when it came to dealing with ship parts: Rey is clearly a seasoned mechanic. She repaired a derelict ship to flying condition, and was able to pilot it. It stands to reason that she would be able to fire up the Millennium Falcon. As for the Falcon's complexity, that's debatable. A light freighter like the Falcon should be fairly easy to start up, and should have decent and somewhat forgiving flight characteristics, even once modified. Rey clearly has some trouble with flying the ship, and that's understandable as well. Oh dear... This makes no sense. Why would closing the landing bay doors be a complex task? When you're flying a ship or aircraft, takeoff and landing are critical points. You want things to be simple and easy to free up your mind to concentrate on other tasks. I can hardly imagine that raising the landing gear would be much more than a raising a handle on the ship's panel. There aren't "subtleties in the electronics" that perform these actions. What are you picturing? Her having a bundle of wires in each hand and trying to connect the correct pair? A studied mechanic is more likely to understand all the systems on a craft than the pilot. They are very different roles. A pilot has much more operational experience, but is unlikely to be able to pinpoint causes of problems or solutions. A mechanic is more unlikely to be able to operate the craft, but can troubleshoot and understand the systems better. Han's a pilot, Rey's a mechanic. Han has a higher level of mechanical experience due to the work he's performed on the Falcon, but Rey is still a formidable mechanic in her own right, having repaired a starship in the middle of the desert on Jakku. Now to address Luke's issues... Assuming the "computer" is the targeting computer, from what we see that's essentially a radar-ranging-gunsight. Learning to use the computer would still take a few hours training, minimum. Not to mention operating the weapons themselves... Flying the fighter, maybe. Seamless operations in combat? Not even close. How many formation flights had he done? When did he study attack patterns, squadron radio etiquette? What are the best maneuvers to evade TiE fighters? It's ludicrous to think he could fly combat missions in the most advanced fighter of the day with no training. Put to the same scrutiny that Rey gets, Luke's actions aren't very feasible. I will give you that the dogfight with the TiE fighters seems out of a neophyte pilot's abilities. I'm not trying to make excuses for that. But I find it perfectly plausible that Rey: Is a seasoned mechanic Can fire up the Millennium Falcon Can pilot the Millennium Falcon into orbit There is precedence for her repairing and piloting a ship, so I see no reason why that part isn't plausible. The whole beating a skilled Sith Apprentice in a lightsaber match...yeah that's pretty far fetched.

Likely she served as a mechanic at some point. She clearly has mechanical experience, and often airplane mechanics are familiar with engine startup procedures in order to do maintenance runs, so it wouldn't be out of the question for her to be able to at least start the engines on a starship. She also must have to maintain her speeder, so she would be familiar with the basic technologies associated with those craft. In addition, she is familiar with speeder controls and rides/flies and maintains her speeder. With basic control familiarity, it wouldn't be out of the question for her to be able to get the Falcon in the air. Now the whole pursuit through the Star Destroyer, that's Force territory and I won't touch that. But at least in the beginning, she clearly struggles with the controls. Likewise, it wouldn't be out of the question for an ordinary person to be able to keep an aircraft in the air (landing is a different story, though we don't see Rey land). A more ridiculous transition, perhaps, is Luke's transition from civilian farming craft to top-of-the-line fighter ships. Fighter pilots train for 1-2 years before transitioning into their specific jet, following which is more tactical experience and training. Yet Luke jumps into the X-Wing and is seamlessly integrated into a fighter squadron in a manner of hours, able to operate advanced shielding, weapons, and control systems without any apparent training.

We're really proud that you're willing to own up to that.

A lot of the time around here, we see folks' beautiful finished creations! They are certainly wonderful, and deserve recognition. However, most of us (there are a few exceptions), had less-than-stellar first mods. We all had to start somewhere. So let's revisit our very first mods for better or for worse. Post pictures, a description, and what you were thinking when you first came up with the mod! My very first mod was titled "World War 2 New Area Beta". In an extremely ill-considered mod attempt, I decided to re-create the movie Kelly's Heroes in KotOR. Did it make sense? Not even a little bit. Did I have any modding experience? Absolutely not. But that didn't stop young Sithspecter from taking a crack at it. I made one or two areas associated with the mod (extremely poor quality), before giving up and moving on to better things. That didn't stop me from releasing my already terrible progress though, and here were the results: ]

I'm fairly certain that is caused by the old .uti files which are still in your save game. Only solution is to use KSE to remove the old and add new ones.

For most, those files will just stay in the override, but won't do anything. Essentially extraneous files. You can delete them, and you can delete that second set of files too if you like, since they're vanilla models from the game. It was just a sort of cobbled together way so that people can install the new one over the old and still fix the bug. I updated that texture file, which now is applied to the Assassin and War droid blasters. I had initially tried to replace the models, but that crashed the game. It's still not as good as the new model, but most won't be able to tell. I have noticed those icons look similar, but I haven't been inclined to do anything about it so far.

I'm fixing it now. I also forgot that the new installer can't change the name of that pesky ion rifle that keeps appearing, so I addressed that as well. You've already got that issue taken care of though, so you're fine on that front. You shouldn't need to do anything else to be (as far as I know) bug-free.

Ah, I remember what I did. Silly me. So you can't remove files with the TSL patcher, and the original mod replaced the Bith items that have those file names. So I included the original Bith items in the new mod and the patcher would override the old ones, fixing the problem. However, I had a brain fart and completely forgot that I realized how to do that, and wrote in the readme that you still needed to delete those files. Silly me.

Updated to version 1.1, fixed a couple of very minor issues.

Subtract the blending additive in that case and try it with only the "decal 1". But the original sabers have a TXI with blending additive and the decal 1.

Likely the culprit is a missing .txi file containing: blending additive decal 1

Before Fair Strides decides to work out how this would be technically feasible in the mod, I will say, no. There will be no option for character tans.

Fair Strides, the Hutts already literally have no clothes on. Any clothes would be an improvement...

Hey, a Hutt's gotta keep that tan on! Can't be looking all pasty when it's swimwear season!

We are not revealing that information at this time.

There's no "building status", all buildings are part of the area geometry and will show up essentially all the time. Grass is obviously handled differently by the renderer, and is based on where the character sits. Doesn't look like there is anything in the .are, so it's likely hard coded or beyond our control.

This is incredible.

One idea that might work well is to place small "holes" in the structure on the less complete side where the planet shows through a bit. I'm not sure if that was in the original game or not, but it could help break up the pattern.