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I went back and rewatched and saw it this time. Seems absurd to change the shape of the Falcon, especially when the shape is part of what makes it so beloved.

After TLJ, I think I'm just going to pass. No need to agonize myself further.

Yes, there will be NPCs. I just haven't populated the area yet. A big thanks to ndix ur and bead-v for MDLEdit and KotOR Max, which are making things much easier for me.

Another preview, this time of the new landing bay. I was never very satisfied with the older version, and so have updated it in a similar configuration as Docking Bay 94 of A New Hope fame.

Two extensions that provide a fix for the Photobucket link issue: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-hotlink-fix/kegnjbncdcliihbemealioapbifiaedg?hl=en&hotlinkfix=151676763131 Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-fix/?src=api

As some pointed out, Deadly Stream polls force you to vote for all questions. That's why last year I added a "decline to vote" option, and did this year as well, just a little late. Sorry for those who didn't see it, and abstained from voting. We chose the timeline based on data suggesting that forum activity peaks in the month of December, that's why we did it a month early last year and again this year. We can change it though so it is less confusing and includes all mods for a whole year. I agree that separating the mods into K1/TSL categories is better. We will bring that back next year. Perhaps a separate WIP voting could work, with certain requirements for the WIP. It could encourage some forum activity.

Added a "Decline to Vote" option for those purists who are abstaining from voting if they can't decide for one category

Now that I've had some time to think about The Last Jedi, I honestly believe TFA and TLJ could have been combined into one movie. There were many unnecessary build-ups, story arcs, and other plot devices that could have been eliminated from the two movies, and a more concise single movie in its place. My thought is that TFA could have been shifted to focus on destroying Snoke himself instead of the ludicrous Starkiller Base. Since Snoke dies in TLJ, there's little point to his character now. Instead, TFA could have used him as the target instead of Death Star III. This gives the characters the belief that they could be ending this thing once and for all, and could be a large motivator for Luke to return. Instead of Rey arriving on Ahch-To at the end of TFA, this becomes part of the second act. Rey and Han instead seek out Luke's help, and Luke returns with them, reuniting the entire OT cast. Luke, Han, and Leia confront Kylo while the new cast (Poe, Finn, and company) are focused on a space-based method of destroying Snoke's flagship. Luke and Leia witness Han's death, and make their escape as the rest of the crew brings down the flagship. Snoke is unable to save himself with the Force, and the Resistance wins a costly victory, with most of their fleet decimated in the all out assault. This leaves the core crew in a few X-Wings and the Millennium Falcon to set up for the next movie. Essentially you could easily end up in the same place from one movie. Instead, we got a setup, then a drastic shift away from everything that had been set up.

I watched The Last Jedi yesterday, and would like to share my thoughts here. As a preface, I would like to add that I had mixed feelings when I saw The Force Awakens, but hoped that it could lead to better things. Additionally, I had mixed feelings about Rogue One. Leading up to TLJ, I did not follow social media and carefully guarded myself against spoilers. I was quite excited for this installment. I was really hoping they wouldn't try to ride too much nostalgia trip from ESB. Opening crawl immediately pointed to an ESB type story initially, and then there was the evacuation and everything. Pretty standard ESB copy. So then we get up into space and have Poe trying to hail the Imperial ship. The connection joke fell absolutely flat. Tried to set up a light tone at a time that should have been tense and grim, felt very forced. So then Poe activates his super-engine or whatever and destroys all the anti-aircraft guns. THEN the Imperials decide to scramble fighters. Seemed like a stupid move, I would expect they should already have fighters providing top-cover for the entire operation. Next, we cue the bomber attack. I liked the ship design of the bombers, seemed like a beefier B-Wing. I did not like the melodramatic sequence where the pilot is trying to release the bombs with the absolutely ludicrous bomb-release-remote. Spent way too long on that sequence. Bombardier is dead, just crash the ship into the dreadnought. Same emotional impact (or lack thereof), same sacrifice. Spare the drama please. Also it was stupid that the bombs are apparently still under gravity's pull. Stick with the physics, thank you. Then, the expected hyperspace jump. Slightly unexpected was that the Imperials are able to follow. The next sequence of events is a mess of plot holes that is to stagger the imagination. The Resistance ships are apparently able to "outrun" the Imperial ones with their sublight engines. Well, what's to stop the Star Destroyers and Dreadnoughts from doing a micro hyperspace jump to just in front of the Resistance ships and subsequently blow them out of the sky? Additionally, with the bridge (or one of the bridges), and the cruiser's fighters destroyed, what's keeping the Imperial fighters from attacking the Rebel ships at will? The Imperials show many other places in the movie that they are not afraid to use excessive force to wipe out the Resistance. It seems to me they had several options to destroy what remained of the Resistance well before waiting for them to run out of fuel. I found myself disappointed at the complete idiocy of what was going on. Then, Kylo's TiE buddies take out the bridge (or one of the bridges, apparently there is another). At that moment, I'm thinking, "Leia is gone. I've made my peace with it, that's how she would want to go." But no! Instead we get to go Guardians of the Galaxy and Leia brings up this previously unknown Force skill and is able to bring herself back to the ship. I can't take this movie seriously at this point. They should have let her die at this point in the movie. She added next to nothing to the remainder of the film. Cue Vice-Admiral Holdo, who apparently just stumbled on set from the Hunger Games. As pointed out above, one would hope she could conjure up a uniform or something. But no, instead we have elegant dresses and pink tresses. Her dismissal of Poe is stupid at best, and borderline criminal negligence at worst. Instead of briefing the crew on the plan and preparing to execute it, the command leaves the entire crew in the dark with nothing to go on. This is without a doubt the biggest plot hole in the entire Star Wars saga. As a viewer, it seemed to me (without knowing at the time that there was in fact a plan), that she was going to blindly burn the rest of their fuel in a vain hope that an option would turn up in the next 6 hours. So naturally the events that follow Rose (C'mon, let's think of some original names please?) and Finn are completely unnecessary, and add little to the film. Their entire excision to Canto Bright seemed little more than a PETA commercial. I will have to admit that I did not have as much an issue with the Canto Bright casino as most did. In fact, outside of the unoriginal attire, my initial thought was that it was the most Star Wars-y thing I had seen in the movie so far. Which is to say how little the movie felt like Star Wars. The most ludicrous thing that happened during that whole arc was Rose's, "Now it's worth it!" after setting the animals free. As if their failure to aid the Rebellion and avenge her sister's death was now fine and dandy that a few animals got released back into the wild. The whole time I'm also thinking, Benecio del Toro was cast as a villain, right? I'm hoping this movie can conjure up some really amazing stuff to make it worth it, because right now I'm 80% sure it's the stupidest movie I have ever seen, and I watched Iron Sky. Back on Ach-To, Luke tosses his Father's lightsaber over his shoulder in a flat attempt at humor. So much for, "This weapon is your life". Unfortunately, after that little gesture, I knew I was going to be disappointed with whatever happened with Luke. Then we have Luke the milkman and Luke the fisherman, in an apparent gambit to explain how Luke survives on this island. And there are maids that take care of everything? What? Also Luke has turned into a whiny, pathetic loser. The Luke we see is nowhere close to the character of the Original Trilogy. Mark Hamill was right to object about what his character is doing. Luke doesn't run away and hide. Luke comes to the aid of his friends, no matter what. That's all I have the energy for right now. I will continue my review of the movie later.

It's no wonder Bastila was seduced by the dark side...

I think the middle one looks great.

Wow, looks great!

Yes, that should get it going. I'm not 100% sure on all the details because your system and graphics card is different than mine, but I hope that will restore those graphical features for you.

I had the same thing. Open up your NVidia control panel and make sure that the default graphics processor is set to the NVidia one and NOT the integrated one. I think you can also change this by right clicking on your game exe, and selecting "Run with graphics processor" and choosing the NVidia one. Should fix it.

Well you need Canderous to get you in with Davik, technically. Without that you have no real connection to a ship that is fast enough.

Mostly because when I play games I like to have fun. TSL is too much gloom and doom for me. I get that it's "deep" and whatever, but I find it to just be kind of hokey. You're welcome to message me if you want to discuss TSL further.

Already removed. TSL version may come or not. I don't like TSL at all, so I'm not very inclined to produce mods for it. Have any specific NPCs you'd like to see crossguards with? I may can do this, but it would likely have to be a drop-in choice where you get one or the other. It's too complicated to make a bunch of different hilts for customizable lightsabers.

I'm currently updating my Crossguard Lightsaber mod using the new KotORMax and MDLEdit, and I was curious if there were any more features that people wanted to see from Crossguard Lightsabers? As it stands currently with my new (but unreleased) updates, the mod works the same as before where you will find crossguard emitters on various worlds and upgrade your lightsabers with them. You can still upgrade the crossguard lightsabers too. So far, the only additional option I am adding is the ability to choose whether you want a jagged, fiery set of crossguard lighsabers or a regular, stable set utilizing the normal blade textures. This will be a drop-in options, meaning there will be two folders in the mod archive, and you pick which one to install. You can swap by dropping the other set of files in the override, but cannot change in the game. Are there any other features or anything people would like to see from this mod? Let me know, I can't promise anything but I will listen to requests.

Yes, it does indeed. I've already tried it.

What will be the functional difference between MDLOps and MDLEdit?

Amazing news! Now I can fix my crossguard lightsaber bug!

What's the screwiness between animations?