DarthErdan

Hello there. As you may know, I am new to how to download mods and all in KOTOR, as I have only ever played the vanilla games. However, I am considering making mods of my own to make about KOTOR, and I would like some recommendations for the best KOTOR script and/or mod editor(s) for the games. Anyone have any recommendations that I can do? (Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask).

Thanks.

Hi. Just to let you guys know that stopped playing KOTOR II years ago and I no longer own it. However, that is going to change as sometime soon I am going to get KOTOR II again on PC and when this happens, I am going to attempt doing or getting mods. Anyways, from what I'm getting here, is it true that you can't control the "fadeout" effect in a cutscene in KOTOR and that it happens at random? Given I am new here and to modding, I would like to know if there is any way I can "code" the game to always do the "fadeout" effect, as for me personally I like that visual effect. Btw, I notice in some YouTube commentary walkthroughs, the red energies that stem from Nihilus's body are less cloudy and smaller than the version I have played and other people have played. For example, this moment in this video shows the dark side smoke stemming from his body to not be as cloudy as the other gameplays compared to what is depicted to the other two videos I have posted in the first post of this thread. Another thing is Darth Nihilus collapses dead to the floor and it seems to be consistent as to what spot he falls down and lands on. However, in some videos, he falls down a different angle and different position than usual. For both of these scenarios, are they just the script changing again too? Or something else?

Why did the script change? How does the script "decide" fadeout or not? Or is it at random? Is there any way for the game code script to make it do fadeout?

If my question for the title is confusing, this is what I mean in clarification... In this moment in this video, we see Darth Nihilus combust into scarlet smoke-like energies. The thing is, the way he vanishes into the smoke looks super clean and transitions nicely. In contrast, this video shows the same thing, but Nihilus doesn't vanish the way he does in the previous link. In the second video, he just glitches out of existence after the dark side energies combust out of him without fading like in the previous video. My question is....are they different because of different graphics and/or resolution? Or is there something else going on? I have seen some gameplay videos for TSLRCM that had Nihilus fade away in neat quality as the energies leave his body, and I have also seen other gameplay videos for TSLRCM that had Nihilus not transitionally fade away, but just glitch out of existence. I know that this is a dumb question, but again, regardless if it is for TSLRCM or just vanilla game, is it different depending on the graphics and/or resolution you have for the game?

First of all, thank you for responding. I appreciate that. Second of all, I will clarify on some of the things I said to give you better context. No, that is not what I meant. What I meant to say is it has all of the content that was included in TSLRCM, but it won't be TSLRCM itself. I have to be honest, I don't know how mods work for KOTOR, how to install them and all of that. As you might know, I recently registered on Deadlystream. Before that, I have only ever played the vanilla KOTOR games but never involved with and downloaded any mods. Because of that, I am a real noob concerning how installing mods work and stuff like that. Thanks for the info. I just thought it would be nice to reskin Darth Sion to make him look more rotten as we near the climax. If there is any advice you will give me on this matter, please let me know. Let me start with Darth Traya/Kreia. The only real reason why I thought it would be cool to see Traya/Kreia flare up into dark side energies is mostly because of her appearance and powers. Yes, I know she hates the Force and is against it, but as she says in the game "I use it as I would wield a poison". So though she hates the Force, she still wields its tremoundous power for her own advantage for her goals. As we know of Traya/Kreia, other than having immense cunning, wisdom, and strategy, she also is pretty powerful in the Force too. She was powerful enought to overthrow Darth Sion when she returned to Malachor V, (I could be looking at the scene the wrong way though). She also can use the Force to levitate many purple lightsabers to attack the Exile. However, my main reason why I thought it would be cool for Traya/Kreia to go out this way other than all of the reasons I explained above is because of her appearance. As Darth Traya, her true form and appearance, she has really ashy grey-white skin that has no pigment anymore, and she seems to have black veins that can be loosely seen under her ash grey-white skin. She looks like she is paler than even Darth Sidious from the movies, as Darth Traya, especially before her betrayal by Nihilus and Sion, she seemed to have mastered the dark side of the Force a lot that it took a toll on her body. But what really sells me is the pitch black eyes that she has. Overall, she has the appearance of an ancient and pale black eyed female ghoul that has immersed so much in the dark side like a "poison" as she described. That was why I thought that way. Now, for Darth Sion. I see where you are getting at here of him being a "walking rotten corpse", but to be fair here is my opinion. We know that he was human and was struck down one time, but he refused to die. This left him in perpetual pain. From what I got from Darth Sion, he regenerates and rises back up again after he is killed, thought the price for his immortality is excrutiating pain. However, the dark side consumes him from the inside out, slowly rotting and decomposing his undead body. I would like to imagine that over time, the dark side begins to burn his body more and more, (hence why I suggested he looks more rotten in the climax of the game for this mod), and eventually, when he finally lets himself die, all of the dark side that he held back finally consumes his body. Basically, he "decomposes" into the dark side. His body gets eaten away by the very dark power and anger that he held and contained in his body for a long time. Plus, for someone as unnatural as Sion, I thought it would be cool if he had a special supernatural "death effect" like his partner Nihilus. But yeah, these are my opinions and why I suggested this mod. As for the mod thing, again, I didn't mean to say that this becomes and edition to TSLRCM, just that all of the content in TSLRCM is included in this mod. Again, I am a noob at how mods work, so I don't know things like how to merge a mod with another mod. For example, can you play more than one mod in the same gameplay? That is questions I have been wondering and any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hello. Erdan5 here. Today I would like to suggest a mod for KOTOR II: The Sith Lords. It is techinically just TSLRCM, but with new visual effects, one extra cutscene, and skin changes. Here are minor changes I would like to see in the mod. This one isn't mandatory, but I would really appreciate it if someone included the deleted cutscene of Darth Sion challenging and fighting Darth Nihilus in this mod. I don't mind what other content is needed that leads up to this scene, as long as it makes sense to set up this scene. In the current TSLRCM, after you kill Darth Nihilus in a bossfight, in the cutscene that follows afterwards he erupts and vanishes into scarlet dark side energies, like in the vanilla game. However, there is a difference in the TSLRCM, as that happens, a ball of lightning appears out of the scarlet energy storm to zap and attack Canderous Ordo, injuring him and allowing us to get a cutscene with Visas and Canderous talking together. It is a nice addition, however, I would propose a slight change to this cutscene. In the normal TSLRCM, the ball of lightning that jets out of the scarlet smoke usually vanishes and before the rest of the red smoke dissipates on screen, it immediatly cuts to the next frame of Canderous and Visas being zapped, as seen in this moment in this video. For this mod, I would like to request that after the ball of lightning comes out of the red energies and vanishes, the cutscene pans longer for the red energies to completely vanish as well, and only then it cuts to the next frame of Visas and Candeorus getting electroucted. I don't know why, I just would like it if the cutscene pans longer on the ball of lightning and the red energies to completely vanish into thin air onscreen before it goes to the next frame showing Canderous and Visas being attacked. I hope you know what I am trying to say on this. Another addition of this mod I would like to request is this mod of Nihilus's slaves dying after his demise. I know that we need permission from the creator of this mod, but if possible, if they are okay with it being included in this mod, I would appreciate it if this mod of the Nihilus Slave zombies die one by one after the death of their master. One more minor change to this mod, and that is Darth Sion. Basically, for this mod, I would like to propose this: Darth Sion has his normal vanilla game skin throghout the game, but starting from the cutscene of Kreia meeting Sion again back on Malachor V and force-choking him, he has this skin in which he is much more rotten and blackned flesh. This plays into his final boss fight you have with him in the game. These are all of the slight tweaks and minor changes in this mod that I would love to see come to fruition, but here is the MAJOR change that I would like to see in this mod... What I would like to see the most in this mod is after you kill Darth Sion and also Darth Traya in their respective boss battles, their bodies vanish into a flare of red dark side energies. Basically, they go out like Darth Nihilus in this mod. For example, after you finally put an end to Darth Sion and he collapses to the floor, he vanishes in a puff of red dark side energies like Darth Nihilus. Same for Darth Traya/Kreia. After your long talk with her on visions of the future and she falls down and dies, she also vanishes in a flare of red dark side energies, and then we got the cutscene of Malachor V being destroyed by the Mass Shadow Generator. So yeah, this is my mod suggestion. Whoever is willing to make this mod, you don't have to do the Sion and Nihilus cutscene fight or the Nihilus Slave zombies dying one by one, but the rest of the suggestions for this mod I would really like to see and come to fruition. I wish I could mod but I am not skilled and have zero context and skills at modding. Whoever is willing to make this mod, you can take as long as you want in developing it. I would greatly thank and appreciate whoever is willing to make this mod.

On Darth Nihilus's Wookieepedia page, and a section page for The Dark_side_of_the_Force Legends page, it shows this image above of Darth Nihilus evaporating into Dark Side Force energy. The file name for this image is "NihilusDissolvesOnTheRavager", uploaded on October 22, 2020 by a user named "Ruthless Xero". The file says it is a screenshot from the game of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. However, that doesn't make any sense. In the original vanilla game, and the Restoration Content mod, (which this screenshot seems to based off of give the lightning stemming from the red dark side energies), Nihilus is killed in a bossfight with you the player, and in a cutscene, he falls down dead to the floor. It is only then that Nihilus dissolves into dark side energy and he fades away with it. The Resotration Content mod is the same, Nihilus is lying dead and dissolves into dark side energy like in the game, but when he does a burst of purple lightning comes out and zaps Canderous Ordor and Visas Marr. Given the presence of the purple lightning in this screenshot, it seems like this is from the Restoration Content Mod. However, both the vanilla game and the Content mod both show Nihilus as lying lifeless on the floor for a bit before he disintegrates into dark side energy. As shown here... So what's with the Wookieepedia image of Nihilus standing up when sublimating into dark energies? Is this another mod variant, bug, or something else? I would like to know. Any experts here who know if this is a mod or bug? If it's a bug, how common is this bug? If it's a mod, I would dearly love to know the name of this mod and if it is related to the Restored Content Mod or not. If it's a mod, is the cutscene(s) different? I have tried looking it up and can't find a mod for this. Let me know if it is just a bug too, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. (P.S., I am new here, and I love Knights of the Old Republic, especially the second one.) EDIT: It seems like the lightning in the first image where Nihilus is standing up is more thinner and has more purple to it than the second image. What version of TSLRCM is this?