Quanon

Found a bit of time today to start on Jolees clothing. Just applied textures like leather, cloth for his pants and his undershirt. No details just yet. It's a fun skin to do, easy to work on. It's all very clear what is what on the model.

Thanks RedRob; I just didn't know what was going on Shame though they split up the UVmap on his upper lip. I tried to get it to look like his bottom lip, but it just doesn't work really well. The UVs are scaled differently so it creates very obvious seams. So, it remains a dark upper lip, "painted" on permanent shadow for grandpa Jolee. Did a test run in the game, it looks OK so far.

Hahaha, I might be Jolee will need some 3d work on his head model. The back of his upperlip, on the inside of his mouth, drops down. It obscures his teeth, it's really odd looking when trying to take screenshots. This must be one of the worst model faults I've seen. The other party members have some faults on their head model, but it's all less obvious. You really need to focus to spot it. But with Jolee it's just visible whenever you go in close-up shots. I'll have to do some learning, it's been a very long while since I dabbled with head models and fixing UVs. I might finish the skin first? Not sure what to do first. As I fear this model fix thing might take some time...

No worries SuperSzym, you aren't hurting my feelings or anything. I'm glad you enjoy my work and the edits Cache71 has done on them. I've been in contact with her via PM now and then, sharing previews on our work on various skins. I've been learning things and she has improved her skills, just by sharing, which by my book is really what I enjoy the most in this community. It's great when you can encourage each other to improve. I do this modding because I really just get a lot of pleasure out of it, by creating things. Releasing it for public, getting some little fame, is the cherry on top Yeah, I hope I can get that more smoothed out and less visible. It'll require some extra tweaking and testing. I expect this to take most of the time. Anwsers: 1) I don't have the files anymore from those old skins, so I would need recreate it all from scratch. I really don't feel I can improve on it by just doing a bigger size. 2) Yes, I have. I believe Calo is one I would like to do first. As I just don't like his look in the game. 3) Not at this time. I would like to do Sion first. He's one of my favourite characters in the game

With T3-M4 out of my way, I now started work on the oldest party member. Everwise and cranky, senile Jolee Bindo. Most of the work has gone into adding the wrinkles and beard. As always, this is a first look at the start of things. I'm sure you all know how much can change in an update So don't worry to much about color to much yet. I'm in the progress of adding in the details for the skin. But here's a look how things look. I replaced Zaalbar with Jolees model. Redrob is correct though. Jolee's head model has a few odd flaws. There's something odd about the upper lip; it just looks wrong. There's also some HARD cuts on the forehead, so things don't blend nicely going from his face/ forehead to his scalp/ top of the head.

File Name: Quanons T3M4 Reskin File Submitter: Quanon File Submitted: 26 Jan 2017 File Category: Skins K1R Compatible: Yes Another update to a party member, this time the little astro-droid T3M4. Like all my other releases, the texture has a larger size, added details, more crispy looking good stuff! And it stays faithfull to his Bioware look. So, yes, baby blue paint job still Really easy to install: copy all the files to your override! And done! Just check out the renders and screenshots to know if it is to your liking. Enjoy! Click here to download this file

I won't, trust me. My modding folders are full of stuff that needs to be finished

I believe I passed them to that TSL mod, where you can craft your lightsabers; giving unique models on what you put together. Did that ever get released fully?

Yeah, I did release a whole host of 3D files. Including area model files. I've been thinking on doing a new release. But I want most of those areas "ready" to use. A bit more mod friendly and useable from the go. Just proper renaming and also releasing ASCII format files, so anyone can import it into his 3D software. Not sure on the lightsabers? I think most of lightsabers got included in other mods. There's one from Marius Fett (DarthDingDong) who did a package with a few of his own saber hilts and mine included. Google might get that out for you ^^

Yeah, it's funny that things look very different from program to program. I kept the contrast lower, because when I was working in Photoshop it looked okay. And I was afraid of overdoing it. But in 3Ds Max it's all less visible. I've taken the comments and tweaked it all further; given a nice boost to the contrast, also altered the blue. Did a quick early in-game test.

Did some more work on T3. Still need to tweak his blue color a bit better. In the game he has this baby blue thing going on, mine is more azure. Just added in more piping/ techy detail stuff on some of his panels. It's more visible on his side and back. No in-game shots just yet. I deleted all my old save games and did a clean up of my override folder.

Sounds cool! I didn't know that was possible. @others: No worries, you know how this turns out with my early previews

T3 does! I must say the droids are more fun than I thought. T3 is going smoothly. Spend about +-3 hours today on it and I like the result so far. I tried out a few different things and I might go back to HK to see if it would work on him as well. It's mainly on the small techy looking details on the droids. HK doesn't have to much exposed but it might be interesting to do a better job on it. So here's an early preview on T3:

File Name: Quanons HK-47 Reskin File Submitter: Quanon File Submitted: 18 Jan 2017 File Category: Skins K1R Compatible: Yes This mod replaces all HK-47s textures. Just like my other party member reskins; the size has been increased to 2048x2048. Which allowed me to put in some extra details and give a decent update to the skin. There's now a more visible metal texture but otherwise; nothing major has been altered to HKs skin. I did tweak the contrast and colors but its still the same rusty killer droid. Look at the comparison picture to get a better idea INSTALL: Unpack and copy the 3 files P_HK47_01.tga and TXI, plus PO_Phk47 to your override. That simple! Click here to download this file

Okay; today I kept working on the barstool. There where some issues with flipped faces on the mesh. It took time to get most of them fixed and after testing I still spotted 2 new spots where this happens. The baseball bat and golf club also have a few minor UVmap issues I need to address before release. Still, it's going nicely! I opted for a wooden barstool. It just feels more right to my Belgian mind Tomorrow I've got my day off from work, I'm aiming to do some more modding then. Though I might go back to HK and T3 first. I believe these have a more higher urgency.

I never tried this; but I think it should be possible. Though, this would only replace the boxes you can open to take items out. Some of the boxes you see around the game are part of the area model. So those would stay the same.

What would you want to do with the box? Would be a piece to be placed in the Ebon Hawk or some area; like a piece of the decor? Or you want to bash sandpeople with it Eitherway, I could create a crate like that. The barstool test run: the whole fight scene was rather hilarious, as at first I didn't notice everybody was in his underwear.

Love the fish idea! That one is in. I've got a sledge hammer in the pack, but I like your chef idea the most. Caps and chef hats, I hadn't thought on doing crazy headgear. Tophat and monocle for the moustache twirling sith lords! But I guess it fits with the pack. I might split this up in to 2 packs, just so I get things done for once I haven't looked at Jolee just yet, I want HK and T3 done first before starting on Jolee. But of course if you can fix up his UVmaps, then please! Since I was doing these items, I found out UVmapping is just my bane, I love doing 3D, but UVmaps are just dull! x-D I got the golf club done, did have a crash in 3ds Max when working on the UVmap, no idea why... But I had enough saves so I didn't lose any important work at that moment. Today I got it in the game and had a little discussion with the sand people on Tatooine, it didn't turn out well... It's a shame though the game does have rendering faults on my system, a lot of the seams on the models is visible at time; be it the heads of NPCs and party members and weapons.