JCarter426

Looks great so far! Plenty of space too. I was worried about being able to get to the placeables in the back, but it looks fine.

I think I can replace the camp one... shouldn't be too much of a problem. Either I'll edit the area model or, failing that, I can simply make the shuttle texture invisible and then add the placeable.

That is a bit tight, but it looks doable... and if necessary it could be scaled down. The game already cheats with the Ebon Hawk and shuttle sizes anyway. If you'd be interested in doing a new model, I could do the the videos. That might seem like more work but animation is more my thing.

The texture is also already in the second game... VFreightL01.tga.  Same one as the other freighters, just different UVW mapping.

You might be better off renaming your version and pointing it to the original version as the super model, rather than compiling with animations. Then have TSLPatcher change the model reference in appearance.2da.

I've been trying to avoid 2DAs for the minor fixes, for better compatibility. When there's an issue like that I send it over to Hassat Hunter... and this is already in TSLRCM, and elsewhere. I only included it in my minor fixes for the sake of completion. I'll take another look before the next version, since I was planning to redo the other Kreia models anyway with the new version of MDLOps, but if I can't fix it I'll just remove it.

I think if you check out the tech from the Onderonian Wars you could make a similar shuttle that would blend in with the postwar populace of Iziz.

 

Or...you could go an entirely different route and make it look like a typical freighter (dull colors, heavy plating) which I think was the design Obsidian was actually going for.

 

Mandalorian ships actually seem to either be light brown or brushed metal in terms of coloration, btw.

There's another complication, though... the Onderon hangar is really small, so I don't know of many other ships in the game that would even fit in it. I don't think any of the freighters do.

Edit: How about this, looks kind of cool - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lethisk-class_armed_freighter - although looking at the model and comparing it to a human male body it seems like it is still only a single-seater:

 

I'm not sure if the model is even in TSL anyway, so you could make a new one based on it with a larger cockpit perhaps.

 

Edit 2: Actually, looking at it again in more detail, it seems like you could actually comfortably fit 4-8 people in there, maybe just reworking the canopy to allow a bit more headroom:

 

Yeah, I was thinking about that one... but it's not in the second game to my knowledge, and I'm also a terrible modeler.

JC,

 

there is some major problem with Kreia in the morgue cutscene in Peragus. Kreia floats around, making for a rather ludicrous scene. Tested on a clean TSL install with only TSLRCM 1.4.

 

Please take a look at it.

Thanks!

Yeah, it's messed up. But it's not recommended that you install those if you have TSLRCM anyway, since it already fixes those. I'll see about fixing it for the next update, but for now you can just revert to TSLRCM's version. The bad files are P_KreiaStunt.mdl and P_KreiaStunt.mdx.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I'm not sure what's wrong with it, though. Animations look broken as soon as I import it into 3ds... it wasn't anything I did.

I mean the G-Wing, not the Telos shuttle. The one that evil Bastila has in the first game, and then the same design is used for Mandalore's shuttle during the trips to Onderon in the second.

If you want to composite new stuff over the top, that should be easy enough to manage with Max and AE. I haven't used AE since like version 7 or something, aeons ago, but match moving is it's whole bit pretty much, isn't it? And I'm sure that Max has plugins for it, even if it doesn't do it natively.

You can do it, yeah... but After Effects doesn't do real 3D, so there's no 3D tracking. Not sure about 3ds Max, but I'm on an ancient version there so it's doubtful. In the past, I would mess with the camera and render stills until the angle matched the source footage... and then repeat that for the angle at the end of the animation... and then adjust the timing to match too. It's a real pain but it usually works.

In this case it might not be too bad because the running guys don't have to match all that perfectly.

And regarding the Basilisk, actually there are two things I have been considering... these might be beyond the scope of my minor fixes, but I'd be interested to hear thoughts on them nonetheless.

1. To make it so you actually take the Basilisk back from Iziz. Instead of a repeat of the shuttle video from earlier.

2. To replace that shuttle entirely. This is partly inspired by the discussion regarding the shuttle's resolution, but that shuttle actually irritated me even before that. It doesn't fit two people in the first game, yet apparently it can fit the whole party in the sequel. And Mandalore says he's trying to avoid drawing attention to his little camp, while flying around Republic space in a Sith shuttle. There are also animation issues in those videos that I wouldn't mind getting rid of.

But I'm not sure what I would would use to replace the shuttle. A Mandalorian design would draw attention for the same reason, and I'm not a modeler so I'd have to contact someone for permission. There are other designs from the game that I could turn into placeable model, but I'm not sure which I'd use.

They do the same thing, more or less.

VP made his before the recent update to MDLOps, in which he and Fair Strides worked out how to preserve the model smoothing. I had been waiting years for that, so I made mine as soon as that was available; as such, there are no seams on the handmaidens' arms or legs or anywhere else, while there might be on VP's.

The second thing is VP's can be installed without TSLRCM. I did not do that because I am a lazy person.

It's just a matter of how much effort you want to devote to it. I never even noticed the multi-coloured limbs until I read it in this thread (or that door walking guy on Telos), so even a sloppy paint out would probably be more than sufficient for most people. Here's a super quick and dirty frame-by-frame clone stamp pass (including accidentally painting out the statue shadow in the first few frames):

 

 

 

Source vid - http://dpimages.wheb.org/Basilisk_Landing_Crowd_Paint_Out_Test.avi

 

 

 

If you spent more than 15 minutes to do it properly I doubt anyone would tell, especially if you composite a new crowd over the top. But it's your mod of course, just offering my 2¢.

That does look smoother than I would've expected. I don't have a proper 3D compositing program like Flame or Nuke, just After Effects and 3ds Max, so I'm still wary of trying to work out the perspectives during the pan down. I have done that sort of thing by hand before, and it can be a PAIN. But it might be doable.

Speaking of which, while on the subject of the Basilisk, I'd probably rather see effort devoted to replacing it with something that actually fits the description Canderous gives in K1, rather than whatever that thing in TSL is supposed to be, but that would be way more effort, requiring a complete replacement of that video.

Yeah, but the original Basilisk design was silly. It's a giant ball they ride on top of, when it's clearly big enough to have them ride inside it and not get shot.

I don't think removing them is an option... the motion of the camera would be an issue, and there's also dust around the Basilisk as it lands to complicate matters. So I've been debating whether to rotoscope and recolor or to composite some new figures on top. Rotoscoping by far would be easier, but I'm worried they'll end up looking like grey blobs, since the bones would of course lack the texture detail that the geometry has.

You mean the lens flare that just suddenly stops in the Harbinger arrival cutscene?

I'm aware of that one, and I'm still considering how to fix that too, but actually I was thinking of OndMov07. The people running away at the end are all pink and yellow from what I believe to be bones that were not hidden during the render.

And what's the change in 804DRO?

Just some stuff in the background that would disappear depending on what room you're in. The tops of buildings from other rooms, if I recall correctly. I set them to be visible from those rooms too.

Luxa is just a repurposed player head from K1:

Looks like Obsidian forgot to re-texture a few sub-meshes, so they still use the original PFHA01 texture. I'm actually surprised that sort of thing slipped through testing, as VRAM would have been at an absolute premium on the original Xbox, what with its paltry 64MB pool of shared memory.

Yeah, I know, but... I mean... when you're replacing... yeah, I got nothing.

Well, the contents are listed in the changelog too. The point of that section the readme is so people know which files effect which changes.

Here's everything in v1.2, though:

TSLPatcher will allow multiple installations with the same .exe. Of course, patching with it can be a pain sometimes (I really wouldn't bother with .dlg's), people would need to run the installer multiple times to install (manual would be easier) etc.

So yeah, it might not be worth it.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking. I'll keep thinking, though. Maybe I'll group everything into a few packages. Like all the straight fixes (missing shaders, alpha channel corections, higher resolution textures, etc) on one installer, and then stuff prone to compatibility issues on other installers. I'll keep thinking about it.

The main issue is it's more convenient for me to throw everything in one package rather than churn out a dozen different mods. So if I then have to split that into a dozen different installers, that's... less convenient. Especially if a lot of you are going to do a manual install anyway.

Oh wow! TelMov03.bik is a glaring issue when comparing the vanilla movie to the one in this mod.

 

In vanilla, the Duros literally does walk in place once through the door.

 

Your eye for detail is astonishing!

Thanks. I've been working on stuff with this game for years, so catching this stuff is kind of inevitable.

Also, there are other issues in the Bink videos I've noticed... but I'm still working out how to address them. One is particularly glaring and I'm not sure how to handle it yet. Anyway, there will probably be more of those in the future.

I don't see a list of the changes. Am I missing it?

It's the fourth section of the v1.2 readme (4. Contents). There's a brief description for all the changes, and then the files included in them.

Minor update. Just a couple things I should've done in the the last version that I forgot about. Next version will be more substantial, but it won't be for a while, so I didn't want to just sit on this stuff that's already done. For those of you that have v1.1, the only NEW file in this version is TELMov03.bik, in the new Movies folder.

The bigger thing is the readme. Yes, the readme of all things. I added a list of all the changes and the associated files, so that should make it easier to install what you want to install and only what you want to install.

Always liked this collection.

Same here, or I wouldn't have used some of it's fixes for TSLRCM, the ones I could pass on as being part of it's purpose anyway XD

Thanks, guys. I know you both have been longtime followers of this... it's good to hear these are fixes other people want too,, so I know I'm not just crazy.

I want to use this mod because I really enjoy some of your changes but because it's a manual install, it overwrites certain files. Will you be updating this to use a TSLPatcher, a much cleaner way of installing mods?

I haven't done it yet because I figure what parts of the mod people want to install will vary by what other mods they have and their individual tastes and so on, but it's something I will consider. I hope the update in the readme as mentioned above make things easier in the meantime.

I'd like to hear further thoughts on this, though. It wouldn't be difficult to write an installer that doesn't overwrite specific files if they're already present, but that also means if I ever updated those files, the installer would ignore them. So perhaps I would need multiple installers or some similar scheme.

I'm somewhat familiar with your work and know that you're pretty talented. The scenes you worked on for Kaydon Sentry's movie turned out very well. You added a lot of depth to the scenes.

 

I'm wondering if you could perhaps, one day, restore cut content for K1 or K2 and do your magic on those scenes

There is some restoration work I'm looking at, but nothing quite on that scale... at least not yet.

I recall reading somewhere OE used a low-res version of the shuttle, so taking the higher-res from the A package from KOTOR1 and adding it would upraise it, and that was the fix.

Long ago and fuzzy memory though... might have been about something else.

Both versions are 512x512, as far as I can tell - compare that to the Basilisk's 1024x1024. There still could be a higher resolution texture somewhere in the game files, though, so I'll keep looking.

Perhaps a command for each character to do their signature move? For example, Mira fools around with her wrist launcher. Don't all the party members have something like that?

I think Mira's rocket launcher is not in there, though. Because it's a combat animation and I've only started going through those. So I could take a look.

I have a "fixed" version of that particular texture, if you were interested. I never had any companion mods to release with it though, so it's currently only on my Hard Drive.

Sure, I'd like to hear suggestions for fixes too. Unfortunately in this case, I believe that's the best quality texture available in the game files. The reason the resolution is so comparatively low is because it's a reused asset from the first game.

Hello, everyone. This thread will contain my random fiddling, just like my WIP thread on LucasForums. But first I have some business to discuss with you.

I'm currently in the process of uploading my mods, many of which were lost with Filefront, to Deadly Stream. Now, some of you may be familiar with my Toolbox, an assortment of in-game developer tools and cheat items for K2. I'll repeat the trailer video here for those of you that aren't:

Rather than upload the old version of the Toolbox, however, I've decided to update it and release the new version (1.3). In addition, I will be finalizing the K1 version, which has been stuck in beta for years because of bugs and my unwillingness to fix them. I have a compelling reason to fix them in the coming months, as well as add new features to both versions, and it's the latter matter which brings me here. I'm looking for ideas for new features to add to Toolbox. There are a number of functions I'm already adding, but there are bound to be many that would never cross my mind, as there have in the past. And many of these past requests led to features that I myself find very handy - scripts that I streamlined to become more user friendly and versatile, which otherwise I would have coded from scratch every time, the hard and time consuming way. I have a habit of scripting the quick and easy path.

So, if there are any functions you want, or if you have any ideas for new tools, or maybe if you know a way to make something already in the Toolbox easier to use, apply below. Also, if there are any of my mods that were lost and still aren't online anywhere, just let me know and I can upload them.

That's all for now.

I was afraid of that. The grenade script is set up similarly... it doesn't use cases but it does have an if tree for all the grenade types to run. I'll have to think about which way I prefer but I think I can still manage it all in the same code. Not as efficient as it would be if I were allowed to define my own actions but ah well. Thanks.

Nah, doesn't work. If I remove the parenthesis from the declaration but keep them in the body, it says it can't invoke that as a function - because it's not recognizing it from the declaration, I would assume.

That was one of the things I forgot I had tried... when I do it like that, I get a type mismatch for the AssignCommand. And that really shouldn't be the case, because I can use a subroutine with AssignCommand just fine otherwise.

Also, I'm not sure if removing the parenthesis would later allow me to run that subroutine with its own variables... I think it should, but obviously I can't test it until it actually runs at all.

This is kind of a stupid question. I was working on a script earlier and I was saying you can do this with loops instead of 600 lines of code, and then... well, now I'm wondering if you can. Of course there must be a way to do it, I thought... but every attempt so far to compile resulted in errors.

I'm trying to write a subroutine that will fire another subroutine repeatedly for any duration of time, and with any interval between each firing. For example, 5 seconds of blaster shot, with a quarter second between each actual shot. The code for the blaster shot goes in one subroutine, and all the looping code goes in another subroutine, and I want that to be able to fire the first subroutine as well as any number of others, and then finally I have the main body.

This is essentially the code that I want:
 

void JC_SUB_1() {

//Subroutine contents

}



void JC_SUB_2() {

//Another subroutine, why not

}



void JC_SUB_TRIGGER(void JC_SUB_HERE(), object oObject, float fDuration, float fInterval) {

int nDuration = FloatToInt(fDuration / fInterval);

int i;

for( i = 0; i < nDuration; i++ ) DelayCommand(IntToFloat(i) * fInterval, AssignCommand(oObject, JC_SUB_HERE() ));

}



void main() {

//Our first subroutine, with a duration of 5 seconds and an interval of one quarter of a second...

JC_SUB_TRIGGER(JC_SUB_1(), OBJECT_SELF, 5.0, 0.25);

//And later in the script, let's have the second subroutine, with a duration of 2 seconds and an interval of one tenth of a second...

DelayCommand(30.0, JC_SUB_TRIGGER(JC_SUB_1(), OBJECT_SELF, 2.0, 0.1));

}

And the problem is right here:

void JC_SUB_TRIGGER(void JC_SUB_HERE(), object oObject, float fDuration, float fInterval) {

I can't get it to accept a subroutine as one of a subroutine's variables... or to be more specific, I can't get it to accept any data type for that variable. It won't take a void. it won't take an action because only nwscript.nss can use action. I looked up data types on the NWN Lexicon and tried command, but apparently KOTOR doesn't support that type, as the compiler wouldn't recognize it. And it wouldn't take a few other things I tried and forgot what they were.

Now, I could get around this by removing the subroutine as a variable and defining it in the body, but that would mean duplicating all the trigger code for each different subroutine I want triggered. I could use ExecuteScript, but I'd rather keep everything in one script. So I know other ways to do it, but I want to do it my way.

I thought of course there must be a way to do it... but I've tried everything I can think of. But most of my scripting knowledge comes from modifying video games, so maybe I missed something.

File Name: JC's Saber Workshop

File Submitter: JCarter426

File Submitted: 06 Feb 2016

File Category: Mods

This mod adds a workshop to the Ebon Hawk's garage, with which you can construct or deconstruct lightsabers and lightsaber components.

One of the things Obsidian did differently was the way you make your first lightsaber. In the first game, you build it at the Jedi Enclave, so they have all the parts there. In K2, the Jedi are all gone, so you're given a scavenger hunt. You have to find three components, bring them to your buddy Bao-Dur, and then you get to make your lightsaber. With that in mind, I have designed the workshop to deconstruct lightsabers, giving you a color crystal and those three parts. Double-bladed lightsabers contain an extra focusing lens and emitter. With all these parts in hand, you can use the workshop to create lightsabers, as well. Furthermore, you can use the workshop to create or breakdown the individual components (provided you have the schematics for them - i.e. you've gotten them through the Crafting a Lightsaber quest - and the right skill points). So that means you can create as many lightsabers as there are color crystals; those crystals won't be burning a hole in your pocket.

In short, you have more control over your lightsabers; you can create sabers out of crystals and components, and you can change lightsaber type at will.

Oh, and you do not need to start a new game or anything of that sort. The
workshop will appear on the Ebon Hawk when you enter.

Click here to download this file

File Name: JC's Minor Fixes for K2

File Submitter: JCarter426

File Submitted: 06 Feb 2016

File Category: Mods

TSLRCM Compatible: Yes

This is a collection of various things that I found annoying enough to alter. It started with that crazy window on Nar Shaddaa, by the landing pad, that would mysteriously render anything that was behind it invisible. It turned out to be as simple as a missing TXI. But it was at this point that I decided to start collecting little things like that into a single mod, to be released to the general public when it became more substantial.

Due to the nature of this mod, I haven't bothered to make a proper installer with the TSL Patcher. Just install whatever you want to install. Don't install what you don't want to install.

Some of these fixes are included in TSLRCM, while others are not. Either way, it's compatible. Other mods may not be compatible; contact me if you have any questions.

Contents as of v1.2:

Click here to download this file

That's the standard PFBAM mdl, but heavily modified to match Mira's BB model almost perfectly (like the pronounced clavicles). My previous underwear mod was good, this one will be better.

 

That's good to know. I'll keep it in mind as a last resort, since it would mean a whole bunch of extra work to re-weight the shirtless male & Mira undies models. If MDLops is tweaked to work the smooth groups better, then they would be ready now (I still have to re-do her dancer model before releasing it).

I figured it had to be that, but I couldn't figure out how you had gotten it to be so accurate. You're scary sometimes.

And I'm seconding the request for the smoothing groups. I've been fiddling around with it some more and while everything does seem to be doable, the way many the models are set up would require a lot of editing just to retain the smoothing as is. A lot of them have the forearms on a separate mesh, and in my experience editing the arms is one of the trickiest parts. Simply running it through MDLOps loses the smoothing because of that. In contrast, a lot of them have the feet on the torso mesh and splitting them is required to keep everything as is.

Great video. You had some fantastic ideas for Malachor. I get why you gave up though... getting just that much fully executed in the game must've taken ages.

Looking forward to seeing more.