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[WIP] Expanded Atton Romance mod

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I'm still working on learning the scripting side of things to put everything together, but I finally was able to get my test dialogue, lip files, and edited audio working and wanted to share a snippet! This mod will be fully voiced using less-common and cut original dialogue clipped together to form new conversations, and creates a complete romance arc for Atton and the Exile in the style of the K1 romances.

(other mods I use that are visible here:  Atton with scruff https://deadlystream.com/files/file/528-atton-rand-with-scruff/TOR ports, Kira Carsen https://deadlystream.com/files/file/1301-tor-ports-kira-carsen-female-player-head-for-tsl/ High Quality Skyboxes 2 https://deadlystream.com/files/file/723-high-quality-skyboxes-ii/ - I need to make some new saves without my usual mod build for when I do real testing and making the actual dialogue files, this was just a test. I play on iPad, so that's the reason for the different UI)


Content:
I have finished writing the dialogue and editing the audio for seven new main conversations that run from Telos to a final scene just before heading to the Ravager, as well as four shorter repeatable flirting options, two conditional conversations (one if you trigger Atton and Mira's jealousy conversation over Disciple meditation with the Exile, plus one short bit if you have Atton in your party during the Handmaiden Battle Circle), plus a few extended options to flirt back/continue with several comments Atton makes to the Exile in the base game. Currently I am planning to use fade-to-blacks for kiss scenes to match K1 (and also because I have no idea how to animate that in the locations the scenes will be in).


Compatibility:
This mod will only require the TSLRCM, but I will be using HoloPatcher for installation and hope to make it broadly compatible if possible. Any advice on best practices to achieve this is very much appreciated! I will be testing it with PartySwap at minimum but would like to make it compatible with the full mod build if that is possible.
I am leaving out gender checks for all of the new dialogue and am hoping to make this compatible with Leilukin's Atton and Make Exile mod so everyone wanting to romance Atton will be able to regardless of PC gender.
I usually play on an iPad so this mod will work fully on iOS.

Current progress:
With the dialog and audio done and the lip making process set, most of what I have left is figuring out scripting and conditionals enough to put it all together.  I need to find out:

  • how to make some dialogues repeatable and others only play once.
  • how exactly fade in and out of black works regarding the pacing and speed options (I got the initial fade out to work here, but I had to cut the scene off there as the fade back in is not the way I want it to be).
  • how to set it so certain conversations unlock only after finding each Jedi master (copying the K1 romance format pacing).
  • how to make conversation B available only after conversation A has run (repeated kiss/flirting options should only appear after the first kiss scene happens).
  • how/if you can have repeatable conversations available only when: a. on board the ship, b. you and Atton are the only two people in a party (again, for the repeatable kiss/flirting options).

If anyone has advice/tutorials for any of those it would be greatly appreciated!

As mentioned above under compatibility, I would also welcome advice on how best to set everything up to be less likely to cause issues with other mods. I'm editing Atton's global dialog file which I know may cause problems with anything else that modifies it, but will be making small changes to several other dialog files too throughout the game. I know I will need to figure out Holo Patcher (thank you ZobiZob for making that video guide to get me started!), but anything I should keep in mind regarding file location/names/formatting/anything else would be wonderful!

Credit:
Huge thank you to JC, as the SithCodec was absolutely essential for me to be able to do any of this, along with creating multiple things to help with making lip files that saved me a ton of time and effort, plus repeatedly answering my questions in the Discord server when I hit problems I couldn't troubleshoot on my own. 2 months ago I was still not understanding how mods even worked as I am not remotely a computer person, and this is my first attempt at any sort of game modding, but the countless tutorials folks have posted and the supportive community here have been amazing and incredibly helpful!


If anyone is interested in beta-testing when I get the scripting and installation figured out, or if you have any other thoughts/suggestions/advice, please let me know.

Thanks!
 

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