Dustil Restoration

[Fallen Guardian 27]

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Yes, the secret is finally out, even though some of you never knew there was a secret to begin with. This is the secret project I’ve told a few of you about, and a few of you know about due to your involvement with it. Essentially, this mod will restore Dustil to KotOR 2, though how much he does in-game will be dependent on which version you choose to install. Before I get into that, however, I’d like to give a brief background on the project just to give credit where credit is due.

Initial work began in 2011, with myself and Darth Snard as the only people working on it. It had been decided at the time that Darth Snard would provide the voice overs. Yet, over the course of a few months, we both agreed that he didn’t really fit the character and he decided to leave the project altogether to pursue his own ventures. Thus, I turned to the ever-reliable Zhaboka, who churned out an excellent performance, despite my constant rewrites.

Even with the addition of Zhaboka and the departure of Snard, not much work went into the project. I did a few things here and there, sent a script or two off to Zhaboka, but it wasn’t until August of 2012 that work began in earnest. And then after August, work dropped off considerably, hence why it is a year later that I am presenting this to you. I barely worked on it from September to November, did a bit in December and January and then again put it off from February to May. Finally, in June of this year, I decided to finish the project up. And over the course of the summer I’ve done just that.

My beta testers, thank you to Zhaboka, Sith Holocron and Paddy Garcia, are doing their final run-throughs, as am I, and each day brings the mod closer to a releasable state.

So back to the level of restoration. The mod is setup to have two different installation options; one option, the added content installation, will restore Dustil to the game with new content written by me to make his part more noteworthy, and last longer. The second option, the pure restoration installation, will restore Dustil as close to what was found in the game files as possible. No “new” content will be added with this option, aside from Dustil’s voice overs (none were ever recorded for him) and a few camera angles.

Anyway, long story short, this mod will restore Dustil and should be released, as the trailer says, in September of this year.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

I'm guessing that you sent me option 2.

[Fallen Guardian 27]

I'm guessing that you sent me option 2.

 

I sent you the same version as Zhaboka, which includes both the Added Content installation and the Pure Restoration installation.

[Vriff 21]

Looks awesome, although one thing it looks like those lips are moving waaayyy too fast compared to normal gameplay, looks like he's motorboating lol.

[Fallen Guardian 27]

Looks awesome, although one thing it looks like those lips are moving waaayyy too fast compared to normal gameplay, looks like he's motorboating lol.

 

Thanks. The fast lip movement is an unfortunate bug that can happen with the lip synch editor, but that method is way better than rooting through the games' .LIP files and trying to find one that matches well with every single line.

[Nsinger998 17]

Will this be compatible with m4-78ep?

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Taken from Fallen Guardian's statement over at the LucasForums's thread for the Dustil Restoration.

 

Yeah, it will be. There were actually a few files where I had to design the TSL Patcher under the assumption the player was using TSLRCM. It'll still be compatible with a non-TSLRCM game, of course. A few extra steps, that are described in the ReadMe, will need to be taken for non-TSLRCM games after the TSL Patcher is done, however.

[Hassat Hunter 571]

Well, the main reason this isn't in TSLRCM is, as mentioned, the lack of VO.

While Kaevee was totally new so new VO wasn't that strange, Dustil was already an established character of course.

 

But looking forward to what this will add

[Sergio19922 2]

Looking forward for this!

[Fallen Guardian 27]

And it's been released! Pending approval here on Deadly Stream but you can download it right now by heading over here.

 

Edit: It is now available on Deadly Stream as well.