New playable character in TSL: Matilda from Brotherhood of Shadows?

[astrid_cash12]

I was thinking maybe someone out there who mods can make a playable Matilda (The twi'lek in Brotherhood of Shadows) for kotor or tsl, not as a companion, as the main character like you can pick her head from character creations. I know there are other twi'lek mods out there but this is something new.

[high5]

Looks like you'll need permission from the BoS author to use his skins/character design, get that and the rest can be done easy enough. Silveredge9 no longer mods the game however, so getting in touch could prove difficult.

[Kexikus]

He was still more or less active on lucasforums (I got permission to use some BoS files about a year ago by sending him a PM over there). But since lucasforums is currently down getting in contact with him might be difficult. Maybe Fair Strides has another way of contacting him, so ask him?

[Fair Strides]

I believe I might have his email address around somewhere, but if not, I think I recall his real name and can track down his personal website again. I imagine he will give me permission to make this mod, and it should probably be a quick mod. I forget if Matilda had custom models, but if it's just skins, it's much easier to work with for KotOR 2.

 

That being said, I'd have to do something about her underwear for a K2 version, since I'm 90% sure she uses either Bastila's underwear model or a modified version of it, which simply does not exist in K2's files to use as a source material.

[redrob41]

Even if you can't get a hold of Silveredge9, you could always make a K1 mod that just included the TSLpatcher setup to add all the necessary lines to the heads.2da, appearance.2da, portraits.2da but make it a requirement to download BoS and manually copy the 5 or 6 texture files to the override directory.

 

As for a K2 version, it shouldn't be too hard to make a simple underwear texture recolour (by simple, I mean not getting overly detailed with re-creating the whole clothes, just recolour the skin to blue). You could probably even use the Twin Suns clothes as a base.

[N-DReW25]

You could probably even use the Twin Suns clothes as a base.

Can that be optional, because I don't really like using the twin suns clothes as the default clothing.

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

For KOTOR1 it might also be a good idea to change the default clothing model, as right now it's Bastila's prisoner outfit, which looks kinda weird on a Twi'lek. Just changing it to the "Shadow's Garments" model would work.

[astrid_cash12]

I believe I might have his email address around somewhere, but if not, I think I recall his real name and can track down his personal website again. I imagine he will give me permission to make this mod, and it should probably be a quick mod. I forget if Matilda had custom models, but if it's just skins, it's much easier to work with for KotOR 2.

 

That being said, I'd have to do something about her underwear for a K2 version, since I'm 90% sure she uses either Bastila's underwear model or a modified version of it, which simply does not exist in K2's files to use as a source material.

You could use Handmaiden's underwear for K2 version or you could make something new and never before seen 

[smady3]

The brotherhood of Shadows mod is uploaded to the Nexus Site. There appears to be some info about the author in a pic thats been uploaded

[N-DReW25]

but if it's just skins, it's much easier to work with for KotOR 2

Noob question here but wouldn't that be porting.

[Fair Strides]

Noob question here but wouldn't that be porting.

If it's just skins with no custom models, I can either see if the same files Silveredge used as a base are in K2's files (allowing me to use the ones right from BoS:SR with no porting concerns) or use files from K2 as a base to make something approximate.

[N-DReW25]

If it's just skins with no custom models, I can either see if the same files Silveredge used as a base are in K2's files (allowing me to use the ones right from BoS:SR with no porting concerns) or use files from K2 as a base to make something approximate.

So Porting Models and Modules are strictly forbidden but skins aren't IF the model it skins are in the opposite game so does that mean porting a party member icon or armor skin from TSL into K1 is perfectly okay.

[Fair Strides]

So Porting Models and Modules are strictly forbidden but skins aren't IF the model it skins are in the opposite game so does that mean porting a party member icon or armor skin from TSL into K1 is perfectly okay.

Not quite.

 

You had it right up until the IF part. I'm going to quote something from this pinned thread:

 

"Porting K1 to TSL

and TSL to K1

 

is not allowed unless the asset is present in both games files."

 

So when I said "same files Silveredge used as a base are in K2's files (allowing me to use the ones right from BoS:SR with no porting concerns)" I was saying the following:

 

"If Silveredge made custom textures I can just grab those. If he based textures off of vanilla textures, I'll need to see if those vanilla textures are in K2's files. If they are, then i can grab the textures from BoS:SR and not worry about porting issues. BUT if the textures are based off of files that aren't in K2, I'll need to get creative and/or work up an alternative to avoid porting."

[Fair Strides]

As an update now that I've had time to check things out:

 

Still haven't contacted Silveredge yet.

 

A K1 version of Playable Matilda/Shadow is possible.

 

A K2 version is possible IF the basic clothing and the underwear models and skins were changed. In BoS:SR, both use Bastila's underwear model, which does not exist in model or texture form in K2 at all.

[Sith Holocron]

A K2 version is possible IF the basic clothing and the underwear models and skins were changed. In BoS:SR, both use Bastila's underwear model, which does not exist in model or texture form in K2 at all.

I'd hope she'd pick up some new clothing after all those years.  Seeing as she wore a few different outfits in BOS, I can't see how a new outfit would be a deal breaker.

[Silveredge9]

Hello all, thanks to Fair Strides for pointing me here. Anyhow I'm pretty happy for anybody to do anything with any of my mods or files. No further need to ask for permission with anything from now on.

[Fair Strides]

Hello all, thanks to Fair Strides for pointing me here. Anyhow I'm pretty happy for anybody to do anything with any of my mods or files. No further need to ask for permission with anything from now on.

Thanks for the approval and the blanket permission statement.

 

Astrid and I were talking in the chat earlier and working up some ideas for how to do the K2 version, so I know what I'm working on for part of this weekend.

[axanik]

http://www.playground.ru/files/star_wars_knights_of_the_old_republic_2_the_sith_lords_twilek_exile_as_matilda-146091/ from russian site :