[KOTOR] ANH Luke's Lightsaber Mod

miro42 · 07-29-2009, 06:29 PM

I'm pretty bored with the standard lightsabers in KOTOR so I decided to make the good old standby. In this mod all blue lightsabers are replaced by Luke's from A New Hope. I'm sure this has been done before, but I figured I'd try my hand at it. My horrible texture abilities aside I think this model came out quite well. I hope you all like it.

Screeny
Download from my website

OOPS: Okay, I just realized that there's only one texture for for all lightsabers. So beware that if you throw this into your override the other colored lightsabers won't look right.

Darth Payne · 07-29-2009, 06:42 PM

This hilt looks very nice.

Rtas Vadum · 07-29-2009, 06:45 PM

I might be wrong but it looks to me like both the model and texture is on par with the Luke ANH saber Oldflash did for the K1 Cyan saber.

miro42 · 07-29-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth Payne

This hilt looks very nice.

Hey thanks!

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Originally Posted by Rtas Vadum

I might be wrong but it looks to me like both the model and texture is on par with the Luke ANH saber Oldflash did for the K1 Cyan saber.

Is that a good thing?
Or if you're suggesting I ripped it off, I built them both from the ground up. Really, I guess if we used the same reference material there shouldn't be too much of a difference anyway.

-S- · 07-29-2009, 06:58 PM

That is not a rip-off of Oldflash's hilt. Oldflash's has completely different emitter.

Rtas Vadum · 07-29-2009, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by miro42

Is that a good thing?
Or if you're suggesting I ripped it off, I built them both from the ground up. Really, I guess if we used the same reference material there shouldn't be too much of a difference anyway.

A very good thing. I mean that you modeled and textured the saber just as well as Oldflash did when he(Hopefully I'm not wrong about that, if so, sorry) made his.

purifier · 07-30-2009, 01:10 AM

Wow, the details on it are really good. I'd say you came pretty close to it looking like Luke's lightsaber.

It's a winner!

Trench · 07-30-2009, 01:12 AM

Nice! I will be using this one soon!

miro42 · 07-30-2009, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rtas Vadum

A very good thing. I mean that you modeled and textured the saber just as well as Oldflash did when he(Hopefully I'm not wrong about that, if so, sorry) made his.

Cool. I like you then!

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Originally Posted by purifier

Wow, the details on it are really good. I'd say you came pretty close to it looking like Luke's lightsaber.

It's a winner!

Aww, you're making me blush

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Originally Posted by Te Mirdala Mand'alor

Nice! I will be using this one soon!

Yay! I hope you enjoy it!

Demongo · 07-30-2009, 02:35 AM

Nice job! I like mods that bring the saga into Kotor

miro42 · 07-30-2009, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DarthDac

Nice job! I like mods that bring the saga into Kotor

Thanks. I almost prefer the original saga, if for no other reason than nostalgia. I'd have a Princess Leia head out if I could crack this silly hex editing.

DarthParametric · 08-01-2009, 10:53 AM

Very nice miro42. In particular an excellent texture, although sadly you really can't fully appreciate good saber textures in KOTOR.

There are a couple of technical inaccuracies. I'm not sure how concerned you are with those. I gather that some at least are due to modelling constraints, however there is also some minor missing detail from the texture. I don't want to be nitpicky though so I won't harp on about that. I do tend to be a bit anal about those sorts of things.

One comment I would pass on though is that, opening your model in GMax, there seems to be a UV error. It's something that commonly happens during the conversion to a binary model. Here's a pic:

Did you detach all your faces? I know this sort of thing was the bane of my early saber-making experience.

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Originally Posted by -DK-

That is not a rip-off of Oldflash's hilt. Oldflash's has completely different emitter.

Oldflash's hilt is Anakin's ROTS hilt which was an idealised amalgam of Luke's ANH and ESB hilts.

miro42 · 08-01-2009, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DarthParametric

Very nice miro42. In particular an excellent texture, although sadly you really can't fully appreciate good saber textures in KOTOR.

There are a couple of technical inaccuracies. I'm not sure how concerned you are with those. I gather that some at least are due to modelling constraints, however there is also some minor missing detail from the texture. I don't want to be nitpicky though so I won't harp on about that. I do tend to be a bit anal about those sorts of things.

One comment I would pass on though is that, opening your model in GMax, there seems to be a UV error. It's something that commonly happens during the conversion to a binary model. Here's a pic:

Did you detach all your faces? I know this sort of thing was the bane of my early saber-making experience.

Hey coolbeans. No I don't think I detached the faces so hopefully that is the problem. Just to clarify, you're talking about detaching the faces on the model itself, not in the UVMap, correct?

TriggerGod · 08-01-2009, 04:46 PM

Your model looks pretty good. I might use it in my next K1 playthrough.

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Originally Posted by miro42

Hey coolbeans. No I don't think I detached the faces so hopefully that is the problem. Just to clarify, you're talking about detaching the faces on the model itself, not in the UVMap, correct?

After you model your saber, you are supposed to select the different parts of the UV Map (in editable Mesh), and detach them to an element.

Heres a visual guide, courtesy of DP.

DarthParametric · 08-02-2009, 02:06 AM

Was that something I sent you via PM TG? I did search to see if I made a more descriptive public post, but can't seem to find one. I should probably do one for the saber A-Z thread.

As TG said, the idea is to detach polys (make sure only as an "element" and not as a separate object). It seems MDLOps gets a bit screwy when dealing with adjoining polys that are split across different regions of the UV map. Usually what I do is start at the bottom of a hilt, select every loop/row of polys, detach them, then hide them to get them out of the way (as shown in the pic). In some cases you may need to detach polys individually, depending on your mesh topology and the UV map.

By the way, there should be a step 6a which is to hit the OK button. I guess that should be obvious but just in case.

*T7nowhere* · 08-06-2009, 06:34 PM

If you hexedit the model and rename the hilt texture then you wouldn't have to worry about it effecting the games models.

miro42 · 09-01-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by T7nowhere

If you hexedit the model and rename the hilt texture then you wouldn't have to worry about it effecting the games models.

I'm not so hot at the hex editing. What exactly do I change?

DarthParametric · 09-01-2009, 05:49 PM

This is the instance you want to change -

Best just to change the 001 to something like 999. Or better yet, just export a new ASCII model from GMax that uses a texture with a custom name.

miro42 · 09-01-2009, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by DarthParametric

This is the instance you want to change -

Best just to change the 001 to something like 999. Or better yet, just export a new ASCII model from GMax that uses a texture with a custom name.

Coolbeans. I changed the hex and it worked. As far as the lightsaber ascii models go, it looks like they all use the w_lghtsbr_001 texture. Is there a different spot to extract them from in KOTOR Tool?

miro42 · 10-09-2012, 08:34 PM

UPDATE: Put up a working link to download from my website in the original post, or just click here.

battle111 · 10-10-2012, 12:00 AM

Look's realy cool nice job!!!