Am i the only one who is a beginner at modding and is trying to make something but not getting any where?

I have been searching for about 2 hours around web sites and forums i have learned a small amount of knowledge.
I know about kotor tool and can change colors of textures but trying to find out how to make a completle new light saber is impossible!! :mad:

There are a few posts that redirect you to other post but there not that easy to understand.
I sthere like a begginers web site or could some one TRAIN ME through msn or something??

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have you bothered reading the sticky about it, that has everything you need and then some more.

Well maybe it is just me than cos i can't really get my head around that
couldnt they of just made something like the tes editor for morrowind that was so simple. :(

Actually, while were on the subject of lightsabers, I'm trynig to make a custom color for my lightsaber, and it won't work, and I'm following the tutorial. Any help?

Just look at the threads in the sticky and don't be afraid to ask questions, I only started modding a week ago.

Mono_Giganto

can you explain what is going wrong and what process you are taking when making it please. It will help me to answer your question.

Mav

I'm just following the tutorial.
I used the hex editor so it would point to my skins. File named: w_lsabreblue02
I inserted the tga file with that name, and the accompanying txi file, and whatever else you have to do at that point, but my saber color still wont change! It stays blue.

I wanna edit a jedi knight robe but i cant find them in kotor tool

Look in ERF>texturepacks>swpc_tex_tpa.erf>P> then it is all the PMBI files for males and PFBI for females.

Oh and your questions are fine, but can you keep try and keep them all in one thread please.

IS this for a custom saber or are you trying to replace all of the blue sabers with your custom color?

Originally posted by Mono_Giganto
Actually, while were on the subject of lightsabers, I'm trynig to make a custom color for my lightsaber, and it won't work, and I'm following the tutorial. Any help?

There's a tutorial for custom blade colors?! I've looked everywhere. Care to give me a hint?

TIA

to maverick:
I can edit the default, Im trying to edit my custom though.

to Achilles:
there is a saber tutorial that includes some info on it.

If there was an entire tutorial I wuold probably not have a problem. :)

Okay since I can't see your files we are going to start over from scratch, well just the hex editing part.

Okay extract w_lghtsbr_004.mdl and .mdx. Now open your hex editor and open up the .mdl file. You need to change the lines that say w_Lghtbsr_004 to w_Lghtsbr_0XX there should be 8 of them, XX being the modelvariation number which you have set in your .uti file. It is important to only change the w_Lghtsbr_004 hex as the w_Lghtsbr_001 refers to the hilt. Okay now change all the w_lsabreyelo01's to w_lsabreyelo02 there should be 4 of them after you have done all this save.

Now change the file name of our blade color to w_lsabreyelo02 and make sure it is a .tga, then create a new text document with the following written inside:

blending additive
decal 1

and save it as w_lsabreyelo02.txi. Now that should be it the only thing left is that you make sure that you create a custom name for your .uti and make sure that you have a custom modelvariation number for example 15 should work. Also be sure to change you .mdl and .mdx to w_lghtsbr_015.mdl adn .mdx. That should work.

Hope It Works,
Mav

Could any one make a small list (cos it would take forever)
Of the subdirectors to the important skins that peopl eoften use in kotor?
Or could some one tell me where the hilts are?

you dont need one, there all in the same place:
in kotor tool look in ERFs -> TexturePacks -> swpc_tex_tpa.erf -> (select a letter)

the letters refer to the first letter of the file name, seriously!, its not hard to work out what is what. Just open a folder and double click a file, thats all.

It's still not working, I don't have any idea what I'm doing wrong, do you think you could take a look Maverick?

Originally posted by LiquidissSnake
Well maybe it is just me than cos i can't really get my head around that
couldnt they of just made something like the tes editor for morrowind that was so simple. :( But Bioware does not provide any support whatsoever for modding. Everything we do we have to figure out ourselves. Fred Tetra wrote the kotor_tool independantly from Bioware, and I thank my lucky stars every day that he has done so. Modding KOTOR would be much more difficult without that.

In any event, have a look in the learning to mod sticky thread and use the links and read about topics that interest you. Once you have done that, ask specific questions about parts you don't understand. You have now already learned where to find the textures. Play around some more until you get stuck again, and then ask more questions.

Modding KOTOR is not a simple task for the most part. It will take time to learn how to do things. Be patient. You can't learn it all at once. It will come eventually :)