Back in late 2006, Levi Davis (AKA nineball) put out a mod for TSL that allowed female PCs to play as the Sith Twi'lek Darth Talon from Dark Horse's Legacy comic series. I quite liked the look of it, but I never play as a female in KOTOR so it wasn't initially of use to me. However, I was playing K1 at the time and, on an impulse, decided to try and convert it to a reskin of Mission. I had never modded KOTOR before, so it was as much an exercise in learning some basic techniques as producing the desired end result. After some trial and error I managed to get it working and posted some screenshots in Levi's thread. Levi gave me permission to release it to the public as long as I gave credit for the textures. At the time I wasn't really interested in that, and as I uninstalled K1 and moved on to other things, the files sat in the Override folder, momentarily forgotten. Just recently, I reinstalled TSL and came back to SWKnights after a long absence. Someone posted a thread about Sith tattoos and I recalled Levi's mod. After browsing the thread for it again, I decided to dig out the Mission conversion I had done and see if I could release it.

What it Does: Reskins K1 NPC Mission Vao from a Rutian (blue) to Lethan (red) Twi'lek with black, full-body Sith tattoos modelled after Legacy comic book character Darth Talon. NOTE: V1 of this mod does not convert Mission into a Jedi/Dark Jedi. It is purely a cosmetic reskin. However, the new V2 turns Mission into a Jedi Sentinel, as well as toning down the textures somewhat in response to user feedback.

Credit: The original Darth Talon skin textures were taken from Levi Davis's "Darth Talon Selectable Character for TSL" mod. Original thread here (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?p=2280581). Used with permission.


DOWNLOAD: https://dpmods.bg2redux.com/k1_mission_talon.html)

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N.B. Pics are from version 2

I like it, i really do.

The contrast is a bit high though.

Well the textures are the original ones from nineball's mod. I didn't modify them, just ported them to Mission. That being said, a tweak may be in order for V2. Is this more to your taste?

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5586/talonmodzf1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Oh yeah, thats much better.

This is looking like permanent place in my override.

Much better. :)

lol, it still saddens me that that horrible Poser artwork for Darth Talon was actually used as a Kotor cover.

nice work on mission too.

Looks great - I'll be sure to download it when the v2 texture is out (or is it already out?)

I'll be sure to download it when the v2 texture is out (or is it already out?)Not yet. I'll announce in this thread when it is.

EDIT: Version 2 has been submitted to KOTORFiles. Will update first post with a link when it is approved.

lol, it still saddens me that that horrible Poser artwork for Darth Talon was actually used as a Kotor cover.It was the cover for Legacy #00, which is what I assume you mean. There was a big outburst on the Dark Horse forums when it was first shown as I recall. Everyone was complaining that they should have used Jan Duursema's artwork, until Jan got on and said she'd done the 3D shot herself. I didn't understand why they'd do it myself, even if it was done by Jan. The covers should reflect the internal artwork. Unless the whole comic is going to be CG, the cover should be hand-drawn/painted.

is it possible to make it so that you can play as her being the PC?

is it possible to make it so that you can play as her being the PC?For K1? I could release such a mod I guess, but I'm not in any rush to do that seeing as V2 of the current mod hasn't even come out yet.

You could make such a mod for your own use by adapting the existing files, but that would require hex editing the head mesh to change the default texture and extracting a 2DA file from the game via KOTORTools. I guess you'd have already done that if you knew how, so a less arduous way would be to utilise one of the existing K1 Twi'lek PC head mods for the extra bits you need. Grab Ferc Kast's Blue Twi'lek as PC (http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.com/file/Blue_Twilek_as_PC;89752) to use as the basis. Do the following:

Extract k1_mission_vao_as_darth_talon.7z into a temporary folder
Go into the tslpatchdata folder
Rename the TGA files as follows:
PO_pmission.tga -> PO_Talon.tga
twilek_f92.tga -> twilek_f10.tga
P_MissionBA01.tga -> TalonBA01.tga
P_MissionBB01.tga -> TalonBB01.tga

Open changes.ini with Notepad. Select everything (CTRL+A or Edit->Select All) and delete it. Copy everything inside the code box hidden inside the spoiler tag below and paste it into the INI file:
[Settings]
FileExists=1
WindowCaption=[K1] Blue Twi'lek as PC (Darth Talon Conversion)
ConfirmMessage=Would you like to install this mod?
LogLevel=3
InstallerMode=1
BackupFiles=1
PlaintextLog=0
LookupGameFolder=1
LookupGameNumber=1
SaveProcessedScripts=0


[TLKList]


[InstallList]
install_folder1=Override


[2DAList]
Table0=heads.2da
Table1=appearance.2da
Table2=portraits.2da


[GFFList]


[CompileList]


[SSFList]


; ================================================== =================

[heads.2da]
AddRow0=heads_row_192
[heads_row_192]
ExclusiveColumn=head
head=twilek_f10
headtexvvve=twilek_f10
headtexvve=twilek_f10
headtexve=twilek_f10
headtexe=twilek_f10
2DAMEMORY2=RowIndex
; ================================================== =================
[appearance.2da]
CopyRow0=appearance_row_p_fem_t_sml_01
CopyRow1=appearance_row_p_fem_t_med_01
CopyRow2=appearance_row_p_fem_t_lrg_01
[appearance_row_p_fem_t_sml_01]
RowIndex=97
ExclusiveColumn=label
label=P_FEM_T_SML_01
normalhead=2DAMEMORY2
backuphead=2DAMEMORY2
modela=PFBAS
texa=TalonBA
texaevil=TalonBA
modelb=PFBAS
texb=TalonBB
2DAMEMORY3=RowIndex
[appearance_row_p_fem_t_med_01]
RowIndex=98
ExclusiveColumn=label
label=P_FEM_T_MED_01
normalhead=2DAMEMORY2
backuphead=2DAMEMORY2
modela=PFBAS
texa=TalonBA
texaevil=TalonBA
modelb=PFBAS
texb=TalonBB
2DAMEMORY1=RowIndex
[appearance_row_p_fem_t_lrg_01]
RowIndex=144
ExclusiveColumn=label
label=P_FEM_T_LRG_01
normalhead=2DAMEMORY2
backuphead=2DAMEMORY2
modela=PFBAS
texa=TalonBA
texaevil=TalonBA
modelb=PFBAS
texb=TalonBB
2DAMEMORY4=RowIndex
; ================================================== =================
[portraits.2da]
AddRow0=portraits_row_po_pfth1
[portraits_row_po_pfth1]
baseresref=PO_Talon
sex=1
appearancenumber=2DAMEMORY1
race=6
plot=0
appearance_s=2DAMEMORY3
appearance_l=2DAMEMORY4
forpc=1
baseresrefe=PO_Talon
baseresrefve=PO_Talon
baseresrefvve=PO_Talon
baseresrefvvve=PO_Talon
; ================================================== =================
[install_folder1]
Replace0=twilek_f10.tga
Replace1=TalonBA01.tga
Replace2=TalonBB01.tga
Replace3=PO_Talon.tga
Replace4=twilek_f10.mdl
Replace5=twilek_f10.mdx
Save changes.ini
Extract k1playabletwilek.zip to a temporary folder
Go into its tslpatchdata folder and copy twilek_f10.mdl, twilek_f10.mdx and portraits.2da
Paste these files in the tslpatchdata folder you extracted from k1_mission_vao_as_darth_talon.7z
Run TSLPatcher.exe that you extracted from k1_mission_vao_as_darth_talon.7z to install the mod

That should work.

Have tried v.2 - great work! :D

Nice! Great Job ;)