ZG SWTOR Tools Add on

• Compatible with Game Update 7.6 and higher's Modernized PC/NPC skin textures.

  Depending on which resources folder is selected in the add-on's Preferences (extracted before or after Game Update 7.6), the tool gets the correct classic or modernized results. Check the Character Assembler tool's guide for details.

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The ZeroGravitas (ZG) SWTOR Tools Add-on provides with a miscellanea of tools to use on Star Wars: The Old Republic's game assets, including a game Area Assembler, Player Character and NPC Assembler, and a SWTOR Materials Processor. It grows in features as new ideas come up.

(Quality of code-wise, "this is not a place of honor": It Just (Kinda) Works™ 😓)

This Add-on relies on foundational efforts by fellow slicers, such as the .gr2 Importer Addon, which is invoked under the hood in places, and the ExtracTOR, Slicers GUI, and even ancient TorMYP/EasyMYP tools, which allow for extracting the game assets we play with in, to start with, plus game information exported by tools in Jedipedia.net and TORCommunity.com.

(WARNING: some of the images and information in this wiki might be slightly out of date, as the Add-on is in a state of constant upgrades and revisions)

Table of contents:

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INSTALLATION AND STATUS PANEL

• Add-on installation and Preferences settings.
• Status Information Panel.
  • Requisite elements section.
  • .gr2 Importer Add-on section.
  • If Blender is set to a language different to English, set it to English for now.

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AREA TOOLS

• Area Assembler.
  • Requirements.
  • Importing options.
  • Options for reducing Blender's lag when importing MASSIVE Areas.
  • How to use the Area Assembler tool.
    • Locating Area IDs, and Downloading Area .json files.
    • Processing the area .json files.
    • Adding Terrain.
    • How Automatic Lighting Works.
    • General information about Object Types and Empties.
    • Known Limitations.
    • To Do.
• Enable/Disable Collections.
• Group Areas in SubCollections.
  • Options.

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CHARACTER TOOLS

• Character Assembler.
  • Requirements.
  • Features.
  • Limitations.
  • Importing options.
  • About multiple importings in a same Blender project.
• Item Names Prefixer.
  • Requirements.
• Merge Physics Bones' Vertex Groups.
  • Requirements.
  • Features.

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MATERIALS TOOLS

• Set Backface Culling On/Off.
  • Requirements.
• Process Named Materials.
  • Requirements.
  • Introduction.
  • Limitations.
  • Options.
  • Shader Editor version.
• Customizable SWTOR Shaders tools.
  • Introduction.
  • Convert to Custom Shaders.
    • Requirements.
    • Options.
      • About the included custom shaders.
      • Custom Shader Extras.
      • Make them your own.
  • Apply values to multiple Custom Shaders.
  • Character's Skin Settings "control panel" Nodegroup.
    • Requirements.
      • In the 3D Viewer.
      • In the Shader Editor.
      • Other Node Tools in the Shader Editor.
        • Link Matching Inputs/Outputs.
        • Copy Matching Inputs/Outputs' values.
• Deduplicate Scene's Materials and Nodegroups.
• Set all .dds to Non-Color.
  • Requirements.

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OBJECTS TOOLS

• Interactions with the new .gr2 Importer Add-on.
  • The .gr2 Importer's new features.
  • How they affect the ZG SWTOR Object Tools.
• Quickscaler.
  • Requirements.
  • Features.
• Merge Double Vertices.
• Modifiers Tools.
  • Requirements.
• Set Objects' Custom Properties Manually.
  • Requirements.

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POSE AND SCULPT TOOLS

• Armatures In Scene's Pose/Rest Position.
  • Requirements.
• Clear Bones' Translations.
  • Requirements.
• Mask Selected Vertices From Sculpting.
  • Requirements.

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BAKING TOOLS

• Convert to Legacy Materials.
  • Requirements.
• Correct Twi'lek Head's UVs.
• Export Baked Textures.