That said, you can open 4.2 projects in 4.3 and the existing SWTOR materials will work (you can install as many versions of Blender you want at once and have them coexist without tripping each other).
New tool: ExtracTOR.
Meant to replace Slicers GUI, it's a pure game assets extractor app by fellow slicer UltimaKaosXIII that spares us the complications of the former tool. You can take advantage of it already while we update these guides.
We are a group of swtor fans who enjoy messing with the game and pulling out models, textures, etc. This GitHub repository contains tools and guides to help you do so yourself, as well as some other things.
In this Wiki we pool all the knowledge we are gathering on SWTOR's data and how to use it, be it to discover what Broadsword is cooking (datamining), to enhance our SWTOR experience by changing the game's looks (modding, sadly on hiatus at the moment as the tools need upgrading), or to make art out of the game's assets and immortalize our player characters through other 3D apps or even 3D-printing (extracting). Bear with us: it's far easier than it looks 🙂.
We encourage you to join our SWTOR Slicers Discord Server, where you will be able to interact with fellow hobbyists in a direct manner, find help if you get stuck, and even contribute if you feel like it.
(You can find a few of us in the popular SWTOR Artists Discord Server's 3d art channels, too)
(We do not condone the usage of our tools for malicious intent, including: exploits, harassment of others, or anything else that may violate EA/Bioware's EULA, TOS, DSA, Privacy Policy Copyrights, Trademarks, or anything else illegal. We will not be held accountable for your actions, and will act against you if it becomes necessary)
- Home.
- State of Play November 2024
- Getting Help:
IMPORTING SWTOR MODELS INTO BLENDER: A BRIEF OVERVIEW.
Check this intro first. Afterwards, you can jump directly to the guides on extracting PCs, NPCs and others.
No need to read this section right now: each extracting/assembling guide explains its required tools anyway.
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Slicers GUI (Windows app).
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Blender 3D (multiplatform app):
Which version. How to learn. Installing our Add-ons. -
SWTOR .gr2 Objects Importer Add-on.
Required by all the other add-ons. -
SWTOR Character Assembler Add-on.
(In maintenance. Use the ZG SWTOR Tools' version for now) -
SWTOR Area Assembler Add-on.
(In maintenance. Use the ZG SWTOR Tools' version for now) -
ZeroGravitas' ZG SWTOR Tools Add-on.
Includes the Character and Area Assemblers plus other diverse tools.
- Jedipedia.net:
- SWTOR Database.
- File Reader.
- World Viewer.
- TORCommunity.com:
- SWTOR Database.
- Character Designer.
- NPC viewer's Exporter.
- EasyMYP (Windows app).
- Noesis (Windows app).
READ THE BROAD STROKES FIRST: YOU'LL SEE IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK!
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The steps:
- Installing Slicers GUI and extracting SWTOR's game assets.
- Using TORCommunity's Character Designer to export Player Characters.
- IF ARMOR SELECTION SEARCH IS DOWN: workaround to manually specify Armor Sets.
- Using TORCommunity's NPCs Database to export Non Playable Characters.
- Using our Blender add-ons to auto-assemble the model.
- Rigging the character for posing and animation
- Applying SWTOR animations to the character.
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Extra steps that require manual work and some knowledge of SWTOR's assets:
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Making capes and hair work, manually and through Cloth Simulation.
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Attaching weapons and other objects to a character with a SWTOR rig.
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Attaching weapons and other objects to a character with a custom rig.
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Baking the models' textures and exporting to other apps:
- Baking with Legacy SWTOR materials and modern ones.
- Baking the multiple materials of an object into a single one.
- Exporting to VRChat.
- Exporting to Star Wars Battlefront II.
- Exporting to Unreal Engine.
- Exporting to Garry's Mod.
- Exporting to Tabletop Simulator.
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3D Printing:
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- Locating armor parts' assets
- Locating weapons' assets.
- Assigning materials and textures to environmental and architectural elements, furniture, props, ships, vehicles and weapons.
- Assembling multi-part assets (Decorations, Rooms, etc).
- Generic guide to importing objects and assigning materials (Legacy Add-on-based. Needs updating).
- Snippets.
- Improving and customizing our SWTOR models and materials.
- Other Extracting Strategies (needs updating).
- SWTOR Materials recipes:
Modding isn't working at the moment due to SWTOR's change to a 64bit codebase. It's going to take a while 🙁.
- Overview.
- Tools.
- Other techniques:
- Modding SWTOR textures with Special K (CAUTION).
- Overview.
- Tools.
- File Formats (32-bit. Needs updating to 64-bit):
- A look at SWTOR's Materials and Texture Files.