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TORCommunity
At TORCommunity.com we can find a few crucial tools.
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Its Character Designer. This is a fundamental tool for Player Character exporting and assembling! It imitates both SWTOR's Character Creator and Outfit Designer, letting us recreate our characters and export a definition file that our tools can use to auto-import and assemble the character in one click!
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Its SWTOR Database: It lets us search for any in-game term (characters' names, armor gear, locations, etc.), returning a list of entries covering all the ways the item is mentioned in the database: 3D object references, codex entries, abilities, etc. Delving in them, we can get identifiers and paths for finding those in SWTOR's internal data structure and in our game asset extraction files, helping us automate processes to some extent such as autotexturing objects in Blender.
Compared to Jedipedia.net's own database, it offers more detailed information upfront (through its Detailed Data tab) in .json and .php format, amenable to parsing, and at times sparing us a trip to Jedipedia's File Reader just by giving it a read or by using the web browser's text search.
By searching for NPCs, we can get not only data but a 3D visor with a button that exports a definition file that lets us auto-import and assemble them in the same way we do our Player Characters.
A limitation in TORC's tools is that it only has data previous to SWTOR's Game Update 7.0. Still, that covers a whole lot of PC, NPC, and armor assets that can be used witht he rest of our tools.
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 nessesary.
- Home.
- State of Play July 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.
- 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.
- SWTOR Area Assembler Add-on.
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ZeroGravitas SWTOR Tools Add-on.
Includes the Character and Area Assemblers plus other diverse tools.
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Jedipedia.net:
- SWTOR Database.
- File Reader.
- World Viewer.
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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.
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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
- A look at SWTOR's Materials and Texture Files.