ZG SWTOR Tools Add on

WARNING: this Add-on isn't yet Blender 4.0-compatible.

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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 Character and Game Area importers, 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 works under the hood in places, and the Slicers GUI Tool, which allows for extracting the game assets we play with)

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Table of contents:

INSTALLATION AND TOOLS STATUS PANEL

• Add-on installation and Preferences settings.
• Status Information Panel.

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.
    • How Automatic Lighting Works.
    • Adding Terrain.
    • General information about Objects Types and Empties.
    • Known Limitations.
    • To Do.
• Group Areas in SubCollections.
• Enable/Disable All Collections.

CHARACTER TOOLS

• Character Assembler.
  • Requirements.
  • Features.
  • Limitations.
  • Importing options.
  • About multiple importings in a same Blender project.

MATERIALS TOOLS

• Process Named Materials.
  • Requirements.
  • Introduction.
  • Limitations.
  • Options.
• Convert to Legacy Materials.
  • Requirements.
• Customizable SWTOR Shaders.
  • Requirements.
  • Introduction.
  • Add Shaders To Project.
  • Convert to Custom SWTOR Shaders.
    • About the included custom shaders.
    • Custom Shader Extras.
    • Make them your own.
• 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.
• Set Backface Culling On/Off.
  • Requirements.

OBJECTS TOOLS

• Quickscaler.
  • Requirements.
• Apply Transformations.
  • Requirements.
• Merge Double Vertices.
  • Requirements.
• Merge Selected Double Vertices.
  • Requirements.
• Modifiers Tools.
  • Requirements.

POSE AND SCULPT TOOLS

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

MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

• Item Names Prefixer.
  • Requirements.