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Importing SWTOR Areas
The steps are:
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Extract SWTOR's game assets through our Slicers GUI tool or the older EasyMYP one. As we are dealing with architectural and props objects, we need to have performed at the very least a extraction of static-type assets through Slicers GUI's static preset. If we had a dynamic preset-based one for character work already, the static one will nicely nestle in the same extracted assets folder. A full extraction, of course, takes care of everything.
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Export data about a specific area through Jedipedia.net's World Viewer and File Viewer. Such data takes the form of fairly human-readable .json files describing the objects in the area: filepath, position, rotation, size, and child/parent relationship with other objects.
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Import one or several of those .json files into Blender through our SWTOR Area Assembler Addon: this addon will read the data, find the objects it mentions inside our folder of extracted assets, and import and arrange them adequately.
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- Home.
- State of Play September 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.