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Articles, lectures and talks
- GDC 2008: Licensed Software - Cost Benefit Analysis.
- GDC 2010: Automated Emotion: Facial Animation in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- GDC 2010: The Old Republic's Object Model Pipeline.
- GDC 2010: Localizing Large RPGs.
- GDC 2011: Cinematic Character Lighting in SWTOR (of special interest for the users of our tools and wiki).
- GDC 2011: Rapid MMO Content Iteration and Validation with Spatial Analysis in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- GDC 2012: Building the Scalable Platform for SWTOR.
- GDC 2012: Behind the Curtain: Using MMO Game Systems to Tell Bioware Stories (PDF version here).
- GDC 2012: Creating A True Competitor in the AAA MMO Space.
- GDC 2012: Embracing the Paradigm Shift: Converting a Premium Team to an (Enthusiastic!) Freemium Team (PDF version here).
- GDC 2013: Designing a Live MMORPG: The First Year of Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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- Home.
- State of Play February 2025
- 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.
Downloadable Tools (All Links Page):
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(NEW) ExtracTOR Windows app.
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Blender 3D Windows/Mac/Linux app.
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SWTOR .gr2 Objects Importer Blender Add-on.
Required by other add-ons. -
ZG SWTOR Tools Blender Add-on:
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SWTOR Terrain Extractor Windows Command Line Tool.
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TORCommunity.com:
(runs VERY slowly)- SWTOR Database (with NPC Exporters).
- Character Designer.
- 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:
- Extracting SWTOR's game assets with ExtracTOR (WIP).
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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 since SWTOR moved to 64-bit codebase. Unless a new coder takes charge, it'll stay so indefinitely.
- Alternative techniques:
- Modding SWTOR textures with Special K (USE CAUTION).
Basically, use Jedipedia.net's tools and check our Discord. We'll see about adding new material, but this is very involved stuff.
- File Formats:
(32-bit. Needs updating to 64-bit): - A look at SWTOR's Materials and Texture Files.