New Lightsaber Colors + Real Viridian

By Princess Artemis

7/24/2006 -- Download it here, 472 KB .zip file

v1.1 Should display text for all language versions of TSL.

Technically speaking, there are only two new colors--a remade viridian that will replace the default viridian blade in game and an unusual red blade with a silver glow called bloodstone (hematite). The jade lightsaber is actually a remake of the game's original viridian.

Minor update--I was a goof and forgot to change the color the jade crystal made in the description. Oops. Fixed now.

Why did I bother making new lightsaber colors without remodeling the hilts? Partly because I thought the bloodstone (hematite) blade turned out pretty nifty, partly because I can't model worth anything, but mostly because I'm an artist who happens to have Alizarin Crimson and Viridian as her two favorite colors to paint with. The viridian in the game is so pale and spring-greeny that it's an offence to the name viridian. Viridian is a dark, vibrant green (look at the 'sabers in the equipment list--see the dark green glow? That's not viridian either, but at least it's dark.) So I tried to make a lightsaber color that would at least look a little like it was really viridian. It's close; if viridian paint were spread thin on a white canvas, it's not out of the realm of possibility to get a color like that. It's rather tricky to get a LIGHTsaber color that's dark...but TSL said it had viridian blades, so I'm doing my best to make sure it actually has dark green blades without making them black blades. Then I thought, well, maybe people actually liked the spring-green color, so I made that into 'jade'. It's still light for what people usually think of as jade, but I've seen jade close to that color of pale green. The hematite was just me having fun...I've always liked hematite, especially the neat fact that when cut, it 'bleeds' red, which is why it's also called bloodstone.

To get the new colors, use the giveitem cheat with g_w_lghtsbr77 or 78, g_w_dblsbr077 or 078, g_w_shortsbr77 or 78, and u_l_colo_77 or 78. Use 11 on the 'sabers and 9 on the color crystal to get viridian. 77 is bloodstone, 78 is jade.

This mod is compatible with USM so long as USM was installed first, but it's not going to be compatible with every 'saber color out there. The models are 77 and 78, using color crystals 77 and 78 (with 50 swapping in for the new viridian crystal).

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Thanks to Fred Tetra for Kotor Tool, stoffe -mkb- for TSLPatcher, cchargin for MDLOps. Thanks to tk102's DLG/UTI/UTC Language Converter 0.5, text should display for all language versions of TSL.

No infringement is intended against LucasArts, BioWare, or Obsidian, the copyright holders for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Please do not modify and upload this mod anywhere without my express permission.

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