[Mod Request] Kyle Katarn, Darth Caedus, & Mara Jade

[Borrie]

Hello!

 

I am actively seeking to add the three following characters into SWBF2:

 

Kyle Katarn (Replacement for Obi-Wan, or Luke)

Darth Caedus (Replacement for Kylo Ren or Darth Vader)

Mara Jade (Replacement for Rey)

 

I've been trying to learn modding but have had little success thus far in putting together these three characters thus far. I'll continue my search, but I thought I'd reach out to the modding community about implementing them, or for help on implementing them. I have a plan of attack for accomplishing the three characters.

 

Kyle Katarn

The protagonist of the Jedi Knight games, and the original agent who recieved the Death Star plans, Kyle Katarn is a bearded fellow who would make great use of the new Obi-Wan Kenobi face and character. To implement him, I would consider the following:

1. Darken the hair of Obi-wan while maintaining his grey highlights. Kyle's hair is a dark, greying brown.

2. Change the eye color to brown

3. Smooth out the face a bit to resemble Kyle's appearance

4. Utilize a jacketed Han Solo body, or Finn's body, as Kyle Katarn would wear jackets and casual wear even as a Jedi Master.

 

Darth Caedus

The original son of Han and Leia who fell to the dark side, Jacen Solo, also known as Darth Caedus, fell to the darkside later on in life, and was a Master of the Force and Lightsaber combat. He would be best suited as a replacement of Darth Vader, or Kylo Ren. To implement him, I would consider the following:

1. Utilize Han Solo's hair with Del's face, OR simply utilize Young Han Solo's head for the head of Caedus.

2. Use either Kylo Ren's caped body, or Darth Vader's body for his outfit. Kylo Ren's Episode 8 outfit closely resembled Jacen's GAG Uniform, but lacked the gauntlets and upper armor that makes Darth Vader a slightly better fit. Would ultimately depend on which character this replaces.

3. Replace the Lightsaber with either Darth Vader's Lightsaber, or Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber. Jacen Solo used his Green Lightsaber for most of his life, as well as a majority of his time as Darth Caedus, but switched to a red blade towards the end of his story.

 

Mara Jade

Fearsome Hand of the Emperor, and eventually Jedi Master and Luke Skywalker's companion, Mara Jade makes for a powerful ally. As a replacement of Rey, there are several possibilities. To implement her, I would consider the following:

1. Utilize Rey's Episode 8 Jedi Hair style, recolored red, to match Mara's longer, red hair.

2. Use either Iden or Zay's head, as Rey's doesn't fit Mara's more statue-esque facial structure.

3. Utilize Iden's body (either Imperial or Rebel) or one of the Specialists from the Rebels or Resistance. Mara wore casual clothing, much like Kyle. An alternative would be to use Rey's Jacket colored black.

4. Mara did utilize a Purple Lightsaber early in her life, but she was also the original wielder of Anakin's blue Lightsaber after it was recovered, which means Rey's original weapon could stay in place.

 

I will keep trying to find out information on how to implement these, but I thought I'd at least leave the idea here as a mod request. If anyone has any good guides or information on A. Model part swapping and B. Lighsaber hilt swapping, I would deeply appreciate it.

 

Thank you!

 

EDIT: In the time since making this post, I have learned how to swap parts of a hero's appearance, but unfortunately weapon swapping eludes me. I am mostly interested in swapping Kylo Ren's Lightsaber for Vader's, or Luke's.

 

That said, I've made some discoveries that may have been obvious to some, but something to note regardless in response to this message.

1. Vader's helmet is fused to the rest of the model. It cannot be taken off for usage as armor.

2. Iden's face does not properly fit onto Rey's model. It causes unfortunate morphs. There may be another way around this.

Edited December 5, 2018 by Borrie

[Borrie]

Giving a proper update, I've managed to somewhat execute some of my ideas plus a few more, but unfortunately as it stands, my skins are crashing whenever you enter a game. I have successfully had one skin enter Tatooine, but further efforts have not worked.

 

What I managed to accomplish was a Grand Master Luke Skywalker, using Obi-Wan's body; Jaina Solo using Rey's head on Iden's body (To simulate her pilot's outfit), Master Leia with Obi-Wan's cloak as a skin for Rey, and Darth Caedus, using young Han Solo's head on Kylo Ren's body, replacing Darth Vader.

 

Here are some images on what I did:

 

 

 

 

I've saved the files, but until I can figure out why they're crashing on launching a new map, they're useless. If anyone knows why this might be happening, please let me know. I added their Blueprint Bundles to the description of each level, but Luke only worked briefly on Tatooine, and no other map. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

[Raptor52152]

I'm working on a Caedus mod and a Jaina mod. Here's a screenshot of Caedus:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/c16orc/mod_darth_caedus_has_joined_the_battle/

 

Like the other commenter above, I have it working in the menus, and I added their descriptions to each MP map, but whenever I try to spawn as Caedus, or Vader (Caedus uses vader's cape) the game crashes, and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.