Gathering the character assets with the Slicer GUI tool

NEW AVAILABLE TOOL: the SWTOR Character Assembler Blender Addon:

Improving upon the features of the Slicers GUI and the .gr2 Importer Addon, we have now a new one: the SWTOR Character Assembler Blender Addon. It combines in a single button operation the character asset-locating function of Slicers GUI described in this page with the character importing explained in the following step, adding a few options of its own.

It is still recommended that you read these two pages to understand what this new Addon does under the hood.

Now that we have the unzipped folder containing the information about the character, we'll use the Slicers GUI tool to automatically locate the assets needed to assemble it.

So, we already had the Slicers GUI's Output Folder pointing to the folder containing the extraction's "resources" folder. What we do now is point the Data Folder field to the unzipped character folder exported by TORCommunity.com's Character Designer (or by TORCommunity.com's database of NPC's 3D viewer).

Then we press the Locate button and wait just a second or two (it's very fast!).

The Slicers GUI's log panel tells us that the job is finished.

How to check that it worked? Simple: the contents of the character's folder should have changed from a few KiloBytes to several MegaBytes.

Also, we can dive into the folders and see their contents, filled now with .gr2 meshes, .dds textures, and .mat xml files.

Next: Using Blender and the SWTOR importer add-on to auto-assemble the model.

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INTRODUCTION

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.

TOOLS

Downloadable Tools (All Links Page):

(NEW) ExtracTOR Windows app.
(Replaces the old Slicers GUI app)
Blender 3D Windows/Mac/Linux app.
SWTOR .gr2 Objects Importer Blender Add-on.
Required by other add-ons.
ZG SWTOR Tools Blender Add-on:
- Installation and Status Panel.
- Area Assembler Tools.
- Character Assembler Tools.
- Materials Tools.
- Objects Tools.
- Pose And Sculpt Tools.
- Baking Tools.
SWTOR Terrain Extractor Windows Command Line Tool.

Online Tools:

Jedipedia.net:
- SWTOR Database.
- File Reader.
- World Viewer.
TORCommunity.com:
(runs VERY slowly)
- SWTOR Database (with NPC Exporters).
- Character Designer.

No longer working:

EasyMYP Windows app.
Noesis Windows app.

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO AUTO-EXTRACTING AND ASSEMBLING PLAYER CHARACTERS AND NPCs:

READ THE BROAD STROKES FIRST: YOU'LL SEE IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK!

The steps:
Extra steps that require manual work and some knowledge of SWTOR's assets:
- Making capes and hair work, manually and through Cloth Simulation.
- Locating weapons' assets manually.
- Attaching weapons and other objects to a character with a SWTOR rig.
- Attaching weapons and other objects to a character with a custom rig.
- 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.
- 3D Printing:
  - Baking Normals into real 3D detailing

ASSEMBLING GAME LOCATIONS AUTOMATICALLY:

Assembling SWTOR Game Areas with Jedipedia.net data and ZG SWTOR Tools Add-on's Area Assembler.

LOCATING AND ASSEMBLING ASSETS MANUALLY:

OTHER GUIDES (WIP):

Snippets.
Improving and customizing our SWTOR models and materials.
Other Extracting Strategies (needs updating).
SWTOR Materials recipes:
- SWTOR’s holosigns: how to make them work in Blender.

MODDING

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).

DATAMINING

Basically, use Jedipedia.net's tools and check our Discord. We'll see about adding new material, but this is very involved stuff.

SWTOR TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

File Formats:
(32-bit. Needs updating to 64-bit):
A look at SWTOR's Materials and Texture Files.

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