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Okay here's an anomaly for me. Bao Dur cannot wear robes, so, his force powers are always gonna be restricted, unless he wears just plain clothing. Bao-Dur has weak Dex (10 when you start, and it's more important to get other stats up than dex for him), so having +dex bonuses don't exist for him, so having lighter, less protective armor, is of no use. So, the most obvious choice for Bao-Dur would be wearing heavy armor, maybe mandalorian assault armor, etc. But WHAT? Not even after becoming a Jedi can Bao-Dur wear heavy armor. So he's permenantly left kinda gimped.

 

So I had the idea to make him a gauntlet that gave him the bonus feat of heavy armor proficiancy. But then I go to equip some heavy armor and... *crash* kicks me out to the desktop. Anyone know why this happens, or anyway to solve this?

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I'm thinking it has to do with that (appearance.2da discrepencies), and the fact that heavy armor models don't have bao-dur arms built into them.... Well.. That at least gives me a place to start... though I doubt I'll be able to make the models with the arm built in, I'd just have to use the player body with Bao-Dur's head model.

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Originally posted by DarthVaxis

Okay here's an anomaly for me. Bao Dur cannot wear robes, so, his force powers are always gonna be restricted, unless he wears just plain clothing. Bao-Dur has weak Dex (10 when you start, and it's more important to get other stats up than dex for him), so having +dex bonuses don't exist for him, so having lighter, less protective armor, is of no use. So, the most obvious choice for Bao-Dur would be wearing heavy armor, maybe mandalorian assault armor, etc. But WHAT? Not even after becoming a Jedi can Bao-Dur wear heavy armor. So he's permenantly left kinda gimped.

 

So I had the idea to make him a gauntlet that gave him the bonus feat of heavy armor proficiancy. But then I go to equip some heavy armor and... *crash* kicks me out to the desktop. Anyone know why this happens, or anyway to solve this?

 

There is no way to solve this other than creating a whole new body for Bao-dur. The Dev's only created 5 body models for him.

 

BAODUR_BB - Clothes model

BAODUR_BC - Light armor

BAODUR_BD - 2nd version light armor

BAODUR_BE - Medium armor

BAODUR_BF - 2nd version medium armor

 

So until body models can be completly edited and new was created your only other choose is to edit the apperance.2da file and put which ever of his models you want him to use with that armor, ie: I placed his clothes model in column "modelg".

 

If you just use the model from any other character his head will float above the body.

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Well that's a pain. Cause to be frank, he looks ugly in his default clothes, and just about as ugly in all the light/medium armor he can wear. I was gonna stick him in some mandalorian armor. Like I said, he's a perfect candidate for heavy armor because his dex blows and he can't wear robes.

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Originally posted by Arlen Treesong

IMO Bao-Dur is supposed to suck. He's a builder not a fighter, most of his lines outright tell you he's not comfortable with battle and on top of this, he has outrageous skills and can build almost anything in terms of upgrades.

 

Apparently thats a bug, The npc's were not supposed to be able to use the workbench.

 

Hm... I believe the bug is that it ever uses the other party member's skills at all, actually.

 

I remember back when the workbench stuff was going into the game, I pushed for the workbench to respect the skill level of whichever NPC was using it, but the designer in charge of workbench wanted it so that the PC's skills were all that mattered when it came to using the Workbench to make it so that points spent in the repair skill for the PC were more valuable.

 

I guess in the end you got something inbetween. :huh:

 

-Akari

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Originally posted by T7nowhere

Apparently thats a bug, The npc's were not supposed to be able to use the workbench.

How did it make it into the final game then? Did Obsidian just change their minds about it? All they'd have to do is add a restriction to the dialogue file that runs every time you examine a workbench that prevents the options of using it from appearing if the main PC isn't the leader...

 

:confused:

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Originally posted by T7nowhere

Apparently thats a bug, The npc's were not supposed to be able to use the workbench.

I remember reading something MCA wrote about that ages ago where he said the workbench WOULD use the others skills when yours went high enough ... Think it was MCA anyway.

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Well, that's pretty much all that I used Bao-Dur for in the game... the workbench. He was so good at it too.

 

Anyway, about giving him the Heavy Armour feat — the only way I think you'll get it to work right now is if you change the "appearance.2da" so that it uses his normal appearance model in place of a heavy armour model. It'll look funny, but it won't crash the game, right?

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Originally posted by DarthVaxis

Well that's a pain. Cause to be frank, he looks ugly in his default clothes, and just about as ugly in all the light/medium armor he can wear. I was gonna stick him in some mandalorian armor. Like I said, he's a perfect candidate for heavy armor because his dex blows and he can't wear robes.

 

do what I did - open the charachter blueprtint p_baodur.uti...or whatever it's called.

simply give the guy some better stars (dexteritiy in particular)

 

Him wearing armor doesn't make sense anyway with his arm and all....wouldn't the sleeve catch fire?

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Him wearing armor doesn't make sense anyway with his arm and all....wouldn't the sleeve catch fire?

Or maybe the armour would become electrified... well, the metallic ones — they look like they'd be pretty conductive. Now wouldn't that be something?

 

"Hey Bao-Dur..."

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*ZZZZZZZZZZT*

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Originally posted by DarthVaxis

Well that's a pain. Cause to be frank, he looks ugly in his default clothes, and just about as ugly in all the light/medium armor he can wear. I was gonna stick him in some mandalorian armor. Like I said, he's a perfect candidate for heavy armor because his dex blows and he can't wear robes.

He looks pretty stylin' in the Electromesh Armor, Zabrak Field Armor, and the Reinforce Fiber Armor. It'd be nice to have a few more options, but hey, someone has to be the patsy. At least it's not T3-M4 this time.
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LOL @ Arlen Treesong

 

I know what you mean. Interestingly, the Tech Specialist class appears to be identical to the Scoundel class, with the execption of no AC bonuses (just like Scouts) and no Sneak Attack feats.

 

I'm playing around with other ways to make him a little more useful. Right now I'm testing some modifications that I made to Remote. Hopefully that will help to unchain him from the workbench :D

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Originally posted by Arlen Treesong

Care to share any insight on how the remote works? This will sound strange but I would really like to model a duck to follow my pc around...

I'll start another thread with a download if it works. To discuss it further here would be to hijack the thread and I think I've gone off topic enough already.
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Originally posted by Arlen Treesong

Care to share any insight on how the remote works? This will sound strange but I would really like to model a duck to follow my pc around...

 

remote is a puppet (aka Uncontrollable Party NPC)

 

Search the forum for "puppet". I remember a thread where we discussed puppets and making thereof.

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but hey, someone has to be the patsy. At least it's not T3-M4 this time.

 

No joke, T3 is actually pretty fun in this game, with his renewable energy shield, shock arm, and with the right sensor upgrade, the ability to use a fully modified mandalorian heavy repeater

:D

 

He's also better with skills than Bao-Dur, cept Bao-Dur can wear a tech specialist belt and a skills package implant and skills enhancing visors/gloves. T3 naturally has higher int especially with your upgrades to him. A common party for me is Exile and his two Droid Pals, T3 and HK.. HK to terminate meatbags, and T3 to crack doors/swag containers, hack computers, and fix things. Also I boost his ability to disarm mines. It's a pretty fun party to have.

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Originally posted by Achilles

He looks pretty stylin' in the Electromesh Armor, Zabrak Field Armor, and the Reinforce Fiber Armor. It'd be nice to have a few more options, but hey, someone has to be the patsy. At least it's not T3-M4 this time.

Achilles I promise I will make some new armour for the armless wonder just for you :D

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