Making upgradable sabers

[Canderis]

When following this:

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=143991

I came up with the question. If I put in a blue saber crystal to this new saber will it change to the default model?

[DarthParametric]

What hilt model is assigned to each colour crystal is determined by upcrystals.2da. If you want your custom hilt to have a custom crystal (i.e. be upgradeable) then you have to add a unique colour crystal for it to upcrystals.2da. So unless you change it, yes putting a blue crystal in it will revert it to the default hilt (assuming that your hilt is custom and doesn't override the default hilts).

 

Here's an example from a custom hilt request I did for someone for K1:

 

2DA V2.0					

label	template	shortmdlvar	longmdlvar	doublemdlvar
0	BLUE	G_W_SBRCRSTL14	g_w_shortsbr01	g_w_lghtsbr01	G_W_DBLSBR001
1	GOLD	G_W_SBRCRSTL15	g_w_shortsbr04	g_w_lghtsbr04	G_W_DBLSBR004
2	GREEN	G_W_SBRCRSTL16	g_w_shortsbr03	g_w_lghtsbr03	G_W_DBLSBR003
3	VIOLET	G_W_SBRCRSTL17	g_w_shortsbr05	g_w_lghtsbr05	G_W_DBLSBR005
4	RED	G_W_SBRCRSTL18	g_w_shortsbr02	g_w_lghtsbr02	G_W_DBLSBR002
5	Heart	G1_W_SBRCRSTL20	g1_w_shortsbr01	g1_w_lghtsbr01	G1_W_DBLSBR001
6	Mantle	G1_W_SBRCRSTL21	g1_w_shortsbr02	g1_w_lghtsbr02	G1_W_DBLSBR002
7	DPSaberOld	g_w_sbrcrstl26	****	g_w_lghtsbr26	****

 

You can see there that it only has a hilt value for longmdlvar which is the standard single hilt. It doesn't work in short or double sabers. The value g_w_lghtsbr26 matches the resref of the hilt.

[TriggerGod]

When following this:

http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=143991

I came up with the question. If I put in a blue saber crystal to this new saber will it change to the default model?

 

That will only happen if you fail to put in the correct uti file name in upcrystals.2da in the right column. And if you did put the right name in the column, make sure you have the right model variation in the uti file.