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• Blender 4.3 breaks our SWTOR materials-processing tools! Stay on 4.2 or older.

• We have a workable solution to using SWTOR Game Update 7.6' new modernized skin materials. Please update both the .gr2 Importer and the ZG SWTOR Tools Add-ons.

• We seem to have fully solved NPC importing, including non-Creature-type NPCs.

We are a group of swtor fans who enjoy messing with the game and pulling out models, textures, etc. This GitHub repository contains tools and guides to help you do so yourself, as well as some other things.

In this Wiki we pool all the knowledge we are gathering on SWTOR's data and how to use it, be it to discover what Broadsword is cooking (datamining), to enhance our SWTOR experience by changing the game's looks (modding, sadly on hiatus at the moment as the tools need upgrading), or to make art out of the game's assets and immortalize our player characters through other 3D apps or even 3D-printing (extracting). Bear with us: it's far easier than it looks 🙂.

We encourage you to join ourSWTOR Slicers Discord Server, where you will be able to interact with fellow hobbyists in a direct manner, find help if you get stuck, and even contribute if you feel like it.

(You can find a few of us in the popularSWTOR Artists Discord Server's 3d art channels, too)

(We do not condone the usage of our tools for malicious intent, including:exploits,harassment of others, or anything else that may violate EA/Bioware'sEULA,TOS,DSA,Privacy Policy Copyrights, Trademarks, or anything else illegal. We will not be held accountable for your actions, and will act against you if it becomes necessary)

• Home.
• State of Play February 2025
• Getting Help:
  • Link to the SWTOR Slicers Discord Server.
  • TORCommunity and its online tools.
  • Jedipedia and its online tools.

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.

• (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.

• Jedipedia.net:

  • SWTOR Database.
  • File Reader.
  • World Viewer.

• TORCommunity.com:
  (runs VERY slowly)

  • SWTOR Database (with NPC Exporters).
  • Character Designer.

• EasyMYP Windows app.
• Noesis Windows app.

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

• The steps:

  • Extracting SWTOR's game assets with ExtracTOR (WIP).
  • Using TORCommunity's Character Designer to export Player Characters.
    • IF ARMOR SELECTION SEARCH IS DOWN:workaround to manually specify Armor Sets.
  • Using TORCommunity's NPCs Database to export Non Playable Characters.
  • Using our Blender add-ons to auto-assemble the model.
  • Rigging the character for posing and animation
  • Applying SWTOR animations to the character.

• 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 characterwith a SWTOR rig.

  • Attaching weapons and other objects to a characterwith 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 SWTOR Game Areas with Jedipedia.net data and ZG SWTOR Tools Add-on's Area Assembler.

• Locating Player Characters' head assets through their Appearance Designer sliders data.
• Locating armor parts' assets.
• Locating weapons' assets.
• Assigning materials and textures to environmental and architectural elements, furniture, props, ships, vehicles and weapons.
• Assembling multi-part assets (Decorations, Rooms, etc).
• Generic guide to importing objects and assigning materials (Legacy Add-on-based. Needs updating).

• Snippets.
• Improving and customizing our SWTOR models and materials.
  • List of tips and tricks to cover in the future.
  • Replacing body parts with gear vs. putting gear on top of body parts
  • Merge by Distance before applying Modifiers.
  • Enhancing SWTOR texture maps with Cupscale.
• Other Extracting Strategies (needs updating).
• SWTOR Materials recipes:
  • SWTOR’s holosigns: how to make them work in Blender.

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).

Basically, useJedipedia.net's tools and check ourDiscord. We'll see about adding new material, but this is very involved stuff.

• File Formats:
  (32-bit. Needs updating to 64-bit):
  • Overview.
  • gr2 Structure.
  • jba Structure.
  • clo Structure.
• A look at SWTOR's Materials and Texture Files.

• Articles, lectures and talks about SWTOR's development.
• Playing SWTOR on old Macs (x86) and Linux.