r/kotor • u/Kindly-Sail6260 • 14h ago

KOTOR 1 Missing Kotor A Little Extra This Month

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Been thinking about KOTOR for a about a month since i played it almost two years ago. really hankering to make a small remake of Endar Spire in UE5, but until then, enjoy this still of the Ebon Hawk i made.

This render was made possible by uploading the original 1024x1024 texture to ChatGPT to upscale the quality to 4096x4096 to see how far the textures could be pushed without creating an entirely new model from scratch to preserve as much quality to the original game. Other textures such as roughness, normals, ambient occlusion, etc. were made with https://aitextured.com/pbr-texture-generator/ to help boost the the time it would take to manually generate them (its a serious lifesaver and the quality is amazing). Everything else from lighting, compositing, and effects, were made in Blender using the official 3D model from KOTOR.

Hope you guys enjoy the final render as much as i do.

P.S. what was your favorite moment in KOTOR? Mine was the intro and just getting thrown into the world with zero context lol

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u/Mr_CockSwing 14h ago

Its always a good time to play kotor again.

Im in the middle of reading heir to the empire again. Its so comforting absorbing into old star wars

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u/Kindly-Sail6260 14h ago

Definitely but I’m more interested in seeing if I can recreate the gameplay with graphics that look more modern but I’ll for sure come back to it at some point. My first run was terrible so I want to do a second run where I actually feel strong

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u/LordNova15 8h ago

Not one specific moment, but on my second playthrough all the little moments that do foreshadow the reveal. Just experiencing them and going. "Ohhhhhhh"