Plo Koons Hilt

Description
Plo Koon... Poor guy...


This mod offers us Plo Koon's hilt. The model is simple but high-poly. SP-Support is included.



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Okay, first off, let's talk about the accuracy.

From what I was able to find on "Gallery de Google", as well as "Encyclopedia Wookiepedia", this looks nothing like Plo Koon's lightsaber. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, maybe this hilt was misnamed, maybe the author modeled off the wrong reference, or maybe this is a sort-of new concept for Mr. Koon. I don't know. I'll leave it up to you, the downloader.


As I said above, the model itself is simple, but high-poly. I counted 20 sides on the main body. (And 16 on the button!) Regardless, the model actually looks rather good. Personally, I was never a fan of the bottom-half-grip present in this hilt (as well as Vader/Anakin's hilts), but it is apparently a standard setup that numerous Jedi/Sith follow, so the grip here is good too. In fact, it makes an interesting contrast between the lower and upper halves of the hilt.

It saddens me to say there are bugs, but I fear I must say it. There is a bug. What bug, say you? Simple: The model is slightly off-center from the parent tag. Not a big deal, but it's my job to blow things out of propor-- I mean, report errors in a mod.


The skinning is.... Okay...
The problem is, it was skinned in such a way as to suggest a fixed lightsource was aimed at the model. Sure, when rendering a still image, this is perfectly normal, but not in a game with variable lighting. The 'lines' in the metal should be put there by environment/specular shaders, not by Photoshop...


Shaders... The shaders in this mod are-- Oh, wait, there aren't any shaders in this mod...

Shame... This hilt could sure use some extra shine.


Not all is lost though: There is support for single-player, but like any mod that offers this, it will break any other saber mod that tries to offer SP support too.

The saber file is in order, but it's missing sounds, so be prepared for the default sith saber sounds.


In all, not a bad mod. With a few improvements, it could be turned into a great mod.


New Model: Yes
New Textures: Yes
New Sounds: No
New Shaders: No
SP-Support: Yes
MP-Support: Yes


~Crazy