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List of things organised by chronological appearance and location in KotOR, as well as their article status:

• Upper City
  • South Apartments
    • Unidentified Sith soldier (South Apartments) (GA)
    • Ixgil (GA)
    • Unidentified Duros (South Apartments) (Involved in later quest)
    • Larrim (GA)
    • Dia (Involved in later quest)
    • Kadir (Tarisian) (GA)
  • Upper City South
    • Unidentified merchant (Upper City) (GA)
    • Unidentified Aqualish bounty hunter (Upper City)
    • Unidentified Human bounty hunter (Upper City)
    • Equipment Emporium (FA)
    • Kebla Yurt (GA)
    • Zelka Forn (GA)
  • Upper City Cantina
    • Christya (GA)
    • Garouk (GA)
    • Niklos
    • Sarna
    • Yun Genda
    • Jergan
    • Gana Lavin (GA)
    • Unidentified Tarisian noble (Upper City Cantina)
    • Gana Lavin's father
    • Unidentified female Tarisian noble (Upper City Cantina)
    • Ajuur
  • Taris dueling ring
    • Deadeye Duncan
    • Gerlon Two-Fingers
    • Ice
    • Marl
    • Twitch
  • Upper City North
    • Gorton Colu (GA)
      • Anti-Alien League
  • North Apartments
    • Largo
    • Unidentified Aqualish (North Apartments) (GA)

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Guide to KotOR1 noms

Contents 1 Setting up 1.1 Collect your sources 1.2 Installing the game 1.3 Saving 1.3.1 KSE 2 Images 2.1 Enabling screen shots 2.2 Graphics settings 2.3 Taking screen shots 2.3.1 Tips 2.4 Editing screen shots 2.5 Uploading screen shots 3 Cheats 3.1 Enabling cheats 3.2 Particularly useful cheats 4 Finishing touches

Setting upEdit

Collect your sourcesEdit

For minor KotOR articles, there are three main sources that you'll need:

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Knights of the Old Republic: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

For larger articles, you might also have to look through a number of other KotOR-related resources. CSWE requests are taken here, and KotOR requests are taken here.

Installing the gameEdit

First of all, purchase the game on PC. Legally. The PC version is, for writing purposes, much better, as it is impossible to take screenshots, cheat, or edit savegames with the Xbox version. You'll want to be playing canonically; that is, a light side male. Class is not important, so just go with whatever you like best.

SavingEdit

When playing through the game, it's important to save regularly. A good rule of thumb is to save every time you enter a new map. This allows you to return to any part of the game in case you missed something or want to write a new article. By the time you finish KotOR, you should have a large pack of save files that can get you to any point in the game.

KSEEdit

A great piece of software to have is the KotOR Savegame Editor, a versatile program allowing you to mess around with save files. If you've already got some save files under a female and/or dark side character, it can alter them back to a canonical course. KSE can be downloaded here.

ImagesEdit

Enabling screen shotsEdit

Open the swkotor.ini file with notepad. Under the section [Game Options], enter the following lines and/or values:

• EnableScreenShot=1
• GUIsInScreenShot=0

This will allow you to take screen shots without the user interface with the Print Screen button.

Graphics settingsEdit

While for most activities, you should have your graphics set at a level that minimises lag, when taking screenshots, you should push your PC to the limit. To change your settings, go to options, then graphics. Ideal settings would be:

• Maximum possible screen resolution
• Shadows: On
• Grass: On
• Texture quality: High
• Anti-aliasing: 8 Sample AA
• Anisotropic Texture Filtering: Anisotropy - 16X
• Frame Buffer Effects: Situational
• Soft Shadows: On
• V-Sync: On

However, most PCs are unable to handle these settings. Of greatest priority are:

• Anti-aliasing: 2 Sample AA
• Maximum possible screen resolution
• Texture quality: High

These three combined should create good quality screen shots. If your PC lags under these settings, then you can switch them back after taking your screen shots. If there's no lag, then go ahead and add these in:

• Shadows: On
• Grass: On
• Anisotropic Texture Filtering: Anisotropy - 2X

Further improvements are, of course, preferred, but they are mostly luxuries.

Taking screen shotsEdit

To take a screenshot, use the Print Screen button on your keyboard. The images are saved directly into the game directory in the .tga format. An image file will not be saved if you try to take it during a cutscene. For that, you'll need an external screen capture program such as Fraps, which will be discussed below.

TipsEdit

• Try to minimise background disturbance such as party members and other NPCs unless they are relevant to the image.
• Use the caps lock button to enter first-person perspective. The zoom is useful for enlarging objects and removing the player from the shot. This won't work in combat mode.
• Take multiple shots so that you can pick the best.

Editing screen shotsEdit

The .tga extension is not supported by standard Windows editing programs. To open these files, use a program such as GIMP, which can be downloaded for free here. There's some basic tricks to spruce up an image. First, you'll want to crop out unwanted material. That may include the player, other NPCs, and borders. Next, play around with exposure settings. Increasing brightness and contrast on darker shots (such as those taken in the Taris Undercity or Kashyyyk) can greatly improve visibility.

Uploading screen shotsEdit

Finally, convert the image into a type usable on Wikia, such as JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg), and upload it here. Licensing should be "game screenshot", under "fair use", and the basic framework for the summary should be:

==Summary==
{{Information
|attention=
|description=
|source=''[[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]''
|author=
|filespecs=
|licensing=
|other versions=
|cat artist=
|cat licensee=[[Category:Images from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]
|cat subject=
|cat type=[[Category:Video game CGI images]]
}}

CheatsEdit

Yes, I know what you're thinking. Cheats are for n00bs. Well, unfortunately, when writing, cheats are extremely useful. If you don't like them, then play the game through entirely before starting to write. Note: Cheating puts a "cheat used" stamp on save files.

Enabling cheatsEdit

Open the swkotor.ini file with notepad. Under the section [Game Options], enter the following lines and/or values:

EnableCheats=1

To use a cheat, press ~ while in-game. Holding tab will bring up a list of cheats. An online list (with usage guide) can be found here.

Particularly useful cheatsEdit

• turbo: Greatly increases movespeed
• givecredits [number]: More credits
• set[attribute] [number]: Cheating for high skill levels can help when writing, as it is assumed that Revan can accomplish all but *impossible* skill-related tasks.
• setstealth [number]: High stealth can allow you to get some first-person shots of hostiles.

Finishing touchesEdit

• Slap {{talkheader}} and {{WKOTORtalk}} onto the talk page if it isn't already there.