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- Written by Tormak
The primary purpose of the character
designer is to make creating the perfect
outfit easier. If you have ever spent hours
trying to find that perfect look, you know
exactly what I mean. Finding a piece of an
outfit that works well without knowing the
exact name can be a huge pain, and takes
away from the fun experience of making an
outfit. The character designer allows you to
search by key words, like "mandalorian" or
"armor", in addition to allowing you to
preview items you may not currently have
access to, not just the ones on the GTN or
Cartel Market.
The character designer also serves another
purpose. In the process of creating this
tool I came across the SWTOR-Extractors-Modders-Dataminers
community. One of the main
parts of this community is extracting the
game models from the game (don't worry, its
completely legal). The problem with this is
it can take AGES to extract just one toon.
I decided I wanted to speed this up, so I added it
to the saving function. When you save a toon, you
download this neat little zip file with all the
information on your toon in just 3 json files! Now
you just have to run a small script and bam! All
your models are in an intuitive file structure in
the unzipped folder you downloaded!
I also want to thank everyone who has been interested
in this and encouraged me as I have worked on it. Yall
are awesome, I really appreciate it.