# Kolto Labs

> Kolto Labs is an independent, open-source group that builds tools for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I and II. kq queries a game install from the command line. kotor-formats is a set of shared Rust libraries for the games' file formats. More tools are in development. Life support for the Odyssey engine.

Kolto Labs builds tools for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Released: kq, a command-line tool that lets modders query a game installation, and kotor-formats, shared Rust readers and writers for the games' file formats. More tools are in development.

## Pages

- [Kolto Labs](https://swkotor.org/): Tools for KotOR I & II: kq, Rust crates for GFF, 2DA and TLK, and Hyperstim, a script extender in development. Life support for the Odyssey engine.
- [About Kolto Labs](https://swkotor.org/about/): Kolto Labs builds tools for KotOR I and II.
- [Projects](https://swkotor.org/projects/): Every Kolto Labs project and its status. kq and the Rust format crates are out. Hyperstim, Adrenal and Kolto Tank are in development.
- [Roadmap](https://swkotor.org/roadmap/): What has shipped and what comes next: Hyperstim, Adrenal, Kolto Tank and Hrakert.
- [FAQ](https://swkotor.org/faq/): How to install kq, what it does, and which tools are in development.
- [Credits and prior art](https://swkotor.org/credits/): The tools, people and communities Kolto Labs builds on: TSLPatcher, KotOR Tool, DeNCS, xoreos, Deadly Stream and more.

## Projects

- [kq](https://github.com/kolto-labs/kq) (released; Rust; v0.3.0): Query a Knights of the Old Republic installation like it was plain text. kq treats a KotOR or TSL game folder as structured, searchable data. It reads the archives in place, so nothing gets extracted first. Questions work the way rg works on a source tree and jq works on JSON. Start with kq which: every copy of a resource in engine resolve order, with a star on the copy the game actually loads.
- [kotor-formats](https://github.com/kolto-labs/kotor-formats) (released; Rust; v0.1.0): Readers and writers for the Odyssey engine file formats used by Knights of the Old Republic I and II. Three tools were each carrying their own copy of the KotOR I and II byte layouts, free to drift apart. These Rust crates are the one copy they all read from. Small on purpose, so each tool takes only what it needs: kotor-ncs-isa (the NCS instruction set as data), kotor-ncs (NCS read/write plus a decompiler built on the DeNCS algorithm), kotor-formats (GFF, 2DA, TLK, SSF, ERF/RIM) and kotor-diff (structural comparison).

## Watch the lab: not public yet

- Hyperstim (in development; TBD): A script extender for KotOR and TSL.
- Adrenal (in development; TBD): Scripting for KotOR and TSL mods.
- Kolto Tank (in development; TBD): A test bench for mods. You bring your own copy of the game.
- Hrakert (planned; TBD): A long-term project.
- Ahto (planned; TBD): The Kolto Labs docs hub. This website is its first room.

## Notes

- Source: https://github.com/kolto-labs