HolocronToolset

A PyQt/PySide application that can edit the files used by the KotOR game engine.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• qtpy (abstraction layer for pyqt5/6 and pyside2/6)
• (Optional) A KotOR I or II game installed on your machine somewhere.

Local Run

With uv (from PyKotor repo root):

# End users (latest from PyPI)
uvx --refresh holocrontoolset

# Developers (local source)
uvx --with-editable Libraries/PyKotor --with-editable Tools/HolocronToolset holocrontoolset
uv run --directory Tools/HolocronToolset/src --module toolset

Without uv (activated venv, from Tools/HolocronToolset):

Windows

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
$env:PYTHONPATH = (Get-Location).Path
python toolset/__main__.py

Unix

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
PYTHONPATH=$PWD python3 toolset/__main__.py

Note for Alpine users:

You might get this error:

pyproject.toml: line 7: using '[tool.sip.metadata]' to specify the project metadata is deprecated and will be removed in SIP v7.0.0, use '[project]' instead

While we're not sure what the exact problem is, it seems newer python versions won't correctly be able to build pyqt5. If you don't have a binary available (--only-binary=:all: returns no versions) you'll need to downgrade python preferably to 3.8 or you won't be able to use qt5! See this issue for more information

Local Development

• Clone PyKotor. Use uvx --with-editable to run from local source, or run install_python_venv.ps1 for a traditional venv setup.

Accessing the GUI Designer

python -m pip install qt5-applications

Then navigate to your Python's site-packages folder:

python -m site --user-site

Then navigate to ./site-packages/qt5_applications/Qt/bin and open the designer.exe file.