A fanzine has recently been released to honor and remember Cindy Morgan, named Always: A Cindy Morgan Zine.

https://cindymorganzine.itch.io/always


Cindy sadly passed away, at the very end of 2023.

I was invited to contribute to the zine, so I submitted a couple of articles that were both approved and included.

The zine contains fans' stories about interacting with Cindy, photos of her, fan art and fiction of Cindy and her TRON characters (Lora, Yori, and Ma3a), plus more.

Fanzine creators Panda and Mouse are asking you to "name your own price" when downloading the zine, and any contributions made are going to charity as can be seen on the on the zine site's page.

As I'm closing in on the end of development on Killer App Mod v1.2, I'm tackling some more difficult things. I have two progress update videos to share today.

One I almost didn't share, for reasons that will become clear by the end of that video.


TRON 2.0 - KILLER APP Mod v1.2 Texture Upscaling (4K UHD)
Killer App Mod v1.2 will feature upscaled textures. But upscaling was done selectively. Upscaling all the textures, en masse, would consume a lot more memory and disk space, for little benefit.

If you'd like to see my earlier experiments with texture upscaling, check out this previous article. (At that time, I didn't plan to include upscaled textures in Killer App Mod v1.2 and was going to wait until a potential v1.3. But since v1.2 hasn't released yet, rather than keep everyone waiting even longer: I'm going to include them in v1.2, after all.)

I would actually be grateful for everyone's assistance, in identifying more TRON 2.0 textures that should receive the upscaling treatment.

If you could send me screenshots on social media of what you think should be upscaled, I'd really appreciate your help.

Time stamps of note:

• 00:00 - Intro and Spoiler Warning
• 00:37 - Thorne Torso - AI Filter + Upscaling
• 01:03 - Thorne Cloak - AI Filter
• 01:41 - Thorne Full Body - AI Filter + Upscaling
• 03:17 - TRON Arcade Game Cabinet Exterior - AI Filter
• 03:39 - Alan's Lab Coat Front, Back, and Sleeves + CRT Monitor + Laser Equipment Plaque + Paper - AI Filter + Upscaling + Manual Edit (Font on Plaque)
• 04:43 - Fixed Alan's Lenses in Glasses randomly disappearing, this occurs on any version of the game - modded or vanilla (unmodified)
• 04:53 - Alan's Lab Coat Front, Back, and Sleeves - AI Filter + Upscaling
• 05:28 - Laser Equipment Plaques - AI Filter + Upscaling + Manual Edit (Font)
• 05:52 - Walls on Progress Bar level - AI Filter + Upscaling + Manual Edit (Amber Circuits)
• 07:06 - Barrier Wall on Remote Access Node level - AI Filter + Upscaling
• 07:25 - Outro

While testing, I discovered an issue I never noticed before. Thought it might have to do with my setup: GPU, driver install, etc. But, nope. It's for everyone in TRON 2.0, retail vanilla or modded.

Alan's lenses will randomly disappear. But I seem to have fixed it, permanently.



TRON 2.0 - KILLER APP Mod v1.2 Alan's Desktop PC I/O Node Fix (4K UHD)
Here's an attempt in the upcoming Killer App Mod v1.2 to fix an issue causing players to get stuck in TRON 2.0, on the Alan's Desktop PC level. I almost didn't share this. It's long and boring. But wanted to explain my rationale, and previous attempts.

But, more importantly, I don't know if it's too soon to share it. Part of this is intended as a tribute to Cindy Morgan, and I hope other fans see it this way, too. You'll all have to let me know, if the result I'm showing here is good.

Time stamps of note:

• 00:00 - Intro and Spoiler Warning
• 00:13 - Greetings Programs
• 01:40 - Why players get stuck on the vanilla (unmodified) Retail version of the Alan's Desktop PC level
• 03:58 - Monolith did have something in mind to help prevent players getting stuck, but it went unused
• 05:43 - First attempt to address this issue, in Killer App Mod v1.1a
• 06:43 - Second attempt to address the issue, in upcoming Killer App Mod v1.2
• 07:27 - The way the Xbox release of TRON 2.0 "fixed" this, was not ideal
• 08:50 - Third and final(?) attempt to address the issue, in upcoming Killer App Mod v1.2
• 11:10 - Adding full lip-sync to a character
• 11:51 - Why I almost didn't make this video
• 12:42 - Releasing this fix is intended as a tribute to Cindy Morgan
• 14:02 - End of Line
• 14:09 - Outro

If you want to see progress updates between video uploads to the LDSO YouTube channel, visit here: https://mastodon.social/@LDSO

There will be more Killer App Mod v1.2 previews in the coming months of 2024, and an Early Access release of v1.2 that might not be 100% complete will be made available as soon as possible.

Cindy Morgan (born Cynthia Ann Cichorski) has passed away at the age of 69. I'll never forget her memorable performances as Lora Baines and Yori in the original TRON film, and Ma3a in the game TRON 2.0. RIP Cindy.

https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/cindy-morgan-dead-caddyshack-1235863303/