Editing Character Appearances

Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:24 pm by TheGreenLion

I'm fairly new to editing how Characters look and I've heard of bugs with the mod that makes it easier to see what they'll look like, so I've resorted to trying it on my own. I've already edited Trent successfully, he currently is using Bretonian Elite costume and the visored Elite helmet prop. What I can't do is give Juni a hat, it always appears(or should I say doesn't?) invisible. I'm gussing it's because she's got hair on her head, or it's just not working like I want it to. I haven't tried all of hats available so any input would be excellent. I hope there is a way...cause she'd just look even more SEXY with a nice military dress hat.

And also, what about skins...is there a program out there that allows modification to the costumes? Preferably one that I can see results in 3d, lol.

Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:57 am by Dark_Shadow2004

try character editor...it is in the Downloads sections....the closest thing to seeing what all teh costumes look like...(not sure if it shows the females)

"To live is to die....but living is to die slowly..why waste time on trivial things just play as hard as you can"

Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:41 pm by TheGreenLion

I've downloaded it, and it does great for figuring out the heads/bodies but it doesn't have a props section. What I'm trying to do is get Juni a hat, but the game doesn't recognize it when I put in accessory = blah blah like it does when I do the same to Trent. I'll play with it some and see if I can't get at least one to show.

Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:08 pm by H.Q. Victor

When you change juni or the others, start a new game to see if they are changed. Some Cut sences still may show unmodified NPC's. I changed Trent and gave him Glasses, and His business partner, robotic hands. They tend to stay with him. Try the shades and see if they stay with her.

Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:14 pm by TheGreenLion

Ok, found a major problem with that. I've played up to the part where you talk to Sinclair and she shows up as invisible if you've swapped Juni's body...I didn't bother to see how many other characters would be invisible, but I'm speculating that it only pertained to Sinclair as she is female as well. I placed the original costumes.ini back into the CHARACTERS folder and although it didn't change Trent's appearance back to his old brown jacket and pants, it did change Juni back to the original body, and Sinclair showed up. There's some direct relation between Juni and Sinclair's bodies and if you edit Juni, the other doesn't show...like the input isn't even there. I don't know about the shades, Trent had a helmet that went missing at some point. I believe it goes missing for some reason after entering a base/planets bar/equip/ship/comm. areas. I really only noticed it in the bars. Oh! before I forget, something REALLY wierd happens to Trent and Juni's necks when they are talking to the invisible Sinclair. The heads turn around backwards but the necks are what really bothers me. They end up twisting around, following teh head, but they aren't round anymore, they've flattened out, but not 2d flat, sort of an oval shape instead of round like this:
(___( ) to (____() this. The base of the neck is still facing forward, with the top turning with the head...it's just STRANGE.

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