NPC appearence question

Damona Silvercloud · Thu, 8th Jan '04, 7:46pm

I'm noob at using the toolset, and I'm trying to make some unique looking NPC's. Is there any way to change the appearence of the NPC's? I tried altering their clothes, tinkering with the blueprint. I know I'm missing something, this has got to be an easy fix. Anyone have any suggestions?

Alavin · Thu, 8th Jan '04, 7:59pm

You can change the appearance of the body parts, hair and skin colour, plus wings and tails if you have HotU, all under the Appearance tab of the creature properties. This only works for the PC races however. To change the appearance of other creatures, the only way is to manually edit the graphics file (I'm not sure how this is done), or download a hak file.

Damona Silvercloud · Thu, 8th Jan '04, 8:17pm

I do have HotU, and all the drop menus on the appearance tab are disabled. This is a human female, it should be easy enough.

Alavin · Thu, 8th Jan '04, 9:43pm

The human models that have a number after them a pre-built ones, which cannot be altered. The models that are just the standard race name, eg "human", should be changeable.

Damona Silvercloud · Thu, 8th Jan '04, 10:03pm

I figured it out, finally. That was the problem, I was trying to alter unalterable things. Under custom, there's a heading for "special" and when I right clicked on that, it said "new" That was it. I started from scratch, and built my own NPC's.

Thanks for trying to help me figure this through.

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Thu, 8th Jan '04, 7:46pm	#1
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Thu, 8th Jan '04, 7:59pm	#2
Alavin If I wanted your view, I'd read your entrails Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Kent, England Posts: 930 Blog Entries: 4 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 2,501 Level: 16 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 38.15% Daily Activity 2.43% Weekly Activity 2.43% Monthly Activity 2.04% Achievements	You can change the appearance of the body parts, hair and skin colour, plus wings and tails if you have HotU, all under the Appearance tab of the creature properties. This only works for the PC races however. To change the appearance of other creatures, the only way is to manually edit the graphics file (I'm not sure how this is done), or download a hak file.

Thu, 8th Jan '04, 8:17pm	#3
Damona Silvercloud Gems: 10/31 Latest gem: Zircon Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: 'Down the Shoah Posts: 388 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 1,244 Level: 12 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 5.51% Daily Activity 2.43% Weekly Activity 2.43% Monthly Activity 2.04% Achievements	I do have HotU, and all the drop menus on the appearance tab are disabled. This is a human female, it should be easy enough.

Thu, 8th Jan '04, 9:43pm	#4
Alavin If I wanted your view, I'd read your entrails Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Kent, England Posts: 930 Blog Entries: 4 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 2,501 Level: 16 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 38.15% Daily Activity 2.43% Weekly Activity 2.43% Monthly Activity 2.04% Achievements	The human models that have a number after them a pre-built ones, which cannot be altered. The models that are just the standard race name, eg "human", should be changeable.

Thu, 8th Jan '04, 10:03pm	#5
Damona Silvercloud Gems: 10/31 Latest gem: Zircon Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: 'Down the Shoah Posts: 388 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 1,244 Level: 12 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 5.51% Daily Activity 2.43% Weekly Activity 2.43% Monthly Activity 2.04% Achievements	I figured it out, finally. That was the problem, I was trying to alter unalterable things. Under custom, there's a heading for "special" and when I right clicked on that, it said "new" That was it. I started from scratch, and built my own NPC's. Thanks for trying to help me figure this through.