Different Coloured Humanoids

One thing I've discovered, in ToEE\Data\Art\Meshes\PCs there is a subdirectory called 'ViewerReadyPCs', I'm not sure what the game uses this for, but the following trick works...

For my summonable creatures mod, I needed a mesh for a Nixie, which is a small, green-skinned humanoid,

So I copied the Human_Female folder, and renamed it Nixie_Female, the files in the folder were similarly re-named, and file references within the file likewise altered with a hex editor.

I then created a reference to this in Meshes.mes, and altered the nixie's mesh refeference in the protos.tab to refer to this.

And it works!

So, this gives us another way to do things like NPC drow, duergar, etc.

Charles

 

nice find nerik ill be keen to see the results of this

 

Just a quick pic to show a green humanoid (a nixie - enlarged a bit).

Note that one flaw of my system is that I have no idea how to add hair (it ignores the hair colour/style entries in the protos.tab).

Charles

 

and it would probably likewise ignore character generator selections, too, for head and hair

 

hmmm...theres always a damn catch lol

its got to be a mod somewhere in the hair stuff maybe more hex editing required

 

have you tryed adding clothing to it to see how it looks?

 

WHAT!?! A Naked Nixie? On THIS forum? :chairshot

Ye gods, what HAS become of this place? :rant:

Quick, cover up those boobies before Gaear sees them! :grin:

 

Firstly, on second thoughts I think this should be moved to Models and Textures...

Hmm.. I'm not actually sure there is anyway this could be used for more PC race models, I'm not even sure what the 'viewerreadypcs' meshes are used for.

Thanks!, I haven't noticed any problems, yet...

Not yet (haven't had the time), but its worth a try, I might need to give it a PC race in the protos.tab entry, which, come to think of it, might fix the hair problem! OTOH, if I can get headwear to work, I might be able to 'fake' hair using a retextured helm or hat.

Charles

 

Unfortuantely, I can't get either clothing or helmets to show up, yet, but weapons work fine, so it appears my technique is of limited application :cry: .

Charles

 

hehe, I new it wouldn't work. well I was 99% sure cos its the same problem I had with making drow. PM me and I'll tell you the work around

 

Too good for the rest of us lowly forum dwellers?

 

you're not high enough in the Art Brotherhood to be allowed to know about our trade secrets

 

Thanks, PM sent.

And I am? Oh, and I should really credit Cujo for the existing Nixie texture - I based it on one of his, dyed green. Now I just need to figure out how to do a sea-weed/sea-shell dress...

Charles