Charlie's Appearance Changer

[oldgrayrogue]

I think that's what its called. Its a cool little tool that lets any PC customize the look and color of their armor, weapons and clothing IG through a very simple to use interface. I suggested it be looked into a while back (can't remember which thread) and someone said it was being considered. Would love to see this added. For the toolset challenged it makes customizing your toon's appearance a breeze.

Found the link:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NW ... ail&id=125

[edited to add link]

[AcadiusLost]

It appears that system currently relies on having a big pile of blueprints in the module, just trading you for a pre-exisiting one of your choice (swapping any item properties over as well) rather than actually editing the appearance attributes of items (NWN2-compatible scripting functions for this have not yet been released by Obsidian, likely low on their priority list).

If we were going to try to integrate this with our servers, we'd want to inspect all of the associated blueprints and customize it to make sure the items generated still fit our naming/tag conventions at the least. I do like the look of their GUI interface for it, closest we're able to get to a "try before you buy" option. If someone with some scripting/toolset experience wants to make a project of this, they should contact me. Otherwise, we'll probably wait till a future version which can actually modify items instead of relying on pulling from a library of prefabs. We've already got nearly 7500 file resources in the Silver Marches module directory (areas, scripts, blueprints), might not be the best idea to add hundreds more just to enable this as an interim solution.

[oldgrayrogue]

You lost me after "It appears ...."

I just want an easy way for people to make their PC look the way they envision them in their head, and thought this may be a solution but it sounds way more complicated than I thought.

Thanks for replying. I trust you guys to do what is best and most practical and effective.

[Vintenar]

Let me get this straight...

It adds more blueprints (armor pieces) which may or may not correlate with the current blueprint tags available in the module. Thus, someone has to go through and make sure all the tags match up, other wise it will just add a ton more (possibly redundant) blue prints to an already overfull list.

I think that is what he is saying, though having little toolset experience, it is just a guess.

It looks pretty cool to me and I would love to see something like this added. It is a shame that something like this cannot be done yet with the physical appearance of the character themselves due to the current limitations.

[AsteroidX]

This is great and fun and eliminates DM's needing to import items into game for players.

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=nw ... ment_page=3

Examples:

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131445.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131520.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131618.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131802.jpg

[Rion of Erb]

I used this on this on the same server as the TKL performer. It was great!, extremely aggravating, but great.! (with all the issues with certain outfits not working on certain toons you end up scrolling thru alot of crap, actually outfits that don't fit the toon show up as the default outfit I believe. But trying to make an outfit for another PC of a different toon type was trial by error for sure) The interface is about as cut and dry as you can get though. Tell it what armor type, then what piece of armor, then its just next or previous.

It almost gives too much control to the player though (IE: you can make studded leather look like nobles outfit etc. or make some really ridiculous outfits in general).

They way it was handled on the server I played was you had to have so many ranks in craft armor to even use it (it was not many ranks though) and you had to buy an item to use at work bench.

[Kest]

Last I used this, it was bugged - changing the appearance of my light +1 chainshirt turned it into medium banded mail or something.

[HEEGZ]

This is great and fun and eliminates DM's needing to import items into game for players.

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=nw ... ment_page=3

Examples:

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131445.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131520.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131618.jpg
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w278 ... 131802.jpg

That looks nice. I was wondering why there was nothing like this for NWN2 yet. Seems it's been out for a while after all.