i know this isn't necessarily the right thread, and somewhat unrelated, but i have been trying to figure out how to do a similar mod, swapping out one group of NPCs for another. to be more accurate, a "female enemies" mod for the game. have have been able to do it very easily for saints row 3, 4 and Gat out of hell. mainly all i needed to do was swap the "character" part of the character.xtbl file to swap models and voices. with saints row 2, i think i understand how to ACTIVATE a mod (as you said in your posts here, place a custom mod in the specific folder of "gentlemen of the row"), but i can't figure out how to get the mod functional. to be clear, what i did was take the file for different NPCs and change the Variants that spawn in, such as only female cops should spawn if there is a female variant. as for those who have seperate male and female files, such as the different stilwater gangs, my method was replace the other related files such as the ones used in your mod with the data of the female npc's file. i patched it to gentlemen of the row as you suggest for installing your mod, but the game has only been crashing while regular gentlemen of the row (mods that already come as part of it) works pretty well. any idea on what files i should be using or what i need to edit? seems like it should be something relatively easy, mainly just needing to know what i need to put in it.
for example, i swap the male brotherhood soldier and lieutenant data in the variant file as well as the "_cha" (the kind in your mod), "_des", and "_pre" files with the data from the female version, so the only difference between the two versions is the name only. and if the NPC file has a mix of male and female, i deleted all the male variants hoping they would spawn as female. still not sure what i am doing right or wrong. any suggestions?
