NPC Editing - A Comprehensive Guide

ABlueCar said:
Right now I just assume that the clothing items are extremely hard coded to the character model itself that any changes will just result in everything failing
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You can edit the chances that an already assigned clothing item will appear on an NPC, and the color set it spawns with. But you can't change what the item a character wears is because the shape of those clothing items is pre-baked into the character's mesh.
Volition probably built the NPC meshes by feeding these .xtbl files into a tool we don't have. At least we have the .cvtf cruncher.

Example:
Code: 
                        <Vid_group>
                            <Name>head hair</Name>
                            <Vid_chances>
                                <Vid_chance>
                                    <Description>Shaundi hair</Description>
                                    <VID_list>12</VID_list>
                                    <Chance>100.000</Chance>    <--- YOU CAN ONLY EDIT THIS.
                                </Vid_chance>
                            </Vid_chances>
All Character Meshes (.cmesh) in SR2 are divided up into sections and given a number (known as a "Visual Identifier" or "VID"). For NPCs, each number represents a section of the mesh which is visually identifiable as a clothing item. The chances of the given VID spawning on the NPC can be changed, but the item the VID represents cannot.
 
-SeaboundSaint- said:
You can edit the chances that an already assigned clothing item will appear on an NPC, and the color set it spawns with. But you can't change what the item a character wears is because the shape of those clothing items is pre-baked into the character's mesh.
Volition probably built the NPC meshes by feeding these .xtbl files into a tool we don't have. At least we have the .cvtf cruncher.

Example:
Code: 
                        <Vid_group>
                            <Name>head hair</Name>
                            <Vid_chances>
                                <Vid_chance>
                                    <Description>Shaundi hair</Description>
                                    <VID_list>12</VID_list>
                                    <Chance>100.000</Chance>    <--- YOU CAN ONLY EDIT THIS.
                                </Vid_chance>
                            </Vid_chances>
All Character Meshes (.cmesh) in SR2 are divided up into sections and given a number (known as a "Visual Identifier" or "VID"). For NPCs, each number represents a section of the mesh which is visually identifiable as a clothing item. The chances of the given VID spawning on the NPC can be changed, but the item the VID represents cannot.
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Darn, well thanks for the help anyways

Also yeah, you are correct about editing the chances, I managed to make the Ronin girls to only wear track pants, by reducing the chance for the latex pants to 0.001, if it's completely 0 then one of them will spawn in with no legs lol
 
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