Custimizing Characters

[~Blackbeard~]

I've had the game for a while, and I've heard some people have 'custimized' there character to look like someone else (e.g French Soilder, Raol Rhiems). It seems pretty cool, but I don't get how the hell to do it! Can someone help me out.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Do you mean you want to know how to replace a character's model with a different model? Open up the PROGRAM\Characters\init files and find the character you're looking for. Then change the ch.model line to the model you want the character to use. Please note: This change will only take effect on starting a new game and not on any saved game. To have it work on savegames as well, add a part of code like this to PROGRAM\Reinit.c (below the pc.buildversion = 12.25 part!):
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->    if(stf(pc.buildversion) < 12.26) bupg = true; // added 05-07-19
    if(bupg)
    {
 SetModelFromID(CharacterFromID("Raoul Rheims"), "50_Raoul"); // was "man3"
 // Add additional modelchanges here in the same way as above line

 pc.buildversion = 12.26;
 bupg = false;
    }<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
If you then reinit your game, the change will have taken effect.
Of course, you should replace the "Raoul Rheims" parts with the ID and model for the character you're replacing.

I hope this answers your question... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[Rico]

Pieter, I think he means that he would like his own char to look like someone else. Blackbeard, what version of the Build do you have? If you have 11 or higher, there is a tailor shop added to every colony. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />

 

[~Blackbeard~]

How and where exactly can a get Build 11, what comes with it and does it cost anything? I'm not really sure which version I have, how do I find out? Sorry, its just I've never used this build mode thing before, I'm not really sure what it is.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The Build is an additional modpack that really improves the game a very big lot. It's freely available from the main PiratesAhoy! website. I would highly recommend getting it. You won't regret it. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
(BTW: Build 12 is the most recent version, but a Build 13 is in the works - we already have a lot of post Build 12 mods, see the link in my signature)

 

[SirChristopherMings]

Blackbeard,
Thanks to a number of the modders, there is a place where they've set up tutorials for altering, and adding to, the characters in POTC.

<a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showtopic=1561" target="_blank">http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showtopic=1561</a>

The process of altering the character files is a little tricky, but if you look in the "New Character" thread in the POTC modding section, you'll see how some of the members; Petros, High Sea Lass, Catalina the Pirate, Allen Smithee & Nathan Kell, to name a few, have come up with some really creative changes to the characters in the game. Thanks in a large part to Inez Dias's modeling tool.
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="bow.gif" />

No charge for the Build thanks to people like PA! and Pieter Boelen. Can't beat that price! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />