Why would DA Toolset crash when editing some of the UTC files?

[Studenten]

I wanted to change the appearance and cloth for male prostitutes in the Pearl.

 

I've extracted den100cr_prost_male_4.utc from designcreatures.erf in the original game. But as long as I change anything in the UTC file and try to save, the Toolset will crash, dropping a 0 KB den100cr_prost_male_4.utc.$$$ in the MOD folder.

 

Using "saving as" instead of "save" won't help either.

[Pasquale1223]

Instead of extracting it from the erf, try modifying the source file already present in the toolset.

[theskymoves]

The toolset crashes when saving an edited, extracted UTC file. It's always done so. (There were lengthy discussions of the issue on the old Bioware Social forums.)

 

Your options are to either make your changes in the WYSIWYG character editor and export a new UTC (be sure to work in a custom module, and not Single Player!), or to edit the extracted UTC with TlkEdit2. I wrote a tutorial on how to do the latter, though you probably want to search around for better info.