kaizer0002

So I don't know if this is racist but I'm starting over after 40 hours because I accidentally chose black skin. I lost connection with a character when I notice that... unfortunately, that happened after 15 hours of gameplay and I tried to live with it ever since. Skin color is one of the easier values to find, but from what I gather that doesn't make it easy to edit since it's one of the values with a name that isn't just a number in a series (I'm fairly certain it's the value preceded by skin_type). Godspeed and good luck.

I've been going in circles most of the day as well. I made two starter characters with one difference. I made 2 saves of one character (literally back to back) and then 1 save of the target character and have been using WinMerge to look at all 3 of them at the same time. The idea was that I would be able to more easily tease out the difference between the file with the changes I want and the target save since two of the files should be identical (they aren't). At best, I have been able to load into my target save and fall through the world, or have exploding polygons everywhere, and this happened once, load in with the default appearance, be overburdened, and a level 1 corpo (my character is a streetrat). I'm only 20 hours in on this character.. it would probably take less time to just start over.

It's kinda impossible to rip entire block of data from one save to another for one reason, the number of bits in block. It'll differ dramatically and game won't start. IMO it's easier to go for "one-by-one" changes - it's easier to control and check if changes made are working. Sounds like changing body type is going to be a pretty big endeavor since the female bodytype has a bunch of extra data. My consolation prize would be just changing my voice, but since I'm on my second playthrough I'd rather not have the same romance options.

RŠbody appears in male appearance, but not female. I've been trying to just do something more broad stroke. Instead of trying to change things individually, just find a block of text I can rip out from one save and into another to change appearance wholesale. I've been comparing two identical saves where I strip both characters naked/unequip their weapons at the start of The Rescue mission. I got them as close as I could by setting all the appearance options to their lowest value (0/1/empty) although this may have been folly since it just leaves me with more empty segments. I wouldn't mind changing my character's voice but in the short term I just need to fool the game long enough to get past the trigger that checks my characters bodytype/voice to get my love interest of choice.