Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Lets say I played all the way through Peragus and Telos now I'm on the Ebon Hawk, to forfeit having to play through all that again when I create a new character I just alter the character I have. But what I haven't been able to find is what the game uses to recognize it's a different character on the load/save menu. Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Originally posted by Arlen Treesong Lets say I played all the way through Peragus and Telos now I'm on the Ebon Hawk, to forfeit having to play through all that again when I create a new character I just alter the character I have. But what I haven't been able to find is what the game uses to recognize it's a different character on the load/save menu. Any idea? I can't confirm it and I haven't really look into this but I think it's simply your PC name. When you start a new game the normal way, if you name your character the same as in your previous game, he will appear in the same menu as your previous game. If you use a different name then you'll have to press "switch characters" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 If you're right, that explains why Obsidian added PT_PCNAME to the savenfo.res file... KotOR only used the FirstName field in the module.ifo file tucked inside each savegame module. Using that would've been difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Alrighty, I guess then it's just a matter of starting a new game for the save field then loading the altered one and saving it there. Awesome, I never have to go through Telos again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 So KSE doesn't let you do what you want to do? I assume you want to change your name/gender/portrait/appearance or something of that nature, all of which can be modified with KSE. You could simply duplicate your original savegame folder and perform modifications as you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 KSE does let me do everything to alter it BUT if you change the name of the character then load that particular save even thoe your character has a different name it always points to the old characters save area unless you put it somewhere else manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 I'd recommend using the "Skip Peragus" mod we have out now on the forums. I tried it out and got through Peragus in like 10 mins. A very nicely done mod, they put a lot of work into it you could tell. That would at least speed up that part of the game for ya. Hope that little bit of info helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Originally posted by Arlen Treesong KSE does let me do everything to alter it BUT if you change the name of the character then load that particular save even thoe your character has a different name it always points to the old characters save area unless you put it somewhere else manually. Oh, so that refutes that theory. Thanks for letting me know this. (Just to clarify to my thick head... You mean that you have Savegames #1- #5 who's PC name is "Char1" and you modify savegame #5 so that "Char1" is now named "Char2". And when you load up to choose the savegames, "Char2" is still grouped with "Char1". And you would like to have "Char2" separated so that you have to click 'Switch Characters' to be able to see "Char2". Is that right? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daebryn Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Originally posted by Arlen Treesong KSE does let me do everything to alter it BUT if you change the name of the character then load that particular save even thoe your character has a different name it always points to the old characters save area unless you put it somewhere else manually. If you resave the game after loading it with the changed name, it will put it in its own save area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Ah! Thanks Daebryn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorden Darkblade Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Hmmmm This is all very very good to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Originally posted by Daebryn If you resave the game after loading it with the changed name, it will put it in its own save area. TK102:: Your clarification was correct. As for Daebryn, actually it did not. I'm going to use names here. Char1 is Lendon Dire I alter the backup save and change the characters name to Mod Master, when I load the game his name in the game is modmaster, but in the save file above the picture that shows where you saved it still says Lendon Dire above it. EDIT: Hence the only way I see around this is to start a new game with a character named modmaster, save it, then load char1's mod master and save it to the newgames modmaster set, I haven't tried it yet, but by all means it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daebryn Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Hmmm. Worked for me. When you loaded the game up did you resave it in a new slot? Also, try changing the name of the saved game in KSE as well as the character name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 I even tried saving in another characters save area and it still reverts back to Lendon Dire's save area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk102 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Oh I think I found something... It seems there are actually 3 fields associated with the player's name. 1. The FirstName field in the module.ifo inside the [area].sav inside the savegame.sav -- this was carried over from KotOR 2. The PT_PCNAME field in PartyTable.res (this was fixed in KSE 3.2.5) 3. The PCNAME field in savenfo.res... I'm almost certain this last one is the cause of the problem. I'll update KSE to modify this field as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlen Treesong Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Awesome. Oh yeah and to the poster who said use the skip peragus, I did, I just don't like Telos either, atleast after telos I'm given a choice of planets. I have very fickle tastes and tend to start new games all the time and never finish them so I've basically played through Telos in every form imaginable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Originally posted by Arlen Treesong Awesome. Oh yeah and to the poster who said use the skip peragus, I did, I just don't like Telos either, at least after telos I'm given a choice of planets. I have very fickle tastes and tend to start new games all the time and never finish them so I've basically played through Telos in every form imaginable. Hemmmmm....(thinking) I bet you could do a MOD Request post and get one done that maybe could skip it. I'd go here and ask the author if that would be something they would consider. http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145531 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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