[TSL] Change the character in the Menu?

[JuniorModder]

I want to change the characters that stare at you at the menu screen. You know, Darth Sion, Traya, and Nihlius? I searched through the forums and couldn't find anything helpful.

 

JM

[Canderis]

Not currently possible. What i found the only solution is to retexture the charactors to be transparent so nothing shows up.

Sorry

[JuniorModder]

Very well, how exactly do I do that?

 

JM

[TriggerGod]

Very well, how exactly do I do that?

 

JM

 

Take the texture, make an alpha channel, and make it pure black.

 

But unless you want the character to be invisible in game, you'll have to hex-edit the model so that it uses your transparent texture instead of the base texture. I can't get in-depth on how to do it, since I've done it only a few times before and its been a long time since I last did it. But if you take a hex-editor, open up the mdl file, then search for the texture name, replace it with the new texture name (it must have the same number of characters), then recompile it, it should work.

 

Unfortunately, idk what the main menu screen model names are, a good hex editor, or how to recompile. I'm also not really sure if you have to hex edit the binary model (model you extract from KTool without converting it) or the ascii model. (model file that MDLops makes and that NWMax can read)