Facial Hair changer?

[Adamaklas]

Well pretty much what the tittle says!

Is there a way to change the facial hair on my toon ?

[Hoihe]

Changing the facial hair, and indeed actually the hairstyle would require editing the .bic files. As buggy as NWN2 is, and that there already is precedent of causing an alteration of the bic files beyond what would normally happen (say, DM using a scale tool on a PC or changing their appearance with their magic appearance changer button... no turning into dragons) will mess the file up and cause you to bug out, unable to log in.

Facial hair is usually an On/off button, and/or built into the head model you are using.



We managed to solve the hair changing kind of patch-workishly by creating hats/helmets with the appearance of the hair styles and colours in the base game.

[Aspect of Sorrow]

Offset 0x00003388 (block 3338-3397 (length 10)) is your state descriptor and as Hoihe pointed out, it's on or off, due to the beard being modeled into the head.

As buggy as NWN2 is, and that there already is precedent of causing an alteration of the bic files beyond what would normally happen (say, DM using a scale tool on a PC or changing their appearance with their magic appearance changer button... no turning into dragons) will mess the file up and cause you to bug out, unable to log in.

Byte array conversion is a cinch in this particular situation (on/off). Unlike Letoscript for Linux, one cannot make enumerations under NTFS/FAT/ReFS (Windows), so the request would have to be made into a queue where on user logoff an NWNx or external watch program can make the change.

If using the Skywing MSIL accelerator, you should be able to call the write in the following manner

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using (var fst = new FileStream(vaultpath + cbic, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite)) {
    fst.Position = 3338; // wherever the flag is in the BIC file after determining the pattern
    fst.WriteByte(0x01);
}

[Adamaklas]

Oh that's alright, guess it's just like real life, it's a big fuss to change your facial hair into something totaly diferent after all

Thanks for the info Hoihe!