12.02.2015, 21:02
hey mate!
the good news: you can change it, but its a bit of work in hex editor. the portraits are stored in the .chr files of your created hero. after the game starts and you save, they will be stored into your savegame and the .chr file becomes unimportant. what you have to do now:
1: create a new hero with the portrait you desire (that can be any portrait of any class and gender, you are not restricted to the portraits of the class you wanna play)
2: open the .chr file of the old hero you want to change in your hex editor.
3: scroll down in the file, around the middle of the file you find a big space of 00 values separating the last big data block. this last big data block, in the german version starting at adress around 0x02D0 mostly with 20202020, is the portrait file.
4: copy all the code from the beginning of the 202020 values till the end of the file
5: after backing up your save file, open it in the hex editor and search for exactly that code. if you find it, that is the portrait of your hero in the save. make sure to search all passages in the file containing the code, sometimes the portrait is stored in two places in a savegame.
6. open at a second window the .chr file of the hero with the target face.
7. find and copy the portrait data as you did in step 3 & 4
8. replace the marked code in your save file with the data from the target portrait code.
9. you must check the beginning and end of the inserted code. if its not starting and ending at exactly the same point, you did something wrong and your savegame won't work properly anymore.
hope that helped you :-)
cheers,
j.
the good news: you can change it, but its a bit of work in hex editor. the portraits are stored in the .chr files of your created hero. after the game starts and you save, they will be stored into your savegame and the .chr file becomes unimportant. what you have to do now:
1: create a new hero with the portrait you desire (that can be any portrait of any class and gender, you are not restricted to the portraits of the class you wanna play)
2: open the .chr file of the old hero you want to change in your hex editor.
3: scroll down in the file, around the middle of the file you find a big space of 00 values separating the last big data block. this last big data block, in the german version starting at adress around 0x02D0 mostly with 20202020, is the portrait file.
4: copy all the code from the beginning of the 202020 values till the end of the file
5: after backing up your save file, open it in the hex editor and search for exactly that code. if you find it, that is the portrait of your hero in the save. make sure to search all passages in the file containing the code, sometimes the portrait is stored in two places in a savegame.
6. open at a second window the .chr file of the hero with the target face.
7. find and copy the portrait data as you did in step 3 & 4
8. replace the marked code in your save file with the data from the target portrait code.
9. you must check the beginning and end of the inserted code. if its not starting and ending at exactly the same point, you did something wrong and your savegame won't work properly anymore.
hope that helped you :-)
cheers,
j.