Scholar: So I'm trying to change the player to have Fume Knight's model in the cutscenes the player shows up in. The very first cutscene of the game is a bit different because I believe it uses a separate "pre-creation" character that makes it easy to adjust. However, I am unable to change the player in other cutscenes (Executioner's chariot, leaving no man's wharf, memory cutscenes, Freja). Any advice about how I might go about this? I know cutscenes are handled in scn, but I can't seem to access most of the files.
#[SOLVED] Changing the Player in Cutscenes to Fume Knight
glad forge
gleaming pebble
Scholar: So I'm trying to change the player to have Fume Knight's model in the c...
what do you mean by you "cant access most of the files"?
gleaming pebble
I don’t know how to open mqbs or hkxs
bro, you still there?💀
gleaming pebble
I mean what file do you want
the mqb and "cuts" of the cutscene that you need
gleaming pebble
Tomorrow though, computer is off :/
😊
gleaming pebble
so you want in this cutscene the player characther to be the fume knight?
if yes, then tell me the fume knight char id, like "cXXXX"
gleaming pebble
for some reason, the mqb refers to "c675000_0000" model id, the hkx refers to "c000100_0000" model
glad forge
so you want in this cutscene the player characther to be the fume knight?
Correct
Fume Knight char ID is c6750
Ideally, I'd like to know what you did since this has to be applied to many cutscenes
Player is in more of them than I originally thought
Ah, found your link to how to open it
yeah...6750 already being there is...a bit concerning
Maybe I sent you the already attempted file instead of vanilla by accident
Well shoot, maybe I overwrote my vanilla folder last year
gleaming pebble
Correct
wait, gonna send you now the hkx that you gonna replace it, but backup the original one
glad forge
I already am doing it myself 😉
gleaming pebble
what you gonna try to do?
glad forge
Learned hex editing
I believe you were right on the issue
I'm just going to change the c000100 to match the mqb
which is 6750...
Or rather, not to match, but to change it
shouldn't take that long, really easy to find thankfully
Already wrote a whole tutorial on it lol
gleaming pebble
let me change fast one hkx, so you could check it ingame, if it crashes the game
glad forge
Just recording the process
gleaming pebble
glad forge
haha yeah we are both doing the same thing
Just finished my version, I'll try mine then yours
do you know what the difference between the d and a cuts are?
gleaming pebble
the d cut is for dummy object, like an "empty-object" created in 3ds max and then converted into havok skeleton to attach to it something, like light point, sfx, etc.
gleaming pebble
in this case - no
glad forge
Does that mean if we changed the a (assuming it works) and not the d, an sfx would be attached to the dummy poly relating to the player character too?
gleaming pebble
Does that mean if we changed the a (assuming it works) and not the d, an sfx wou...
while you are checking if it works, i am gonna look in mqb to what the d in cut20 is related
glad forge
cool
It will take a bit to check anything
This mod is uh
Not pleasant to test
YEEEAAAAA
That's my version
gleaming pebble
nice
glad forge
I can test your's real quick too
Do I need a reboot of the game you think?
of course, it only works for that cut, as expected
gleaming pebble
nah, no reason
glad forge
Cool
gleaming pebble
what have you done in hkx? jsut changed the character id to fume's knight?
glad forge
yup. All references to the character
I wonder what would happen if you just changed that first one and not all the parts
like the left foot right foot and stuff
I'll do that for the next cut and report back
But cool, we came to the same conclusion I guess. I don't know why I wasn't able to like, think of all of this until now
I also didn't know hex editing was this easy, this is my first time doing it
Well, at least easy in this case
gleaming pebble
what do you mean by hex editing, you can work with mqb as xml version
gleaming pebble
ah
glad forge
If you just do the mqb, at least in this cutscene, the player just disappears
Which makes sense
gleaming pebble
wait, you changed the hkx not through xml?
glad forge
Because as I see it, the mqb is just pulling the resources and making it available. It reminds me of FXR editing. You got the .fxr.xml (hkx) and you put in the texture IDs you want it to reference. However, you have to include those in a reference list, .reslist (mqb)
glad forge
wait, you changed the hkx not through xml?
You mean convert the hkx to xml?
gleaming pebble
like, just in case, through all the process about cutscenes just use the mqb to xml converter and havok content tools
glad forge
Havok content tools for the hkx?
gleaming pebble
yes, of course, have not you used it?
It says it doesn't work for DS2 
gleaming pebble
gonna message you in dm
glad forge
kk