Multiplayer Character Banners

[Hamsterino]

Where exactly are the banners saved that the multiplayer chars are using? For example, how does the game remember that New_Player got assigned the swadian banner? I always thought it's in profiles.dat, but at a first glance there's nothing there.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

Iirc there is also some file storing your multiplayer profile. What are you trying to achieve?

 

[Hamsterino]

I want to manually change the banner of one of my characters (I imagined it's like a simple name change like changing models for a sword) in a mod, but other than the models for a sword, I don't know where this kind things is saved.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

Why are you not simply editing your multiplayer character then? Or do you want to replace the banner with some banner which is not in the module which you play?

 

[Hamsterino]

There is a banner which is not accessible via character editing, but it's still in the mod itself, so if a character uses it, it'll be visible to other players. You can just not select it when editing your character.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

If it is just for yourself, you can edit the banner textures and replace one of the others with it. If you want others to see it too, there is probably a reason why not everyone can select it, isn't there?

 

[Tasak]

It is all stored in profiles.dat, but the file uses obfuscated encoding, therefore it cannot be easily modified.

 

[Hamsterino]

The reason one is not supposed to select that banner is because it interferes with the ''lore'', but the mod's lore consists of two sentences... so, it'd be just a cool thing to have.
And yeah, the file only displays nonsense.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

Well, if it is just for yourself, just replace one of the textures with the banner you want to have and it is done.

 

[Hamsterino]

Nah, I'd have been able to do that, but I want it to be visible to other players, which means a simple texture replacing won't do it.

 

[Tasak]

Nah, I'd have been able to do that, but I want it to be visible to other players, which means a simple texture replacing won't do it.

Unluckily, there is no other way to do that. What is the MP module you are using?

 

[Hamsterino]

It's called NordInvasion. And you're sure about it? Because the current banner of a character has to be saved somewhere, right? So it'd make sense if you could edit that part to make it a different banner.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

For me there is a difference in having the banner just for oneself or wanting everyone else to see that one has it. There is a reason that the modders did not want everyone to have it and I have no intention on torpeding their decission.

 

[Hamsterino]

That's understandable. But is the information about the banner being used actually saved in profiles.dat or is it somewhere else?

 

[Tasak]

That's understandable. But is the information about the banner being used actually saved in profiles.dat or is it somewhere else?

It is all in profiles.dat.