How to swap Geralt into a custom imported character

[trickyrick]

Anyone know how to swap Geralt with a custom imported model with custom skeleton? Will Geralt's animation be retained with custom skeleton?

[Bluebeak]

I've asked around but nobody knows just yet. It's fully possible to do as there were mods that replaced Geralt with Ciri pre-Redkit so it's just a matter of someone figuring it out and sharing their work.

[Bluebeak]

I figured out how to do this with one of the existing characters.

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/replacing-geralt-as-player.11129854/

I'm not sure how to do this with a custom skeleton though but hopefully this is a good first step.

[Tórç]

Originally posted by trickyrick:

Anyone know how to swap Geralt with a custom imported model with custom skeleton? Will Geralt's animation be retained with custom skeleton?

The custom skeleton's bone properties would have to be adjusted to match that of Geralt's or else deformation will occur using his animations.

Since you are going to use Geralt's animations, another method would be to extract Geralt's skeleton and attach it to the custom mesh of similar proportions instead.

I only have clue.

[Dimitris G]

Originally posted by Tórç:

Originally posted by trickyrick:

Anyone know how to swap Geralt with a custom imported model with custom skeleton? Will Geralt's animation be retained with custom skeleton?

The custom skeleton's bone properties would have to be adjusted to match that of Geralt's or else deformation will occur using his animations.

Since you are going to use Geralt's animations, another method would be to extract Geralt's skeleton and attach it to the custom mesh of similar proportions instead.

I only have clue.

How can we play a scene but use Ciri as the starting character instead?

[Tórç]

Originally posted by Dimitris G:

How can we play a scene but use Ciri as the starting character instead?

Geralt had been replaced with Ciri pre-Redkit, so it’s fully possible to do if you want to reach the scene during a play-though, it might be found at Nexus Mods.

Originally posted by Bluebeak:

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/replacing-geralt-as-player.11129854/

Bluebeak's link points toward how to swap the player character with the REDkit, but with some problems in the process.

Playing a scene via the REDkit is still a mystery to me, hopefully someone will do a tutorial. Maybe it is as simple as swapping characters involved for those. But of course, if there is voice acting, it will be odd with alternate characters.

[Dimitris G]

Originally posted by Tórç:

Originally posted by Dimitris G:

How can we play a scene but use Ciri as the starting character instead?

Geralt had been replaced with Ciri pre-Redkit, so it’s fully possible to do if you want to reach the scene during a play-though, it might be found at Nexus Mods.

Originally posted by Bluebeak:

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/replacing-geralt-as-player.11129854/

Bluebeak's link points toward how to swap the player character with the REDkit, but with some problems in the process.

Playing a scene via the REDkit is still a mystery to me, hopefully someone will do a tutorial. Maybe it is as simple as swapping characters involved for those. But of course, if there is voice acting, it will be odd with alternate characters.

Thanks. It's my first time wanting to mess with Witcher modding but I think it's better to wait a bit for more tutorials and more Qol hopefully? (like press F to focus on the object you selected or to be able to organize the scene hierarchy)

[Tórç]

Originally posted by Dimitris G:

It's my first time wanting to mess with Witcher modding but I think it's better to wait a bit for more tutorials and more Qol hopefully?

Perhaps, but also, there are existing tutorials for The Witcher 2 REDkit which is nearly the same that can also help currently.