Changing the appearance of a character - body region explanation

[GertrudMathilde]

There are these new commands: SetTargetPlayerBodyVal and SetTargetPlayerColorVal which change something for some body region. But what exactly do they do and how?
We (Phill and I, running a private server) have been experimenting a bit and want to share what we found out. So far we could not find any source explaining the thing completely. I do not guarantee this to be entirely correct, this is just what we have been experiencing.
You probably know an admin has to change your values for you. He has to look at you and enter "cheat SetTargetPlayerBodyVal 9 0.5" for example (this would change the length of your character's legs). Then you have to respawn to see the effect.
It took us a lot of experimenting, respawning and teleporting to get what we wanted: I changed the values of Phill's character, Phill respawned at some random bed and teleported back to my character.
It seems that for every region 0 is the default value. In the patch notes (or any source I found) it says the float value has to be between 0 and 1, but negative values seem to work, too. We shortened Phill's legs this way. -0.2 did work, -1 did not though.

The body regions are as follows:

SetTargetPlayerColorVal

• 0 - changes the body color
  
• 1 - changes the hair color; "cheat SetTargetPlayerColorVal 1 0.9" gives you light blonde hair for example
  
• 2 - eye color. 0 is yellow-ish, 0.4 is green-blue-ish, 0.5 is green 0.7 is orange, 0.8 is red.

SetTargetPlayerBodyVal

• 0 - head size
  
• 1 - neck size
  
• 2 - neck length
  
• 3 - chest
  
• 4 - shoulders (width)
  
• 5 - arm length
  
• 6 - upper arm (width)
  
• 7 - lower arm (width)
  
• 8 - hand size
  
• 9 - leg length
  
• 10 - upper leg (width)
  
• 11 - lower leg (width)
  
• 12 - foot size
  
• 13 - hip width
  
• 14 - torso width
  
• 15 - upper face size
  
• 16 - lower face size
  
• 17 - torso depth
  
• 18 - head height
  
• 19 - head width
  
• 20 - head depth
  
• 21 - torso height
  
• 22 - not used?
  
• 23 - not used?
  
• 24 - not used?
  
• 25 - not used?
  
• 26 - not used?
  
• 27 - not used?
  
• 28 - not used?
  
• 29 - not used?
  
• 30 - not used?

Still, it is time consuming and uncomfortable and maybe this whole thing is obsolete in a few days (I don't know if there is anything planned to make this process easier) but I hope this is helpful anyway.
Please let us know if you know more than this.

[Phill]

So much cosmetic surgery ... i feel like a certain famous popstar now ...

[Greystar]

+1million

[Skiptro]

thanks for figuring this out man

[Jaybob32]

Thank you so much

[Loubianka]

A bit necroing here, but huge thanks to OP for the explanations, helped us a lot!

[Greystar]

Originally posted by Panplemousse:

A bit necroing here, but huge thanks to OP for the explanations, helped us a lot!

Personally I think the devs should have done this AND stickied it but t hey could still sticky this.

[Loubianka]

Originally posted by Greystar:

Personally I think the devs should have done this AND stickied it but t hey could still sticky this.

100% Agree, this should be stickied !

Couldn't find this thread back with the forum search engine, except when I wrote the ENTIRE title (hopefully I first found this thread trough my browser and not Steam, so could find it again with Internet history).

[Greystar]

Originally posted by Panplemousse:

Originally posted by Greystar:

Personally I think the devs should have done this AND stickied it but t hey could still sticky this.

100% Agree, this should be stickied !

Couldn't find this thread back with the forum search engine, except when I wrote the ENTIRE title (hopefully I first found this thread trough my browser and not Steam, so could find it again with Internet history).

Hint now that you posted in it just click on Post History.

[harrodeparro]

Thanks very much, I was looking for this. That must have taken quite some effort figuring all out! :O

Edit: I play SP, so I guess, I am out of luck :-/

[Greystar]

Originally posted by harrodeparro:

Thanks very much, I was looking for this. That must have taken quite some effort figuring all out! :O

Edit: I play SP, so I guess, I am out of luck :-/

Correct, you'd have to just start over at this point, you can however give yourself replacement gear and everything using cheat commands though. Along with xp to get yourself back to the right level.

[NaN]

thanks for taking the time to figure this out.

personally i feel like these commands are a bit clunky, wish there was a command for a forced character appearance reset so that the admin only has to do 1 command for the person to get to redo their character themselves.
since as you stated it takes quite a bit of time to change the appearance this way.

[Greystar]

Originally posted by 3d Plague:

thanks for taking the time to figure this out.

personally i feel like these commands are a bit clunky, wish there was a command for a forced character appearance reset so that the admin only has to do 1 command for the person to get to redo their character themselves.
since as you stated it takes quite a bit of time to change the appearance this way.

Agreed, or even an Item that was one use, like a "Beauty/Shave kit" I know thats an over simplified name but it, in theory shouldn't be that hard to do.

[GertrudMathilde]

A "character restyle item" is a nice idea! But it would be annoying if a bug changed your appearance and you'd have to use your own precious material just to change it back (or maybe search for that item in supply crates).
Also I wouldn't like for such an item (if it existed) to be "cheap", because I wouldn't like everyone to change their appearance every few hours. Would be irritating.

But yeah, a shortcut to the character creation screen (item or command or whatever) would be nice, especially to avoid the many necessary time consuming respawns. A solution for SP would be nice, too (this would be easy with a "restyle item").

[NaN]

Originally posted by void:

A "character restyle item" is a nice idea! But it would be annoying if a bug changed your appearance and you'd have to use your own precious material just to change it back (or maybe search for that item in supply crates).
Also I wouldn't like for such an item (if it existed) to be "cheap", because I wouldn't like everyone to change their appearance every few hours. Would be irritating.

But yeah, a shortcut to the character creation screen (item or command or whatever) would be nice, especially to avoid the many necessary time consuming respawns. A solution for SP would be nice, too (this would be easy with a "restyle item").

indeed, perhaps a command that anyone can use i wouldn't like it to be an item and risk being forcefed amnesiac + restyle item would really be a pain.

[GertrudMathilde]

Originally posted by 3d Plague:

i wouldn't like it to be an item and risk being forcefed amnesiac + restyle item would really be a pain.

Right, I didn't think of that. That would indeed be a pain.

But rather than a command anyone can use I'd prefer the way it is now (admin has to use the command) plus a way to target oneself (in commands like SetTargerPlayerSomething) with a "back to character design screen" command to avoid everyone changing their appearance all the time just because they can. But that's just my opinion.