Just swapping 'em - nope you don't. The raw xml is the basic gateway to getting it done, which is brilliant and simple for dev and modder alike :)

It should be noted that these are generated by the engine as well, so you can actually pop hair models onto characters via the character editor in the CryEngine SDK, though they don't immediately have materials.

Do that by clicking the little person in the top menus and then you'll have the list of default parts there in the middle on the left, click hair, then on the right you can change the file it points to and choose from the hair files that are in the UL folders within the character folder.

A) We already have one when the forums come back up at UL
B) I don't trust your forum and therefore don't trust your post, sorry

I saw that coming but I felt bad stealing thunder, guess I should have hosted anyway, haha. Well, I guess in fairness they were posting someone else's file themselves, it seemed.

Anyway- get the pak extractor here, I'll host it on my mod's BitBucket:
https://bitbucket.org/Eocryphops/fortitude-state-of-decay-base-stabilization/downloads/Extraction_Method.zip

Extract that - as seems easiest for me - into your game folder.

Then you open quickbms_4gb_files.exe,
Target zip2.bms when it asks (this is the script that tells it how to handle decompressing the file, where to put the folders, and how to further build the files into them)
Then the pak - in your case that's characters,
Then tell it to unload it in the game folder.

It'll build the folder "Characters" and that's where you'll get all your stuff. Good?

Course mate :) I need to update that how-to, honestly, I just seem to always be doing something else. Feel free to ask if you need further assistance or if you struggle with a piece in there please let me know so I can make it more clear. I'll also point out that i post most of my stuff on the Undead Labs forums rather than here.

Good luck to you - can't wait to see what you have planned :)

I'd be curious how the console was enabled....I guess I could bother looking around, haha.

Not sure at all - I don't have enough experience in ecryption/decryption algorithms to make any judgements. The request had been posted on the main UL forums to a person that broke down the XML to BMD conversion but then the forums are down. I'm interested in the .markup, myself.

Not anything I'm interested in dealing with personally, sorry :/
There are plenty more codes in the executable that I didn't post, by the way. Was just a "Hey, over here!" kind of thing.

Those files don't need to be converted to BMD. If you find a file in the normal structure of the PAK that is XML and you don't have a matching BMD already, then you don't have to do anything but modify the XML.

Did you follow this for basic character mechanics?
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/stateofdecaymodding/discussions/0/864980277909273594/

I'm reasonably sure that the Romero Mod has a component that handles the amount of stuff you can carry and the weight of it.

Thanks! Definitely on the list - first looking at making some characters that go along with a wasteland type of flavor. Starting with a type of swat variant with metal and leather, haha.

If I can't get it to go right with what i have access to deal with for now, then I'll go back to doing more vehicles. I'll actually be doing the yellow hatchback as a kind of armored small sand-rail before the police car.