Game has 6 different faces to each tribe. It's already possible to have own face in game by replacing one of the default faces for desired tribe with one's own pic but this leads to fact that you meet other people around with your face which feels kinda funny. I think NPC player faces are picked randomly (1-6) for each character when player meets them. Player chooses his/her own face from these when creating character. I just thought that would it be possible to have slot 7 for "custom face" when creating PC? By default this could be blank or black. That way game would still randomly pick face from alternatives 1-6 but leave 7 alone. It would be available only in character creation process.

good idea!

I am pretty sure you can just replace one of the picture files with your own of the same size and file type. They are listed under north, east, west, and fem.

Yes, Travis, but Hark was wanting a separate, non-NPC picture slot, so he could, err, be himself in the game.

Exactly. I know it's possible and I already did it, as stated in my first post. I just want one slot that's not randomly picked for NPC's.

There's a messy way to do this that would fit all your requirements. Of course, a way to do this in game would be better :-P

Backup your character. Really you only need to save one file, <yourname>.URS is the one file that needs to be edited, but if your scared backup your whole character directory.

Place your 160x160 png in the truegfx folder. It will probably help to stick it at the end of whatever series of faces your character is using. In my case I'm a northern guy using north4.png, there are 6 faces already so I made a new one called north7.png

Open up your save game's directory and look for the <yourname>.URS file. A fully featured hex editor is probably the best thing to use here, if not absolutely essential. I tried doing this with programs like wordpad and notepad and every time broke the file.

Find something referring to a png file, in my case it says north4.png. It should be right around offset 535.

Very carefully change the filename to the new one you created and leave everything else alone. Save and see if you can still load your character without the game crashing before celebrating.

Because you added your own new file, none of the other NPCs in the unreal world know about your fancy new face and won't surprise you by wearing it.

filenames: You may be able to name your picture whatever you want but I don't know quite how URW pulls stuff out of the URS file...if you're going to unexpectedly change around a string in your savegame it's probably best to leave it the same length as what as there before.

Cool! I must try that with some newborn character when it's time to reborn in URW again. It takes some time to do that but I'm willing to try it, atleast once to add some "twist" to my character... still hoping for update that would make that feature native, of course :)

Thanks a lot, rud!

Woah, nice trick, Rud!