easy way to clone allies form one mish to the next
By
LLamaBoy,
Posted on: 2009-07-22 17:37 in Mission Architect
is there an AE creator chat channel in the game, perchance?
Well, if you intend to use the same powersets, height, facial sliders etc. and simply alter a few costume pieces for each appearance of the ally, that's quite a simple procedure:
Once you've created your first iteration of the ally critter, all you need to do is edit it in the critter interface, and just change the parts you want to be different. Once you're at the last section, where you give the critter a name, there's a button at the bottom of the screen which allows you to change the file name that the critter is saved as. If you change this, a new copy of the critter will be saved and the original critter will remain unchanged.
As an example:
A critter with the name "Helper Critter" already exists in my collection. I edit it, altering a few costume pieces. On the Name screen, I click the "Edit Save Path" and change the filename from "Helper Critter.critter" to "Helper Critter2.critter"*. I then save the critter. In my collection I now have two "Helper Critter"s, the original one and the one with the new costume.
*Note: The .critter filename may be in caps. This isn't important.
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yay!! thanks perfect!!! sorry I am such a nOOb
is there one? I have some allies in my AE that I want to appear in more than one mission in the arc, and I want them to change as we go along, so I can't just keep reusing the same ones. Is there an easy way to clone an ally (or an enemy for that matter) or a whole group even so you can then make a new group with them? Sorry if this is a stupid question. thx in advance