Demorecord/edit questions

I want to make a video of my friend's character playing through one of my Mission Architect story arcs. But, my friend isn't in-game much lately. So, I thought I would:

1) use /demorecord to record my character playing the arc; and then
2) edit the .cohdemo file to replace my character with my friend's character.

This process worked somewhat; but, not entirely as intended.

- I recorded my character playing the arc.
- I created my friend's character as a custom non-player character in Mission Architect.
- I demorecorded the custom NPC I had created of my friend's character (in a separate story arc and separate .cohdemo file from the recording of my character).
- I copied and pasted the custom NPC data to replace my character's data in the .cohdemo file.

When I played .cohdemo file, the custom NPC appeared in place of my character... at first. But, when the custom NPC was first hit by a villain's attack during combat, my character instantly appeared in place of the custom NPC. This is not what I intended.

Is this behavior--a replacement character reverting back to the original character upon first damage--normal for demorecording? Does it only happen in recordings of MA story arcs? Is there any way I can keep the replacement character from reverting back to the original?

Please advise, demorecord/edit experts. Thank you.

I've only done what you're describing when setting up screen shots, not videos, so I've never seen that happen.

However, what I suspect happened is that (for whatever reason), the entity representing the player was despawned in the demofile code and respawned.

Search the demo file for the your character's name (the one you recorded the demo with). If you find it elsewhere in the file, replace that entity's code with the code for your custom critter.

I've got a couple other ideas, but I'd need to check out your demo code to confirm. If you've recorded an entire mission, the file will be WAY to big to paste into a forum post; can you host it somewhere online and provide a link to download it?

When you replaced the original character with the replacement one, you deleted ALL the lines defining the original character, and made sure to change the ID numbers of the replacement character to the same numbers the original used, right?

For example, if your original character were:

0   5   NEW "Blood Brother Slammer"
0   5   NPC Thug_Hellion_01
0   5   POS -227.15625 0 130.203125
0   5   PYR 0 -0.380427 -0

0   17  NEW "Flower Knight"
0   17  NPC Model_Kit_Sung

0   17  NEW "Flower Knight"
0   17  NPC Model_Kit_Sung
0   5   POS -227.15625 0 130.203125
0   5   PYR 0 -0.380427 -0

0   5   NEW "Flower Knight"
0   5   NPC Model_Kit_Sung
0   5   POS -227.15625 0 130.203125
0   5   PYR 0 -0.380427 -0

I copied the following text, which defines the custom NPC that I created of my friend's character, named Starbolt.