Char Generator: Remove Gender, Add Species Categories

[TeslaRanger]

I'm not sure if this even possible but I'm looking for a way to remove the segregation of genders (Male, Female, Kid) in the Character Generator and, ideally, replace them with a few species/races (eg: Elf, Dwarf, Alien, Robot). I know I can manually finagle the files in the folders so that the Male, Female, and Kid categories all have the same options (working on that tonight). If I could sort the files by species though that would be a big help. I haven't found any quick answers yet but wondering if someone might know of a plugin, patch/hack, whatever to do something like this?

 

[Zarsla]

I'm not sure if this even possible but I'm looking for a way to remove the segregation of genders (Male, Female, Kid) in the Character Generator and, ideally, replace them with a few species/races (eg: Elf, Dwarf, Alien, Robot). I know I can manually finagle the files in the folders so that the Male, Female, and Kid categories all have the same options (working on that tonight). If I could sort the files by species though that would be a big help. I haven't found any quick answers yet but wondering if someone might know of a plugin, patch/hack, whatever to do something like this?

Short answer: No.

Also unless it's an offical update from here(if standalone installer) or thru steam, then patches/hacks would be illegal and break RPG Maker's EULA.

 

[TeslaRanger]

I haven't made it through all ~17 pages of plugins yet but I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to add races like I was hoping. I think what I really need is to have more than three body types. There's one body image/file for Female, Kid, and Male which probably works well when there's only one species and/or everyone's about the same size.

My setting has four different species that are very different sizes/proportions. If I could add a few body types I could duplicate the library of parts and edit them all to fit bodies properly. It would be a heckuva lot of work but seems like the only way to get the Character Generator to do what I need it to do.

The alternative seems to be drawing every portrait from scratch and tweaking all the sprite models manually (might be able to get away with just scaling some of them). Either would be a lot of work but I'd be ok with that so long as the result is four visually distinct species.

I'm trying to sort out which of those is the more practical option. Is there something I'm missing? Maybe a best-practice or plugin I haven't come across yet?

 

[TeslaRanger]

Also unless it's an offical update from here(if standalone installer) or thru steam, then patches/hacks would be illegal and break RPG Maker's EULA.

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up!