Possibility of making $edit npc work on Ep3 and PSO GC Plus? about newserv HOT 3 OPEN

This is indeed possible, but is a nontrivial amount of work. We would either need to save the entire character file on the server side, edit it, then load it to the client again, or write a client function that updates the character data in-place. I'll probably implement this by doing the latter, but I can't promise when I'll get to it.

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Yeah, no rush. That being said, if/when I recompile my Steam Deck's newserv instance, I'll be experimenting with the $savechar command and seeing how it's actually formatted. Would be funny as hell if it turned out to be in a format where even someone who's pretty bleh with hex editing and/or programming could find the one variable in the entire file that controls NPC appearance XD

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$savechar saves files in BB format on the server side; the format is documented in SaveFileFormats.hh. For setting NPC flags in a hex editor, I think you'll want to set disp.visual.extra_model (byte at 394 in the .psochar file) to the NPC value (see name_to_npc_id) and set disp.visual.validation_flags (byte at 3AA in the file) to 2.

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