In "Mass Effect" you can reimport a Commander Shepard with whom you have completed the game to play a second run-through with all of the items, experience and credits that you accumulated on your first complete run-through. When you do this you cannot make any changes to the character. This includes Shepard's physical appearance as well as his or her skills or class. If you choose to import this character into "Mass Effect 2," however, you will be given the opportunity to make changes to Shepard's physical appearance and class. You can also use a saved game editor to make changes to a character imported from "Mass Effect 1."
Instructions
Importing a Character to Mass Effect 2
1. Create a Save Game file after completing the first game.
2. Open "Mass Effect 2" and select "New Game."
3. Select "Import ME 1 Character" and select basic game options.
4. Select "Custom Appearance" after the intro movie plays. This will take you to the character-building screen.
Using a Save Game Editor
5. Download Gibbed's Save Game Editor and extract the files.
6. Open the desired save game by double-clicking on the "folder" icon and navigating to the desired save file (usually "documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\save\) in the folder with the name, class and level of the desired character.
7. Open the "Raw" tab and expand the entries "2. Squad," "Player," "Appearance" and "Morph Head."
8. Replace the information in the "Hair Mesh" field with the code for the desired hair style. The code will look something like this "BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.LowBun.HMF_HIR_Mbu_MDL".
9. Click on "Texture Parameters" and then click on the "ellipses" icon that appears to the right of the word "Collection." A new window will pop up.
10. Replace the texture code entries with the corresponding texture codes for your new hair style. In general, these will look similar to the code you used in the "Hair Mesh" field. For example, "BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.MidBun.HMF_HIR_Mbn_Diff" and "BIOG_HMF_HIR_PRO.MidBun.HMF_HIR_Mbn_Norm". The texture codes you need to change depend on the hair you had previously and the style you are attempting to change it to.
11. Click on the "Floppy disk" icon to save your changes. You will be prompted to input a saved game name. Saved games must follow the naming conventions that the program uses or you will not be able to open them in the game.
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