Custom character + character select won't show up

[Xeranah]

Hi guys,

first time poster and first time DST character modder.

After 3 days trial and error, watching and reading a lot of tutorials, searching for solutions... I give up. I can't figure out why neither the character select image isn't showing up nor the ingame character. I don't know how many times I started over and over but nothing worked so far. I'm at a loss here

Now I hope someone here can help me. I've added what I got so far. Also I used the ESC template if it's important to know.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

megs.zip

[Goregonzola]

I tried it, it works as intended in my game:

[Xeranah]

37 minutes ago, C_Thun said:

I tried it, it works as intended in my game:

Weird. It won't show up for me.   Is the portrait picture for you there as well?
Also I see there is still the sample text in your screen and not the edited file..

[Goregonzola]

This is the character selection screen (don't mind my guy there).

Add the same big portrait with the name: "megs_none" (don't forget to add an Asset with it to your modmain). This trick sometimes solves the missing portrait for me.

I don't really know what's messy with the golden name. I'm kinda busy right now, but if you can't make it work, maybe I could try to do something with it later.

[Xeranah]

Added it, added an asset (I'm not sure if I added it correctly tho) and even created a tex file since the game complained about not finding it. Still won't show up.

I tried like 4 or 5 different tutorials by now, always started from scratch, followed them step for step and not a single one of them worked for me.

At least I figured out the [characternamehere]_cleared files are placeholders for the part you don't want to use. Not one of the tutorials mentioned that....

For now I need to take a break. My frustration factor is rising.
 

 

[Edit]

I had the sudden thought to check the tex files and discovered that they didn't change even tho I used the autocompiler. Created new tex files with TEXtool of gold and normal name and also for both potraits. In character select I could see half of the portrait for a second but then the game crashed. :')

Also added new zip file.

[Edit]

I'M A HUGE IDIOT and everyone is allowed to laugh at me!
I solved the biggest problem.

I got my steam and DST files on E: but I was in the mod folder on C:

So in conclusion; I had the folder with the files for the character on the wrong partition of my hard drive!!!

No wonder nothing showed up and the autocompiler didn't work! *facepalm*

But on another note where I probably could use some help; I noticed when I hover over the character the golden name on the right won't show up. Instead the name of the character which the mouse hovered before is shown. How can I fix this?

 

 

 

megs.zip

Edited March 11, 2021 by Xeranah
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