Any idea if we will be able to revert to our imported character face when a patch comes through? I guess I can only hope. Oh well, maybe I'll simply restart and replay when the patch comes through. I'm really pretty attached to my Shepard.
Issue importing faces into Mass Effect 3 Updated March 21
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#2652
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 01:47
JBauer24Tactics
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I used the YAML method and my Shepard is pretty close....but not spot on- i think it is the nose.
#2653
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 01:54
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At least there is a update so somebody's looking at it. I'm just pretending the game got delayed. Just have to avoid spoilers. Please fix this soon!
#2654
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 01:56
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I appreciate the update from Priestly. Thanks.
I just wish we could get an explanation of how this was missed before launch. It seems inconceivable to me.
I just wish we could get an explanation of how this was missed before launch. It seems inconceivable to me.
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#2655
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 01:59
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Chris, can you give us an ETA on "the lazarus project"? We want OUR shepard back!
#2656
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 01:59
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True Heresy wrote...
Here is what I got using the steps provided. It's ridiculous the trouble caused by something that hasn't been implemented correctly, being on a mac has meant a world of hurt (and thanks to those who helped out along the way, you know who you are.) Anyway, the grainy phone shots are below, it seems wrong especially after seeing him in cutscenes - Shepard's brow seems pretty 'Neanderthal'. I'll attempt to tweak it further...
Whoa! Dude, your BroShep from ME2 looks almost exactly like mine. The only differences I can see are that mine's got, maybe, 1 tint paler skin, a different nose, and the goatee instead of a full beard. I've never seen anyone else's have that same(or close to same) facial structure.
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:01
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FirstOfTheFallen wrote...
True Heresy wrote...
Here is what I got using the steps provided. It's ridiculous the trouble caused by something that hasn't been implemented correctly, being on a mac has meant a world of hurt (and thanks to those who helped out along the way, you know who you are.) Anyway, the grainy phone shots are below, it seems wrong especially after seeing him in cutscenes - Shepard's brow seems pretty 'Neanderthal'. I'll attempt to tweak it further...
Whoa! Dude, your BroShep from ME2 looks almost exactly like mine. The only differences I can see are that mine's got, maybe, 1 tint paler skin, a different nose, and the goatee instead of a full beard. I've never seen anyone else's have that same(or close to same) facial structure.
That's cool! Have you imported yet or would you like the facecode, tell me if you think he's looking wrong in ME3. Also, my guy has the lightest skin so it may be my camera
#2658
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:06
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I am a Historian. My brain does not think in do-it-youself fixes. I tried and only ended up feeling exceptionally stupid. Kept getting .sav instead of .xbsav even after I "extracted all" files. I ended up crying and reading spoilers. Which caused me to decide never to finish the game. And eat a box of sugar ice cream cones. Don't judge.
My Shepard is so pretty. I refuse to give her magic surgery. Cannot wait for the fix!
My Shepard is so pretty. I refuse to give her magic surgery. Cannot wait for the fix!
#2659
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:15
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Stellacylse wrote...
Kept getting .sav instead of .xbsav even after I "extracted all" files.
I had the same problem. The issue was I was looking at "Mass Effect 2 Importer" files, instead of the "Mass Effect 2" files directly. Move the Mass Effect 2 files and the .xbsav files will be on there.
#2660
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:16
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I'd just like the old default Femshep hairstyle back.
Hopefully they'll just patch it back in, if only to save my friends' ears from my incessant whining!
Hopefully they'll just patch it back in, if only to save my friends' ears from my incessant whining!
#2661
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:21
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:22
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Pheonix52gx wrote...
So, if anyone is interested I managed to import the iris colour from my old shep to the one in ME3. Here's the steps in case anyone is interested in maybe perfecting it. This is quite lengthy and a little techy.
Why should you care about all this? If you look at the saves other items such as mouth, chin, cheeks, nose etc. their positions reside in vectors and other data (things like hair are slightly different, but hair colour is the same). When you use the slider in any of the games, the slider position is a preset amount, but the preset slider amounts changed between games. That's why you end up with slightly different Shepards when you recreate them in say ME1 to ME2, or in the case we're in now, ME1 to ME3.
This method demonstrates that the way used to make a face in ME3 is the same as ME2 and ME1, but the sliders are different and some of the hair meshes are quite different (this can't be changed without mods). What does that mean to those of you waiting for a patch? It means your Shepard data in your ME2 save CAN transfer into ME3, it's just at the moment ME3 is being overbearing and not importing that data. So sit tight, and if you're really bored, try expanding on the below method and you might get it before the patch!
However, first the natural disclaimer. I do not pretend to be responsible for any save loss or damage to the running of a save or any other program possibly changed in this way. Always make a back up of data you need whenever doing this kind of thing. To be honest I'm posting this for someone more intelligent than me to automate or Bioware to get them towards a goal.
Now, editing saves:
- Launch ME3 and start a new game by importing the ME2 save you want to use. This will set up all the plot values.
- The game will auto save when you see the ship being played with by the boy. You can use that save if you want, or wait until you get control.
- Next, close ME3, then open a hex editor (I used Visual Studio 2008, but Hex Workstation seems popular) and open them both using this program.
- Navigate until you find the line that produces "EYE_Iris_Colour_Vector" in both files.
- Now, from the ME2 save, copy the from the "E" in "EYE_Iris_Colour_Vector" up to the next vector, which for me was "HED_Hair_Colour_Vector". You'll end up copying some hex code.
- My iris vector was "EYE_Iris_Colour_Vector3!>íe˜>ËŒ>€?" when translated into ASCII.
- Navigate to the same point in the ME3 save, select the same region as before then paste it in. If you have done this correctly, the length of the file should not change.
This deals with changing the save. It does work and it proves that floating variables can be imported from your Shepards. They're safeHowever, if you go and launch ME3 with your pretty eyes, you'll find it's complaining about file corruption. This isn't quite the case. To fix it and thus see these eyes, do the below:
- Search google for a program called "ME2CRC". It's a small program and I judge it to be safe, though the questionable search returns may put you off. Download it.
- Next, open ME2CRC and use the dialog to point it to the ME3 save you just edited. It will generate a number.
- Now this is the random part. I'm not certain on the frequency of this section working but essentially each time a save is looked at by the game, it makes a number that sums everything else in the save and puts it at the end. When I only changed the eyes, I had 8 characters (4 hex pairs). Hopefully you should too.
- Navigate to the end of the ME3 save in the hex editor and change the last 8 characters to the ones in ME2CRC but in paired reverse order.
- To demonstrate, ME2CRC gives me something like "A6 B9 55 2E". I would change the last four pairs in the ME3 save such that they read "2E 55 B9 A6".
- This should allow the game to read the file.
And that's it. I now have my old purple eyes.
Any comments are welcome. Maybe this will help someone.
Thanks for this - this is promising
I'll be glad to get my Shepard's purple eyes back too! Btw, I don't suppose you were able to see if eye shadow could be brought back like it used to - or is that a similar problem to how the hair meshes are physically different?
#2663
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:33
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Pheonix52gx wrote...
So, if anyone is interested I managed to import the iris colour from my old shep to the one in ME3. Here's the steps in case anyone is interested in maybe perfecting it. This is quite lengthy and a little techy.
Yes, thanks for this. It gives me some hope. It does look pretty involved, and I have a lot of issues well beyond eye color, but still...it's something.
#2664
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:36
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I wonder who's ass is getting chewed out for this screw up. If anyone....
#2665
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:36
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You lucky PC users. Us xbox folk are stuck
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:41
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I'm confused, why wouldn't the ME3 CC import the exact same floating variables as the process above describes to begin with? Wouldn't that have just resulted in everyone getting their own Shepard, saving everyone a lot of grief?
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:43
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I just tried to go through the process mentioned in the OP, but my Shepard has only some similarities; It's definitely not him that I've been playing as for 4 1/2 years. I tried to go through the first cutscene at the beginning of the game, and I just kept getting annoyed looking at him. So, I'll have to play some other games in my backlog until Bioware can fix this.
As it's been stated by many people on here: I just can't understand how they could mess up something SO important like this. I know that Bethesda knew that the PS3 version of Skyrim had problems, but they decided to release it anyway, and just patch it later. I'm sure that Bioware/EA did the exact same thing.
As it's been stated by many people on here: I just can't understand how they could mess up something SO important like this. I know that Bethesda knew that the PS3 version of Skyrim had problems, but they decided to release it anyway, and just patch it later. I'm sure that Bioware/EA did the exact same thing.
#2668
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 02:48
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Ok so I am having some issues getting my PC to read the Mass Effect 2 save file.. I know it's on my flash drive cause the xbox can read it, but the PC says my memory stick is empty. Even Modio cant see anything on this... what am I doing wrong? any help?
#2669
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:04
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Ok so I played ME 3. Did the method with YAML. Now I can say that it looks like game has been made by diffirent team. Game its a loooot difirent than ME 1 and ME 2. Now it dont have..this something that you want to play it again. Sorry BioWare but Im not gonna buy anything again from you. Oh and heres some joke:
Year after ME 3 premier:
- Hello is this producer of Mass Effect 3?
- Yes
- Is there going to be Mass Effect 4?
- We have it in plans but first we need to fix issue with save importing in Mass Effect 3
Year after ME 3 premier:
- Hello is this producer of Mass Effect 3?
- Yes
- Is there going to be Mass Effect 4?
- We have it in plans but first we need to fix issue with save importing in Mass Effect 3
#2670
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:10
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neither me or my friend seem too be able to register for that site needed for the solution posted earliar any ideas whats up with that?
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#2671
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:10
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Well... maybe if I show you my Shepard you will feel better about your recreation efforts. Oh and maybe some devs won´t be able to sleep when they see what they did to my Femshep 
http://imgur.com/a/ALYZm
http://imgur.com/a/ALYZm
Modifié par Chrischn89, 11 mars 2012 - 03:17 .
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:14
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Well, after eliminating any and all feasible workarounds for me, I've finally gotten tired of waiting for the patch and decided to just go into the ME3 character creator and re-create Ol' Jack Shepard from scratch.
I'm pleased to say that, through the aid of a crappy photo I took with my cell phone for reference, I managed to recreate Jack within an acceptable margin of error. Sure, the eyes are a little more narrow than they used to be and the nose shape isn't exactly the same, but I went into it knowing I wasn't going to get a perfect carbon copy.
Still, after seeing him move and talk in cutscenes.....yeah. He definitely looks like the original Jack to me. Sure, his nose is gonna look weird from a certain angle now, but I can get used to that. It's still him. I was actually pleasantly surprised by just how closely I was able to replicate him. Maybe I'm just easier to please than other fans with this problem, I dunno.
Not defending Bioware though. This whole fiasco is, quite frankly, something that shouldn't have happened. I'm happy to finally begin the third installment of this trilogy, but between this and the overpriced DLC, I don't plan on buying any more EA / Bioware games anytime soon.
I'm pleased to say that, through the aid of a crappy photo I took with my cell phone for reference, I managed to recreate Jack within an acceptable margin of error. Sure, the eyes are a little more narrow than they used to be and the nose shape isn't exactly the same, but I went into it knowing I wasn't going to get a perfect carbon copy.
Still, after seeing him move and talk in cutscenes.....yeah. He definitely looks like the original Jack to me. Sure, his nose is gonna look weird from a certain angle now, but I can get used to that. It's still him. I was actually pleasantly surprised by just how closely I was able to replicate him. Maybe I'm just easier to please than other fans with this problem, I dunno.
Not defending Bioware though. This whole fiasco is, quite frankly, something that shouldn't have happened. I'm happy to finally begin the third installment of this trilogy, but between this and the overpriced DLC, I don't plan on buying any more EA / Bioware games anytime soon.
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#2673
Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:27
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I've discovered the problem. ME1 to ME2 imports. ME2 does not give you all of the available facial constructions that ME1 imports to ME2 have. I am in ME2 right now, pasted my code (slightly modified) into ME2 that I got from the workaround and am trying to tweak it. If you had loaded your ME1 import and played a new game with it, you can then go into custom face and back out of it to compare with ME2. I am not at all able to get the features that I have on the imported face.
EDIT: I'm getting pretty damn close. My best advice for everyone is to load your generated code into an imported ME1 game on ME2 and back out of the custom creator periodically to compare with your previous load.
EDIT: I'm getting pretty damn close. My best advice for everyone is to load your generated code into an imported ME1 game on ME2 and back out of the custom creator periodically to compare with your previous load.
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:42
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I really really WANT my Shep's purple eyes but I am nervous tinkering with stuff I don't understand And I really shouldn't HAVE to. That's what gets me the most. I forgot to order the CE, I procrastinated playing ME2 until 3 weeks before ME3 released and fell in love with the story all over again. In true roleplayer fashion, I fell head over heels into the ME world. And I was represented by a purple-eyed, flaming redhead named Sarah Shepard. Having to recreate her is like waking up in the hospital after a tragic accident and the doctor informing you that he had to recreate your face. (Okay I'm overdramatizing. I admit it but it still makes me sad.) I am disappoint.
And I really shouldn't HAVE to. That's what gets me the most. I forgot to order the CE, I procrastinated playing ME2 until 3 weeks before ME3 released and fell in love with the story all over again. In true roleplayer fashion, I fell head over heels into the ME world. And I was represented by a purple-eyed, flaming redhead named Sarah Shepard. Having to recreate her is like waking up in the hospital after a tragic accident and the doctor informing you that he had to recreate your face. (Okay I'm overdramatizing. I admit it but it still makes me sad.) I am disappoint.
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Posté 11 mars 2012 - 03:51
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Druscylla wrote...
I really really WANT my Shep's purple eyes but I am nervous tinkering with stuff I don't understand
I had the purple eyes too. You can still get them. They are code 5. They just look different with different faces and eye shape and color. I will upload a pic for you
Game just crashed. Thought I had the code saved.... I was so close to having a perfect "recreation". This is frustrating. Game devs these days are putting out really poorly made games.
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