Freelancer Modding Tutorials

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Female Dealers/Bartenders
(INI editing, assuming basic knowledge)

It is possible to create female dealers and bartenders. Each NPC has a "fidget script", different for males and females, that doesn't work with body (NPC model) of opposite sex. Your common NPCs lounging in bars are automatically assigned the right script for their sex, but dealers use scripts from scripts\vendors\ that are all male. There is an entry in mBases.ini linking to that script for individual dealer NPCs. We can change it to use a female script and allow us to make a female dealer.

[MRoom]
nickname = bar
character_density = 7
fixture = li0101_fix_bartender, Zs/NPC/Bartender/01/A/Stand, scripts\vendors\li_bartender_fidget.thn, bartender

The bolded part is a path to the fidget script. To make this NPC (li0101_fix_bartender - Manhattan bartender) a female, we just link it to a female standing fidget script. These are
scripts\extras\fidget_stand_female_01.thn to scripts\extras\fidget_stand_female_06.thn (numbers 01, 02, ... 06).

This is all you need to get a female dealer working, assuming you use a female model and voice on the actual NPC, but that is quite a different story;)