How to Bypass Savegame Appearance

I originally this posted last year to an old Tumblr blog that's now defunct, and I figured this would fare better on Nexus—as well as being SEO friendly, permanent, and more visible than just a single post. I've also made significant updates! Do you have a custom Hawke .mor that you love but hate having to manually edit your savegame?

Are you tired of seeing the default Hawkes in the class selection and in Varric's intro instead of your own?

Do you like long-winded tutorials that appear complicated but are actually really simple? If you said yes to any of the above, then this is the tutorial for you!

Summary

This is a nifty "hack" that tricks the game into thinking that a custom .mor file is a .mop file—key word here is think. Unfortunately, you cannot convert a .mor into a .mop (although it's possible the other way around.)

However, while your .mor cannot be edited in-game, all data—hairstyle, skintone, face shape, etc.—is completely intact and even the savegame icons generate perfectly (see below.)

Really, it's just a small trick to make customized Hawkes a little more accessible.

Difficulty

• []Easy, with minor prior knowledge needed

Things You'll Need

• []Mephales' pyGFF Editor

• []Thought Process' .erf Packager

• []Xronit’s "Skip Exaggerated Intro" or starrarte's "Skip Intro"

• []Custom .mor of your Hawke

What This Won't Cover

• []How to extract a .mor from a savegame file

• []How to package an .erf

• []How to generate a chargenmorphcfg

• []How to edit .mor files

• []Anything to do with .mop files

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For demonstration, I’ll be using Tummy_Za’s Hawke Preset as my visual test subject.

I’ve made a few edits out of game using the pyGFF editor, like adding a nose scar and changing the eye color f