Did Sentinel happen to record costume pieces??

[HEATSTROKE]

 I have no idea. Any chance it recorded what pieces you used on a character ??

[srmalloy]

Sentinel+ recorded the costume parts from a character's costume slots; however, it recorded them in a non-CoH naming convention:

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<part>Tight !Hips_V_Stealth_01 !Hips_V_Stealth_01_Mask 00003855 00003d00</part>
The 'Stealth' legs part, in the 'Stealth' pattern with, IIRC, colors of green and gold.

Some of them are more obscure, such as a custom weapon:

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<part>none none none 00ffffff 00008cd4 00002a7f 00003d00 WEAPONS/Custom_DualBlades/Fem_DualBladeLeft_Falcata01.fx</part>
So it's a non-trivial task to read the costume section of a Sentinel+ save file and reconstruct the costume from it, although I have no doubt that it would be possible to write a tool that would read a file and write a .costume file that could be imported into Icon.

[eabrace]

Sentinel+ recorded the costume parts from a character's costume slots; however, it recorded them in a non-CoH naming convention:

More accurately, it recorded them in an under-the-hood CoH naming convention.  Different from what you're used to reading on the interface in the costume creator, but the way the game is used to reading them from a character database entry.

[saipaman]

I kick myself now for not making costume files for all my characters.  Those I could have used in Icon.  I do have Sentinel+ files for all of them but...

[The Fifth Horseman]

You can recreate them from that. There's a guide somewhere on the forums IIRC.

[Tacitala]

It should also be noted that while you can fully recreate the costume, you're looking at a signifigant amount of time looking up the exact costume pieces.  The post that details the process is here.

It may be quicker to skip the costume part of the reconstruction: translate in the face and body scales on to a "generic costume file" then remake the costume from memory or from screenshots/demo files.

[saipaman]

It should also be noted that while you can fully recreate the costume, you're looking at a signifigant amount of time looking up the exact costume pieces.  The post that details the process is here.

It may be quicker to skip the costume part of the reconstruction: translate in the face and body scales on to a "generic costume file" then remake the costume from memory or from screenshots/demo files.

This would be the easiest route to go except for those characters that had costume parts that were removed from the game or renamed in some way. 

[HEATSTROKE]

 Thank you this is very helpful.

[saipaman]

I wonder how hard, or easy, it would be to turn a character's demo file description into a .costume file?

[Phaetan]

In theory, Guy was looking into making a program to do it.   I haven't heard anything either way for a while.  I suppose I should go be to manually rebuilding my costumes from the sentinel files.  I think I have copies on a flash drive that survived my HD dying...

[Arachnion]

I wonder how hard, or easy, it would be to turn a character's demo file description into a .costume file?

That thread has the answers which you seek.

Namely, a demo costume segment compared with a typical .costume file.

[saipaman]

That thread has the answers which you seek.

Namely, a demo costume segment compared with a typical .costume file.

I remember this thread.

I've used the Demolition website to create demo files from some of my Sentinel+ files.  Where I've done that, the characters look correct, even those that couldn't be edited in-game at Icon.

Another benefit to going through Demolition is that the selected character is the only character in the demo file.