Note: There are multiple instances of this line in the file. Prequel bonuses. Have a saved game file from the original Mass Effect on your hard drive, and use that profile in Mass Effect 2 to get the following bonuses. 100,000 credits: Mass Effect character with the 'Rich' achievement 30,000 credits: Level 50 Mass Effect character 2,000 experience points: Level 50 Mass Effect character. Open Gibbed's Mass Effect 2 Save Editor. Now the fun begins! Foxfi download. XD Click on the FOLDER icon at the top left corner to open a save game. Find the save game you just made in the folder Bioware/Mass Effect 2/Saves/.name of character./Save0001 (or something like that). Below are the ME1 sliders. When you input these, the position all the way to the left is '1'. So if the code is '2' you would start at left and move one position to the right. For the best answers, search on this site I Would Go With Playing The First One Before The Second One, You May Already Know The Storyline Of The Game, But There Are Some Important Choices You Have To Make In Mass Effect 1 That Can Affect The Story Of Mass Effect 2, If You Were To Go Straight To Mass Effect 2 You Will Have To Play With The Default Choices Which Suck.

This is where you can do some interesting things like give Shepard glossy lips.

Open your save in Gibbed.

Click over to 'Raw'-> Player -> Appearance -> Headmorph

Scalar Parameters

Click the [..] button to the right of (Collection) next to Scalar Parameters to open up a 2nd window.

A list of useful values and what they mean:

HED_Blush_Scalar - Controls blush transparency. Zero will be nothing, one will be quite heavy. Anything higher and you're probably heading into clown territory, depending on what color your blush is (more on color selection later.)

HED_Addn_Spec_Lips_Scalar

HED_Addn_SPwr_Lips_Scalar - Together these two control lip shine. For example in the picture above I have the first set at '10' and the second set at '100'. Zero for both means no extra shine.

HED_Addn_Blowout_Scalar - How dark custom eyebrows are saturated with color. Default femshep won't be affected because her eyebrows are painted on her face, but this can be used on any character creator femshep. '0.5' will be very thin brows - '1.5' will be very dark.

HED_Lips_Tint_Scalar - Controls lip color transparency. Same as blush, zero is nothing - one is about normal and anything higher is subjective.

HED_EyeShadow_Tint_Scalar - eyeliner heaviness

HED_Brow_Tint_Scalar - eyeshadow heaviness

In ME3 both will be much lighter than in previous games, and the eyeliner is less defined. The ME3_legacy_makeupmask.tpf I have in my default femshep download will return it to its previous appearance. The texture overhaul also includes a modified version.

HED_SPwr_Scalar - How much light Shepard's face emits, for lack of a better descriptor. Higher values will make her glow more.

Hightlight1Intensity - How much hair highlight color 1 shows/shininess

Hightlight2Intensity - How much hair highlight color 2 shows/shininess

Vector Parameters (aka color values)

ME3 Gibbed has a user friendly color interface that comes up in the Appearance tab. Click the value you want to edit and the Change Color button to bring up the color wheel.

Mass Effect 3 Character Codes

HED_Blush_Vector - Blush color

SkinTone - Skin Color

EYE_White_Colour_Vector - Eye color (area around the iris)

EYE_Iris_Colour_Vector - Eye color (iris)

HED_Hair_Colour_Vector - Base hair color

HED_Addn_Colour_Vector - Eyebrow color

HED_Lips_Tint_Vector - Lipstick color

HED_EyeShadow_Tint_Vector - Eyeliner color

HED_Brow_Tint_Vector - Eyeshadow color

Highlight1Color - Hair highlight color

Highlight2Color - 2nd hair highlight color

The old way..also useful for transferring values from ME2 save editor.

Opening 'Vector Parameters' (Collection) in the 'Raw' tab will bring up the RGB number values.

Texture Parameters

Mass Effect 2 Hair Color Codes

This is where you specify which textures (such as diffuse, spec, and normal maps) are used on Shepard. A list of mined values is HERE.

Diffuse: The visible flat texture most people think of when they are thinking about game textures

Spec: Controls how light reflects and interacts with an object

Mask: Looks black and white, determines where color is visible or transparent, like on eyelashes. Think of it like a stencil.

HED_Scalp_Diff - Scalp diffuse

HED_Scalp_Norm - Scalp normal map (also known as a bump map)

HAIR_Diff - Hair diffuse

HED_Diff - Face diffuse

HED_Lash_Diff - Eyelash mask

HED_Norm - Face normal map

HED_Makeup_Mask - Makeup mask

HAIR_Mask - Hair mask

HED_Brow - Eyebrow mask

For a nice visual guide to makeup, color, and eyebrows check out this blog by Corora: link

If you've been reading my post on hair, you'll notice each one has 2 lines of code associated with them. You'll need these to change your Shepard's hair via Gibbed.

Hair

Where do they go?!

Open up the save you want to edit and navigate over to the 'Raw' tab. Click
Player -> Appearance -> Head Morph

Mass effect 2 hair codes

This is what we're interested in. Mass

Mass Effect 2 Hair Color Codes

'Hair Mesh' is where you enter the 1st line (it ends in the suffix -MDL)

Open 'Texture Parameters' by clicking the box that looks like this [..]
and a second window will open.

Mass Effect 2 Code Face

HAIR_Diff and HAIR_Mask is where the 2nd line goes (it ends in the suffix -Diff)

Mass Effect 2 Hair Codes

Mass Effect 1 Face Code

Hit okay to close the texture window, save your changes and you're done.