Introduction

If you're serious about scoring big in Drug Wars - Underworld, you'll want to create your own character.

Character creation not only allows you to customize the character name and image, but also allows you to set several skill levels to tailor your character to your style of gaming.

Creating Characters | Editing Characters | Deleting Characters | Character Images

Opening the Character Interface

You can create or modify a character from the New Game window, or from the main window of the game.

In the New Game window...click the New or Edit button in the 'Character Options' section.
In the main window...select Characters from the Tools menu.

This will display the Character Window. This window allows you to modify existing characters, or create new characters.

Creating a New Character

To create a new character, click the Create Character button. This will create a blank character for you to start with. There are three main things you must decide when creating a character:

Character Name The character name is entered in the Name field. This name is used to identify your character throughout the game.

Character Image The image is used in the game to illustrate your character. For more information on character images, see the character images section below. You can select an image using the Browse button.
Character Skills The skill settings define how your skilled your character is at various things. There are four skills, each rated between 0 and 100. When you create a new character, your skills are set to the defaults. You have 10 skill points to distribute as you wish. You can get more skill points by decreasing a skill setting from its default setting.

When you are ready to complete your new character, click the Add Character button. Note! Once you add your character, you cannot modify the skill settings. Be sure you are happy with your settings before you add the character!

Editing an Existing Character

You can edit any existing character by selecting the character in the combo box at the top of the character window. When editing a character, you can change the name and the image for the character, but not the skill settings. To save your changes, click the Update Character button.

Deleting an Existing Character

You can delete an existing character by selecting the character in the character window, and clicking the Delete button next to the character name. Deleted characters cannot be recovered, although they may live on through their scores. You cannot delete the character being used in a game while the game is being played.

Character Images

Drug Wars - Underworld allows you to specify an image for any character. This image is used in the game to identify your character. Drug Wars - Underworld supports images in BITMAP (*.BMP) format only. It is also recommended that you select images which are 64x64 pixels in size to provide the best display quality.

If the image you would like to use is not in the format, or is a different size, you can use a graphics application to convert the file. Geek Phase recommends a program called CompuPic from Photodex Corporation (www.photodex.com). We have found this to be the easiest way to select and quickly convert character images.

To Prepare a Character Image in CompuPic:

Locate the file on your computer by browsing to it in CompuPic's main window.
Double-click the image to view it.
Use the Crop tool (Image menu -> Crop) to crop your image to a perfect square (hold down CONTROL and SHIFT while dragging the crop outline). Click inside the crop outline to crop the image.
Resize the image to 64x64 using the Resize tool (Image menu -> Resize -> Any Size).
Save the image (File menu -> Save As) as a BMP file.
You're done...click the image to exit the viewer.