resource editing in g2

[yarrmateys]

i've been trying to make it so that the game would accept a separate set of sprites for the playable character instead of the shared one, and it worked very well for g1, 3, 4 and 5, but g2 stubbornly rejects all attempts.

 

any time i try to add a template with more than two tmp_num_icons the game will crash on loading, and the only way it actually works is by removing the existing templates, which obviously isn't a good idea since it destroys something else in the game.

 

does anyone here know of a way to go around that, or will g2 be the only game where changing the character's graphics to an edited one will cause all npcs to do that too?

 

edit: already using the newest version, 1.0.2, so updating won't fix the problem.