This guide sometimes refers to character [0], character [1], etc.


If you are looking at the JSON data within a JSON viewer (like the one mentioned below), it will show [0], [1], etc for each character 'slot', like this:



This is because the viewer is rendering the JSON file as a tree, and it has to label each character within the array as something. It does it with numbers.


If you are editing the save file in a text editor then you will not see [0], [1] etc preceding each characters information, you will just see the array of information for each character, like this


Everything after the first opening curly bracket following NowPeople is the start of the first character's information, right up until the closing curly bracket after the next reference to Mood.


When I refer to [0], this is a reference to the first game character within the array.

It was easier to write this guide clearly if I referred to [0] or [1] etc, but if you're using a standard text editor to edit the save file then you won't see these identifiers within the JSON file.

First of all, your save file is located here:
This guide covers two ways to view and edit your files. I recommend the JSON Viewer option, but will also cover the text editor method

• Go to https://jsoneditoronline.org/, select Open on the left hand window and load in your save file.
  
  
• Click on the right-hand arrow in the middle of the screen under Transform. A dialog box will pop up. Just hit the Transform button in the bottom right.
  
  
• Use the search tool (magnifying glass) to search for NowPeople, or manually expand keys [0] -> ["Value"] -> [2] -> ["Nowpeople"].

Now relax for a couple of seconds. You have successfully arrived at the part of the file we will be working on!


Search the save file for NowPeople. You will see the information relating to your characters following this.

Take a second to relax and ask yourself why you are making this harder for yourself then you need to by not simply using the editor I suggested you use! :)

Let's assume we are working on the first character to start with. Again, that would be [0] in NowPeople within the JSON viewer, or all the data within the curly brackets following NowPeople if in a standard text editor...see the next section for more information on this if required).

The values you'll need to edit are:

• _image: their portrait. Ranges are 0-305 and 3000-3013 (interestingly, 226 is a cat!). NOTE: There are some missing portraits in these ranges. I guess the devs deleted some and didn't re-number the files. If you encounter a blank portrait when using an _image ID within the above ranges, that's why. The gaps increase as you go beyond 227. There's actually nothing between 239 and 301, for example.
  
  
• PeopleID: Start at 3000 for your first trucker and increment for each additional character you add.
  
  
• _name: Not present in a save where you used a preset character and are adding additional custom characters. Can be manually added. This is the main name in the character profile.
  
  
• _realname: The sub-name in the character profile.
  
  
• IsYou: Default mode has you play as the truck, so this value would be false for all characters. Hero mode has you play as a character, so that character would be set to true, and any additional characters would be false.

You may also want to edit their stats, but I don't think that needs explanation. Some of the attributes are worded differently to in the game, but it's pretty obvious what's what. They all start with an underscore, too.

For any additional characters you create there are multiple routes to achieve this, but the easiest thing to do is edit it within the JSON viewer I linked to. https://jsoneditoronline.org/

• Find your first character, which will be [0] within the NowPeople array in tree view.
  
• Right click [0] and select 'duplicate'. It will create a new entry called [1] below [0].
  
• Now edit the required values in [1] as per the section above.

Really ask yourself why you are taking this approach and making me write out 2 methods when I could have just done one! :) Then....

Copy all of your first character's data from BEFORE the opening curly bracket following NowPeople:


to AFTER the closing curly bracket, way down where you see:


Next, put a comma after that last curly bracket following Mood, then paste the data you copied for character [0] and alter the necessary values as per above.

For clarity, it would then look something like this (I have abridged where you see "..."):



Calm down. You can repeat this process again for every slot you have available in your truck.

Time to save it and get it back into the game!

• In the right hand window, click "text" in the top left of the green bar.
  
• Click the icon that compacts the JSON (3rd button after the "text, tree, table" buttons)
  
• Hit save, and select to save to disk. Maybe back up your original file before overwriting it.

You should be good to go! Load the game and launch that save file.


Save all changes you made to the save file. Load the game and launch that save file.

Hopefully this guide was useful. Let me know if there are any areas that need clearing up, or if this was helpful for you.

Thanks.