Changing/Cheating Trait point costs?

[BoogieMan]

I sometimes like to create a character that is more like me in reality, selecting traits and penalities I would have.

 

Before recently, I just used cheat engine to hack my available points but they seem to be more slippery now, and I can't find them, probably due to multiplayer I guess. But I'm playing single player so no harm no foul. I can't quite pull it off, as I end up with something like -4 points.

 

 

 Be it editing a file or some other way, how can you change the cost of traits and how many trait points you have? I find the current system very restrictive and a bit heavy handed with either bonuses or penalties, there needs to be be more in between traits instead of most of them being one side of an extreme.

 

EDIT: I found the way to adjust available points.

 

For anyone else who finds this, you want to edit "self.pointToSpend = 0" in the file "CharacterCreationProfession" file located within \Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\client\OptionScreens

 

Just change the zero to the number of points you need.