Is there a way to swap textures or a material on a player model?

#1 You name the texture as base.mytexturename and then you can do a playerid.setskin("blue") for example to make it use the blue.mytexturename.dds or whatever texture.

#2 setskin(), eh? Is there any documentation on that anywhere?

#3 I don't have TGEA in front of me at the but its either setskin or setskinname.

#4 Do I literally format the texture as base.mytex.dds, or are you referring to the material name? Sorry, I am not clear on the instruction.

I'm using %player.setSkinName("stringofskin") with a filename of the texture literally set to base.mytex.dds, and setting it in my material file with no luck. I'm not sure how to handle the material naming convention, either.

#5 The original should be like base.mytex.dds and then with oyur above call it would use the stringofskin.mytex.dds file.

#6 Okay, I made some progress on this attempt.

Without setting %player.setSkinName in my GameConnection::createPlayer function, the base.mytex.dds works just fine. However, testing %player.setSkinName("red") (which is, theoretically, directing to red.mytex.dds) provides me with the engine's error texture. I tried for several other randomlyNamed.mytex.dds files with their appropriate "randomlyNamed" strings within %player.setSkinName(, and no luck.

Also, thanks to you, I was able to get the right info to search the forums for other similiar posts. Unfortunately none have been able to explain my problem I'm having now.
http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/7346
http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/37328
https://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/6617
http://www.garagegames.com/community/resources/view/2405

Replicating the issue, it occurs with and without a material.cs file. For reference, here is the current material.cs file I'm using to work on this.

new Material(AVmaterial)
{
mapTo = "base.mytex.dds";
baseTex[0] = "base.mytex.dds";
//bumpTex[0] = "lol_bumpmap.dds";
pixelSpecular[0] = true;
specular[0] = "1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0";
specularPower[0] = 32.0;
};


I'll keep trying everything I can think of until this works. Your help so far has been greatly appreciated, J.C. Smith. Further insight will not go unnoticed! :D

#7 Mind you, I haven't tested this with 1.8/1.81 could be a bug related to 1.8, but this material is what I used in something for 1.7 and worked fine:

new Material(basesf01)
{
   baseTex[0] = "base.sf-01";
   pixelSpecular[0] = true;
   specular[0] = "0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5";
   specularPower[0] = 16.0;
   bumpTex[0] = "sf01_nm";
   preload = false;
   mapTo = "base.sf-01";
};

THe only difference I can see really betwee the two is that you referred to the .dds extension and I didn't maybe try it without the extension.

#8 I sure hope it isn't! I am using 1.8, for the record. I should probably look into that....

Anyways, because I am using Maya to build my assets and using Danny Ngugen's Maya2DTS_2008 and dtsUtility exporter, I have to direct the mapTo= with the full filename designated within the app, including the file extension. Other than that, under baseTex[0], having the extension on and off has shown the same result. Granted, it is worthy to point out that both base.mytex.dds and base.mytex work just fine with %player.setSkinName("blue") commented out.

I will test this on an old exercise I did on 1.7 and see if it works there. I really hope this is not a bug or else that just shot down an entire game mechanic. xD

#9 Well I don't think it's a bug with the engine. I just tested it in 1.7.1 and replicated the same results. Now I'm mildly worried! The last thing I'm going to test out is the maya-exporter, and see if I can get the material.cs file to work like 3DSmax's.

#10 I was able to adjust the exporter so it wouldn't care about the file extension in the mapTo anymore.

Problem still persists in both 1.7.1 and 1.8. Oyyy. I have a couple more ideas involving how I'm calling the string.

#11 Should I be adding these "skins" as a skin set in my player.cs code?

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/4051

#12 Good news!

After a lot of work, my team and I got setSkinName() to work and point to the proper texture.

I don't know if you're aware, but we literally had to make a material for each texture:

new Material(base_AVmaterial)
{
mapTo = "base.avmaterial.dds";
baseTex[0] = "base.avmaterial.dds";
pixelSpecular[0] = true;
specular[0] = "1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0";
specularPower[0] = 32.0;
};

new Material(red_AVmaterial)
{
mapTo = "red.avmaterial.dds";
baseTex[0] = "red.avmaterial.dds";
pixelSpecular[0] = true;
specular[0] = "1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0";
specularPower[0] = 32.0;
};

new Material(blue_AVmaterial)
{
mapTo = "blue.avmaterial.dds";
baseTex[0] = "blue.avmaterial.dds";
pixelSpecular[0] = true;
specular[0] = "1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0";
specularPower[0] = 32.0;
};

Now %playerid.setSkinName("blue"); works just fine.

However we're running into a new issue: we are able to change the skin during run time... but only once. Is this the way the function is meant to behave?

#13

Quote:However we're running into a new issue: we are able to change the skin during run time... but only once. Is this the way the function is meant to behave?

This is a confirmed bug. I see you're not a TGEA licence holder, but if you have someone on your team who is, point them to this thread which contains solutions.

#14 Will do.

#15 Got it working. Thanks for your help everyone. :)

#16 Grats.

#18 Hello,

Here is a whole bunch of stuff for team based addons.

www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/15915

Chris