How to switch meshes for things like clothing and equipment?

#1 u can switch between different textures of can show/hide different meshes.
better go for texture changing using setSkin()
do a forum search with "setSkin"

http://www.garagegames.com/community/search#gsc.q=setskin&gsc.ref=forums&gsc.tab=0

#2 @Ahsan isn't it setSkinName(string skin) ;)

#3 How to use "setSkinName(%skin)".

base_shirt_material (what the mapTo material is - first word must be "base")


blue_shirt_material
green_shirt_material
loud_shirt_material
ugly_shirt_material

SetSkinName swaps "base" for the first word of the new material.

%obj.setSkinName("ugly");


eeeewwwwww ....

For meshes you can call them whatever you want and use "setMeshHidden(%meshName, %bool)".

%obj.setMeshHidden("shirt_mesh", false);
%obj.setMeshHidden("jacket_mesh", true);

Show the shirt and hide the jacket. Mesh names are the names of the actual meshes inside the DAE/DTS model.

#4 my mistake.
last time i worked with t3d's gui part and it was setskin for guiobjectview.

for shapebase (player) it will be setSkinName(%skin).

for example look into "scripts\server\gameCore.cs"

then search for "%player.setSkinName(%client.skin);".

for example skin list look into "game\art\shapes\actors\Soldier\materials.cs"

u will see defination like "singleton Material(Mat_XXX_Soldier_Main){}"

in this case XXX->is the part which determine which skin will be used.

#5 Thank you all for the help. It helps a lot to know this.

#6 @Steve

That was the most funny tutorial I have ever read :)