Doom3world

This is the solution of a previous question asked in the scripting forum. The solution used SDK modification, so I thought it might be useful to post it in this forum as well. The basic idea is, to change the player's skin while a map is running - a feature which for me turned out much more complicated as I thought.

I added a new variable in player.h:

after 'const idDeclSkin * powerUpSkin;' I added:

const idDeclSkin * headSkin;

set it to NULL in player.cpp:

after 'powerUpSkin = NULL;' I added:

headSkin = NULL;

In player.cpp, I changed two occurences of

headRenderEnt->customSkin = NULL;

into

headRenderEnt->customSkin = headSkin;

I added code to select the skin:




Specifically, I added this code into a script event, which I then control from the map script and voila, the skin can be changed dynamically while the map is running.

Before that I tried various alternative routes including the use of shaderparms - all without success. Changing the playerskin was easy but in order to change the headskin as well, it was important to disable the default reset of the head's skin (due to the possibility that an influence might act on the skin). I think that monsters do not have this default reset and might be easier to cope with.

I was working on something like this for a while.

What I wanted to do was when you equip the soulcube in D3, have the players arms and hands turn ancient and dead like when you equip the bloodstone in RoE.

What worked:
put the dead arm textures in my mod in a folder that is pointed to by a material file I named deadarm.MTR. I copied the normal 'arm2' stuff (where it tells the game where the normal arm textures are located)from player.MTR into my deadarm.MTR then just renamed everything deadarm_d, deadarm_local, deadarm_s (local, diffuse, & shaders)

then, in the view_soulcube.MESH i changed the shader from arm2 to deadarm.

So now when i equip the soul cube my hands look dead.


I would really love to have his fingers wrigling when he has the soulcube equiped- exactly like his fingers move in RoE with the ancient bloodstone equiped, but I'd probably just crash the game 100 times trying to do it, and still fail, so for now Im not messing with that.

Hellborg:
I noticed in your mod you have the 'spell" anmiation where his fingers wrigling. Thats what I'm trying to do, but only If i can have the soulcube there idling as well. hell, the 'fire' bloodstone animation looks exactly like the 'fire' soulcube animation (looks like he is pushing his hands out) so that seems like it would be perfect.

Do you think thats easily possible?

By the way, you couldn't you also counter the influence by renaming a copy of the playerhead_d.tga deadhead_d.tga?

or even better
tell the player.MTR to use the regular playerhead.tga even when dead?

concerning the spell animations in the DungeonDoom mod: For this I just used the heart artifact animations and added a nodraw material to the artifact itself. Was pretty straightforward - but I am not sure, how easy it would be to add the soulcube. You probably would need to redo all the animations if you exchage the artifact and soulcube models, but you might just want to give it a quick try?

Concerning the influence stuff, I don't think that simply replacing a texture would do the trick. The problem was, that the skin was basically updated constantly in the original SDK code.