DRD Team

As the topic title says, I want to change a model's skin during play.

There are two cases I want to address:

#1 - Temporary switching for a specific animation purpose
Example: Adding highlights to the front of the model during a firing frame.

#2 - Permanent switching to show status
Example: Showing damage to the model when it reaches 1/2 health.

I thought about using modeldef's model index feature to accomplish #1, but forum research shows this feature doesn't work correctly (though to be honest, I did not try it). Does any feature exist with which to accomplish either of these cases?

It would be great to assign multiple skins to a model with a skin index number, and then reference which skin index should be used for each frame in the MODELDEF. Then, a complementary (ACS?) function could be used to reassign what images each skin index referenced. That would make both cases possible.

As you have guessed, modelindex can be used for this... if it worked.

I would actually like a cleaner and more specific solution though (change texture during runtime).

To hack around this right now you can spawn a different actor which points to another model with the alternate skin. Not very fancy and won't really work well for your examples.

Consider this a feature request, then. Feel free to move the topic over.

Sorry to bump this one but one the subject of skins, is it possible to assigned multiple skins to one actor?

You can't. The latest skin definition will overwrite the previous ones.

GZDoom also can't do multiple materials for MD3 models.