Are there a way to customise/upgrade certain part of an actor without creating another animation?!?

Donaldouk

Hi

I was wondering,

Say I have a robot, and as you advance the game you can purchase a new arm or leg or guns attachments.

If the robot has an animation. My question is 'Will I need to created every possible options and animate them all?'
eg. animation 1- Just new Arms(Blue)
animation 2- Just new arms (red)
animation 3- Just new legs (red)
animation 4- Just new legs (blue)
animation 5- Just new arms/legs (red) etc.................

If that makes sense?

Are there a way where you can some how assembled 5 actors and move as one actor.

Cheers

SearleSama

This would be hands-down easier if GS had joints. (which I know they are planning to add, but until then...) You can create a separate actor for each part, (arms/legs/head) and constrain their positions to the actor that is doing all the physics. That way you can create animations for each part and they will move together.

Donaldouk

thanks I will give that a go.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

If you make the images all the same size you can simply do a change image you could also include the new constrain conditions. Just wrap it in a rule that triggers each one based on the condition of an attribute or attributes.