Wear Clothes and Play! (help needed)

Frap1K

Hey guys I always was wondering is it possible to make so that your "Player Actor" could change the clothes? For Example: Before you start the game you can change the clothes in the "Clothes Scane" and then press "PLAY" and the clothes will stay on your "Player Actor"?

Please help! so confused...

Thanks!

MattButlerStudios

This has to be achieved with different images for your "player actor". For instance if the actor was a person you would have them wearing a certain outfit to start. Then, if the player changes the outfit you would switch the image to the person wearing the selected outfit. With these changes you are not changing only the outfit as it may appear, you are actually changing the whole image.

To have the player wear the outfit in the game, assign each outfit a number. Give rules that state if blank outfit is chosen change attribute "clothes" to "5". When "clothes" = "5" change image to outfit 5.

This may sound a bit confusing but I am happy to help more if needed

tatiang

@DeepBlueApps has a great dress maker template that you might want to check out.

Frap1K

Btw when you have Motion on your "Player Actor" There is like 5-10 images of your your "PLAYER" Motion that means i will have to draw the same clothes on every different Motion ? (Working in Photoshop(CS6, any different recommendations to do the motion in Gamesalad?)

Thanks alot for the help!

bjandthekatz

Yes. You have to make the specific images for each variation.

Socks

@bjandthekatz said:
Yes. You have to make the specific images for each variation.

You wouldn't necessarily an image for each variation, you could make a base character, then, for instance, a few different shirts, a few different pairs of trousers, a few different hats (and so on) and simply constrain the chosen articles to the base character.

UtopianGames

This is only 99p (can't share link due to forum rules but if you search Dress Maker on DBA you will find it).

Darren.

Frap1K

DeepBlueApps but that "Girl Actor" on the video is not moving it is standing still. But if my "Player Actor" is moving do i need to put the clothes to the specific position somehow or..?

I actually liked what Socks said but im not sure if that was for movable Actor?
If you got time Socks or anybody else could you help me with it please, Thankyou, and thanks to all of you!

MattButlerStudios

@Frap1K‌ if you are going to use motion, you may have to draw each individually..

Hopscotch

@Frap1K‌ , have a look how it is implemented in "Star Girl".

Each item of clothing is only drawn once, but cut up in pieces to allow for movement. So, use the method suggested by @Socks, constraining the pieces of clothing to the body pieces. Taking position and rotation into account. It works quite well. Tables!

Even fast movement is quite possible even though a lot of constrains are used. You will just have to pay attention to the order of your actors.

Frap1K

So every Item for example: hat or shoes etc. I need to Constrain Attribute them to the "Player Actor" correct?

And if the legs are moving how will the trousers or shoes follow on his feet?

Frap1K

If somebody got time to explain how to do this:

So i have a new "SCENE" before the game starts. I want to change clothes to different once and then save those clothes to my "Player Actor" which has Motions. After that im pressing "START" to start the game and my "Player Actor" clothes will be updated and will show up in game!

Thanks for reading!
Please help me on this one because im just without head on this one!

Socks

@Frap1K said:
If somebody got time to explain how to do this . . .

Can you upload a video of your character moving so we can see what kind of animation we are dealing with here ?

Frap1K

The Character motion is nearly the same as in Terraria game.