Allows you to easily set up skins
An example of how to setup random skins.
An example of how to setup wearable equipment.
Dear Skymen
Hello, would you make a vidoe tutorial for the sking plugin and behaviour. Actually it will clear all the mosconception of using the Skin tools
My Regards
Al Ali
Hi,
I am very busy at the moment with a lot of things, but I will keep in mind to do this at one point :)
Can you make some sort of video showing how to use this? I am trying to add multiple skins to my game that can be selected in a menu, but when the layout changes from the title screen to a level in my game, the whole thing crashes.
I managed to get the crashing to stop, but when the layout is restarted the player is not respawning now. This never happened before I installed the plug in and I believe it has something to do with the skin behavior
^Fixed this by downloading the updated skin it plugins you linked, u should probably update the file you get from purchasing the plugin^
But the skins don't work, how do I set up tags?
Hi Skymen,
Thank your for the great tool but I have a problem. When the object with the skin is destroyed, skins stay.
Maybe this information helps. I am using the same set of skins for 3 different objects: Weapon skins used by player weapon, weapon panel, weapon pick ups. Weapon pickups are destroyed when touched but skins stay on the ground.
Thanks in advance!
Hey!
That's weird, can you maybe contact me through email at skymen75019 at gmail dot com
or through discord (I'm on the discord CC server, or using DMs at skymen#8098)
i'd love to look into the project and maybe find out why that happens
Hi Skymen!
Thanks a lot for making this plugin, really brings in a lot of possibilities! Unfortunately, for the life of mine i cant figure out how to get it working,even after looking at your wearable equipment for ages. Is it possible to contact you so i can send you a screenshot, so you can help me out? I would really appreciate that!
Thanks in advance! :)
Hey, for sure. If you ask on discord (I'm on the Construct Community Discord server) I'll do my best to help :)
Thanks for this nice addon! :)
I have a problem: if I destroy a Sprite object which has a skin, the skin object is not destroyed, but it stays at the destroyed object’s last position forever. Is it a bug or I must manage the destroyment of the skin objects manually?
Thank you in advance for your answer! :)
Hey, this is probably a bug, it's supposed to get destroyed with it. Could you make a minimal reproduction example so I can take a look?
Is there a way to make it so an object will use the new collision of it's skin sprite?
Not really at the moment. You could try to make it work, but it wasn't designed with this feature in mind
Thanks for the response. I found a workaround for what I needed.
I've been looking for weeks now for anything that can help me figure out how to switch characters. This is my first game and I have ZERO coding experience. I thought I would make it a little more dynamic by adding "skins". They're technically just different sprites.
Here's my problem... When I try to use a different character, the platform behavior stops working. I've tried visible/invisible, setting group behaviors, system create object, containers. I even tried one of these skin plugins which basically gave me the same result as a container. I've even tried to make separate layout but somehow it's not reading the global variable boolean I have set to take it to the playstate2 layout.
I've read about dictionaries and arrays but just not grasping how that is any less work than simply duplicating the character 1 events and replacing with character 2, which hasn't worked either.
Anyway, sorry so long. If you could help me figure out how this would help that would be amazing.
I'm not sure I understand what you need
Hello! I have a question.
How can I replace the skin of an entire character and change all the animations of it?
You can use Set Skin to change the skin of a character, and to change the animations, you can use Set Sub Skin.
By default, Sub skins are automatically synced to the animation playing on the sprite you set the skin on, but you can disable that and set them manually if needed.
But to do this I would have to: Duplicate my character (Remove the platform behavior), change the skins and animations of the duplicate character (My character has 5 animations: jump, attack, fall, run and stop). After go to the events sheet> At the start of the layout> Select Skin Group> add Skin and add the public figure and give a "Skin Tag".
After always at the start of the layout> I select my first character with the default skin> Set Skin and uncheck the tag put previously. Quite right? Am I skipping a few steps?