Idle Animations: A Modder's Plaything?

[icantevenname]

Not important, but is it possible to give modded characters the idle animations of other characters? Who are, as far as I know, Willow, Winona, Wormwood, and Wortox. And if my guess is correct, Warly and the original survivors once they get reworked.

And yes, I'm slightly proud of the title.

[IronHunter]

It seems they added a unique variable

inst.customidleanim

For any character that wants to use this, you can either assign it a string name for animation or use a function to do a special task.

Spoiler

--From SGWilson
State{
        name = "funnyidle",
        tags = { "idle", "canrotate" },

        onenter = function(inst)
            if inst.components.temperature:GetCurrent() < 5 then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_shiver_pre")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_shiver_loop")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_shiver_pst", false)
            elseif inst.components.temperature:GetCurrent() > TUNING.OVERHEAT_TEMP - 10 then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_hot_pre")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_hot_loop")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_hot_pst", false)
            elseif inst.components.hunger:GetPercent() < TUNING.HUNGRY_THRESH then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("hungry")
                inst.SoundEmitter:PlaySound("dontstarve/wilson/hungry")
            elseif inst.components.sanity:GetPercent() < .5 then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_inaction_sanity")
            elseif inst:HasTag("groggy") then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_groggy01_pre")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_groggy01_loop")
                inst.AnimState:PushAnimation("idle_groggy01_pst", false)
            elseif inst.customidleanim == nil then
                inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_inaction")
            else
                local anim = type(inst.customidleanim) == "string" and inst.customidleanim or inst:customidleanim()
                if anim ~= nil then
                    if inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats == nil then
                        inst.sg.mem.usecustomidle = math.random() < .5
                        inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats = 0
                    end
                    if inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats > 1 then
                        inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats = inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats - 1
                    else
                        inst.sg.mem.usecustomidle = not inst.sg.mem.usecustomidle
                        inst.sg.mem.idlerepeats = inst.sg.mem.usecustomidle and math.random(2) or math.ceil(math.random(5) * .5)
                    end
                    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation(inst.sg.mem.usecustomidle and anim or "idle_inaction")
                else
                    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_inaction")
                end
            end
        end,

        events =
        {
            EventHandler("animqueueover", function(inst)
                if inst.AnimState:AnimDone() then
                    inst.sg:GoToState("idle")
                end
            end),
        },
    },

 

    inst.customidleanim = "idle_wortox"

Please see existing character files such as wormwood for better idea how to properly custom functions for idle animations.