Making my character wear a Hat during Character Selection

[Wonderlarr]

My character is quite small in my mod, leaving a lot of room around their head in the Selection Screen, which I wanted to fill with a Hat that they spawn in with. Is this possible?

[Thomas_klei]

AddClassPostConstruct("widgets/redux/loadoutselect", function(self)
if self.puppet == nil or self.currentcharacter ~= "yourcharacter" then
    return
end
local puppet = self.puppet 
--don't mind me 

        puppet.animstate:OverrideSymbol("swap_hat", "your_hat_stuff", "swap_hat")
        puppet.animstate:Show("HAT")
        puppet.animstate:Show("HAIR_HAT")
        puppet.animstate:Hide("HAIR_NOHAT")
        puppet.animstate:Hide("HAIR")
end)

This should be everything, maybe you might need to include your anim assets for the hat but ya. 

Edited February 7, 2021 by thomas4846
code fixed

[Wonderlarr]

13 hours ago, thomas4846 said:

AddClassPostConstruct("widgets/redux/loadoutselect", function(self)
if self.puppet == nil or self.currentcharacter ~= "yourcharacter" then
    return
end
local puppet = self.puppet 
--don't mind me 

        puppet.animstate:OverrideSymbol("swap_hat", "your_hat_stuff", "swap_hat")
        puppet.animstate:Show("HAT")
        puppet.animstate:Show("HAIR_HAT")
        puppet.animstate:Hide("HAIR_NOHAT")
        puppet.animstate:Hide("HAIR")
end)

This should be everything, maybe you might need to include your anim assets for the hat but ya. 

besides the "yourcharacter" and "your_hat_stuff_", is there something else I'm supposed to change? I threw this into modmain with the changes to work with my own character and hat, but it doesn't seem to show up at all still.

[Thomas_klei]

[Wonderlarr]

On 2/8/2021 at 12:42 AM, thomas4846 said:

Oh, I see the confusion here. When I meant character selection, I meant the icon part on the screen before, not the clothes selection part! Although, that is also a good idea!

I meant I wanted it to be here

Also, which widget does this screen use out of curiosity? I can't figure it out on my own.