How do you replace existing animations with custom ones for one character?

[sobb]

How do you edit existing animations without changing them for everyone?

Say I have a character named "custom" and want to replace idle_loop, idle_inaction, etc. with custom_idle_loop, custom_idle_inaction, or chop_loop with custom_chop_loop. Any animation really.

[_zwb]

Just replace the animations in the animation file?

[sobb]

9 hours ago, _zwb said:

Just replace the animations in the animation file?

That replaces the animation for every character. I'd like to replace them for individual ones

[Rickzzs]

local makewrap = function(self, k)
  local fn = self._AnimState[k]
  local function fn_wrap(_, ...) return fn(self._AnimState, ...) end
  self[k] = fn_wrap
  return fn_wrap
end
local function HookAnimState(inst)
  local as = inst.AnimState
  inst.AnimState = setmetatable({
    _AnimState = as,
    PlayAnimation = function(self, anim, loop)
      anim = anim:gsub("monkey", "wokey")
      return self._AnimState.PlayAnimation(self._AnimState, anim, loop)
    end,
    PushAnimation = function(self, anim, loop)
      anim = anim:gsub("monkey", "wokey")
      return self._AnimState.PushAnimation(self._AnimState, anim, loop)
    end
  }, {__index = makewrap})
end

Here is a simplified solution that only hooks PlayAnimation and PushAnimation. Full solution needs to hook more.

Edited January 13, 2024 by Rickzzs

[sobb]

1 hour ago, Rickzzs said:

local makewrap = function(self, k)
  local fn = self._AnimState[k]
  local function fn_wrap(_, ...) return fn(self._AnimState, ...) end
  self[k] = fn_wrap
  return fn_wrap
end
local function HookAnimState(inst)
  local as = inst.AnimState
  inst.AnimState = setmetatable({
    _AnimState = as,
    PlayAnimation = function(self, anim, loop)
      anim = anim:gsub("monkey", "wokey")
      return self._AnimState.PlayAnimation(self._AnimState, anim, loop)
    end,
    PushAnimation = function(self, anim, loop)
      anim = anim:gsub("monkey", "wokey")
      return self._AnimState.PushAnimation(self._AnimState, anim, loop)
    end
  }, {__index = makewrap})
end

Here is a simplified solution that only hooks PlayAnimation and PushAnimation. Full solution needs to hook more.

I was looking at stategraphs and wasn't able to come up with a solution. I'll have a look at this, thank you!