Change appearance of equipped item based on temperature

[keraunoscopia]

I'm working on an item that combines features of a weapon and a thermal stone.  Like a thermal stone, it changes color depending on its temperature.  I have this working for the inventory image and "ground" animation, but not for the "swap" animation that appears in the character's hand when it's equipped.  Does anyone know how to replace the swap animation on the fly?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Mobbstar]

Use this line again:

owner.AnimState:OverrideSymbol("swap_object", "swap_blowdart", "swap_blowdart")

 

I took the blowdart as example. If you have issues with displaying your swap symbols, try the blowdart types instead.

[keraunoscopia]

Use this line again:

owner.AnimState:OverrideSymbol("swap_object", "swap_blowdart", "swap_blowdart")

 

I took the blowdart as example. If you have issues with displaying your swap symbols, try the blowdart types instead.

 

Thanks very much for your quick reply!

 

This leads me to my next question: I've never seen reliable documentation for the the arguments to OverrideSymbol and how they relate to Spriter animations. 

 

For instance, suppose I create a Spriter project called "swap_myitem.scml" in a folder with a subdirectory called "my_subdirectory" which contains the images.  The Spriter animation contains an entity called "my_entity" with an animation called "BUILD".  Then the call to OverrideSymbol would look like:

 

OverrideSymbol( "swap_object", "swap_myitem", "my_subdirectory" )

 

Is that correct?

[Mobbstar]

Honestly I don't know, I always edit the atlas-0.tex of existing swap anims. Maybe others know though, DeathDiscipline for example.

[keraunoscopia]

Got it working: I created multiple spriter projects called "swap_item1.scml", "swap_item2.scml", etc. and used OverrideSymbol to swap them in.  For the sake of neatness, I tried creating multiple entities in a single spriter project with the same naming pattern, but that didn't work.

 

So, to supply a partial answer to my own question, if you create a spriter project "swap_item1.scml" with an entity "swap_item1" and an animation called "BUILD", and put the image in a subdirectory called "swap_item", then the call to OverrideSymbol looks like:

 

OverrideSymbol( "swap_object", "swap_item1", "swap_item" )

 

Edited August 31, 2015 by keraunoscopia

[DragonAvenger24]

On 8/10/2015 at 11:15 AM, keraunoscopia said:

Got it working: I created multiple spriter projects called "swap_item1.scml", "swap_item2.scml", etc. and used OverrideSymbol to swap them in.  For the sake of neatness, I tried creating multiple entities in a single spriter project with the same naming pattern, but that didn't work.

 

So, to supply a partial answer to my own question, if you create a spriter project "swap_item1.scml" with an entity "swap_item1" and an animation called "BUILD", and put the image in a subdirectory called "swap_item", then the call to OverrideSymbol looks like:

 

OverrideSymbol( "swap_object", "swap_item1", "swap_item" )

 

Hey, I'm working on solving this issue with my mod, but am a little confused as to where to put the files exactly. I think I just need to see an example of this so I have something to go off of.