How to make hand slot equippable object show up in FRONT of character instead of behind?

[spideswine 278]

9 minutes ago, Silentdarkness1 said:

Wait..........now that you mention it, isn't there an API for modded custom skins? Although even if we did do that, we'd need a way to force that skin to always be on.

EDIT: No, that wouldn't work either. Illegal to do that to make it work with standard characters.

It's not really a skin, it's a workaround, and klei are generally reasonable.

[Silentdarkness1 1162]

Yes, but using it to make skin for vanilla characters would mean instant report.

Edited December 22, 2017 by Silentdarkness1

[spideswine 278]

from who?

People won't be able to tell it's a skin because it's not really a skin.

[Silentdarkness1 1162]

From Klei community members. Rules are rules, and I really don't want to risk running afoul of Klei because I skirted the rules a bit too much.

Now, if someone from Klei was to give the go-ahead, then I guess we could try that.

[Eusong 179]

I personally don't want to risk it when it likely won't work anyway. Not a bad suggestion though.

[Silentdarkness1 1162]

UPDATE:

So, after having gotten someone else to pitch in and help on Discord, we managed to make a great deal of progress:

 

 

Many thanks to @PeterA for the piece of code that helped us get this far!

However, there is now a new problem after unequipping.

The hand animations seem to be permanently borked after unequipping the shield.

local function onequip(inst, owner)
    owner.AnimState:OverrideSymbol("swap_object", "swap_buckler", "swap_buckler")
    owner.AnimState:SetMultiSymbolExchange("swap_object", "hand")
    owner.AnimState:Show("ARM_carry")
    owner.AnimState:Hide("ARM_normal")
    inst:ListenForEvent("blocked", OnBlocked, owner)

end

local function onunequip(inst, owner)
    owner.AnimState:SetMultiSymbolExchange("hand", "swap_object")
    owner.AnimState:Hide("ARM_carry")
    owner.AnimState:Show("ARM_normal")
    inst:RemoveEventCallback("blocked", OnBlocked, owner)
end

This is in the shield prefab file, not modmain. We're still trying to figure out why this isn't working out. We know about the build name, but that shouldn't be doing this. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[PeterA 9097]

in onunequip you'll want to call anim_state:ClearSymbolExchanges()

[Silentdarkness1 1162]

4 minutes ago, PeterA said:

in onunequip you'll want to call anim_state:ClearSymbolExchanges()

....................PETER.

DAMNIT, YOU'RE MAGIC. That did it!

[PeterA 9097]

I suspect you'll run into some issues with the legs clothing and various shoes. The Symbol exchanges was added for that and I think only support a single exchange at a time. So beware there may be some bugs there

 

[Silentdarkness1 1162]

Alright. If we run into more problems, we'll let you know here, and then we'll try to iron it out if possible.

[spideswine 278]

So uh, what does

SetMultiSymbolExchange

  do exactly?

[PeterA 9097]

It allows for up to two instances of a symbol in the animation to trade places in the layering with up to two instances of another symbol.

The main use case for this is for switching the layering between two leg symbols with two feet symbols when the pants have a large cuff than the feet.