Help with ADVENT capes

[Volkser]

I have come up with an idea to use the teeth model to add prop sockets to all soldiers regardless of the armour they are using. The problem is that I need help in figuring out how to make the game load the modified teeth and override the default teeth. Would anyone here know how to do this?

[Kvalyr]

Interesting idea.

Teeth get specified in XComGameState_Unit.kAppearance.nmTeeth:

BodyPartTemplate = PartManager.FindUberTemplate("Teeth", kAppearance.nmTeeth);
ArchetypesToLoad.AddItem(BodyPartTemplate.ArchetypeName);

kAppearance is a TAppearance var on the unit class.

My experience so far with UE3 seems to suggest that you can't override meshes/textures/archetypes directly by just adding something of the same name to the game assets. I wish you could.
Instead, I would guess you'll have to change the nmTeeth property on a soldier (or the template the soldier is created from) to point to your new teeth ArcheType.

[Volkser]

Well I'm useless at coding and can't find out how to change the nmTeeth property.

[Kvalyr]

Something roughly like this:

local XComGameState_Unit Unit;
local TSoldier Soldier; // Disposable var

// TODO HERE: Fetch Unit. stpre in Unit var.

Soldier.kAppearance = Unit.kAppearance;
Soldier.kAppearance.nmTeeth = 'DefaultTeeth';

Unit.SetTAppearance(Soldier.kAppearance);

Edited February 22, 2016 by Kvalyr