Armor display on player

[Antharis]

Hello. I just wanted to know, if say i add a new tier of modular power armor to the game, how do i make it look like the Power Armor MK1 and 2s from base game? Because it seems any custom armor added through modding does not change the player's sprite. It leaves it as when the game starts.

[semvoz]

Hello there,

In the base mod I would have a look to the following two files:

demo-entities.lua

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        -- modular armors are not in the demo
        armors = data.isdemo and {} or {"basic-modular-armor", "power-armor", "power-armor-mk2"},
        idle =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.idle,
            playeranimations.level1.idlemask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.idle,
            playeranimations.level3addon.idlemask
          }
        },
        idle_with_gun =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.idlewithgun,
            playeranimations.level1.idlewithgunmask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.idlewithgun,
            playeranimations.level3addon.idlewithgunmask,
          }
        },
        mining_with_hands =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.miningwithhands,
            playeranimations.level1.miningwithhandsmask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.miningwithhands,
            playeranimations.level3addon.miningwithhandsmask,
          }
        },
        mining_with_tool =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.miningwithtool,
            playeranimations.level1.miningwithtoolmask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.miningwithtool,
            playeranimations.level3addon.miningwithtoolmask,
          }
        },
        running_with_gun =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.runningwithgun,
            playeranimations.level1.runningwithgunmask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.runningwithgun,
            playeranimations.level3addon.runningwithgunmask,
          }
        },
        running =
        {
          layers =
          {
            playeranimations.level1.running,
            playeranimations.level1.runningmask,
            playeranimations.level3addon.running,
            playeranimations.level3addon.runningmask,
          }
        }
      }

demo-player-animations.lua

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  level3addon =
  {
    idle =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-idle.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 38,
      height = 43,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 22,
      animation_speed = 0.15,
      shift = {-0.015625, -0.83125},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    idlemask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-idle-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 38,
      height = 45,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 22,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      animation_speed = 0.15,
      shift = {-0.015625, -0.796875},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    idlewithgun =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-idle-gun.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 38,
      height = 43,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 22,
      animation_speed = 0.15,
      shift = {-0.296875, -0.78125},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    idlewithgunmask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-idle-gun-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 38,
      height = 44,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 22,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      animation_speed = 0.15,
      shift = {-0.296875, -0.703125},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    miningwithhands =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-mine.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 42,
      height = 46,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 14,
      animation_speed = 0.6,
      shift = {-0.15625, -0.421875},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    miningwithhandsmask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-mine-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 40,
      height = 47,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 14,
      animation_speed = 0.6,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      shift = {-0.15625, -0.40625},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    miningwithtool =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-mine-tool.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 72,
      height = 61,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 26,
      line_length = 26,
      animation_speed = 0.9,
      shift = {-0.0625, -0.4375},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    miningwithtoolmask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-mine-tool-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 69,
      height = 68,
      direction_count = 8,
      frame_count = 26,
      line_length = 26,
      animation_speed = 0.9,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      shift = {-0.046875, -0.359375},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    runningwithgun =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-run-gun.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 37,
      height = 47,
      frame_count = 22,
      direction_count = 18,
      shift = {0,  -0.6875}
    },
    runningwithgunmask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-run-gun-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 37,
      height = 50,
      frame_count = 22,
      direction_count = 18,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      shift = {0,  -0.609375}
    },
    running =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-run.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 40,
      height = 54,
      frame_count = 22,
      direction_count = 8,
      shift = {0, -0.78125},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
    runningmask =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/player/player-armor2-run-color.png",
      priority = "very-low",
      width = 40,
      height = 43,
      frame_count = 22,
      direction_count = 8,
      apply_runtime_tint = true,
      shift = {0, -0.890625},
      axially_symmetrical = false
    },
  }

Basically I would guess that you have to implement your own animation and add it to the player for your new power armour.
You might be able to reuse existing animation and add a 'tint', maybe.

[Antharis]

Thank you, sir! You are correct, i needed to add the new armor name to the following code for it to be recognized:

-- modular armors are not in the demo
armors = data.isdemo and {} or {"basic-modular-armor", "power-armor", "power-armor-mk2"},
idle =
{

and make it like so:

armors = data.isdemo and {} or {"basic-modular-armor", "power-armor", "power-armor-mk2", "CUSTOM-ARMOR-NAME1, "CUSTOM-ARMOR-NAME2"},

and so on...

That's only if people want to make their custom armor look like regular power armor, the second file is for tweaking in custom animations.