Is there a way to change the model of a unit (human) during game?

[alleycat 28]

Is there a way to change the model of a unit (human) during game? And does it have implications with friend/foe recognition? I am looking to have one player have a randomized appeareance.

[victim913 10]

I was wanting something similar. I wanted to have a soldier to get a place and have him change clothes into civilian clothes and walk around the city.

I was planning on just having the civilian units ready and when i get there just team switch and use a script to delete the old unit once i switch to the civilian.

Since it's just me playing it team switching is simple, but if i get it good enough to release to public then i would need something better. And switching using teams switch you have control of which side you fight for or look like you fight for. Switch to a unit that has a group leader that is set to 0 probablity of presence.

[AZCoder 921]

Depending on what you need, setFace could suffice, and I think it works on the fly: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setFace

For changing the whole character, I do something similar to what victim wrote.

[Murklor 10]

You can use selectPlayer unitname to change the player character (obviously need some setPos to replace on the spot)

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Due to possible player variables, actions, eventhandlers, respawn system, mission lists, server data and whatever, having to be managed for the other character, I think the general thought on this is that it is not recommended.

[callihn 10]

Yea, it can be done and has been done before, an older version of CL:R had "Skin shops" where players could buy a new skin, the only problem was that they did not destroy the old unit, some missions like CL:R just placed them at spawn, but that started to make things confusing, some tried and noticed them running around the mission on their own as AI, the fix I think was to destroy the old unit. I sent you a PM with the script in question.

Edited September 16, 2010 by callihn

[eggbeast 3685]

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