Reskin by classname

[Double Doppler 10]

I want to retexture my units in my mission by classname so that they are retextured automatically whenever any script calls them (be it buying a unit, or respawning as one). I know in a way that this might be possible, but I do not know what parameters to set. I am hoping to make it in a trigger, that is JIP compatable. Like if "BAF_Soldier_DDPM" was set to retexture automatically using SetObjectTexture, so that it would never show its original textures for the duration of the MP mission.

I really need to be pointed in the right direction, I have been trying this for some time and getting it to work :confused:

[sxp2high 23]

Put this into the unit's init:

nul = [this] execVM "skin.sqf";

skin.sqf:

_Vehicle = _this select 0;

if (_Vehicle isKindOf "BAF_Soldier_DDPM") then {
while {true} do {
	waitUntil {alive _Vehicle};
	_Vehicle setObjectTexture [0,"blah.paa"];
	waitUntil {!alive _Vehicle};
};
};

if (_Vehicle isKindOf "someotherclass") then {
while {true} do {
	waitUntil {alive _Vehicle};
	_Vehicle setObjectTexture [0,"blah.paa"];
	waitUntil {!alive _Vehicle};
};
};

Unit init lines are also executed by JIPs.

waitUntil {alive _Vehicle}; waitUntil {!alive _Vehicle}; <--- these lines are = respawn

[Double Doppler 10]

The thing is that the unit I want to retexture doesn't have an init (I want to set a command in the mission, perhaps by trigger, so that if that unit is called in when bought by a player, it automatically reskins it).

What I am trying to do is reskin normal vehicles to be ,say woodland LAVs into Desert LAVs for a warfare mission. Then If I buy them in the game, they turn into desert ones as the command automatically retextures them by the paa in the mission file.

Edited May 17, 2011 by Double Doppler