addon Change chest rig patch based on UID

[masterfirewall 10]

Hello!

 

I am starting to learn how to mod and wanted to try to have the chest armor updated dynamically. I am sure this can be done server-side, but I was curious if it can pull the player UID within a chest rig mod. So the UID is grabbed by the mod on equip; after grabbing the UID it checks against a preset array of UIDs and determines which patch to put on their armor.

 

Basically, I want to avoid having ten million sets of chest armor to update when a significant change hits my unit.

 

within the hiddenSelectionsTextures for my testing vest I just have the variable but it does not seem to pass the patch.paa path from the _chest_path if statement condition
 

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class cfgWeapons
{
    class ChestPatch;
	class UniformItem;
	class Uniform_Base;
	class V_PlateCarrier1_rgr;
	class VestItem;
	class H_HelmetB;
	class HeadgearItem;
	class NVGoggles;
    _allowedUID[] = {"12345"}; // Actual testing UID is real
    _uid = getPlayerUID player;
    _firewallpatch = "\data\ins\Firewall_USMC_Patch.paa";
    _regularpatch = "\data\ins\USMC_ID_16_Corpsman.paa";
    _chosenpatch = _regularpatch
    _chest_patch = if (_uid not in _allowedUID) then _chosenpatch == _regularpatch else _chosenpatch == _firewallpatch;
	class USMC_PVS14_LWH_NVG_01: NVGoggles
//Continues as normal
// within the hiddenSelectionsTextures for my testing vest I just have the variable but it does not seem to pass the patch.paa path
		hiddenSelectionsTextures[]=
		{
			"\data\Retex\Coyote\SPC_Vest_Coyote_co.paa",
			"\data\Retex\Coyote\C_MagPouch_Coyote_co.paa",
			"\data\Retex\Coyote\c_grenadepouch_Coyote_co.paa",
			"data\Retex\Coyote\p_Coyote_2_co.paa",
			"\data\Retex\Coyote\c_fanny_Coyote_co.paa",
			// "\data\ins\USMC_ID_16_Corpsman.paa"
			_chosenpatch
		};

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Thank you!