How would you make it so that different heads would appear on an actor? Like Crobotech except that it just switches it randomly.

Go look at Zombies'09.
tl;cbflac: basically you give the head lots of frames and use the attachable handler to grab them head as an Attachable then do head.Frame = math.random(head.FrameCount);

My Code

This should pick a random frame of your head and make it so that the head stays on that frame for the rest of eternity. Or until it dies.
Just edit the first two functions with your info and attach the script to your actor.

You'll also need to give your head multiple frames with varying head images for this to do anything.


In case you need it, this is the code to apply a script to an actor:

Put that anywhere in your actor's ini file code.

Here's the code in a zip.



I can't wait to see your mod!


Credit to Geti for more than half of the code.
Credit to Mail2345 for figuring out how to run scripts on attachables.


EDIT: For anyone wondering, you can put in the PresetName and FrameCount of anything you want and it'll still work... just as long as it's attached to whatever the script is on.

Geti it's right but Geti's way it's using lua to the actor come with a female body with a female head or the same with male sprites , you can use ini , but you can make only male or female.

Wouldn't it also be possible to have random helmets, with pretty much exactly the same technique?

Basically, my script was exactly what Geti said to do except with some attempts at being user friendly.

You can use this technique on anything.
Even helmets.

I'll provide and example on how later.

This is the same code as before but applied to the object the script is on:


(This is the technique I'm using for a variety of my mods that I'm working on.)

Yes , we can make fully random actors

Pretty sure arms and legs are hardcoded to cycle through all of their frames accordingly with the extension of the limb. So it likely won't work with that.

I remember hearing that the Ronin were supposed to be randomized eventually though, so hopefully that will be incorporated in a way where modders can also make full body randomization.

Actually, you can. Well, I think you can. I still have to test it.



(Yes, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this sort of stuff.)

Nah, you can't, because the loop is set to be n fames long where n is the total number of frames.

I asked for that a while ago, but Joe didn't post his code.
So I'll take yours if you agree.
Anyway thanks.

I don't really mind. It might not even work anyway.
If it does work, and you use it in a mod... well, if you credit me (along with Geti and Mail2345) I'd be happy, but again, it doesn't really matter.

When that happens, we could have a Random faction, with one actor. And it would randomize every part of the actor. Would it be possible to randomize guns?

I'm not sure how to do that. Just giving the actor a random gun might be easier than changing the gun to a random frame.

No , if you add many frames to one gun , it will change the frames when you fire.