Most efficient way to make interchangeable clothing and armour for a sprite?

Freeman_Reigns

Hello everyone.

I'd like to make interchangeable equipment for my character. I was thinking of using animations for each clothing piece in each direction, or alternatively, making an animated sprite for every piece and show/hide them when necessary. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way and there's a more efficient way of doing this?

TwistedTwigleg

From my experience with 3D game development, showing/hiding pieces when necessary is a common way to do it. You could also combine this with a spawning/destroying system if you want, so invisible clothing and armor is destroyed when unequipped. That way, you don't have a bunch of hidden nodes in doing nothing 90% of the time. Though, I have not tried to make a interchangeable clothing or armor system in Godot myself, in 3D or 2D, so I'm not sure if there are better ways to handle this in Godot.

Freeman_Reigns

Thank you for the tips. I'll see what I can come up with.