Swap body parts that use the same skeleton without duplicating the animation players/trees

Fozze

Hello! Im new to godot and is currently working on a small project for learning sake. I want to make a character who can change clothes, and for this purpose i decided to chop up the character into HEAD, TORSO, LEGS and ARMS so that if the player finds a pair of gloves, the arms can be changed to the ones wearing those gloves for example. So far, the only way i've been able to do this is by exporting every arm type available with animations separately and create an animationtree for each one which seems a bit tedious. I was wondering if there was a quicker and more efficient way to do this that i've missed?

Any and all answers are much appreciated! Thanks!

Fozze

To specify, i want to be able to change parts but keep the same "controls" for them. Scripts, animation player and animation tree. So if i have 2 different TORSO parts, one with a shirt and one with armor, i can switch to the armored one without needing a separate animation player and tree since both torsos share the same skeleton and spot on the body.

Megalomaniak

Swap mesh resources attached to nodes rather than the mesh instance nodes? I haven't tried but that might be my first go-to.

Fozze

I'll look into that when i have the time, thanks!

Fozze

Hello, i looked into it and found someone else who had the same problem and managed to solve it, so im just gonna link to their post in case someone else with the same problem stumbles upon this post: https://godotforums.org/discussion/26026/how-to-correctly-swap-the-mesh-of-a-meshinstance-when-its-also-parented-to-a-skeleton-node.

Thanks for the help!