Switch between characters

[Storm840]

I have no experience in coding/scrips, and i want to be able to switch between different characters sprites anytime in the song someone pls help

[r6915ee]

You can learn about programming in Haxe within the official manual, though do bear in mind that the version of HScript in the engine, which allows you to script using Haxe due to the fact that Haxe is transpiled to a different language (C++ in this case), has some unfortunate drawbacks. Usually, though, these shouldn't hinder you too much.

The implementation varies from mod to mod, but I remember that in terms of icons, you can call the respective icon's setIcon() function and change the parameters. For the actual sprites, one simple option may be to add the characters into the chart directly, and manipulate the camera accordingly. Or, of course, you can change the values in the character directly. However, I myself haven't delved into either of the two yet, simply because I haven't been provided the assets to do so with the mods I'm in that run on Codename.

In whatever case related to softcoding, the website will be your friend, as it contains an API reference and a very useful wiki. A lot of things depend on softcoding in this engine, and both of them cover that problem.