[ARMOUR] Layered armour - easy example (requires OXCE)

[Solarius Scorch]

Recently I made a small mod to test something in OXCE and Meridian had the nice idea to share it with the community as a proof of concept.

This mod does two things:
1) Changes the vanilla Personal Armour from static to layered. This means that you don't have to make a paperdoll for every face/armour combination in the mod, you just make a naked soldier body and appropriate armour parts that covers it by code;
2) Replaces soldier's rank image in battlescape with their portrait (also using Personal Armour).

The first function isn't useful on itself, since Personal Armour is a vanilla armour and there are no extra faces, so everything is already provided by vanilla. I'm just putting it here as a proof of concept to show how layered armours work.

[gaffer]

Thanks for sharing Sol.
Been debating migrating my growing faces and paperdoll sets to layered style and had looked at other mods for examples.   This simplifies things!

[Finnik]

Thanks! I was going to dive in that soon but had no idea where to start, now should be much easier!

[The Reaver of Darkness]

It's a bit too late for my mod, but I might get around to incorporating it anyway, to save some space. Great work!

[Solarius Scorch]

Yeah, it was too late for me as well, since most of my armours had hard-baked avatars already. But as long as you're going to add new armours, I still really recommend switching, since it makes adding new outfits a breeze.