Flashlight attached to clothing - how?

[drmeatball]

Apologies ahead of time, I just can't figure this shit out. I've given up on trying to have a working left-handed flashlight, instead now all I want to do is attach a flashlight to the character's clothing similar to The Evil Within or Silent Hill and be done with it.

I've gotten as far as a working flashlight prefab but I do not understand how to attach it. Can someone share any insight into next steps after creating the flashlight?

 

[Justin]

Attaching the flashlight to clothing would be the same steps as setting it to the character's hand, actually a bit more so because you'd need to create a new item slot specifically for that item. @Cheo created a video showing how to setup the flashlight that you can follow for setting it up in the character's hand:

For the left hand you'd use a slot value of 1 instead of 0. With that said, if you want the flashlight on the character's clothing and not use the item system then you would need to script a new flashlight component completely.

 

[drmeatball]

I do appreciate your help. I know these are dumb questions.

What do you mean by 'creating a new item slot specifically for that item'. Is that creating a GameObject + Object Identifier and placing it on the character?

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Disregard - I think I figured this part out..

 

[drmeatball]

I made a flashlight prefab and I've even got it attached to the body where I'd like it but I'm having 2 problems:

1 - how do I auto-equip it? as soon as I hit play, the first picture happens. I have to scroll the mouse wheel to activate it? equip it? (I really don't know what's going on) so that I end up at the second picture, which is what I want the default to be.

2 - how do I actually turn on the flashlight? the only way it works for me is if I manually enable the light in the Hierarchy. I've done Cheo's tutorial a number of times but none of them have actually gotten me to the point of a working on/off light.


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100000 is the object identifier for the flashlight/chest

 

[Justin]

1 - how do I auto-equip it? as soon as I hit play, the first picture happens. I have to scroll the mouse wheel to activate it? equip it? (I really don't know what's going on) so that I end up at the second picture, which is what I want the default to be.

On the EquipUnequip ability for slot 0 you can specify the auto equip type. You can also manually call EquipUnequip.StartEquipUnequip where n is your ItemSet. This page has more info: https://opsive.com/support/document...lities/item-abilities/item-set/equip-unequip/

2 - how do I actually turn on the flashlight? the only way it works for me is if I manually enable the light in the Hierarchy. I've done Cheo's tutorial a number of times but none of them have actually gotten me to the point of a working on/off light.

This is done with the Usable Action Module Groups. Take a look at the demo flashlight for an example of the modules that we are using.