Special thanks to uDevah who already donated 1000€ to the project !!

 

 
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The first goal will fund completing the above feature set and releasing the addon for free, along with an open source repo 

The supported Properties, Actions, Conditions and Expressions for the first version of this Addon will be:

[Properties] SkinBank Sprite Object & Skin Name : those properties allow to set the face textures of the Shape to the frames contained in an animation of any external Sprite Object, on startup.
It allows you to use any Sprite ObjectType of your project as a Skin Bank for your 3DShape skins
see example usecases in the action description achieving the same thing

[Property] Set All Faces To {Chosen Face} : allow to quickly set all faces of the 3DShape to use the image of a particular Face. Useful to avoid duplicating 6 times the same image for each face of the Shape. On startup, it will be automatically applied, not need to use an Action.

[Action] Set Skin {Skin Name} from {SkinBank Sprite Object} : Allow to change the textures of the Shape to an other skin (contained in an Animation "Skin" in any "SkinBank" Sprite Object).
Example usecases :
- Change the texture dynamically when the 3D Shape is damaged (Crate_LittleDamage, Crate_Burnt, Crate_BigDamages, Crate_Exploded, Crate_Destroyed)
- or when the user is recolting a Tree/Mining Oars like in Minecraft
- Allow to "upgrade" 3DShape Objects during gameplay, like in a Sim Game or City Builder where player can upgrade their building or swapping skins/color palettes for decorations in their Home.
- Randomly setting variant texture to some shapes to avoid repetitions (for Cars, Crates, Walls)
- Generating a Level Design quickly using blockout at edit-time and generating all relevant texture on startup

[Action] Set All Faces To Face : Allow to quickly set all faces of the 3DShape to use the image of a particular Face, dynamically at runtime.

[Action] Set All Faces To Object : Allow to quickly set all faces of the 3DShape to use the image of a particular Face, dynamically at runtime.

And more : i also plan to add other QOL and ACE to easily manipulate the aspect of the 3DShapes, like resetting the face to their original image for example. Or some ACEs to easily get/compare the Names of the current SkinBank Sprite and the Skin Animation