Helmetless look option

Orion2019

Am new here. Greetings to all!
Curious if a helmetless look toggle can be implemented, similar to Divinity Original Sin 2's toggle perhaps?
On character creation we put quite a bit of effort into choosing the head we like.
It just looks cooler in my opinion if our characters can battle without a helmet on.

DJKajuru

I don't remember if it was something official or a mod but in my NWN games the equipment appearance customization doesn't cost money anymore, and you can change your helmet animation to the "0" option which is invisible.

Ancarion

There is new functionality in EE (and maybe Diamond as well?) that allows hiding of any equipment slot, including helmets. As of now, it can only be implemented through scripting; there are no specific "hide helmet" settings in settings.tml, though I'm sure that would be a popular addition.

In general, it's something that a module creator would have to integrate when building their module. It might be possible to put a custom "hide helmet" script in your override folder, but that could easily break other scripting in the affected module(s).

Calgacus

I just added a Hide Helmet item to PlayerUtilities. There is now a function that makes it easy. The script is in the utilities.hak,
just spawn in the item and use it while wearing any helmet. Also available on steam.

Orion2019

Thanks so much for the replies!

Chreelister

So is this is a Hak or Script? I don't see a SetItemAnimation function or is it by changing the appearance of the helmet to 0?

Calgacus

@Chreelister Here is the script hidehelmet.nss, activated by using an item with the tag "hidehelmet" and the "unique power self only" property:

void main()
{

    object oPC =  GetItemActivator();
    object helmet = GetItemInSlot(INVENTORY_SLOT_HEAD,oPC);
    if(OBJECT_INVALID == helmet){
        return;
    }
    int bool = GetHiddenWhenEquipped(helmet);
    if(TRUE == bool){
        bool = FALSE;
    }else{
        bool = TRUE;
    }
    SetHiddenWhenEquipped(helmet, bool );
 
}

Chreelister

Awesome, Calgacus, Thanks. Looks like it is only an EE thing. Go EE!!

Atrophiederic

And in theory, this can be done for all the slots, yah? Armor, cloak, and whatnot?

Calgacus

@Atrophiederic Yes but not for all creatures, according to the lexicon: SetHiddenWhenEquipped

The intended usage of this function is to provide an easy way to hide helmets, but it can be used equally for any slot which has creature mesh visibility when equipped (e.g.: armour, helm, cloak, left hand, and right hand).

Old_Gith

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only hides it for the actual player using the activation? In multiplayer other players would still see your character with the helmet, yes?

Calgacus

I'm not sure - I only play in single player mode but I would be surprised if it didn't work in multi-player mode assuming the item and script is in the module and not just dropped into your own override or development folder or in your own userpatch.ini - would someone like to test in multiplayer mode and let us know?
According to the patch notes for 1.79

We fixed the SetName and SetHiddenWhenEquipped script commands not reliably updating all clients.

and by "clients" I assume they are referring to players in multiplayer and persistent world games as opposed to the different client executables running on the different platforms.