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Can models be customized by the player during actual gameplay? Here's an example of what I'm talking about. I'd like to make it so that the player can choose a hairstyle for their character, as well as hair color separately, and other facial/body features including height, weight, and possibly female bust size.



Yes, this is possible. Just separate your player model into parts and pieces and use my.skin = xxx; as needed.



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Another customizable option the player would have would be what items they have equipped, weapons as well as armor. With all these different choices a player could make there could very well be over 1000 different combinations, making it improbable and nearly impossible task to premake every combination as a seperate model.



With some tricks, this is possible. Just use a separate entity for each item.



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Can you create seperate models for each part and "link" them together during gameplay using scripting to essentially create what would be the character's model?



This is how the two things above will work. I don't know how it's done, but I'm pretty sure it's possible.



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Can you scale different parts of a model during gameplay (as to create a short/tall and skinny/fat character)?



Just use my.scale_x = xxx;, my.scale_y = xxx; and/or my.scale_z = xxx; as needed in your script.



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Can you change the skin used for a model, or change color tinting variables (for hair-color)?



Changing the skin is possible. By using materials, you can easily tint things - I do this with my 3D game's platforms to choose from 16 7/9 million colors.



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Can bone-animation still be used on a model created like this, with all these customizable/interchangeable pieces?



I don't know in this case.



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I know this is a lot, and I'm not asking you to explain to me how to do all of them. I simply want to know whether 3D GameStudio can accomplish these tasks, hopefully with just C-Script without having to go into DLLs, plugins, C++, and the like. If it can, could you please point me in the right direction for further study in learning how to actually program it all?

Thank you.



There are tons of tutorials around. I don't have any scripting tutorials, and otherwise lack considerable experience with 3D. I get a bulk of this information from what other users have posted (and answered) through my time of being here.

"You level up the fastest and easiest if you do things at your own level and no higher or lower" - useful tip My 2D game - release on Jun 13th; My tutorials