Rigged Armor and Mecanim

Hi everyone!
I'm having a bit of trouble when adding armor to my player. I'm using the script masterprompt kindly shared here http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/stitch-multiple-body-parts-into-one-character.16485/

Basically it creates a skinnedmeshrenderer that references my player's bones and makes it the player's child.
And as an extra step, if for example the player picks up a helmet, I disable the player's "Head" skinnedmeshrenderer component.

And it works wonderfully!
Except when the player has to aim his weapon with mecanim's "SetLookAtPosition":

animator.SetLookAtPosition(ikTargetPos);
animator.SetLookAtWeight(1,1,1);

Suddenly, this stops working properly. It starts to jitter, or it simply doesn't work.

Also, the more skinnedmeshrenderers I disable, the worse it becomes.

Anyone know how I can fix this?

 

Hmmm could you try setting the script that creates the skinned meshrenderer to a higher/lower than default execution time at the script execution order window?

 

Creating the armor and attacking it to the player is done in one of the player's functions, it executes once every time a new piece of armor is equipped. Maybe it has a slight framerate hiccup when it's generated, but after it's done, it shouldn't affect the Player's execution, and yet that's what it seems to do :/

From what I've gathered, the more I disable the player's original skinnedmeshrenderers, and the more extra skinnedmeshrenderers I add, the worse the script executes the LookAtPosition(...)

 

Solved! All I had to do was instead of disabling the old skinnedmeshes, I substituted their variables with those from the armor

 

Interesting Glad you solved it.