Says which character and which skin a map-placed entity is. It sits in the
Character field of an entity template, and the template's other components read it
when they build the unit or the mesh.
Both properties are paths, but the client does not resolve them as paths. When the object loads it cuts three values out of the two strings:
| Value | Taken from |
|---|---|
| character name | the second segment of CharacterRecord |
| record name | the last segment of CharacterRecord; Root means the default record |
| skin number | the number after Skin in the last segment of Skin; 0 when it does not parse |
So Characters/Turret/CharacterRecords/SR_Outer with Characters/Turret/Skins/Skin3
reads as character Turret, record SR_Outer, skin 3.
The three values are used to preload the character record, and they are what the entity's unit, shop and character mesh components pass on when they create a turret, an inhibitor, a nexus, a minion, another unit, a shopkeeper, or a decorative mesh. They read the definition through the entity's SkinCharacterGeComponent.
String = "" Path of the character record, in the form
Characters/<Name>/CharacterRecords/<Record>. <Name> becomes the character name and
<Record> the record name.
Characters/SRU_Blue/CharacterRecords/RootCharacters/Turret/CharacterRecords/SR_InhibitorString = "" Path of the skin, in the form Characters/<Name>/Skins/Skin<N>. Only <N> is used as
the skin number.
Characters/Turret/Skins/Skin3Embed<SkinCharacterGeComponentDef> Pointer<SkinCharacterGeComponentDef> Embed<SkinCharacterGeComponentDef> Embed<SkinCharacterGeComponentDef> Embed<SkinCharacterGeComponentDef>