how do I hide components?

[Bubbleman]

I want to make the skin for a component be recognizable to the game but I don't want it to show in the game anywhere else except the robot it was made for.

Not possible, as far as I'm aware, to only have a component show up only in a specific robot's bot lab. Best you can do is either hide it completely or cheatbot2 it.

[AlexGRFan97]

I want to make the skin for a component be recognizable to the game but I don't want it to show in the game anywhere else except the robot it was made for.

Not possible, as far as I'm aware, to only have a component show up only in a specific robot's bot lab. Best you can do is either hide it completely or cheatbot2 it.

This. It's just not possible to make a part available for just one robot, you either got to put it on when it's unhidden and then hide it afterwards, or BFE the component on in place of a different part.

[Naryar]

Actually I do believe sonny's method would work... put a component inside Styles, have no dropdown menu reference him and just swap components via BFE.

People wouldn't be able to see it in the bot lab.

[Jaydee99]

in the component .txt file, search for a "hidden = X" line, where X is either 0, 1 or 2. If there is one change X to 2.

If there is no such line then add one. The contents of the line must be "hidden = 2"

literally it's not difficult jaydee

No, you're really not understanding me. I want this so (like in sage's tutorial) it's a the same component but a different skin and not overwriting the original but not in a drop down menu.
After I find out this, can someone explain how to apply it to a robot?

Make your duplicate and drop it into the styles menu just like Sage's tutorial says.  But, skip the step where you make the dropdown menu.

When you want to use this component, build the robot like normal, but use the unskinned version of the component in question.  Then, use BFe to swap it out for the skinned version.

I'd give you a hug if you were in front of me.

I want to make the skin for a component be recognizable to the game but I don't want it to show in the game anywhere else except the robot it was made for.

Not possible, as far as I'm aware, to only have a component show up only in a specific robot's bot lab. Best you can do is either hide it completely or cheatbot2 it.

This. It's just not possible to make a part available for just one robot, you either got to put it on when it's unhidden and then hide it afterwards, or BFE the component on in place of a different part.

Sonny hides components on his replicas (believe me, he does and I know cos I have a lot of his replicas) and this is what I've been wanting to hear since I started this chat and if he's giving this information then I'm gonna do this.

One other thing unrelated to this, I'm gonna change my AI guide soon. I've stopped the flipper/spin thing and started using the omni way. Hope to get it up soon.