Set Object Textures for a weapon

Hello. I am working on a mod that requires the ability to change the texture of the rifle under certain circumstances. I followed a tutorial on how to set up hiddentextures and use the setobjecttexture command, however I ran into an issue, I have no idea how to call the weapon model. I've tried an init_eventhandler in the config of the weapon to call a script, that did not work.

The only other way I can see me achieving the effect I want is to have 33 different guns all with the minor differences and somehow call the player to switch the guns (which would be impractical).

So what can I do?

I don't think you can use hidden selection textures with guns, which sucks because it makes is so we need to make 500 different models and is very inefficient/inconvenient.

I don't think you can use hidden selection textures with guns

indeed