Custom Skins

[Vellusian]

So, as I'm still unable to post in the Clan section, I guess I'll put it here. I've had several recent request for develop a custom skin for individual players. While I'm willing to do it, these things can take time and don't always turn out exactly as desired. Before I start on all of this I'm intending on developing a little tutorial to help anyone with time develop their own skin. As I'm in the process of doing that, I've heard some suggestions about A.) Cleaning up the z_skins file (i.e. removing unused skins) and B.) Modifying skins identical for each team.

I've prepared a list of identical and similar skins and wanted to get people's opinion on them.

Duplicates:
Agent Hippo
Captain America
Chief
Chino
Deadman
Dead Reaper
Ghost Rider
Hannah
Naughty
Stoneman
V for Vendetta

Similar:
Homer Simpson
Kenobi
Peter Griffin
Punisher
Rabbit
Walking Dead
Hitman

So let me know if you can think of a way to distinguish duplicate or similar skins, eliminate unused skins, or anything else. Meanwhile, I'll get started on that tutorial.

[HeavenBound]

That tut would be very helpful Vell, I've always wanted to skin, but quite frankly, suck at art. lol

[Dedman]

I know a bit how to skin but the pictures are awefull lol

[Doper]

Vell if you eliminated all custom skins except for the Blue  Papa skin you could turn the MOHAA main server into the Matrix.

Instead of choosing allied or axis teams we could be asked to choose the Blue Or Red pill team. All Blue team pill poppers would be forced into a Papa's skin and thus be named collectively "Mr.Smith".

All Red pill poppers would be forced into a stock skin and be part of the Neo team.

Continually killing Papas all map long could be a therapy session for most of us and probably increase "Matrix" traffic.

          

[Dedman]

 

[Shaq]

Well I usually use halo,Hannah,mercuyMan and girl powers
But for the same skins maybe u could have colour skin codes like ... Mabye lighter colours for allied e.g yellow,blue,pink and darker colours like red,brown,purple for axis so u dont get confused which skin is for which team and all u need to know is light colours=allied and darkcolours=axis instead of u struggling to look to see who it is and weather it has the allied/axis symbol on its head especially when its hidden and your shooting at it for a while then it comes out and it turns out its 1 of your team and u just been shooting at it for ages. Orrrr.... U might not have to change the colour schemes or make colour codes, u could slightly modify the skins to change them depending what team the are for maybe putting the axis symbol on their helm,head etc or putting allied symbol or allied skins helms,head etc or another way could be changing distinct things about that skin e.g like of chief u can change he's cheif skin hat from like the propper sticking on allied and make the axis one a flat cheif maybe and for stoneman u could chance the shape/size of his stones for 1 team or another and like for naughty or dedman u could change the colour/shape/size or where abots the flames are on the skin and etc with the other skins which are same or similar.
These are just my opinions and suggestions just mainly to make it less confusing and to make it easier for people to play without having the worries weather the person is their team or not and to improve the skins a little to suit the game and make it easier to play it.
And those [1ssf]_allied (something like that) don't work for me, the just show me as allied default skin when im frozen or alive, if u could have a solution let me know,thanks.
Berry

[Shaq]

Wow that's long and sorry if it's not abit clear, and what i ment for the cheif skin was change shape of the hat e.g allied have the big puffy sticking up kind of cheif hat and axis have one of those flat cheif hats almost like a berret kind of thing.
This probally wasn't that clear to but it's the best I could do typing on my iPod D:

[Blaze]

Or the easy way that would save time and energy would be to just do a negative of the skin for axis!

[Vellusian]

The [1SSF] skins aren't in z_skins.pk3. They were found in z_skins2.pk3 as a test pack to determine if anyone wanted them in the standard z_skins. I'm guess that sometime between then and now the z_skins2 has been pulled from the server, which would cause the same thing you're suggesting. If a skin is not on a server and you're not using 'force models' then it won't show up as the one you selected.

Blaze, I'm concerned that a negative of these would be a little funny looking. I'm also going to probably pull some of the skins that I made out, allowing us to reduce the file size a bit (also adding new textures to z_skins is going to raise up the size a good deal.)

The ones that seem rarely used and I'm inclined to remove include:
Kenobi
Chino
Homer Simpson
Peter Griffin
Chief

And possibly Dead Reaper and Ghost Rider.

[xplosivTuna]

i only use the gutz skin on both teams and they are diffirent on the teams so let that skin in the file please

[~Nisty~]

I use the old Vellusian ... Till the 'Nisty-skin' arrives *hint hint*

[misspiggy]

can you make a pig?

[LZMarloP]

I use Black_SAS on allied, and German_TN Preacher on Axis.

[WhoopieSheem]

<<Jason Voorhees and Walking Dead

[Draernor]

I use the old Vellusian ... Till the 'Nisty-skin' arrives *hint hint*

Whats a Nisty anyways?