Changing skins colours - Legal?

[HitchHiker²]

If i change the skins in my game to:
Ts in bright red.
CTs in bright blue.
Is it legal?
So it will be more clear who are CTs and who are Ts.

 

[giant384]

hahah is changing skins legal yes it is legal no one cares what skins u use

 

[HitchHiker²]

Even if i use a skin that the weapons in it reach till the middle of the screen?
Im sure there's a red line for what skin can you use...
I want to be sure.

 

[Ennui]

what do you mean, legal? i dont know if you're allowed to do that stuff in CAL and whatnot but it's not against the law for normal play

 

[giant384]

what do you mean, legal? i dont know if you're allowed to do that stuff in CAL and whatnot but it's not against the law for normal play

it dosen matter no one can c the skin unless u use a server mod and put the skins in

 

[HitchHiker²]

what do you mean, legal? i dont know if you're allowed to do that stuff in CAL and whatnot but it's not against the law for normal play

I mean in contests and such...

 

[giant384]

i still dont get what some of what u are trying to do are u trying to import a model into a game and use it and its not working?

 

[FictiousWill]

No, he's making his skins bright blue and red, so he can see them better. It's extremely frowned upon and stupid.

 

[HitchHiker²]

No, he's making his skins bright blue and red, so he can see them better. It's extremely frowned upon and stupid.

:O
It's not me, in asking this cause i saw someone who did this.

 

[Dekstar]

I used to do that. If you tell people they bitch about it whenever you own them. Even after you uninstall them.

 

[beejblazzk]

I used to do that. If you tell people they bitch about it whenever you own them. Even after you uninstall them.

i believe changing skins so u can see them in dark areas is wrong.

in my old school days, i used to play delta force 2, and land warrior, and that series of games from Novalogic with a pro squad created in delta force 2, i being a founder.

it came to be in delta force land warrior that using skins were a cheat/hack, and was 100% illegal to use anything different than the skins that came with the game. a pro squad got caught one time using skins, they would take screenshots at the end of every match, and one screenshot had a dead body in the background with the illegal skin. that squad was then disrespected.. and there were tons of clan hoppers because of this "some hack, some dont" in certain pro squads.

using a bright red skin for terrorists and bright blue for counter terrorists is a huge unfair advantage to someone that uses normal skins. also, u have that edge over people that find it hard to see the dark skins in dark areas. itd easy to shoot at a something bright red in a dark tunnel. its hard to shoot at something that has a black mask and dark clothes in a dark tunnel.

i like customization to my own liking, but i wouldnt take from the game aspect and make skins/models all one solid color. although, i would make sure i can distinguish the skins so both are unique. (as if they arent unique anyway) the only trouble i find having to distinguish between skins is in dark areas.. which is the way it should be. either way, just shooting at anything that moves is a good tactic. just dont play on a ff server.

also, i think aimbots use skins to be able to target parts of the body. aka giving it something to "aim" at, using aim vecs... numbers of the skin which mean a specific area to shoot at such as head or chest or groin. i dont know how aimbots work, but its something along this line. also, there were hacks in 1.6 that made skins bright red/blue. might tell u why i think your custom bright skin idea is a bad idea.

its like a safe hack. its wrong, imo.

 

[Dekstar]

Well I play in a window, which puts me at a disadvantage because I can't change the brightness of my game. Now I know for a fact that everyone in my ex-clan had their brightness up 100% because they played in windows. Does that make them cheaters? They could see dark places better than me.

 

[Unfocused]

Well I play in a window, which puts me at a disadvantage because I can't change the brightness of my game. Now I know for a fact that everyone in my ex-clan had their brightness up 100% because they played in windows. Does that make them cheaters? They could see dark places better than me.

Why would you want to play in a window?

 

[jellydoughnut217]

actualy i believe many people consider this a form of hacks. Im pretty sure the general rule is if you alter the game in any way (outside of the general game options of course) to better your performance while playing is considered cheating my many.

 

[Dekstar]

Why would you want to play in a window?

So I can chat on MSN while owning people, obviously...

I'm so popular.

EDIT: Yeah Jelly it is considered cheating, so I don't think it's worth doing. Custom weapon models I think are fine (though I still use defaults). But stuff like high-colour skins aren't. Though skins which don't show an advantage are fine.

 

[AlecRazec]

Changing your skins so you can do IFF and spot targets in darker areas is considered by the community as cheating. VAC may operate the same way, pending on how dramatic a change it is.

It's illegal. Don't. But if you go to like Counter-DL and pick up some new hi-res stuff, that's fine. All of my guns are reskinned, CT and Ts too. But they look very similar to the originals.

 

[Dekstar]

Changing your skins so you can do IFF and spot targets in darker areas is considered by the community as cheating. VAC may operate the same way, pending on how dramatic a change it is.

It's illegal. Don't. But if you go to like Counter-DL and pick up some new hi-res stuff, that's fine. All of my guns are reskinned, CT and Ts too. But they look very similar to the originals.

Ok fair enough. How about sounds?

I used sounds from that Fusion Source pack (Not the whole thing, 90% of it sucks royally). They're obviously higher quality, but are they cheating, since they might make some things easier to hear.

 

[Reaktor4]

:O
It's not me, in asking this cause i saw someone who did this.

If i change the skins in my game to:
Ts in bright red.
CTs in bright blue.
Is it legal?
So it will be more clear who are CTs and who are Ts.

not you? you even gave a reason why you wanted to do it.
if you do youre a cheating ****.

 

[Chrysalid]

Well, it can be considered cheating if you make your enemies appear bright pink, and therefore you are able to detect them even if they were hiding in shadows or something. Still, it does not affect the data being sent and received to the server so it's not a "hack" either.

 

[3ssence]

Personally i do frown upon such skins. Oh and dek, if you play in a window then you can change the brightness settings in catalyst.

 

[smsKONG]

I know clanbase consider any non-default skins as illegal, the only problem is that VAC doesnt deep scan you're system so only checks to see if the sizes are different (which is why you'll get a consistency error kick when using gun models where the 3rd person view of the gun is huge- it sticks out too far, making it an easily identifiable cheat). Which leaves the problem that they cant check without screenshots, tho they do require demos these only show the skins of the person playing the demo....

However even for normal play, while they are not hacks as such, I would consider them as ungentlemanly, and against a spirit of fair play. Being able to identify the enemy is part of the game; so is something you should practice, rather than cheat to get around.

 

[HitchHiker²]

not you? you even gave a reason why you wanted to do it.
if you do youre a cheating ****.

OK, if you know hebrew, i can give you a link to a forum where there was a guy who did this.
The only "reason" i gave here was a translated qoute of this guy.

 

[HitchHiker²]

So I can chat on MSN while owning people, obviously...

I'm so popular.

EDIT: Yeah Jelly it is considered cheating, so I don't think it's worth doing. Custom weapon models I think are fine (though I still use defaults). But stuff like high-colour skins aren't. Though skins which don't show an advantage are fine.

BTW, another thing, how do you play im window-state?

 

[Dekstar]

BTW, another thing, how do you play im window-state?

It's in options under 'video'. select "Play in window"

Also essy if you can tell me how I can make it so I just load this profile for high-brightness everytime I want to play, that'll be ace.

 

[Glo]

you can load preconfigured profiles (and gamma,brightness,saturation control) by binding them to key combinations if youre using catalyst. theres a downside though: you cant do it for the desktop - if you choose to play in window mode

changing this thing is really fine, brightness varies from one PC to another. mine for example is pretty dark and I have to brighten it up a little bit to see anything.

 

[Geronimous]

Changing your skins so you can do IFF and spot targets in darker areas is considered by the community as cheating. VAC may operate the same way, pending on how dramatic a change it is.

It's illegal. Don't. But if you go to like Counter-DL and pick up some new hi-res stuff, that's fine. All of my guns are reskinned, CT and Ts too. But they look very similar to the originals.

actually, it is very legal. If he wants to make his skins fullcolor, then he has the right to do so. You have the right to set all brightness levels to full?
Hell, it could even be a good solution for people that have limited vision.

I have nothing against skins.

 

[Ravioli]

Im a skinny white niggah

 

[thanksmisfortune]

Go to csbanana.com and there's one on there with red and blue.

 

[3ssence]

The brightness doesn't make as much difference as you would imagine. I would imagine changing the contrast would be more likely to allow you to pick people out in the dark. But it's still different from re-skinning players to make them more visible.

The brightness option is an in-game feature, which has been put there for people to use. Changing skins to bright colours gives one player an unfair advantage over others, not only in dark areas, in normal areas of play as well, someone in bright colours is going to stand out far more and be a lot easier to make out. But heh, if you're not good enough to play with standard skins, or alternatively have no shame, go for it.

 

[Malfunction]

Using custom content is illegal in most leagues, but for personal use there is no real way to tell. It's just really really stupid and lame.