Custom Skin Troubles...

[thehunter1320]

in UT 2K4... I see whats in the 1st pic... every one else on the server sees pic 2... WTF?? please help if u know whats going on

 

[Letters]

I think you're only changing your client-side model view... I don't think it's possible to have any other custom skins that people can actually see in the demo... Hell, I don't think it'd even be in the final game (did 2k3 have it?) because wouldn't people have to download it and everything?

 

[thehunter1320]

I think you're only changing your client-side model view... I don't think it's possible to have any other custom skins that people can actually see in the demo... Hell, I don't think it'd even be in the final game (did 2k3 have it?) because wouldn't people have to download it and everything?

i dunno if UT2K3 supported it.... but they would be tiny DLs... about 400 KBs...

o well... at least I can see it!

 

[Mr. Redundant]

i dunno if UT2K3 supported it.... but they would be tiny DLs... about 400 KBs...

o well... at least I can see it!

400kbs x 32 people with custom models, downloading from clients with erratic connections = trouble.

hell custom sprays in HL used to lag people and make em complain...
maybe if there was a dedicated server that indexed all the released models, that you downloaded from (to lessen strain on server and clients) then it might be slightly more feasable.

 

[ray_MAN]

Forget being able to see it. I can't even install it.

 

[SubKamran]

Ahhh, so you can't see them online Oh well, at least I CAN. Muaahaha.

 

[h00dlum]

u can only see them yourself..otherwise people would use invisible skins n stuff like that...its clientside only ya know..and UT2k3 did not support it..i think no game does..

 

[nw909]

That'd be like downloading a weapon skin, and then everyone else would have to use the same one.

 

[FictiousWill]

I'm surprised that unreal 2k4 lets you change player models. I mean, why not color all the skins bright pink to make aiming easier?

 

[Direwolf]

Tribes 2 did just that: custom skins everyone got to see. It was an option that was defaulted to off, but anyone with a decent computer usually enabled it. Don't ask me how they did it, but it was damn cool to whoop some ass in Rainbow-Sherbert armor.