[CSP] Official thread

[old_man_funk]

Hey,

I was thinking of starting up a Community Skin Pack (CSP). Just a few of us working on some skins, all with the same kinda theme. If anyone wants to join, just post a preview of yer previous work(s) and I'll see if yer good enough

I had the idea of making a team for a specific gametype, like a Bombing Run team with different positions (goal-keeper, defender, etc).

Any ideas and/or members are welcome.

NB: I'd quite like it we had people with different skills, ie. one person who was good at shaders and another who was good at faces etc, etc.

 

[J2a]

I'm average at everything

sounds interesting tho.

 

[SevenofNine]

im interested to get in on this

 

[BabyEater]

I'd be game, if my newb-ed-ness doesn't interfere.

See me. See me skin. Skin, me, skin.
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=130939

 

[SaD]

Nice idea ,
but I wouldn´t name it "Community"-Pack , because there will be many , many Community-Packs released IMO , after the success of the original CBP .

Also , the original CBP is a really , really great piece of work from the best mappers .
It should be done by the best of the best . No hard feelings , please , but I think , if there are skinner with different levels of skill working on it , you shouldn´t call it "Community".
I´m sure , there are enough ideas for a great name .

Again , I really like the idea

 

[BabyEater]

::sticks out bottom lip and skulks away to play in the sandbox::

 

[SevenofNine]

okey, i got an idea for this CommunityPack...and its SKINCITY[CBP] not official community pack.(as i think there already are one called that..?)
soo what u guys say, is it cool or what??
Anyway i say we call it SkinCity's Community Bonus Pack(however, SaD have to say we can use the name though?..please!..?

 

[SaD]

Anyway i say we call it SkinCity's Community Bonus Pack(however, SaD have to say we can use the name though?..please!..?

Sure ,I´m honored , if you name it like that , but it was only my opinon.It wasn´t my intention to harm someone .
My intention about not using "Community" in the name was the amount of "Community´s" that will be released the next time (I´m sure it will be a big amount of them) .Most of the ppl out there are bored of downloading the 30th "Whatever Community BonusPack" .
That´s the reason why you should have a great name .

Yeah , sometimes I have to fight with my bad english .
Please go on with .

 

[shadow_dragon]

Well the community Bonus pack is taken really!
The name isn't important though, you don't even know what your skinning yet! though if your doing skins for teamplay positions like for BR then jsut call it the TeamPlaySkinPack! *Shrugs!* Skin gorge up for goalie, Brock for strike and Romulus and Remus for defense or so! Heh heh!
Though if you did that you should do some CTF and Onslaught! Make it a universal TeamPlayPack! It's be hard though!

More simply would be a set of skins with a set uniform, more or less, a certain material would have to be used and certain colour schemes adhered too with the addition of any Logo's insignia or so! Keeps it simple! More or less!
Also if you add ,Race="SaD's-Mob" you get a whole new race listing to select from in the player selection screen!

I've not released anything public myself! But i'd be willing to give a hand! Not to great though i might say!

 

[BabyEater]

Dragon, that's a really great idea. I don't know if everyone will want to do it for this in particular, but it's definitely something that sparks my interest, skinning a team and whatnot.

In the meantime, is there a way one can insinuate a community pack without calling it a community pack?

Like SkinCity Commpack? Or the SkinCity Society Pack? SkinCity Skinners Union?

::shrugs::

 

[shadow_dragon]

If your going this route then just set it up like any other mod! One guy takes the lead! Old_man_Funk for example, he gives the orders, and organises everything so it's sweet and.......... organised! Follow one vision and the vision shall be seen without eye crossing! See?

But the decision shoudlreally be what kind of skinpack should it be, a themed tribute to something, a functional teamplay pack, etc, etc!

 

[SevenofNine]

hey old_man_funk we need some input from u now...*waiting eagerly for the post, and jumps up and down all excited ...like...*

on another note pimp my wip:

 

[SaD]

...Make it a universal TeamPlayPack!...

You are on the right way .Sounds interesting .
Can´t wait to see , if you guys are baking something special .

 

[Slaughter]

I had a similar idea (well at least the stuff with the team)

I wanna join

Urbanpack Male1
Urbanpack Female1
Roots Head

 

[old_man_funk]

Woops! Sorry guys, I forgot about this

Anyway, I think that the idea of having a collection of skins for use with a gametype is a good one. But other than Bombing Run, there are no other gametypes that cover more positions than 'offense' and 'defense'. So I think we should just get a colour/uniform scheme sorted out and go ahead with 'Skin City's Bombing Run Team' (name will probably change). What positions do we want?

1. Goalkeeper - probably using a the Gorge model.
2. Your ideas.
3. Your ideas.
4. Your ideas.
5. Your ideas.
6. Your ideas.
7. Your ideas.
8. Your ideas.

EDIT: I also think we should include both genders and numerous races in the pack (some new to UT2k4, like the Necris).

Also, could you please tell me if you are DEFINATLEY on the team so I can sort out an SDD and readme.

Keep replying, your feedback is what keeps this going

oldmanfunk

 

[shadow_dragon]

Goalie, Defenders, Strikers and....... Wingers? THe latter to protect the Striker/s while they carry the ball?
Now sure, not played too much Bombing Run myself, it's not the most popular of the gametypes!

As for CTF you could have the defender skins and the Flag Carrier skins! But as you said Offense and Defense only really!

I like the idea of this Teamplay skin pack, but i can see it has limited uses sadly, unless it was more of a mod, so that the skin chagned depending on what position you were playing at that time, or if it worked like the species statistics and made you faster/slower, etc!

Not sure though, either way, i'm up for it!

(SLaughter, Roots head is very nicely done man!

 

[old_man_funk]

Hmmm, I think your right about the limited uses and not a lot of people play Bombing Run anyway. So we could take a new direction if you want?

 

[shadow_dragon]

The onyl idea i woudl have is that i know that theres the Beyond Unreal Community pack being made, and recently the BuF'ers wanted a custom skin for themselves, possibly, make a BuF uniform and then if BuF'ers sent you or us a pic of their faces we can put custom faces on too! There might be a lack of itnerest for that too! The bombing run Team idea is the cooler one of the two though maybe!

 

[Slaughter]

What about Deathball?

 

[shadow_dragon]

Someone elses mod! We'd have to ask and then we wouldn't be a Community UT thing either, it'd be Deathbll thing and technically the lead designer of that would outrank us and give us orders! It's kinda like, if you want to join the mod you could do it anyway you know?

THough i'm onyl saying that because i thought the idea was for this to be a kinda Skincity forum users type thing!