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Starry Might

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Titan_9s said:
Oh I just love this MacTom27 guy. I want to hug him. :)

All quality skins. I hope he does more Skaarj.
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Yeah! I've downloaded all his stuff (except Dysconnec and Baetal) so far. :D

One thing I've noticed is that he tends to be sloppy/lazy about Bios, though - the characters have the same Bios as their base skin. :hmm:

Arkentran and Skarn's .upls both link to "XPlayers.MechaSkaarjC" (a non-existent entry in XPlayers.int), though - meaning you could make up your own Bio for one of them. :) (Course, they'd end up sharing it since it links to the same place... :eek:)
 
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[IMO] ;)

TBH, I don't really care about the bios. The skin textures, THAT is what matters to me.
I mean, would someone download a skin where the author says, "Download this skin now, it's bio is awesome!"
I don't think so. ;)
No, to me, it's the look, the texture of the skin is all that matters.

It's Skaarj skins. Good ones too. And last time I looked, decent Skaarj skins are hard to find.
And the fact that they're all from the same guy! Respect! :2thumb:

This is good stuff, no less than 9/10 from me, on all of them. :D

[/IMO]
 
Starry Might

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Titan_9s said:
[IMO] ;)

TBH, I don't really care about the bios. The skin textures, THAT is what matters to me.
I mean, would someone download a skin where the author says, "Download this skin now, it's bio is awesome!"
I don't think so. ;)
No, to me, it's the look, the texture of the skin is all that matters.

It's Skaarj skins. Good ones too. And last time I looked, decent Skaarj skins are hard to find.
And the fact that they're all from the same guy! Respect! :2thumb:

This is good stuff, no less than 9/10 from me, on all of them. :D

[/IMO]
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I think the skins are still awesome (despite the Bios). :D

Oh, and MacTom27 deserves points for making the first custom skins (that I know of) for Mekkor/Skrilax. All the stock models in "UT 2004" (and in this case, the ECE Edition/Bonus Pack) deserve some custom skinning love! :D
 
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klasnic

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Seems more ppl need to be recruited to post reviews :shake:

I won't be around for quite some time (at least) so volunteers are welcome :)

[OT] I still get no topic reply emails from BuF or emails re. pms so I'll be incommunicado unless I'm online here [/OT]
 
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Maxx

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klasnic said:
Seems more ppl need to be recruited to post reviews :shake:
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:tup:

currently I`m too busy (12-16h work a day) to do any more reviews :(

Yeah, nice too see you again ;) hopefully this will happen again more often in future :p
 
Starry Might

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I just downloaded that pack, and I want to warn people about something that's VERY important:

One of the skins ("Anatares") uses a file called "Ares.utx".

"Ares" from j2a's Olympians skinpack also uses a file of the same name.

That means you can't have j2a's Ares and MacTom27's Anatares in the same game - one file would overwrite the other.

EDIT: I'd like to add that I would e-mail MacTom27 about it...but the Readme file has no address. :hmm:
 
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Nines

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Not a problem for me. :D Got no Olympians.

And MacTom is a god to me. I have never seen so many superb quality Skaarj skins in my life.

I do feel like a kid at christmas and MacTom is Santa. ;)

Oh btw, klasnic's two new Skaarjs kicks arse too! :tup:
 
Starry Might

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SaD said:
No problem , again , :D .
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Yep.

Anyhoo, I just checked my e-mail, and I got a message from MacTom27:

MacTom27's Reply To My E-Mail said:
[My real name] a écrit :

[My e-mail to him quoted]

Thanks [My real first name]

I did'nt know because I don't have J2a's skinpack.
That's the risk when you use simple names for your textures files.
Next time, I'll use longer file names
But if I could send my skinpack in one piece, it won't happen
However you did well to tell me

If you want to use Antares with Ares from J2a pack

First, Rename "Ares.utx" into "Ares2" or "Antares"

Then you just have to modify the xNovapack.upl

In the line :
Player=(DefaultName="Antares",Race="Robot",Mesh=Bot.BotA,species=xGame.SPECIES_Bot,BodySkin=Ares.AresBodyShader,FaceSkin=Ares.AresHeadShader,Portrait=Ares.AresPic,Text=XPlayers.BotAA,Sex=Male,Tactics=+7.5,Jumpiness=+6.0,CombatStyle=+5.0,FavoriteWeapon=xWeapons.RocketLauncher,Accuracy=+8.3,StrafingAbility=+8.0,ReactionTime=+7.0,Menu="SP",TeamFace=1,BotUse=1)

Change all "ares" into "antares " (the same name of the new name's utx file)

And you will have :
Player=(DefaultName="Antares",Race="Robot",Mesh=Bot.BotA,species=xGame.SPECIES_Bot,BodySkin=Antares.AresBodyShader,FaceSkin=Antares.AresHeadShader,Portrait=Antares.AresPic,Text=XPlayers.BotAA,Sex=Male,Tactics=+7.5,Jumpiness=+6.0,CombatStyle=+5.0,FavoriteWeapon=xWeapons.RocketLauncher,Accuracy=+8.3,StrafingAbility=+8.0,ReactionTime=+7.0,Menu="SP",TeamFace=1,BotUse=1)

Antares will work without overwrite ares

Argh! This problem really s**** ! :( But Thanks !
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Hope this helps you guys! (I'm gonna try it out now, myself.)

EDIT: I tried MacTom27's solution. At first, it didn't quite work - Ares was preserved, and Antares's portrait was there, but the skin didn't work. When I finished playing, I quit and I compared the original .upl and the fixed one I made. I discovered there was something not quite right about the way it was typed (it had something to do with the line "BodySkin=Antares.AresBodyShader"; it appeared to be broken by pressing the Enter key, which I never did there). I fixed it, and when I checked Antares again in-game, he worked! :D
 
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Nines

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OH. :eek: MY. :eek: GOD. :eek:

Tha... tha... that Firewall skin is beyond words. :eek:
I've never seen anything like it before. :eek:
And it's the ClanLord model too. :eek:

*drops chin*

*dies from blood loss*

*respawns as Firewall, with a smirk on his face* :D

Amazing, best skin ever.

EDIT: Pic from the zip. :)
 

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