Using a Coloured Team Skin in DM ?

[b][rch]

Is there any way to display the "team" skins during a plain DM match. Not TDM just DM ? Or is the engine going to always ignore the team skin textures ending with "_0" and "_1" during a UT2004 DM ??

I've got a skin on the server with team skins. The non-team skin is black in color and it's team "A's" jersey, the red skin is the same "A" team as the black jersey but red. The blue-team skin is another team "B's" jersey.

I'd setup the server to push the skin to the players and the associated Mod/Class used to display the default black "A" jersey.

What i'd like to do for another player who wants to use the "B" team jersey online is create another Mod/Class to point to that team skin without pushing another skin texture.

But........ it just doesn't work. Anyone ?

 

[-Tj-]

You could create a new player entry in the .upl file that has the _0 and _1 textures in place of the standard textures.

For example, if you wanted to play with red team Gorge, you'd add this info to the .upl:

Player=(DefaultName="Gorge_Red",Race="Juggernaut",Mesh=Jugg.JuggMaleA,species=xGame.SPECIES_Jugg,BodySkin=PlayerSkins.JuggMaleABodyA_0,FaceSkin=PlayerSkins.JuggMaleAHeadA_0,Portrait=PlayerPictures.cJuggMaleAA,Text=XPlayers.JuggMaleAA,Sex=Male,Menu="",Aggressiveness=+0.1,CombatStyle=+0.1,Tactics=+0.5,BotUse=1)

Note the bold text. Those are the minimum changes you'll need. That should about do it and it should work, unless Gorge doesn't have a teamskin for the face texture. If it doesn't work, I'm sure someone here will correct me

 

[klasnic]

Isn't there an option to 'use team colours' when you're setting up a dm game? wouldn't that do the trick also?

 

[b][rch]

You could create a new player entry in the .upl file that has the _0 and _1 textures in place of the standard textures.

I'd actually done that about 10 times but for some reason thought it wasn't working as when adding a Bot to the match with the name of the new.upl file i was seeing default bots. After all the troubles, turns out it did work ok, just not the server side bots, clients when pushed the Mod for the new.upl do see the team colored skin ok.

an option to 'use team colours' when you're setting up a dm game?
Hmm never saw that check box anywhere... OMG ... doh ...
Use Team Skins
Who'd of thought ....

Thanks for the replies folks :tup: the new upl method works ok, i needed to push that a mod anyway for the main skin, the second upl for the alternate skin is only a 1k push.

Cheers,
b][rch


.... Use Team Skins ..... doh

 

[klasnic]

no probs