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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: razkazz on May 01, 2006, 02:53:56 pm

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: razkazz on May 01, 2006, 02:53:56 pm

I'm brand new to Tremulous and I'm sure most of the innovations you're thinking of deal with the gameplay, but what would be the most kickass feature for me would be if we could create custom skins for the human team. We could create a skin in the editor and then in the menu when you choose human, a window pops up and enables you to load the custom skin from your pc. I just think that would be really cool if you could personalize your character. Also, is there any possible voice chat?? Anyway the game is great, I never expected to see so much innovation in a game using the quake 3 engine, and it's free--this is awesome. :D

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: werepants on May 12, 2006, 01:22:58 am

welcome to Tremulous  :) .  Skins would be sweet, but why just humans?  I think it would be awesome to modify some things on aliens too, whether it is coloration or whatever.  It would be fun to put a blackwidow hourglass on my dretch  8) .

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: OverFlow on May 12, 2006, 02:31:58 am

Although it'd be neat, most people have texturing skills just below the ablity of dirt.  This of course results in a lot of horrible looking players that distract very much from the 'feel' of the game.

Simple solution is to have lots of custom options for players... but thats a lot of work and not very essential.

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: chompers on May 12, 2006, 04:28:39 am

As soon as custom skins are allowed, I'm going to edit the skins so that everybody on my screen glows in the dark and is surrounded by large, colour-coded bubbles that show me which way they are facing from around corners.

In other words, don't hold your breath for custom skins. They're a can of worms that won't be allowed in this game.

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: [db@]Megabite on May 12, 2006, 08:53:43 am

If you ever find a server with sv_pure 0 you may use custom skins... but I would not bet on that... ;)

Better to make a real neat skin / model and send it to the tremulous devs... maybe it is included in a later release.

Cheers, Danny

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: werepants on May 12, 2006, 06:15:55 pm

They don't have to be custom.  I bet it could be done pretty simply, even if it was just taking different pieces of armor (or exoskeleton) and using colorify on Gimp.  Just having different shades of armor and alien skin would add a lot of depth to the game, and the player immersion.  Maybe something like how you dye your armor in RPGs?

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: Neo on May 12, 2006, 06:29:49 pm

'Camo' type skins for aliens would be fun :D

Title: Personalized Skins!!?
Post by: Teiman on May 13, 2006, 07:51:13 pm

I suggest to make a "multimodel" model for humans and monsters, and then able to replace head (only the head submodel) by custom ones. Then able to download these custom ones, with a cap of 4K by head image.

This is much more usefull for humans.

Anyway what with game need is not custom skins but gestures with sound, to able more strategic teamwork.