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djbobeb
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Old 07-20-2010 , 20:25   TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Hi all

Does anybody know whether there is a mod or it is possible to make a mod for TF2 which will allow an in-game player to select from a selection of custom player class skins in game from an option menu?

Say for instance a scout to be able to select a Warriors Baseball Furies skin from an ingame selection menu?

I have a mod for hats (equipment manager) enabled on my test server that allows custom hats to be selected for each class, but a player skin selection too would be awesome.

Also if the mod could do the same as the hat (equipment manager) mod where you can allow only admins with a set flag to use it, this would be even better.

Any ideas?
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noodleboy347
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Old 07-21-2010 , 19:09   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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It's impossible to change character skins as they are handled client-side.
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djbobeb
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Old 07-21-2010 , 19:18   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Thanks for the reply noodleboy,

I have never used character skins before but I realised my error when I loaded some to my PC and everyone in those classes appeared in those skins
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djbobeb
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Old 07-21-2010 , 19:20   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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I noticed another script on a site which was called 'skin chooser' on the eventscripts website and that is where my initaial idea came from you see
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noodleboy347
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Old 07-23-2010 , 04:21   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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I noticed another script on a site which was called 'skin chooser' on the eventscripts website and that is where my initaial idea came from you see
Yah it would be great to have custom playerskins for TF2. I think you can do it in Counter-Strike and stuff tho
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djbobeb
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Old 07-24-2010 , 05:19   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Yeah, shame it can't be implemented in TF2 as well, is there any reason why this is not available or can't be developed the same way, do the 2 games differ in the way the player class skins work even though both are local files?
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Afronanny
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Old 07-24-2010 , 10:43   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Yeah, shame it can't be implemented in TF2 as well, is there any reason why this is not available or can't be developed the same way, do the 2 games differ in the way the player class skins work even though both are local files?
Client-side skin handling means one less thing the server has to do, boosting server performance.
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djbobeb
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Old 07-24-2010 , 10:57   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Hi Afronanny. Thanks for the information. Always good to offload the work to a client as most PCs are powerful nowadays for gamers.

I was just wondering though how the skin facility can be achieved as per the 'skin chooser' scripting addon for counterstrike source, but not for TF2
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Afronanny
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Old 07-24-2010 , 15:02   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Hi Afronanny. Thanks for the information. Always good to offload the work to a client as most PCs are powerful nowadays for gamers.

I was just wondering though how the skin facility can be achieved as per the 'skin chooser' scripting addon for counterstrike source, but not for TF2
CS:S handles skins server-side. TF2 does not.
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djbobeb
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Old 07-24-2010 , 15:07   Re: TF2 In-Game Player Skin selection Mod
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Thanks Afronanny, that explains it
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