Personalizing Armor

I think it'd be cool to add an individuality aspect to the game, since we need to make accounts anyhow, I thinkti'd be cool to be able to choose the types of armor for each armor type. IE: What shoulder guards you want from maybe 4 or 5, and so on for the rest. This wouldn't be too hard to impliment you could just make a skin for each tribe for each armor piece, so when they come together they can easily work for whatever team you're on. It COULD make skinning more difficul because you'd have to skin each piece of armor (that they chose to let you pick from) individually, but still, it could be fun :D

I was thinking the same with the weapons. like have about 5 different skins for each team . Ex BE, DS...each have their own weapon ...tho it could be weapons from DS with player skins from BE...you get the idea

I was thinking the same with the weapons. like have about 5 different skins for each team . Ex BE, DS...each have their own weapon ...tho it could be weapons from DS with player skins from BE...you get the idea

While this is a wonderful idea, its also very hard to complete. For those who have ever tried skinning, you know how hard it is to turn out one decent skin. Short of just offering recolors, its alot of "useless" work to ask a skinner to come up with 5 unique textures for every weapon/model.

While this is a wonderful idea, its also very hard to complete. For those who have ever tried skinning, you know how hard it is to turn out one decent skin. Short of just offering recolors, its alot of "useless" work to ask a skinner to come up with 5 unique textures for every weapon/model.
I too know such woes as I did host MCskins here at Tribalwar for a while :D
But, there are also more than one skinner on the staff I'm sure.

sounds cool to me!

How about have a skinning contest like the music contest was? But have this skinning contest done when the beta test comes out. Then submit them and pick the best winners? Just a thought.

the T:V Dev team should do the skinning for teh multiple weapon skins

how about having tattoos or markings on different parts of your armour, alot like what you could do with your creature in Black & White.

You choose the section of your armor and what tattoo you want on it. The tat can just layer over any existing skin, and if it doesnt go well with the skin (ie too hard to see) then you can simply remove it.

That way everyone can carry around unique tattoo combinations ON TOP of their armour skin, eg shoulder pads, breast plates etc

makes it easier for skinners aswell as this doesnt impact the way skins are made

How about allowing folks to choose the color of personal game objects? Some games, like JKII with it's lightsabers or HL with it's model color slider, do this already to a certain extent. A rainbow battlefield might not project the images Tribes is going for though..

Many of us have modded in our own client-side color schemes for T1 explosions, trails, etc. Do we want to keep those changes on the person's box only, or let 'em bring it to the front? CkB's pink mortars or should we stick to green for everyone?

I think a small logo or symbol on your armour would be great. It could go on top of any skin. Just a small file that everyone downloads when you connect, similar to HalfLife spray logos. It would allow you to personalize your armour without any major changes to gameplay.

wtf a tattoo on top of the armour = gay

also if u can pick them (not make them ureself) then eventually the same ones will be used in the same places

i like kelsters idea of picking a colour scheme, but tattoos or symbols on the armour are pretty crap

maybe you could have a swastika on yours

I would put a giant goatse on my armor so nobody would look at me while I kill them

also if u can pick them (not make them ureself) then eventually the same ones will be used in the same places



your obviously not familiar with how black and white did it. You have an option of about 15 or so sybols that you can put on different places. Therefore you have different COMBINATIONS which would mean everyone wouldnt be using the same ones in the same places.

also i was using the word tattoo to explain my idea, cause thats what they were in B&W. In this they would obviously be more like Symbols such as crosses, perhaps skulls, and Crests to put on different parts of your armour like shoulder pads, shin gaurds etc

back to my weapon skins idea. sometimes i find myself in the midddle of a pub , i dont like my weapons skins or it just got boring...Now i have to quit tribes , open my base/skins folder and replace for ex: disc.bmp.. now that gets very annoying ...
my point is that T:V should have a option for weapon skins just like they have for player skins.. You can have over 50 weapon skins in ur SKINS folder (or w/e its gonna be) and you can choose them in game, like player skins. Now that would be something really cool and time saving

your obviously not familiar with how black and white did it. You have an option of about 15 or so sybols that you can put on different places. Therefore you have different COMBINATIONS which would mean everyone wouldnt be using the same ones in the same places.

Furthermore, B&W allowed you to create your own symbols. All you had to do is make a 64x64(?) greyscale file, in wich black was transparent, and greys and white were colorized. I'm quite sure everyone can think of a unique logo to be used.

Also, I thought of placing tatoos of varying sizes on individual bodyparts. E.g. tatoos placed on the chest would be twice as high and 4 times wider then those on the shoulder pads, so you could put your name on your chest, and your logo on your shoulders.

yeah having your name on your armour would ROCK!


im all for custom symbols, but like its been said, people would go around using goatse and shit. There would be no real way to control it, unless users had the option to disable custom ones and keep the built in ones. That is, on top of the option to disable the default ones if they wished as well.

the thing I hate about weapon skins is: you install a new skin, everyone has your skin

I'd like to install a bunch of skins, and see ppl using what they're using, not what I'm using :)

The Unreal ngine has auto-downloads when going into a server...... I don't really want to keep downloading 2 megs of files because people want their own tatoos and textures.

yeah having your name on your armour would ROCK!


im all for custom symbols, but like its been said, people would go around using goatse and shit. There would be no real way to control it, unless users had the option to disable custom ones and keep the built in ones. That is, on top of the option to disable the default ones if they wished as well.
I think it would be one of the most simple things to disable tatoos if you wish, just like you can disable weather. I'm sure that it could be coded that if you wish, any custom symbols are replaced with a default one too, so you don't have to download them.