[T:V] Warrior setup

I don't know.. last I heard, if a server doesn't have your skin, you can't use it.

We have a nice little skinning system, not sure if its been mentioned before. Basically you create little skinning packages that define which textures can be used on which team/armour combinations. The packages themselves can include the textures, or you can reference external textures already present in other packages. A single skin package can then include multiple skins for different armours, plus different combinations and variations on each skin through different shaders (eg different specularity, glow etc). You just put these packages in a skinning directory, and all of em become available ingame through the inv station screen.

Anyways we are going to ship with all our SP texture variants as MP skin packages. Theres some client settings in there as well to control skin variants in an MP game, so you can enfore them to not show up if that tickles yer fancy.

I don't see why they need to be on servers. It seems to me you just dump them in your skinning directory.

Hm, maybe.

in the t:v warrior setup will these be an option to choose your armour? (eg. BE, imperial, phoenix)

and also if you have chosen, for example, the bloodeagle armour and then you go to join a srvr and join the starwolf or phoenix team, will your armour still show up as a BE or will you be forced into the armour of the team you have joined?

I've already answered this one. Twice.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292975

Male, Female models and voice type are chosen in your profile.

Russ']Male, Female models and voice type are chosen in your profile.
how many different voice types can we approximately except? is it possible to change the pitch like in t2 for a more individual voice?

I've already answered this one. Twice.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292975
Thanks, I had missed your reply there.

I'm curious what this means for the Diamond Sword Project. It seems like we'll end up creating all new maps - including new mesh objects - in order to make the DS an option for multiplayer. That sounds like a lot of work... :ugh:

one more thing, on a map there r 2 teams, what determines what these teams will be? the host or the map?

one more thing, on a map there r 2 teams, what determines what these teams will be? the host or the map?
Maybe you should click Irritant's link?

Russ']Male, Female models and voice type are chosen in your profile.


0_o?!?!!?

how come we choose our model in our profile when the model we get depends on which team we join???

i thought we only chose our voice, name, and possibly a tag there.

^

erm... yeah, i'm still waiting for an answer...

Male/female in profile, BE/COTP/IMP in server.

Howabout you think about your questions before you go ahead and post from now on eh....

ooh... i get it. so there r no transexuals in it? damn

Moving along...

This pretty much puts skinners out of business in the Tribes universe. That sucks.

Seems like you can put a lot of time into designing a custom skin that fits over, for example, the Pheonix light male armor, but unless you're playing a map that specifically features the Pheonix, and you're playing on the Pheonix team, you don't get to enjoy the skin. Where's the fun in that?

I guess skinners have to be modelers and mappers, and good friends with a popular server admin too, now. :(

Why? You could just make 15 skins (1 for each armor) and you'd be able to use that skin on any server at any time.

Moving along...
but unless you're playing a map that specifically features the Pheonix, and you're playing on the Pheonix team, you don't get to enjoy the skin.

it was like that in T1 too... :shrug:

it was like that in T1 too... :shrug:
Are you sure? It's been a while, but I thought you could just pick a skin set from the menu before you joined up and you'd have the same skin in every map.

Damn, I should play T1 again. :p

Presuming a community site hosts skins for people to d/l as long as people have downloaded your skin it will be seen.
You can still customise your skin and not sent it to anyone, but only you will see it.

So the brightskins cheat will still be there.. hm k.