custom skin not showing to other players

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From: yerk5
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 18:20

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Im about to get a LAN party going on with coworkers. I'm kind of new
to Q3. I downloaded some custom skins but when I test them on my home
LAN, they don't work out quite right.

So I have computer A and computer B. Computer A is the one with the
skin. On B, I turn on "Automatic Downloading" in game options. I then
start a server on B. A joins (using the skin). But for some reason B
doesnt see the A player's skin, just a default skin. Even weirder is
that A sees the B player using the custom skin that A should be using!
Then it gets even weirder still... after the first kill, both players
see each other as the same skin which is whatever player B is using.
Um, what?

Anyone have any ideas? I just want to show off my slick custom skin to
everyone on game night.

TIA for any ideas.

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Subject: custom skin not showing to other players
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