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Article #287207Re: custom skin not showing to other players
From: Erik Max Francis
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:30
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:30
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yerk5 wrote:
> 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.
You'll have to put the custom skin packs on the server, not just the
client where you want to see them. "Automatic Downloading" means that
assets will be automatically downloaded from the server to clients where
it's not present, not the other way around.
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