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hmm, interesting idea i have thought about this before but i can't remember if i tried experimenting with it. The only problem i think is that MCM2 expects user skins to be in standard TGA format. One possibility would be for Bruce to mod BikeSwitcher to replace the in game skins then you could seal them up in a PKG so no one could rip them. But then the whole USer skin system would be bypassed so other racers online would just see you riding with a stock skin.


Laurie

Might be a way around it...memory hacking maybe?

I was looking at the riders.pb file.  It lists all of the stock skins (52 of them).   I wonder if we added to the list of skins and appended the extras skins to bike.res, would it cause problems if some people had 52 skins and others had more?

Bruce

I guess we need to try it and see, i can see ways it might cause problems but it really depends on how MCM2 passes what information between riders online. Maybe we can hook up and try it out. It would be good to give skin makers the same protection that the model makers and track creators get.

Laurie

I hope you'll be able to work this out, since everyone is complaining about skin rippers, this would be the perfect thing to stop that.

Quote from: mcm2boys on August 18, 2004, 03:57:31 AM
I guess we need to try it and see, i can see ways it might cause problems but it really depends on how MCM2 passes what information between riders online. Maybe we can hook up and try it out. It would be good to give skin makers the same protection that the model makers and track creators get.

Laurie

Yes! that's what us skin makers need. Would stop alot of arguments.

alot? lol you meen TONS

Whatever.
lol!

If it can't be added in the game files, how about a proggy that runs on the background and it reads for example .pkg files placed in the BIKES or RIDERS folder, and makes the game read it as TGA...

would each rider (if racing online) have the same skin though. As when you have a certain model you are on, everyone else is on that model?

and by the way cobra, you can see any of my maps, just contact me on aim/msn