Custom skins?
- Thread starter Towne
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well, I shoudln't have say that. I should have said "they are not client based".
To answer your question:
- Yes. There are custom player skins, but so far they are more like 'uniform' skins.. ie: your team will use some camo-pattern uniforms instead of the plain-jane uniforms. I'm not aware of any custom weapon skins, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. The nature of RO doesn't lend itself well to weapon-skins since 1- the weapons in game are pretty well skinned, 2- it's historically based.
- to do this online, the server must be running the skins (you cannot use Client-Only skins when playing online for instance). So everyone will have the same skins available to them since the server says you will.
- a Mutator is what you use to 'mutate' the existing code. It is run on the server (to do the above stuff). A mutator can be written to do pretty much any change you want. Adding custom skins [exists], making the SMGs fire Energy Balls [exists], making the game 'pistols only' [probably exists?], adding in a forgiveness system for TKs [exists], changing every map to be a Zero-G physics, giving a player 1000000 hit points (or 1 hit point), giving weapons material penetration capabilities [exists], replacing all the helmets with santa hats [exists], so on and so forth.. pretty much sky is the limit really.
- mutators -can- be run in single-play, and thus you could use a custom skin against bots. But frankly RO isn't that fun offline, and most custom mappers don't seem to ever bother with adding even the limited bot support RO has.
