are skins random?

[BananaBob]

Hello,

i just played this mod with a friend but it seams like the playermodel i have is just random.
If i choose something in the options my model ingame changes but to the one i chooses.

We are playing on a private local server without any mods or skrips or whatever

can some one explain this to me?

[Freaky Mutant Man]

Some maps restrict the player model selection and will switch to one of the allowed skins at random if you try to use a restricted model. Examples include the SP campaign portal (restricting you to a small selection of Half-Life models) and all of They Hunger (restricting you to the They Hunger models). I'm guessing you were playing on one of these maps or another like it (don't know if there's any other examples in the maps that come with Sven Co-op).

[BOT]

Originally posted by Freaky Mutant Man:

Some maps restrict the player model selection and will switch to one of the allowed skins at random if you try to use a restricted model. Examples include the SP campaign portal (restricting you to a small selection of Half-Life models) and all of They Hunger (restricting you to the They Hunger models). I'm guessing you were playing on one of these maps or another like it (don't know if there's any other examples in the maps that come with Sven Co-op).

My question is, is it possible to disable this tomfoolery?

[Adambean]

No. Some maps are just limited to specific models by design.

This works really well in BM:STS for example, so that players are coloured in uniform according to the team they are on. This is also used in They Hunger maps so players appearance matches up with the theme of the map series.

[BananaBob]

okay thanks!


but i recently joined a coop-HL1-server and one of the players looked like Boba Fett

[Qwazzy]

A few of the other game campaigns do this too, I was playing on... I think it was Opposing Force or Blue Shift (I'm honestly not familiar with either one) and we were forced to use army soldier models.

Personally I do like this since it gives some harmony to the game setting and the people in it, although admittedly it can get annoying to have to switch your model every now and then to avoid getting model-shuffled.

I don't know if it's possible to disable this forced-model thing, but I did note an example of its usage, this is in the CFG file for They Hunger (-They_Hunger_Ep1.cfg) :

forcepmodels th_cl_suit;th_dave;th_einar;th_gangster;th_jack;th_neil;th_nurse;th_nypdcop;th_orderly;th_patient;th_paul;th_worker

Whether or not this can be altered on your local server is something I can't answer, sorry.