question on skins

[artavazd]

i want to download some of the really cool skins, but i have the latest version of RTW i think its 5.0 but most of the skins that were made was during 1.2 time will it work with 5.0, or not?

[Watchman]

I don't think skins as such are any sort of compatibility issue - they're just a texture wrapped around the, uh, whatever that thing now is called they're wrapped around. :embarassed: One issue might be that many of the skin packs I've seen come with helpful installation instruction up to and including a ready-made DMB file - but one that uses the old-version skeletons. In RTW 1.5+ just about everything that was once "fs_fast_something" (not counting "fs_fast_horse") is "fs_semi_fast_something", and the program bluntly refuses to work with the old stuff.

It's not a particularly major editing hassle, though. Running a two-stage find-and-replace on Notepad (the first to replace all "_fast_" with "_semi_fast_", the second to clean up any resulting "fs_semi_semi_fast_" into "fs_semi_fast_") handles it neatly and quickly in my experience. Oh yeah, and making sure fs_fast_horse is okay...