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?
question on skins
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?
Re: question on skins
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.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...
Last edited by Watchman; 01-31-2006 at 11:24.
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