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Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« on: October 15, 2008, 07:01:57 AM »

Hi all. A friend of mine made a Solid Snake based race a little while ago to be put on my little home run dedicated server and I thought it would be a nice thing to actually have a Solid Snake skin. I found a very nice one that someone coded for GMod and I uploaded it to the proper directories in the server, set my download list in Mani to add it to people's downloads, AND it even shows that the model is downloading when they join the server, but it still doesn't show on the race. I know the race programming is right because when I copied the files to my regular counterstrike directory and jumped on the server the skin was there. But when I deleted them to see if it would redownload, nothing downloaded and the skin was an error sign again.

*EDIT* Correction, the screen came up saying things were downloading but they didn't save to my client*END EDIT*

I really don't know how to get all this to download right. Even with the model copied to my cstrike directory, the server made me download the file which strikes me as a bit odd. I have no idea how to make the server ACTUALLY UPLOAD this stuff to people's computers. I want the skin really badly because servers with custom skins (not too many, might I add) get more players and I plan on renting a server quite soon to run WCS on and need to know how to set all this up. Any would be SOOOOOO greatly appreciated.


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Re: Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2008, 07:32:37 AM »

Im guessing you have the skin downloading but to/from the wrong files. Can you post where the directory it is downloading to is?

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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2008, 07:40:56 AM »

That's the problem, it's not downloading TO anything. It says they are downloading but when I look through my CSS client folder there is nothing there at all. On the server side, the files are setup like this

/models/humans/mgs/the models are here

and

/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/materials for models are here

and here is my download file for mani:

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"downloads.txt"
{
   // Add any files you wish to have downloaded to a clients system in here
   // The key can be any name you wish.
   // The value must be the location on your server of the file

   "downloads"
   {
   //   "my_file"   "materials/decals/custom/mani_admin_plugin/mani_logo.vmt"

/sound/quake/dominating.mp3
             /sound/quake/firstblood.mp3
             /sound/quake/godlike.mp3
             /sound/quake/headshotd.mp3
             /sound/quake/holyshit.mp3
             /sound/quake/humiliation.mp3
             /sound/quake/killingspree.mp3
             /sound/quake/ludicrouskill.mp3
             /sound/quake/monsterkill.mp3
             /sound/quake/multikill.mp3
             /sound/quake/prepare.mp3
             /sound/quake/rampage.mp3
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.dx80.vtx
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.dx90.vtx
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.mdl
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.phy
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.vtx
/models/player/chicken/ct/chicken-ct.vvd

/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.dx80.vtx
/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.dx90.vtx
/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.mdl
/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.phy
/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.sw.vtx
/models/player/zombieterror_v2/zh_terror001.vvd

/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.dx80.vtx
/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.dx90.vtx
/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.mdl
/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.phy
/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.sw.vtx
/models/player/zombine/t_phoenix.vvd

/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.dx80.vtx
/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.dx90.vtx
/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.mdl
/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.phy
/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.sw.vtx
/models/humans/mgs/solidsnake.vvd

/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/body_blue.vmt
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/body_blue.vtf
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/gear.vmt
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/gear.vtf
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/hair_teams.vmt
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/hair_teams.vtf
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/head_blue.vmt
/materials/models/mgs/solid_snake/head_blue.vtf
}


}

The bottom two sections are the Solid Snake race skins. Weird to have the models in the human folder but the skin is setup that way and I don't feel like decompiling and recompiling the file to change the location of the files. My main problem is that the clients are not saving the files. My mani config has downloads enabled and like I said it shows a progress bar for the downloads but they just aren't on the client computer. I ran a search on my cstrike folder after logging onto and off of my server and none of the files were there.


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Re: Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2008, 07:43:43 AM »

I thought the downloads had to be to models/player and materials/models/player/ in order to save but I could well be wrong this isnt my strong point?

Also you know you can set up skins through mani by creating a separate folder under mani_admin_plugin which allows the skins to be on lists for admins only, everyone, just those you choose etc?

Just under mani_admin_plugin create a folder called skins.

But yeah I had this problem a while ago with sounds, they were d/l but not actually saving, for me it was because I had called the sound folder on my fast d/l server sounds, (so going to the wrong location so I think that might be your problem too).

Hope this helps,

Evil Genuix


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Re: Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2008, 07:48:05 AM »

That might be a good idea. I'll check it out in a minute. As for the skin thing for mani, I don't want to do the skin selector just through the mani menu, i want it to actually be encoded so it is in the race when the race is played. That part I have down already. I'll definitely try adding the /models/player and /materials/model/player to it though. Thanks a lot for your man.


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Re: Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2008, 07:58:07 AM »

Nope, didn't work D: Still didn't save the files


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Re: Custom Skins not downloading to Clients

« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2008, 10:32:36 AM »

Okay, so now I've got the skins to download onto clients computers, but the skin isn't showing on my race.

I uploaded it as a misc race through the mani admin skins plugin and it FINALLY copied to my normal cstrike install. I made sure that the path that is in my race list is the same as the one it is on the client and it's not showing up. I can set the skin through the mani set skin command and it shows up, but it won't show up in my race D: This is really starting to piss me off. I mean, i had it working perfectly for myself before I got it to send to clients. I copied it to my local install just to see if it was a race coding issue first and it worked fine, but now that the files actually ARE getting copied it won't work D: This depresses me..


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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2008, 10:37:07 AM »

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ONE LITTLE FUCKING SLASH! That's all it was once I got the skins to download.. Just one fucking slash before humans/mgs/solidsnake. I can't believe I overlooked that.. I feel stupid now XD It took me all night to get things to download right and then a fucking slash takes me down XDDDD Thanks for your man, I really appreciate it