Hi,

I have a question (problem) about player skin usage. I am trying to add PM style bright skins to Q3A. In a nutshell: I make copies of the default skin files (head.skin, etc.) and call them XXX_pm.skin (e.g. head_pm.skin) Edit the files so that the surfaces use a greyscale image (replace the reference to e.g. head.tga with head_pm.tga). The image is derived from the original (e.g. head.tga) by converting it to 24-bit greyscale in an image editor. I added code to the engine so that when a certain Cvar is set then the PM skins with added bright colors are used instead of the original.

The problem is that in some cases it works, in others, it does not. For example, it works for all the Openarena player models I have tried so far, but fails for some other models that I downloaded from ioquake3.org.

I traced the code and it seems that the correct skins and shader files are registered in the renderer (in the functions RE_RegisterSkin and R_FindShader). In spite of this, some models are displayed using the original (colored) skins/shaders.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Please, ignore my question. I have found a solution. Thanks.