Idiotic skin mod - how do I get rid of it?


(Cerebrate) #1

Lately when I’ve been watching some old 2.0.5 replays, all the player’s got these really ridiculous skins; hats, uniforms and faces are changed.

I understand that this is something that got stuck from some server that I’ve visited (by accident), but how do I get rid of it? Is there a specific file I have to delete or something?


(ETplayer) #2

Its usually a specific pk3 in ur etmain folder…

U usually get those by downloading new maps or stuff from servers…

You could try 2 delete some pk3’s, but some are essential and some are not…

So always back them up…


(Cerebrate) #3

I was hoping to avoid that. To much hassle.

Anyone know what files I should remove? The skins gave the medic glasses (!) and Allies got these really ugly, brown colored uniforms.


(Sauron|EFG) #4

See if there’s a pk3 with “skins” in the name (just a guess), or sort by date and move the newest pk3s to a temp folder…


(senator) #5

I had this skin pk3 once, too, forgot the name because I deleted it imediately but the pk3 wasn’t too bit (less than 4 MB) and if you sort your etmain folder by date you should be able to identify the file.

Good hunting :slight_smile:


(Ragnar_40k) #6

z_resurrectionskins.pk3 - Zombie skins for Axis.
zeaxis01.pk3 - New uniforms for Axis, i.e. Medic with glasses etc.


(petameta) #7

.pk3 files are .zip-format. So if you are unsure, you can open the .pk3-file with any zip-program and have a look if it provides skins or something else. Map-.pk3s should have .bsp-files in them, skins are basically graphics (not sure about format though). If I remember right, they are in a directory named skins or something like that.

I once had the same problem, so I simply wrote a bash-script that looks into every .pk3-file to check if there’s something the skins-directory. Unfortunately, I lost that script :(, but it’s not that hard to write.


(Cerebrate) #8

zeaxis01.pk3 - New uniforms for Axis, i.e. Medic with glasses etc.

Yes, I removed that file and now everything is fine. Thanks guys.

z_resurrectionskins.pk3 - Zombie skins for Axis

Never got anything like that.


(Cerebrate) #9

Ok, one more thing.

There also seem to be… music coming from the tank in Goldrush when when it’s escorted.

(???)

Hilarious. What file could this be - anyone know?


(mouse) #10

hahah thats a funny one. Post the name of it when you find it out, I want to have it :stuck_out_tongue:


(Cerebrate) #11

It sucks. It feels like I’m playing ‘cowboy and indian’ with the kids in the neighbourhood.


(Cerebrate) #12

Ok I just found out. There is file called tank_move.wav inside ‘ss_mml_helmsdeep_fp_sp1_chatplus.pk3’. The pak is full of sound samples from LOTR: TT. Ugh. Good riddance.

There are even wavs from the movie over 30 seconds long playing when a team wins.


(Fusen) #13

thats gerbils map who is a frequant visitor + he has thread for that map in mapping section you should pop over and tell him what ya think


(Cerebrate) #14

:smiley: yeah I should