Custom skins, a very basic question.

[thedrizzle]

Hello,
I have been made a co-admin for a friend's COD server. We would like to use custom skins, but cannot find much info on this topic.
In games like HL and quake, you have a skin chooser. I dowlonaded one skin, w/the instr. "place in COD/main." But that isnt true really.

If you could point me in the direction of info on this subject I would really appreciate it.
Ive searched skinning communities, and even this category sez file support for skin's etc. But I cannot seem to locate it.
driz :?

[jdwright]

AFAIK there is no 'skin chooser' for CoD. Another admin in my clan has been playing with player skins/weapon skins for his mod. (Basically the same idea as what you downloaded, a mod that you put in cod/main and play with.) But they just replace the stock ones, no real choice w/o uninstalling the mod.

You'll need to put these mods on both the server and client if you're running a pure server (does anyone not?).

[thedrizzle]

So I would somehow replace a default skin in the pak3.pk3 , with one of my own choosing. And maybe give it the same name as the file it is replacing,...???
Then to save this as a mod, in which the only real difference between it and the normal mp game, is that one particular skin.

I guess I am bit confused about the whole pk3 part. Am I copying it and making an altered version?
This information just does not seem to exist. Believe it or not Ive mapped for HL, and made Sims with alterations to the model, not just the skin.
THX for the reply,
hth