Skins

Requirements

• We must have the model to download in here too. Means: no sense providing skins if you can’t find the model anywhere. So, first send us the model and if the staff thinks it’s good enough for publishing, then it’s time for some skins. Skins for original Q2/AQ2 models is an exception of course.

How to

Getting player skins in use

Just open the skin packet with some archiving program and extract it into your quake2/action folder. You should see a players folder when you open the .zip file.

We provide weapon skins in .pak files, so they can be easily removed or changed. There is no reason to remove player skins, because you can switch between them with the skin command.

Basic info about .pak files

First of all, dealing with paks is easy. The harder part is modifying the content of the pak. PakScape is a practical tool for opening and editing pak files. There are different folders in paks, and you can find the same folders in your quake2/action. The only difference is that paks work like archives that Quake2 can read. It’s easier to move a single file, the pak, than 20-100 different files in different folders.

Getting a pak in use

After downloading the pak to your quake2/action, rename it. You will have more than one pak in your quake2/action, so name the one you wish to use as pakX.pak. X is the number of the pak, which should be bigger than the numbers of the other paks. Newer clients support numbers up to 99.

Modifying a pak

Open the pak with PakScape. Export the files you wish to edit or seek help from. After you have done editing or creating them, import them back into the pak. If you are creating a new pak file, remember to save it in .pak format. It’s easy to choose the best bits from different paks into one folder, then make a pak of it that you like the most.