Skinning

[SilentAssassin82]

Skinning isn't just the matter of duplicate MAT files, it meens duplicate ship files aswell, cause every faction would have to have thiere own line, even if it was just the same ship. Every mesh would need to be named differently, all new materials with all new names.

I like the idea, i sugested it a long time ago but it really would just be too hard and too costly to impliment.

The way i thought it could be done is some kind of hook to read the material CRCs from an ini file or somthing in a per faction/ID basis instead of reading it from the VMeshData file in the CMP. Then all we would need is the new MAT files or even same mat with the extra texture inside.

I wish it could be done, it would be cool. Honestly though it's a bigger task than it may seem at a glance.

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