Custom Playermodel Support

[minmi96]

Hello, This is my first idea/suggestion for Double Action, so please be gentle, go easy, ect.

I Would love to see Custom Playermodel Support where you can add new Playermodels without overwriting any files like in Garry's Mod & Obsidian Conflict, It would be fun to stunt diving/shooting people up around as a different character IMO.

Please tell me what you think is good about this idea and whats bad, and don't be harsh thanks.

[Black_Stormy]

Well we're having problems getting new player models at all so this kind of system wouldn't really have priority for us at the moment. It would be cool though.

[Trop]

I was going to port some Garry's Mod citizen player models over and allow people on my server to choose from them with a sourcemod plugin.. "SetEntityModel not supported by this mod"



Could you guys please sneak that in for the Steam release?

[Rai]

I was going to port some Garry's Mod citizen player models over and allow people on my server to choose from them with a sourcemod plugin.. "SetEntityModel not supported by this mod"



Could you guys please sneak that in for the Steam release?

Not happening, it's finishing touches to the finish line at the moment.

[Black_Stormy]

How savvy are you with programming? I don't think we'll be adding it for the steam release but all the mods source code is still up on github...

[Trop]

Not savvy enough unfortunately. Oh well, maybe the SourceMod people will figure out how to add it on their end after DAB gets a bit more popular.

[Scout]

Another advantage of distributing on Steam is that we can have a Double Action workshop, meaning people can showcase an share models (and animations and maps) they've created. Getting the workshop up and running is definitely on the to-do list, but it's a long list.

[Bobby Buns]

I don't know much about this, but custom face textures wouldn't be too hard. I mean, sprays are just textures, and they work right?

[Black_Stormy]

Yeah if you have some photoshop skills you should be able to reskin a head. The files for that are here:

dab/materials/models/player

You'll need to edit the .vtf files (which are just valves fancy excuse for .tga). There are vtf plugins for Photoshop and GIMP and you can get VTFEdit to do more technical stuff with them too.

Then use the model viewer to check your changes as you go - f5 refreshes the viewport.