Black & White

StormehStormeh Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3541Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">what is it that decides...</div> I was just wondering, what is it that decides if you will have a white or a black skin as a marine ?

Is it a server variable, something hardcoded into the game or is it in the models themselves ?

And one more thing. Since you cant see your own skin, does it change everytime you respawn, or is it determined when you join the server ?

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but i couldnt find anything using the search button <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Join Date: 2003-03-22 Member: 14770Members
    I've never seen a black marine. Ever.
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  • folkfolk Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8603Banned
    you can see your own skin...
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  • CyborgguineapigCyborgguineapig Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3233Members
    Does it matter?
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  • Frogg2Frogg2 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4867Members, Constellation
    <img src='http://www.froggeh.com/images/m1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'><img src='http://www.froggeh.com/images/m2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    You can tell which skin it is by looking at the hands in first person.
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  • RyoOhkiRyoOhki Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
    How racist is this?! I mean COME ON devs, the LEAST you should have done is put a Hispanic, Indian, Slavic and Asiatic skin in there! OMG I'm writing to my government RIGHT NOW to get this racist peice of software off the market where it's corrupting our youth into thinking there's only 2 types of people in this world!

    /deactivating sarcasm <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MooManMooMan Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5154Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Ryo-Ohki+Mar 30 2003, 12:43 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ryo-Ohki @ Mar 30 2003, 12:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> How racist is this?! I mean COME ON devs, the LEAST you should have done is put a Hispanic, Indian, Slavic and Asiatic skin in there! OMG I'm writing to my government RIGHT NOW to get this racist peice of software off the market where it's corrupting our youth into thinking there's only 2 types of people in this world!

    /deactivating sarcasm <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    rofl

    nout else to say bout that, made me laugh thou <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    ty

    I think it is just 50:50 chance
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    As far as I know, it changes every time you spawn. But I can never see the difference (there's all walking meatsicles in green packaging to me) <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    mmmm skulk meat
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  • DizzyOneDizzyOne BASS&#33; Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9095Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--ZiGGY^+Mar 30 2003, 09:06 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ZiGGY^ @ Mar 30 2003, 09:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> mmmm skulk meat <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    they are both very tasty indeed <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
    but I have never noticed the color of my skin by my hands (and as u can see on my sig I have seen al the models in modelviewer <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->, maybe I shuld take a better look)
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  • Frogg2Frogg2 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4867Members, Constellation
    <img src='http://www.froggeh.com/images/m3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'><img src='http://www.froggeh.com/images/m4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • DizzyOneDizzyOne BASS&#33; Join Date: 2002-11-17 Member: 9095Members
    hmmm thats very very odd...

    The black skin doesnt work on my pc <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
    not in the modelviewer and not ingame, I even reinstalled NS, how is this possible <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Frogg2Frogg2 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4867Members, Constellation
    in HLMV goto body then select skin 2
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  • tbZBeAsttbZBeAst Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12755Members
    I never noticed either tbh.
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  • Soldier_of_MisfortuneSoldier_of_Misfortune Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11957Members
    never noticed it...wow...

    but i think its cool how the NS team did it so you don't have a team of all marines that look the same, it adds a sense of variety.
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  • SnO0PySnO0Py Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14092Members
    Still would be nice to pick what color skin you want to be, I mean I'm not racist or anything but I dont like being white in real life but being a black person in the game
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  • tbZBeAsttbZBeAst Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12755Members
    I'd like my skulk a different shade of green....

    j/k
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  • pielemuispielemuis Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 72Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->, I mean I'm not racist or anything but I dont like being white in real life but being a black person in the game <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    ....
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  • SnO0PySnO0Py Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14092Members
    GREEN SKULK T3H B34ST!
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Not to mention that at some point Female models will be implimented......
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  • StormehStormeh Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3541Members
    hmmm... I have never noticed that there are black hands too :o But i never look carefully at the hands to see what colour they are, so I assumed that they always was white <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    But does anyone know what the odds are that you comes out as black or white ?
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  • tbZBeAsttbZBeAst Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12755Members
    /me is worried at how people will react to a female gorge model.....
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    I've never noticed my skin color from first person view, either.

    Interesting.
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  • Silver_FoxSilver_Fox Spammer Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 34Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    rofl

    Im sure you all have white/black player skins in your NS - you just ... dont pay attention very well.

    Once your skin color is chosen when the game starts, you remain that same color till a new game ...
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    <!--QuoteBegin--[tbZ]BeAst+Mar 31 2003, 06:44 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([tbZ]BeAst @ Mar 31 2003, 06:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> /me is worried at how people will react to a female gorge model..... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    miss piggy
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  • ShockehShockeh If a packet drops on the web and nobody&#39;s near to see it... Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9336NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    The dev team won't be able to win.

    If you have a 50% chance of everything, you end up with a not very representative image of the 'average' armed forces (Sorry ladies, but it isn't a 50-50 split, so get over it)

    If you don't have it 50%, you get a lynchmob within 20 minutes.

    [FACT] I had to explain to some people in Manchester the other week, that holding an anti-discrimination rally for Women was discrimination in itself. I don't think they got it.
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  • SnO0PySnO0Py Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14092Members
    edited March 2003
    Well atleast when the female model comes the marines will hump something other than the armoury *cough* *cough*
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    The Colonial marine skins from Aliens I used to have had both white and black skins. They were all random. You could see them a lot better becasue you could see their arms and faces more then with the standard NS skins.
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  • StormehStormeh Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3541Members
    I have the hi-poly hudson model, and i can see if other players are black or white, but i only thought they had one set of arms and they where white (for the weapon model that is) <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • panzerSPpanzerSP Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13419Members
    <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> The colour of the skin of the marine only matters if the colour is too awful
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  • Shadow_HunterShadow_Hunter Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12132Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->ZiGGY^ Posted: Mar 30 2003, 09:06 AM 

    mmmm skulk meat 
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    Light meat, or dark?
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