Custom skins not showing up in server replays

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  1. baristabrian

    baristabrian Registered

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    My league ran a race last week with 18 drivers. After the race we Dl the server replay and about half of the drivers who used custom skins were shown in default skins. The really strange thing is that the other drivers told me they were seeing me in a custom skin DURING the race but I show up as default in server replay.

    Any reason for this?
     
  2. lordpantsington

    lordpantsington Registered

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    Yep, there is some disconnect with that.

    Since the skin name that goes out to other drivers gets renamed, I wonder if the server sees you as driving that renamed skin? Since you don't have that specifically named skin on your machine, you will show as default? The whole thing about renaming a skin that is transmitted is a giant mess anyways. In the league I was in every time someone reinstalled they'd get a new ID#, which is what prefixes the renamed skin when sent. Made for multiple copies of the same skin in the folder, and a mess to clean up.

    Might not be right, but its a theory at least.
     
  3. Denstjiro

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    I wonder what happens when you also install skins on the server?
     

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