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0000458Zandronum[All Projects] Bugpublic2011-05-19 23:242014-05-14 18:59
Reportercq75 
Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionnot fixable 
PlatformMicrosoftOSWindowsOS VersionXP/Vista/7
Product Version98d 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000458: Skins do not work if Chex3.wad is used as the IWAD
DescriptionEven though there are skins in my skins folder, and these skins can be added as bots, the bots look like the base skin (chex warriors).

Steps To ReproduceLaunch Skulltag with Chex Quest 3 as the IWAD. The only skin you will find is the Base skin, all of the stock skulltag skins are missing.
Additional InformationTorr told me to try running these skins in zdoom, but the stock skins didn't even work with Doom2.wad as the IWAD, so I must have done something wrong.
TagsChex, skins
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Attached Files? ST_Strife_Guy.wad (124,410) 2011-05-20 15:07
https://zandronum.com/tracker/file_download.php?file_id=333&type=bug
Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-05-19 23:24cq75New Issue
2011-05-19 23:27cq75Note Added: 0001692
2011-05-20 01:12Torr SamahoNote Added: 0001695
2011-05-20 01:15Torr SamahoStatusnew => feedback
2011-05-20 01:24cq75Note Added: 0001696
2011-05-20 01:24cq75Statusfeedback => new
2011-05-20 01:50Torr SamahoNote Added: 0001697
2011-05-20 01:53Torr SamahoStatusnew => feedback
2011-05-20 15:05cq75Note Added: 0001703
2011-05-20 15:05cq75Statusfeedback => new
2011-05-20 15:06cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r865
2011-05-20 15:07cq75File Added: ST_Strife_Guy.wad
2011-05-20 15:07cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r866
2011-05-20 15:08cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r867
2011-05-20 15:11cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r868
2011-05-20 15:13cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r869
2011-05-20 20:14cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r870
2011-05-20 20:39cq75Note Edited: 0001703bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=1703#r871
2011-05-21 16:12Torr SamahoNote Added: 0001708
2011-05-21 21:34Torr SamahoStatusnew => feedback
2011-05-27 13:10cq75Note Added: 0001767
2011-05-27 13:10cq75Statusfeedback => new
2012-06-09 13:22Torr SamahoCategoryGeneral => Bug
2014-05-14 18:59DuskNote Added: 0008793
2014-05-14 18:59DuskStatusnew => closed
2014-05-14 18:59DuskResolutionopen => not fixable

Notes
(0001692)
cq75   
2011-05-19 23:27   
Skins DO work in these IWADS:

Heretic
All Doom games, including FreeDoom

Skins do not work in these IWADS:

Chex Quest and Chex Quest 3
Strife
Hexen (most likely due to classes, though.)
(0001695)
Torr Samaho   
2011-05-20 01:12   
> Torr told me to try running these skins in zdoom, but the stock skins didn't even work with Doom2.wad as the IWAD, so I must have done something wrong.

ZDoom doesn't support SKININFO (which Skulltag's stock skins use). You'll need to try a skin that uses S_SKIN.
(0001696)
cq75   
2011-05-20 01:24   
I took one of skulltag's stock skins (Strife Guy) and renamed it from SKININFO to S_SKIN, it still didn't work.
(0001697)
Torr Samaho   
2011-05-20 01:50   
The syntax of S_SKIN and SKININFO is different, you can't just rename the lump. Just take any ZDoom compatible skin you like to test, you don't have to use one of Skulltag's stock skins.
(0001703)
cq75   
2011-05-20 15:05   
(edited on: 2011-05-20 20:39)
Oh, I didn't notice that S_SKIN didn't have "color" or brackets

I converted the Strife Guy skin from skulltag to S_SKIN. In zdoom, it works in Doom 2 but does not work in Chex Quest 3.

(i.e., if this is a bug, it's in zdoom too)

Should I take this bug report to the zdoom forums?

EDIT - I uploaded the skins file I used. I apologize for not re-naming it, I thought of that right after I hit upload. This skins file is for zdoom, though.

EDIT2 - I also did not notice that S_SKIN doesn't have the name in quotation marks. This, however, doesn't make any difference to the behavior.

EDIT3 - Getting rid of the spaces before and after the '=' sign also does not change the behavior (it would be strange if it did, but I don't want to waste your time again)

EDIT4 - I posted the bug on the zdoom forums

'http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29782 [^]'
(0001708)
Torr Samaho   
2011-05-21 16:12   
Thanks! Can you drop a note here when the ZDoom devs comment on the bug report you made over there?
(0001767)
cq75   
2011-05-27 13:10   
No reply yet... that's a bad sign. Perhaps this isn't important or useful enough for zdoom for the devs to fix it, since skins are almost useless in single player.

Would you consider fixing this just in Skulltag, though?
(0008793)
Dusk   
2014-05-14 18:59   
ZDoom essentially went 'not fixable' on this one. It hasn't seen an update for 2 years so I don't think we need to keep this ticket around.