I know that if you reskin the troopers on the stock maps without changing any values for the weapons, etc. you can still play the stock maps online.

And I've been reading, and am I correct in saying you can only reskin, say, the default clones for all the maps? (i.e. have them yellow on the death star and green on felucia isn't possible)?

Would it break online compatability to make a new map in zero editor and just load one of the stock maps, and making a new side identical to the rep side, only with them skinned a different colour, and then save over the stock map (making a back up first, of course)?

Unless I'm wrong, and you can change the skins for troops on one of the stock maps, but leave them default for others?

Thanks for the help

Well, the units loaded for each map are laoded through the LUA. So if you load all_inf_rifleman_red in the LUA on one map and all_inf_rifleman_blue in a different map it should work just fine, as long as all the files are where they should be.

That's interesting actually.

If you added the clone trooper skins to the map's msh folder and added the texture names to the map's req, that might work.

To change them in stock maps to use online, you couldn't edit with the lua, but including the units' textures in the map's .lvl file should be possible.

kinetosimpetus wrote:
To change them in stock maps to use online, you couldn't edit with the lua, but including the units' textures in the map's .lvl file should be possible.

Sorry if I sound stupid, but how to you include the textures in the .lvl file for the stock maps?

in the map's .req file find a header that has and add the names of the clone textures without the .tga

I've found loading the stock maps via the assets causes too many problems, so I was wondering if there was a way to edit the stock maps to change where it gets its textures from. I only know about each level's .lvl file, but you can't edit them can you?

Is there a file somewhere else in the data folder that you edit to "adjust" the teams?

no, because the stockmaps dont have a seperate mission.lvl you cant modify the sitesetupfor them. if you wanted you could try hexedit the global mission.lvl but i dont knwo if its so easy to find out which mission is where since it caontains all stock missions.

You can munge a new mission.lvl.

You could also use a custom user script with v1.3 and load your units that way. Put all your custom units in their own lvl file.

Off-Topic: reskinning can break online compatability? im fairly new and all my "creations" are skinned...

DarthXeon wrote:...im fairly new...

Off-topic: Being new is a really lame excuse. You're new to modding SWBF2, not reading and understanding the context of written messages, at least I hope not. If you read the content of the posts of this topic and not just its subject title, then you will find the answer to your question:

DarthXeon wrote:reskinning can break online compatability?

The same goes for all topics and threads.