Recently I've been experimenting with skins, but all of a sudden after I save the .tga file over the old, original, it doesn't show up in-game. I know REL compression is off, both (new and original) have the same pixel with/height, I've even tried a skin that I know to work. I can view the new skin on the SWBFII Msh Viewer, but again, when I Munge the side, I only get the original.

Try cleaning and remunging your side.

have you make a custom side or not? And have you got dc: in the lua?
Seriously dude you shouldn't edit the assets. Copy the side you want to edit to data_ABC/Sides and make your changes there... otherwise you won't be able to get the old skin back.
I suggest a clean. And give me your lua please.
EDIT2: Don't mind me - I thought you were editing the assets But cleaning does help.

But I've made, a new map, and pasted the "rep" side folder for the assets (which I know to be clean) and it still happened. It's the side "rep". No custom sides.

where have you put it? It sounds like you made a copy of the assets.. in the assets folder.

I'm not sure you understood what I said; select your side in the munge menu, then press the Clean button. When that's done, do a Munge (still with your side selected).

Xav, he hasn't made a custom side - so he can't do that.

Correct, I copied the side "rep" from the assets to my map's sides file. I then open Gimp and load my skin. I then click "save as" and tell it to replace the original skin in data_***\sides\rep. I then Munge side "rep". Start game. Select custom map. Map loads, no new skins, they are all originals.

Xavious wrote:I'm not sure you understood what I said; select your side in the munge menu, then press the Clean button. When that's done, do a Munge (still with your side selected).

Try that.

Ok. What exactly does cleaning do? Does in past "clean" files over the old ones, etc?

*edit* I just finished cleaning, now Munging.

let me see your lua please

IronJaw wrote:Ok. What exactly does cleaning do? Does in past "clean" files over the old ones, etc?

It cleans out all the files and allows you to remunge as if you were munging for the first time.

Ah!

My .lua: (I have yet to make corrections to .lua. So bear with me)

***c_con.lua:
***g_con.lua:

Wait - you aren't loading in your custom rep side. You need to put a dc: in front of SIDE\\rep.lvl.

exactly what I was going to say.
Where it says this:

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\rep.lvl",

Change it to:

ReadDataFile("dc:SIDE\\rep.lvl",

And remember to get rid of those ","s that I told you to remove in the other topic, or else it might crash the map due to the error from the other topic.

Hmmm, ok, add the "dc:"... Interesting, I never did it to my first maps with custom skins....

that's strange that it worked then, as it is neccesary to put it in

IronJaw wrote:Hmmm, ok, add the "dc:"... Interesting, I never did it to my first maps with custom skins....

Strange. A new skin requires a new side, even if the models and weapons and such are the same. Without adding "dc:", it'll load the stock sides.

Edit: what Par said ^

Offtopic: Love the new avatar, sir!

Seeing as no one else has said it I may as well - did you copy over the Common side folder from the assets?