Playercolorlevel is a weird setting. It makes everyone with wearing ranger/default glow at a specified light level. The colors that show up are your color1/color2 settings (think strogg railtrail).

/cg_playercolorlevel 192 is the recommended setting.

That's the thing, I used third person to double check and nothing was happening on the default Ranger skin. It there some setting I might have tripped that would interfere with it?

I found the culprit. It was something in the graphics settings. I don't know what it was exactly but
1) It was using the setting carried over from vQ3 as I had yet to change them in Gen (I just finally donwloaded .99c+d yesterday)
2) They were set pretty low because I was having problems with Q3 (I think it was actually do to ISP problems, but that's not important)
I'm guessing one of these two things had something to do with it. Maybe my lightning settings were too low and that was blocking the color level from showing through? I don't know, but I changed to 'normal' settings and now it works.

I actualy like the lower settings like around 75 better, the color feels more subtle, instead of the usualy day glow team colors (just my drab personal preference). The only problem with that is the color from the default skin bleeds through. That's actually cool though, because you can use the color underneath plus the top color to mix colors that aren't available. Like, if you use red for the shirt or yellow for the pants and then lower the color level you can make orange, which is cool cause there's no orange rail color.

Still, perhaps you might make a dummy skin with grayscale pants and shirt to use for this feature, then add more rail colors? That way you could make the colors as dark or light as you want. Also, is there a way via bind or config to save different color settings for different classes? I like my strogg rail but it doesn't look good on Ranger.

Anyway, thanks for your help Pheonix.

I rather like that idea, actually

Like I said, talk. Not set in stone.

Aye, it was the vertex lighting. Maybe add a blurb about it in the manual under the 'playercolorlevel description?

The Challenge Promode mod has 'quakeworld style' customizeable skins for every model, I don't think it's too difficult, Bones actually seems to be popular with this feature, although the way CPMA did it looked crappy because there was no 'color level' command so everything was just dayglow with no shading.

I don't think it's a necessary feature for all the models in Gen. It's good for Ranger because there aren't a lot of options for his model and it was a feature for him in the original Quake. I think the major improvement for this feature would be to have the under-skin be grayscale and then instead of using the railtrail colors (which are all neon and not exactly meant to go on combat clothing), reproduce the original set of colors from Q1 and use that instead. I could see this feature working on Doom as well though I'd like to see an equally unique set of colors. Also, I think using this for Visor would be a major help because he's the only cool model left in the Arena class. For Strogg, it would be cool to have all the original Q2 skins brought back for Grunt and Major (I know somewhere I saw someone allready did all the Grunt skins) and then maybe 1 or 2 new skins for TankJr and others. For Earth, maybe a couple more custom skins for Sarge (different types of cammo?), and maybe 1 for each of the other models would do the job.

I only meant there was  a dayglow effect in CPMA, (and in Gen if you turn the color level too high). I think it works fine for what it's intended for even though there are a few details to iron out. I also think having the option to be dayglow is good, because some people just like bright colored skins, and also it can serve as a sort of handicap (players can agree to use high color levels so no one can hide in the shadows.)

What's the command to move your 3rd person camera?  Say I want to look at the side of myself, or from the front.

Hmmm...