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Right, i'm still going in my own time with this Accuracy pack, sounds and such...

...I knocked up a quick skin for BJ Blazkowitz from Wolfenstein 3D, using the sarge/earth model. He looked silly with armour on, so i used bittermans body. So now i've got sarges head on bittermans upper and lower in the model viewer, and it's OK.

How do I get this going in the game? Is there a script to tell quake 3 what head and body models to put together, without having to use console commands?
I could rename them all into a new model, but i'd rather save space and use existing md3s  ;)

While i'm at it... what script determines which 'generation' a model/skin is placed under?

PS looking forward to 99e  ^_^

There is a way to combine body & head models:

- select a model first (for the body), thus: /model bitterman/[skin]
- select a head, with: /headmodel sarge/[skin]

There's a catch. The body (the /model) is bound to the classes, for the logical reason that people need to be able to see what class you are, and a headmodel is not enough or big enough for that. Also, with the /cg_headmodels toggle, players can disable alternative headmodels, and force the body's original head (not everyone likes the funky headmodels).
There is no script that defines the class of a model, the model itself is linked to the class.

In other words: You can select bitterman for Strogg, and use sarges head, but you cannot use bitterman's body for Earth.

erm... damn. Right.

something else... tha cartoony flash you get when you fire the strogg weapons, such as the machinegun. strogg_effects.shader says they are, for example:

models/weapons2/machinegun/f_stroggmachinegun.tga

But there's nothing there!
If i set the shader to sarge/null, nothing changes!

So, where's this image then? :?:

That's because the muzzle flashes are only hacked in and borrowed from the Q3 muzzle flashes right now.  The actual muzzle flash model is probably pointed to the texture models/weapons2/machinegun/f_machinegun.jpg, which is shaderized in models.shader, part of baseq3.  We're going to be doing new muzzle flash effects later.