They're not a secret per se, but since nothing's sure until the very last moment we haven't posted anything publicly yet. I'm sure you can understand. It's not a secret that we've got a modding group going on either. There's a section dedicated to skin suggestions, this discussion, and we've also recently made a #modding channel on the BA-RP Discord. If you'd like to see what skins we're working with you can always take a peek at the pictures we're posting and so on, maybe one of the showcased skins there will be on the server one day - no promises though, obviously.
MCs etc should get their skins. Would benefit roleplay a lot. Eventually make it a perk of becoming official / give them access to their skins as a "cookie" for running their factions well.
Lol what are you even on about this update is a life upgrade for samp.
OT: Good looks, hope to see a lot of custom skins on launch.
Learn to comprehend a sentence, I never said it wasn't a "life upgrade" for SA-MP. It's not that good when you have to download gigabytes of skins when connecting to a server, this isn't MTA.
Learn to comprehend a sentence, I never said it wasn't a "life upgrade" for SA-MP. It's not that good when you have to download gigabytes of skins when connecting to a server, this isn't MTA.
"This is annoying" is enough indication to you misinterpreting it. And besides, the skins will hardly amount to 50-70 MBs at launch and it is a one time thing. No way it's gonna take you a lot of time to download such a small amount unless you're living on an island.
Learn to comprehend a sentence, I never said it wasn't a "life upgrade" for SA-MP. It's not that good when you have to download gigabytes of skins when connecting to a server, this isn't MTA.
It won't ever be gigabytes, we will have a limit. @tw1ster might be able to tell you the current filesize of some of the skins we're using. I added 32 skins to my own server which took me less than 20 seconds and I don't have to download them again.
Learn to comprehend a sentence, I never said it wasn't a "life upgrade" for SA-MP. It's not that good when you have to download gigabytes of skins when connecting to a server, this isn't MTA.
That's absurd. Gigabytes of skins? Where did you get that from? A low-poly skin is less than 1MB, and I can be generous and say less than 2MB. If you add a bunch of skins, let's say, 32 skins, it'll be 32MB or the double of it. Now, that depends if the speed of download is good or not because that can make the download slower or faster. According to LS-RP, the download speed was pretty poor. If the download speed came from MEGA or Mediafire, it'd go fast and in the blink of an eye.
Now, it's still an absurd topic to talk about because it's literally less than 100MB. It won't take more than a minute or two. If you don't have the patience for it, to download a skin pack once in your lifetime, I'm not sure what to tell you.
I think there should be more civilian based skins, but every faction should be granted a couple of skins, those can be deleted when the faction closes.
Well, just add more civilian skins with different races so people can easily roleplay around without having 5-7 players with the same skin in the same area.
I'd like to reiterate on the fact that this a community-based project. Yes, the staff is making skins on a daily basis, but anyone else who wishes to contribute is more than welcome. If you're a modder or just a very creative person, then don't hesitate to send us your ideas.
It's the community driving this project -- ideally, we would like to implement the skins that you want to see. Also, do check this out:
Some SFPD skins with various ethnicities. A SWAT skin maybe with an ethnicity or two for variation. A lot of Asian skins because we're in San Fierro. Gangsters skins as mentioned before and just more general different ethnicities and female skins would be nice as well.
I'd also like to see if there is official factions, that official factions are able to import skins that they want for their faction as a perk.
Maybe some 'different' pedestrian skins would be nice, just to get some more different skins that we can use on our characters. Aslong as it fits the GTA San Andreas style and age (1990 era). It should be fine :)
Maybe some 'different' pedestrian skins would be nice, just to get some more different skins that we can use on our characters.
Before beginning this project we took note of how many default skins we have and what demographic they represent, with the explicit intent of introducing custom skins that are are somewhat unique and different. I'll give you an example - after doing a quick check it turned out we don't have a proper Hispanic male in a suit, so we made one. Rest assured, we're not gonna be introducing the same old ideas. No, ours are going to be unique, at least to a certain degree. To quote myself - for a skin to be forwarded to Management for approval it must be worth putting in-game, i.e. it should fulfill a concept that we currently lack.
Also for the ones that asked, yes we have submitted a number of Asian and female skins - those were much needed and underrepresented.
