
10-10-2002, 07:14 PM
Good work YoChoy, just want to drop in some info and thoughts. Your right, you can't pull the force skins setting from dumpuser, not unless they actually go out of their way to use setu that is. The internal scripting has a few big advantages in a situation like this, with full access to the cvars and no problems associated with constant polling. Good idea making it check against a known list, that definately stops anyone out there who isn't using the default skin/shader cheat.
General stuff for everyone:
There seems to be some confusion on what DMz does with models/skins, so I'll try and break it down a bit.
Client is allowed to use whatever Force Models setting they want.
Client is forced by the server to have Force Models turned On.
Client is forced by the server to have Force Models turned Off.
Client is allowed to use whatever Allied/Axis Skin settings they want.
Client is forced by the server to have a certain Allied/Axis Skin.
One of the best options for defeating cheat skins is forcing Force Models to be Off and use Client Side Skin settings, since most cheaters don't have an entire set of default skins changed to cheat skins. (altho the shader cheat gets around this anyways)
Last but not least, it's my belief that EA will address most of these pak file hacks in the Spearhead expansion.
Oh yeah, no the notepad thing won't work, but text in game works great. Nothing like having the player tell everyone what skin he's using automatically, hehe.
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