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[doitnasty]

what's flashy skins, bikes and helmets if nobody can show off their combinations? it would be nice to see everyone as they appear on their own screen without the hassle of downloading a bunch of waste. racing against stock models all day is a total bummer. lol

[motokid499]

i think its impossible. you have to have the gear/bike before you can see it. even in games like MVA. i know what your going to say, "what about the downloadable content? what if you dont have that in mx vs atv?'
the game comes with all the gear/bikes pre-downloaded, so you can SEE others gear/bikes/skins. but if you want to use the gear/graphics and stuff for you own use, you must purchase it. pretty smart what MVA did. but with the amount of skins availible on mxs, i doubt there will be enough time for all these updates and crap. im sure JLV is busy as it is.
my suggestion: go to skins/models thread and download a bunch of replacement models. its stock graphics, but the fenders dont look like the real bikes

[doitnasty]

haha i completely agree, man. but i mean, it would be super cool to check out other riders an their combinations, especially with all of the personal gear mods and such going on now days, keep things interesting. lol not to mention it would make video creations so much more feasible. shooting public servers or races and having a beautiful scenery instead of everyone looking like the same dudeeee haha ..or dudette

[motokid499]

or dudette

dude. imma dude. download some replacement models ;D

[YzJarne_196]

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[doitnasty]

when i say "stock" models, im not talking about them just being default... i already have the model replacement pack installed. i just think it would be cool for people to show off their photoshop skills after hours of hard work to the public instead of putting a link on the forums that little to no people will download.. like i wanna see everyones bike as they see it. not just a stock bike? seeing the same riders/bikes get old

[SMR 510RR]

Great, and how do you suppose that we accomplish that? Personally I dont want to download everyones skin (that is what would happen) because it would fill my hard drive with a bunch of useless junk. Also every time someone joined a server it would make everyone download their skin?

Not to mention then skins that are supposed to be private are now public.

[motokid499]

Great, and how do you suppose that we accomplish that? Personally I dont want to download everyones skin (that is what would happen) because it would fill my hard drive with a bunch of useless junk. Also every time someone joined a server it would make everyone download their skin?

Not to mention then skins that are supposed to be private are now public.

yes but there are solutions to solve that. there could be a pop up asking if you would like to share your skin with the server. and the skins should be through the server, not the player. maybe that could work?

[Fro77]

What happens when some asshole joins a server with the invisible rider,bike,helmet and wheels?

[motokid499]

What happens when some asshole joins a server with the invisible rider,bike,helmet and wheels?

fun happens ;P omfg i would be screwing with everyone so bad haha

[Wahlamt]

Since almost everyone is putting name and number on skins and keep them private, it won´t make a difference to download every skin in the game..

But I have 2 ideas..
1. You make some sort of model/skin replacement that has about 20 different skins, in case you don´t have all the skins. This way, you won´t get 15 people having either black fox or white/red/black alias clothing (depending on modelreplacement pack). Also have prehaps 2 different skins for every bike? Helmet´s could be a couple of different as well, wheels to me doesn´t matter.

2. You have some sort of server connected to the race servers (elsinore.mxs......:1980x ) where you upload your skin during the current race (for next race) or during the loading session. Once the next race is loading, you have all the skins in temporary folder, that changes skins/files every rave. BUT, this may cause problems for people with slow connection, so there has to be like "if a player takes more than ex15 seconds to download all the skins, he can only use the ones he already downloaded. ALSO, there could be a button in the meny "Download skins per race: YES/NO" and "Upload your skin per race: YES/NO". In that way you can choose if you´re good with the model replacements (or stock) or if you want to have peoples, as well as you don´t have to share your own skin. Than if you should "excange" skins 1 race before the next one (to skip possible long loading times) or do it when the tracks load isn´t my thing to judge.

What do you think about the ideas?

[kawy949]

This has been brought up before, you need to think about the bandwidth this would require on each server, space on the server. On average an event race with 40 riders would take around 50gb+ just for the race, now add all the riders packs etc, oh and dont forget you would need models too... There is a lot more involvement than just uploading the files to the server.

[al167]

the way around it is to have the bikes/ gear broken up into many parts. like have separate gloves, jerseys, pants, neck braces, boots. ect. that way you don't need 500 sets of the same gear, some without barces, some with, some with alpinestars and some with fox boots if you know what I mean. s
Say for boots, you would only need to DL 5-6 different brands to have the lot. and same with gear. with bikes it would be the same, bars separate, so that you only need 4- 5 brands of bars for the whole set. people would be able to nix and match, there bikes and be individual, without everyone needing there exact jm. and would be a big job, and it would take a lot of planning.......