Hello

For my program, i make for school, I need to get the skinname from entitys. Not just the name of skin1, for skin2-skin8 i need that, too.

I found no function in the manual that can do that...

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
rei

read from the mdl file itself, check file formant on wiki.

thanks, but this doesn't really help me...

i am too stupid to understand this...

The name of the skin is stored in the MDL, but AFAIK the only engine function that can read it is c_trace. And it can only read the skin name at the hit place. Can't you work around this, using some standard skin names?

Thanks for the reply

Maybe I should clear what I want to do a bit more:

I have got 27 models. Every model has some skins(at least 2). Because I wanted to save memory I deleted everyskin the model won't need - before every model had every skin.

No I want to change the skins of the model, but since the skin "green" ist not always skin1 i need to find out which skin "green" is.

No idea?

Do you have some C++ knowledge? You can then use the MDL SDK for implementing a function to read the skin names. Otherwise, we have to implement this for you. I have already put it on my list as an addendum to the ent_status function, but it may take a while.

Thank you,
I have no C++ knowledge. So I have to wait till you have implented this for me

But for the moment I made a workaround. I needed to rework all the models, but for now it is okay

I would like to know, when will be implemented the collecting of the skin names?
I have some C++ knowledge (not too much), i can't figured out how would do this feature realize in Lite-C...

It was already implemented, but I see that it's not documented.

You can use ent_getskin for getting the skin name - here's the updated documentation:

http://manual.3dgamestudio.net/ent_getskin.htm