Re-Skin SC2 Beta Units

On March 11 2010 17:09 DanceDance wrote:
Had a look at the guide, that looks really complicated lol. Cool though.

On March 11 2010 17:31 sob3k wrote:will blizz get pissed off if you do this and play online?

oh, and all nude skin gogogo!

On March 11 2010 17:38 Poly325 wrote:
skin all the terrain to be black with perfectly horizontal and vertical lines crisscrossing it. you'll be able to see the cloaked ghost in your base so easily.

oh, and all nude skin gogogo!

On March 11 2010 17:47 Seele wrote:


That looks like a Quake character

On March 11 2010 17:13 MorroW wrote:
haha lol

look at this pic i found
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This is modding, but if it's used online without your opponent using the same packages then it is hacking.

On March 11 2010 19:16 pzea469 wrote:


Well you would see your opponents models the same as you see yours. So if i used a zealot modded to have a faceguard, I would see my opponent with the same zealot skin. For him my zealots would look the same as his.

You could also make the models larger to spot them around corners etc, while they will still have regular hit boxes, you could see where they are when you normally couldn't.

On March 12 2010 04:17 Hunter_Killers wrote:
SC2 is very easy to mod even without the editor, my friend (IskatuMesk) didn't want to post anything here because he didn't want to get banned if it was considered bad.

http://www.youtube.com/user/UntamedLoli

Keep in mind that any changes to the XML files will result in a crash playing with someone that doesn't have the exact same changes as you so they can't be used to your advantage.

On March 12 2010 02:13 pzea469 wrote:


Well you can only re-skin with this, not re-model. You can't make anything bigger or smaller. As for making your units stand out, yeah I guess it might make zealots easier to spot if i just changed their skin to bright yellow or something, but in a mirror match up it would probably be harder for you to differentiate, and that to me seems like the current bigger problem in SC2. I have no problem spotting my units, just sometimes in battle i can't tell which are my zealots and which are my opponents. Alt F fixed that for me though and i don't see how re-skinning can further help you.

On March 12 2010 10:15 Nub4ever wrote:
Iono about you people but I think we need a female ghost :D

On March 12 2010 10:33 Craton wrote:
There's a difference between directly modifying game files and using custom models.

The first will probably get you banned, while the second is limited to custom games.

i would like the creep to be a bit light -> more pink. could u post a pic of that?

Darker creep looks like the top of a chocolate cake.

Not only should this be legal, blizzard should give you a few different skins by default (including a 'high clarity' one) and allow you to download them over battle.net. Just makes sense.

On March 12 2010 11:14 Craton wrote:
That is exactly what I was referring to. Modifying your game files like that is prohibited in the ToS and absolutely is bannable in e.g. WoW.

On March 12 2010 14:45 USn wrote:
Not only should this be legal, blizzard should give you a few different skins by default (including a 'high clarity' one) and allow you to download them over battle.net. Just makes sense.

On March 12 2010 10:35 Half wrote:


Thats not what I'm talking about....you had programs that modified game files to personalize your game. Example http://www.dotathemes.com/

It isn't using custom models, which would require changing it for everyone, it was MPQ mods in order to personalize your OWN clients terrain etc.

Its also 100% undetectable. People use it in WoW, technically bannable, but since it gives no external indication of use, 100% undetectable. (Texmod is used for WoW, popular among most MMO's).

The only way to use this would be to make certain units squares to stand out more, which would be a rather minimal advantage.

On March 12 2010 16:57 theycallhimtom wrote:


Why is it undetectable? Can't they just take a hash of all of the game files and make sure they match the intended values? With a cryptographic hash function it is basically impossible to get around.

On July 11 2010 14:05 TheOracle wrote:
Ah i'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at that's different. To be clear we are talking about this image? (Reposted since you linked it wrong )

On July 11 2010 14:14 Cow wrote:
Prefer the Voidrays golden over silver!
Any ones of Stalkers in the same way?

On March 11 2010 17:22 prototype. wrote:

now that's what i call a green zealot

why won't blizzard put more emphasis in the colour differentiation?

On March 11 2010 17:40 pzea469 wrote:


another reason to bring medics back