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Being a HUGE geek, and a long time Trekkie, even before I started learning how to skin I was actively seeking out Star Trek skins. Found a few here and there, most of which were kind of disappointing but as I got better at skinning I went to track down those bad ones to see if I could fix them.

One of the 1st I found, again, was a Captain Kirk skin. Typical yellow shirt deal, his face mapped onto the model fairly well, but the team colors were just a splash of color on the torso. I decided that wouldn't do and made my 1st Red Shirt skin:
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It's got a few faces, a few kinda funny talk textures, and a team color issue.

The problem with the Solder model, Male & Female, which applies to Commando of both as well, is the Team Colors don't go onto the arms & shoulders. I've seen many work around this fairly well but it doesn't work for Star Trek very well.

This is a failure, in my eyes, someone else made:
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To me, that's just painful. So much so I took a few tries on that skin and made a "Mirror Universe" type skin:
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Has faces for Evil Kirk, Evil Sulu, Evil Chekov, Evil Bones, Evil Scotty, and (with an edit from papercoffee) Evil Spock.

Mirror Universe being a parallel dimension sort of deal, where the uniforms were a bit more barbaric, so bare arms worked... but that didn't help my more traditional Red Shirts skin.

Granted the Red Shirts work great for MonsterHunt...
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...but outside of that it's an issue.

Traditional Starfleet uniforms, from the age Red Shirts come from, only have the rank on the ends of the sleeves:
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As I'm sure any would agree, that's a little hard to see in-game if you're playing Team Games.

Been doing a number of internet searches on Red Shirts, for awhile now, trying to find a design I could incorporate into the skin that would allow for better team colors... but haven't had much luck.

Any suggestions?
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It's bright red ...this will always be an issue with team visibility.
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EG, do yourself a favor. Get a copy of this book:

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Don't read anything about it, go in cold without knowing ahead of time. I promise you that you'll enjoy it. It's a roller coaster ride with a twist ending you won't at all see coming. It's one of the better books I've spent time with and it was written with people like you and I in mind.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
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Panic spreads through the ship as someone is overhead admitting they sent their red socks with the laundry.
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Dr.Flay wrote:Panic spreads through the ship as someone is overhead admitting they sent their red socks with the laundry.
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