Skins List Uploaded

Randomdays · December 31, 2021, 06:05:06 PM

Dana - Downloaded and updated the list with the missing files. New list not online yet.

At Present the list is up to a little over 6600 entries.

ds_mountain is on the the list and I have it.

I did see the "X_forest_night_map on the backup site under other, but still no info on who did it. It has "TE" in front of it if that's any help.

Right now, I haven't got any multiplayer maps archived yet, unless its by accident.

WyldFyre · January 01, 2022, 12:07:38 PM

I am thankful for you making this list. I refer to it a lot.

Blaze and Destroyer were made by Flash22798. (I have the readme file for those.)

I am working on possibly turning this into a spreadsheet so it can be grouped by skinner etc. It would help me with Museum searches for sure.

Again, thanks for putting this together!

Randomdays · January 01, 2022, 01:00:59 PM

Thanks for the help and compliment.

Feel free to identify a many unknowns as you like!

A spreadsheet would be nice for searching, and feel free to convert. Not sure how you would identify new entries as I update though.

I wish I had kept better track of where I downloaded files from back in the day. It would help a lot with the "unknowns" on the list

Very few of Flash's skins have readme files in them, or maybe I don't have them since he put them outside of the skin folder like I've seen a few people do, and I didn't keep that part of the zip. He's one of a very few that uses full body portraits and that helps me identify his work.

I should have checked the portraits and that would have helped me with those two. Checking out the Deadpool mesh, I think the Deathstroke, Impasse, and male Photon skins are by Flash a well.
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I was going to wait a bit, but I just put an updated list on the megasite.

Its about 6600+ at the moment, but still lots to add! Some spelling errors fixed, unknowns identified, and incorrect artist id's fixed

It still amazes me how much content the modders created for these two games. There aren't many left these days, but there's tons of content that's been done over almost 20 years.

crosspotts1.0 · July 06, 2022, 03:32:37 AM

with the list will it have links or are we still going to have to request them

Randomdays · December 24, 2022, 11:07:53 PM

Sorry for the late reply - it will have to be by request. Some of the creators still have active pages with downloads so I won't have links without their permission, and the museum that's being worked on will have links to some of the old works.

I made the decision way back to unzip all the files I had and add the kfs and alternate skins to them as I could. This unfortunately really increased the size of the file and accidentally lost a few readmes on who did what. My character collection, also with maps and other items, fills most of a 256 gig SD card. I don't mind zipping up a few for requests, but doing a mass project for all and hosting them is outside my scope.

cranlox · December 26, 2022, 06:10:30 AM

WOW! Impressive collection. You were missed on the forum. Truly your celebration of the holidays of the previous year was memorable!

Randomdays · December 31, 2022, 05:28:59 PM

With some time off this week, I've been working on the list a bit. I've added a bit over 200 more so far and found some more great skins/meshes, and unusual ones among the bunch.

Did you know that Daglob did a skin of Barbara Eden in her genie outfit to go on the Green Genie mesh? Wow!

Freedom Force Forever going down hurts, since they were going to be grabbed "later" and now I'm not sure how much that was there I have and don't have.

Still so many without a read me for credit, or even to know what mesh to put the skin on.

I'll probably do an update online when I get to 7000 or so. 10,000 still looks like it could be totally possible.

RD

cranlox · January 02, 2023, 08:17:15 AM

she always reminded me of the genius of the Barbara Eden series, the genius of Freedom. Excellent Daglob as always. And forever among us just like wakanda.

Randomdays · January 02, 2023, 05:19:56 PM

A new list is updated, a year and a day from the last time. Hopefully the next update will be sooner than that.

https://mega.nz/folder/bxoATQBA#zhsyE8hp1uwMeDk7r17BcQ

It's just short of 7,000, but subtracting the header lines and adding back in the entries that have multiple skins, I think it should pass over the 7 grand total. New entries are all over the various different heroes and shows.

At present, I'll have to say "No" to most requests.

There's a few meshes/skins that I was looking at that are not on the list, and are on hold due to missing meshes or kfs. I'll have to deal with those later and put out another request thread for them.

Though one that I spent some time and frustration on is Pod's Black Tarantula Hex. It says it's mesh is "CC_collar_noextras" off of a Gren mesh. I thought "cc" meant "Classic Colossus", but no matter which kfs I tried, nothing worked. Any help with that would be appreciated.

WyldFyre · January 02, 2023, 07:00:48 PM

@Random

I think it is Checkmate_Commando you are looking for. I have a Blobula skin which uses that mesh.

Randomdays · January 02, 2023, 07:18:47 PM

WyldFyre - that makes sense, and it worked! Thank you! I had actually tried a few Checkmate kfs, just not that one, and had locked onto the Colossus mesh in my head.

One more to add to the list

cranlox · January 03, 2023, 12:44:43 AM

I have a black tarantula that is the skin of a colossus. If you want I'll pass it to you but I don't know the author.

Randomdays · January 03, 2023, 05:31:30 PM

Send it along. If I already have it, no loss, and if I don't, then that's one more for the total that's growing all the time.

cmdrkoenig67 · January 10, 2023, 05:09:20 PM

Great work, RD! That?s a lot of skins and thank you for the list!

Dana

Randomdays · January 10, 2023, 06:20:12 PM

Thanks Dana! Your name is all over the list, of course.

I remember how useful the old list was until everything went off line.

Also, I (and many others) were helped out so many times by CB and DG with our requests. Usually though, they'd have to hunt around for what they had.

While I'm probably not the hoarder they were (I'm #3 but I try harder!) I'd like to return the favor and help out.

I have everything on the list and they're ready to go - nif, kf and skin,etc. , so you don't have to look for anything

Deaths Jester · January 10, 2023, 09:02:02 PM

Quote from: Randomdays on January 10, 2023, 06:20:12 PM
Thanks Dana! Your name is all over the list, of course.

I remember how useful the old list was until everything went off line.

Also, I (and many others) were helped out so many times by CB and DG with our requests. Usually though, they'd have to hunt around for what they had.

While I'm probably not the hoarder they were (I'm #3 but I try harder!) I'd like to return the favor and help out.

I have everything on the list and they're ready to go - nif, kf and skin,etc. , so you don't have to look for anything

Benton was supposed to be getting DG's FF backups from DG's daughter at some point. I'm not sure if anything has happened with that seeing as Benton has been busy with the new semester and we all felt it best to give the daughter time to mourn before worrying with trying to get them to Benton. But it has potential to bring some of the stuff we are missing back....maybe...perhaps....

Edit: Also looking at the list, the first thing that popped up to me there is a load of Amalgam skins missing - many of them I did back in the FFC days. I don't ahve them but there used to be a yahoo group that was nothing but Amalgam skins and I know that a few of the old Freedom Force Center dls on wayback still work - DG found quite a few of my really old works there. Might be worth a dive, at least.

Randomdays · January 10, 2023, 09:05:21 PM

That would be nice... some of DG's stuff from obscura is missing, besides whatever he collected. I doubt that even he knew what he had. Same with Cyber

Another reason I'm doing the list - So I'll know exactly what I have and have it organized.

Deaths Jester · January 10, 2023, 09:09:53 PM

I hate to say it but I think CB's backups are lost to us, unhappily.

Randomdays · January 10, 2023, 10:26:27 PM

For those of us who care, we can only try to save what we can.

One hope I have is I know that some of the original greats and Titans still check in now and again. I see their names on the bottom of the page but try not to bother them.

If they're reading the threads, maybe they can dig up their old files and email them to someone like me, Benton or Wyldfyre for preservation. Or host them on mediafire for grabbing.

Deaths Jester · January 10, 2023, 10:28:49 PM

Quote from: Randomdays on January 10, 2023, 10:26:27 PM
For those of us who care, we can only try to save what we can.

One hope I have is I know that some of the original greats and Titans still check in now and again. I see their names on the bottom of the page but try not to bother them.

If they're reading the threads, maybe they can dig up their old files and email them to someone like me, Benton or Wyldfyre for preservation. Or host them on mediafire for grabbing.

My biggest problem is that I've lost so many skins over the years...between hard drive explosions, site movement, and such..I've lost a ton of the work I did. Most of what I have now is the stuff that was on Hero Force or in Benton's mods and that's about it....even other artists works are lacking for me....I was never a major hoarder but still....used to have a lot more than I do nowadays....

But as Wildfyre has pointed out, I've still got the memories from those days and can sometimes look at stuff and tell you who might've made it and where it might've been originally hosted/why it was made/etc....

Randomdays · January 10, 2023, 11:27:01 PM

Not sure what's doubled up or not, But I got a few zips with your stuff after doing a request. I know Benton sent me some. You've got some stuff on one of the FRP backups.

I know I saw a post of YOU putting some of you stuff up on mediafire a few years back. with "Everything except the WW2 stuff" but of course now looking for it, on the forums or on my computer, I can't find it anywhere. The link was still good though.

Deaths Jester · January 10, 2023, 11:46:28 PM

Quote from: Randomdays on January 10, 2023, 11:27:01 PM
Not sure what's doubled up or not, But I got a few zips with your stuff after doing a request. I know Benton sent me some. You've got some stuff on one of the FRP backups.

I know I saw a post of YOU putting some of you stuff up on mediafire a few years back. with "Everything except the WW2 stuff" but of course now looking for it, on the forums or on my computer, I can't find it anywhere. The link was still good though.

Yeah but the stuff pre-FRP - the stuff from Freedom Asylum, Freedom Force Underground, part of Freedom Force Center (WF was able to get some of them and get them on the museum), Electric Freedom, and...I think that was all the places I was hosted....ugh...so many places over the years...oh yeah, NPI..has been pretty well lost to the ether it seems. What happens when you end up jumping from host to host over the years and such...<shrugs>...say la vie....is the way of the internet...

SickAlice · January 12, 2023, 01:25:18 AM

Angelfire site. I don't remember what I had before that. Some weird webservice that probably doesn't exist anymore. My skins were trash anyways then.

As for as Cyber is concerned you never know. I've search his name here +Mediafire or other combinations, like a specific thing perhaps, and I swear there's no end in site of how many individual backups he made on a few different hosts floating here and there. Worth a shot maybe.

Randomdays · January 13, 2023, 01:46:08 AM

Added about 200 more to the list. I'll probably post th next update when its about 7500

A few notes I'd like to add;

1) Until I can find a complete of mesh/skin/kf, I won't be putting an item on the list. If it doesn't work yet, I'll add it when I'm as complete as I can think I can get. Probably list it as a general topic of "incomplete" . I'm trying to get these filled on the requests forum.

2) I've got some items that I've worked on/ helped with/ received for test from other members. In most of these cases, they haven't been released since that's what they've requested. I won't put these on the list

3)There's a few sites still active, some backups and some things on archive.org. I'll post the main working links at the top of the list. There are topics covering what's out there though on the site though.

4) There are actually a few reasons why I'm making the list -
a)To organize what I have, and see what's out there that I don't have that I need to still get.
b)To help others out there who are looking for a character and want to know if its already been made.
c) To see what characters are out there that still, after all these years, haven't had a mesh or skin made for them. Hopefully a skinner / mesher can be persuaded to fill in these holes. I've already been able to fill in a few holes with imports and doing some basic work with what skills I have (like the Jupiter Men from Thor I just body swapped.

While I'm basically interested the Silver and Bronze age characters, I know that others are more into the Modern and Golden age characters as well.

There's still a lot to do, but if there are any former creators out there, checking in to see how things are going, what help you can give would be very much appreciated - identifying an unknown mesh or skin - either yours or someone else you recognize; posting or sending what you have if you have a collection - either as a mediafire link, or sending it by email - to me or Wyldefyre would be great.

I had thought of sending some pm's, but I'm sure they see what's going on, and I didn't want to bother them.

Lets see if we can preserve as much of the FF community as we can.

Randomdays · January 15, 2023, 11:42:56 AM

Not ready to upload a new version yet, but I found this and thought it was neat - an alphabetical list of over 2700 Marvel characters, by Marvel

https://www.marvel.com/characters

Randomdays · January 21, 2023, 08:11:10 PM

Uploaded a new list - about 7500 entries now

added about 100 lines of text up top, mainly for people new to the game.

With the trouble of some sites partially, or completely disappearing lately, I went ahead and did some monstrous downloading of meshes and skins - almost all of detourne me's files, plus SA and Tommyboy among others. A lot are probably duplicates, but better to have them just in case.

Looking at things, I would say I'll easily get to 10,000 meshes and skins before I'm done.

Randomdays · January 27, 2023, 12:04:18 AM

Not a lot of time at the moment, so mainly going through detourne me's massive mediafire collection. I went ahead and did a bulk download of them all to a sd card to make searching easier, as well as the character backups from the other group.

The beginning count was just a bit over 5000 files. Eliminating non FF files and duplicates brought it down by about a 100, and deleting files that I knew I had already, like mine to start with, brought it down a few hundred more.

I think the biggest finds so far have been some early LP skins not on the current site, and over 20 early skins by Murs - not at Champions or LP's site. The Forum archive have been very helpful - I went through all 14 pages of Murs work from 2007 and dm's group had almost all of them. Murs put a simple readme in his zips, but didn't identify himself in the text.

I've also been able to identify some previous "unknown" skins that I had already put on the list, which makes me happy.

As I continue to go thru the files, I'm sure that there will be many that I've already indexed, but plenty of new items to go with them as well. Added about 150 more from the last update so far.

Randomdays · January 29, 2023, 12:05:23 AM

I have both games in their original boxes, plus some cd's and dvd's inside the boxes full of content that's being moved onto my large sd card.

I'm going to keep the sd card right next to the game boxes in a dvd case for easy access and safety.

Almost done with the custom cover for the case, and thought I'd see what you thought of it. Mainly sizing it up and putting the logos on the spine.

And no, I won't be offering the collection for sale or anything like that. You're free to use the image for your collection of course.

Maybe move the front logo to the left side and adding the FFvt3R logo to the right? Add an inside flap showing some highlights like this one from the Hulk collection?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YuHz0INoL._AC_.jpg

My other thought is creating a more square GBA style box.

cranlox · January 29, 2023, 07:08:59 AM

Excellent idea! I had also started to print some sheets with my favorite dream groups that I have in FFvs3R and all that would be in a folder and a box.
For pure collecting and taste.
I really liked your version of Marvel.

Randomdays · February 01, 2023, 11:13:04 PM

About 7700 skins now.

Most interesting find for this last batch was two MotU skins from TUE for Sam the Eagle - Skeletor's hawk "Screech" (I didn't even remember him at all) and "Zoar", the bird form of the Sorceress. Great work from TUE I had never seen these before. From way back in 2004 (dm's mediafire dump)

So, with the skins/ meshes I have, I don't see anything for the MotU Sorceress. No complete release after all these years?

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