MultiSkin is a modification for Quake made by Dennis Noordsij. This modification allows players to toggle through a collection of various textures for the player skin. Impulse 200 has been assigned to switch to the next skin, while Impulse 201 has been assigned to return to the previous skin. This method allows players to have skins that deviate from each other, as opposed to using the same skin for each player.
Note that MultiSkin is not persistent; the player must toggle to the proper skin at the start of every level. Depending on the skin the player has, they get a custom message every time they die and respawn into the level. This has been placed in quotations in the toggle list.
Many of these skins come from earlier releases by other authors, often being originally intended for use with Qtest and converted for Quake. See Qtest Custom Files for further details on this.
While most MultiSkin and custom skins in general are designed to represent a character from another work of fiction, there are exceptions. Mr. Toad was originally known as DarkToad, he is a skin originally created by David Silverman for Qtest.
MultiSkin 1.1 was released on August 1, 1996. Immediately after, Dennis Noordsij went on a vacation, whereby numerous add-ons were added to extend his modification. Upon returning, he planned to create version 2.0. This version would have featured a more full collection as well as a smaller 8MB alternative. BODYSKIN would have been incorporated into the main mod, head Gibs would have been included, a message would be displayed when a player entered a MultiSkin server, and a program that could easily include the code into .QC so it could be used with any modded games with ease.
In addition to 2.0, Noordsij also planned for a PRO release. This would have included various QuakeC modifications compiled along with MultiSkin.
On September 13, 1996 it was reported by Dennis Noordsij that he had stopped working on an updated 2.0 and PRO releases, making 1.1 the last official released version. Noordsij did not enjoy continually working on the same project, instead preferring to make something before moving to another modification. Someone named Stagger was to continue work on 2.0, while BuKe was to continue PRO. Noordsij voiced that while both projects were allegedly continuing, he did not expect any further releases to be made.
MultiSkin was one of the more popular modifications in 1996, but quickly got phased out with the release of QuakeWorld. The latter featured the ability to automatically download skins from the internet, plus featured the ability to have an unlimited number of skins, thereby making this modification obsolete. Having been announced as early as September, Noordsij felt there was no reason to continue work on this modification.
MultiSkin Toggle List
Add-Ons
- BODYSKIN - Fixes the issue where the player corpse would use the vanilla Ranger skin instead of the skin the player was using.
- New Skinz - An expansion to MultiSkin commonly included to extend the number of choices up to 32.
- Quake Multivoice Patch - Adds audio taunts that change with each skin.