Friend keeps losing his character...but not quite...

[evilsquirrel]

ok, heres the problem...

my friend, Perish (steamid: STEAM_0:0:3083986), keeps losing his character...except it's still there...

I went over to his house, and when he joins a server he gets the select character screen and can click his character...then the screen turns a greyish color instead of black and his character "spawns" but he cant see...all he sees is the grey screen or a black box on his head (if he moves fast enough he can see out of it but cant attack).

Steps tried:

First - we restarted MSC
Second - we restarted steam
Third - we restarted his computer
Fourth - we reinstalled MSC and all patches/models
Fifth - we DELETED HIS CHARACTER and started a new one (about a day later, his new character has the same glitch)


I have no idea what's causing it, but it happened on the 23rd patch.

 

[natranr]

wow, what a brain stumper, try rolling back your patch?

 

[Thothie]

Holy MSC weirdness, batman.

I wonder, if you can see him on another server, if you can actually see that thing on his head?

The way the MSC blinder works (that makes everything black when you join) - it actually sticks a black box on your head. (Sloppy, but I guess it works)... I dunno if it's staying on him for some reason.

Make sure you start in Edana, as it may simply be a lack of map updates. Other than that, I r t3h stumped.

 

[evilsquirrel]

well it was on my server and i didnt see the black box on his head...

his character seems to work with this newest patch, at least on my computer...

i've yet to test on his again.

also, we were in edana...i also have the map updates so people can join anywhere.

 

[Thothie]

I have an idea for this now... but it may or may not work...

Copy the file:
msc/models/null.mdl
to:
msc/models/hud/spawnbox.mdl
(overwrite)

When you spawn, this computer puts this big black box on your head (spawnbox.mdl), to give you that black background. This is why *occasionally* You'll see another player's head/arm/elbo poking through it. (if 0x0x0 is avilable on the map)

For *some* reason, it maybe that box just isn't going away on your friends puter.

Replacing it with null.mdl (a model that doesn't render) may work around the issue.