My custom skin is not showing in Multiplayer

[stopscopiesme]

I made a skin and others are not able to see it. We waited several tracks but it stayed all white. Also, I cant see other peoples skins. (I can see default skins, but some are white, and I assume those are customs). And one person said they could not even see my avatar, but its just the american flag. I have not even done anything to my avatar.

I approved consent for others to see my skin when I went to go into multiplayer.

Also, in the launcher under the gamer tab, I do not have the option checked to "ignore" other player skins.

why is this happening, and how do i fix it? thanks.

[TheLegendOfMart]

you need to upload the skin to some webspace and create a .loc file with the url to the skin.

So if your skin is called myskin.zip you need to create a myskin.txt file, put the url to it on the first line, for example http://www.mywebspace.com/myskin.zip then rename it to myskin.loc and put it with the zip file.

[Chevron]

If you don't understand look here.

[stopscopiesme]

Why do I have to do all that? wouldnt TM's interface prompt me to do all of that?

[Trackmaniack]

Why would it? You can download over P2P--it's just slower to go from one computer to another, rather than a sharing site.

[TM2ISCRAP]

you need to upload the skin to some webspace and create a .loc file with the url to the skin.

So if your skin is called myskin.zip you need to create a myskin.txt file, put the url to it on the first line, for example http://www.mywebspace.com/myskin.zip then rename it to myskin.loc and put it with the zip file.

Don't forget the zip part of the .loc file .... It should read ' myskin.zip.loc'

stopscopiesme .... the model WILL load eventually .... a .loc file just speeds the process up thats all. All the cars for TM1 on TM CarPark come with .loc file. It is easy to do and worth the bother

[stopscopiesme]

ohhh thanks tm2iscrap, I appreciate it. that clears up a lot for me.

[stopscopiesme]

I read the links and I am totally lost. I guess I'll just wait until TM2 decides to load everyones skins. It's still not working and I've sat on some servers racing for a couple hours or so. I don't know what the issue is.