These custom Counter-Strike skins look hot

February 7th, 2011

As good as Counter-Strike: Source is, it's always been lacking player customization. Thank heavens for the thousands of skin mods, as highlighted by PC Gamer today:

"Installing player skins sounds more complicated than it is. It’s essentially a matter of dropping the mod file into the right place. Here’s how to do it. Head into your Counter-Strike: Source player file directory, normally located here: C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppsCounter-Strike: Source cstrikematerialsmodelsplayer. Within the ‘player’ file, create eight empty files with the following names, one for each of the terrorist and counter-terrorist models: ct_gign, ct_gsg9, ct_sas, ct_urban, t_arctic, t_guerilla, t_leet, and t_phoenix. When you download and unzip a skin, it’s likely that you’ll see a ‘materials’, ‘player’ or ‘model’ file, drag and drop these into your Counter-Strike: Source materials folder to merge the files and install the skin. With skins like the Death Avenger, you’ll get a t_arctic file, replace the t_arctic file you’ve created with the new one and you’re away."

For more details on installing and downloading player skins, including two of my favorites, Bank Robber and Tactical CT, check out Game Banana.

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