Very old site updates, just for legacy purposes
23rd of October 2007
Almost 6 months have passed since last update but I just want to say THANKS for the 101000+ visits to this site! Amazing count. I was about to renew
this site as thanks but i also got some bad news. I got cancer so i have to deal with that first. Perhaps
i'll do both at the same.
3rd of March 2007
Since this was requested from me by a fellow called Shaun and it was easy to do, i created somewhat "high-fps" models for those with low-end pc's.
These models contain only low-end graphics for current official models + some commands which make game more friendly for the ones with no-so-good
graphics cards. These models are for client-side only and not to be used on a server like the other models @ this site. Installation
instructions are inside the pack. Just read the README.txt.
Grab the models clicking on this link
PS: Im still retired and wont be doing ANY models for anyone so please stop asking. Reasons you can read below.
4th of February 2007
Maybe this is just caused by the music im listening but it made me write this down. Ive thought about this matter in the past and it seems
that this is right thing for me to do. Therefore, im announcing the following thing for the public.
ICS aka ics aka me, is leaving the Counter-Strike Source / Day of Defeat Source skins scene. Nothing inspires me anymore and due to recent (yesterday)
HDD-failure, im even less interested about doing skins. I had over half of the skins repacked and redone by adding all necessary files for
sv_downloadurl usage. Also proper information for the skins but its almost lost, all of it hence the HDD failure. This really bugs me.
Only thing i have left is the zombie skins packs and default admin skins. I do have all the old files but not the new repacked ones. I
also lost the new site design which i had been working on so all there is left is that CSS admin-skins installation guide old crap. However,
this is not the main reason.
I also got tired of Valve long ago and just been sticking on untill now and their lack of development on CS Source id terrifying.
They dont seem to realise that while it seems that source is getting more players, it really is dying. Latest 17th of January 2007
update just made everything worse due to that cl_interp_ratio crap and players warp more and more these days, hits wont register
properly as the hitboxes lag even more. Maybe i should do a model without hitboxes as a farewell gift, that would be fun but ill skip that.
So, as of now, i dont do any models to Counter-Strike Source or Day of Defeat Source anymore. Dont mail me asking them because it wont happen.
Those who have already mailed me and i havent replied, here is your answer. No. Sorry but i just cant. All my old compiled models which are
still on the site remain here untill someone asks me to remove them (original author) and you can use them as long as you like. Any updates
to this situation will be posted on this site and this will stay online as long as i live.
I want to than you all from your support,complains and such over the past 2 years. Its been fun while it lasted but this really is the
best solution. At the moment there have been 39610 visitors here so i feel this has not been useless work. I think ill keep playing Source sometimes
but not as frequently as before.
See you around! -ICS
This has also been posted into Mani-admin-plugin forum skins section. You can see comments or feedback in there, unless they remove
my post.
26th of January 2007
All disagreements with Multiplayerfiles.com and me have been sorted out. I thank Eagle for contacting me personally so we
could make this happen. Thanks again.
17th of January 2007
In the future, pretty much very soon, i will be releasing an update to this whole site. This means that the pages will change, models get repacked
and changed etc. This also means that some of the old downloadlinks will be disappearing the the future. After the new packs are here, update your
download links (if any). I will give you time, so dont worry, im not gonna make them disappear instantly. I'll give you 3 months. After that,
old download links will stop working at the earliest.
I already updated 1 Guide to new layout, take a look at yourself on admin-installation guide.
15th of January 2007
More servers using the skins added to the font page. Keep em coming! :)
Also a reminder for Windows users
If you are having difficulties on installing the skins, make sure that you dont have read-only permission on the skins
or skins folders. This would make them unusable. This is not a problem in Linux servers where the files get 755 (read and execute) by default.
12th of January 2007
First update for this year, read it fully!
First of all, i added some new servers which people have sent me to the front page which are using the skins. This is a good way to promote
your server (atm 36298 visitors) and give me the information so i know if i should keep the skins thing going or not so if you are using
any of my skins, please tell me about it! :)
Then a small reminder on installing skins. Mani-admin-plugin.com forums and other places, ive seen many posts about how to install skins
and people see big RED ERRORS running around because skins are wrongly installed or players own pc filters the skins out (doesnt allow download)
or some other reason so always, always check everything step by step and every file. Never miss anything.
I also did a new guide concerning the skins to help you people out. You can go dig into it at http://www.ics-base.net/css_guide/
31st of December 2006
Last update for this year..
Looks like the skinpack 3 download link pointed to the wrong pack. This has now been fixed. Happy old year and upcomign new years to everyone.
27th of December 2006
Owner of 193.238.25.200:27015 - Extermination Server, go fuck yourself. Get your own downloadhost. All the models i do for free
and then you are trying to use them as your server and eat my bandwidth?
21st of December 2006
I'm pretty much bored to whole shit that valve gives to the players at the moment. They dont fix known bugs, dont take seriously anything that
community says. Im deeply considering leaving CS Source scene if no updates dont occur in the next 2 months.
Ive been busy, i got stuff to do in real life so i havent really been following my mail. I know that some of you have requested
skins from me but unfortunately i havent been able to do them. I collected up some models and made few server-side ones ready so
here it is, my christmas present for you all: 5 player skins to source. You can get them from Skin packs section.
There are, as always, some preview images next to the pack for you to see what you are getting.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEARS TO YOU ALL! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
16th of December 2006
Its not really my job to be a guy who says whats wrong at valve but i say it anyway. Steam servers were down due to power outage
and now forum mods (yes the valve fanboys at steampowered) inform us that "full service has been restored" which is clearly a lie. When
i am writing this, linux servers wont start as valve has some shitty implementations in the server start process and vac is down.
Servers keep waiting a reply from steam and if they dont get it, server jus hangs. It is yet unknown when the servers will work but
whatever YOU DO, DONT REBOOT your linux server! It wont come back up if you do.
There are no news about this issue at steampowered news section, just a small note on the forums which _minority_ of the people read. Steam
accounts for players work, but on the existing servers, there is no VAC to prevent those who have bene vac banned and have cheats from joining
so its once again christmas for cheaters. I am so getting tired of this shit valve is giving out to the community so i say this wide out
to guys at valve:
- Stop covering up your screw ups, storm or not, there should have been backup servers on co-location.
- Give people more information, its not that hard. A post in the steampowered.com news section isnt that hard to do.
- Start listening the community or it will turn against you.
- Understand our point or go fuck yourself!
This incident is once again driving me away from CSS because its obvious that valve doesnt care about people who run the servers so i just might
disappear from CSS-scene completely in the near future, especially of CSS will have advertisements. Then ill be gone for sure.
7th of December 2006
I've recently packed all 8 default admins skins to a single bzip2 pack to be used for sv_downloadurl. If
you are interested, you can get the pack from the following link in this news post.
There is also a christmas calender which has become a annual tradition. You can see the calender in here:
http://www.ics-base.net/xmas2006/
Download bzip2 packed files from here
2nd of December 2006
Many of people have requested to have more admin-skins available because there is not that many, atleast what i know so
i made a pack of skins people have sent me and ive seen around. Note that i didnt do any of these myself, i just
compiled them to be used on a server and added the admin-text on them. However, credit is given to original creators in the readme.txt inside it.
4 skin, 3 Terror and 1 CT. Have fun!
Link to Skin Packs here
29th of November 2006
Never download any of my models anywhere else from the internet except from THIS WEBSITE!
I never post them to any other sites, not fpsbanana.com, zombiemod.com or any other site.
This is because i want to keep total control of the models. By total control i mean:
- I can always provide proper bandwidth for the people who download them (FAST)
- I can update the models packages accordingly if needed or if there is an error
- You can have proper pack with no-virus guarantee.
- You have the original models unaltered.
- You can be sure no one has altered the models by adding something.
If you have seen my models being posted on sites, please notify admins and get them removed.
If you posted my models into some site, please remove them.
YOU can post a DIRECT DL LINK for the models for some other site BUT note that if i need to update the model,
i will remove the old package and link stops working. I usually have no need to update old files so usually link
should work. According to weblogs, some people have already posted links to their clan forums which is fine.
However, adding whole package to be downloaded from other website IS NOT OK! Chances are, you might get a virus package by getting these from someplace else. I dont want to risk that which
makes me to do this notification.
As a summary: Its safe to download models directly from the servers. Its not safe to get them anywhere else than this site on internet.
24th of November 2006
There seem to have been some problem in predator skin on linux servers. Funny thing is that i tested the skin
with linux server myself. I seem to have renamed to files myself on my server but forgot to update the filenames
so if you downloaded the predator.rar before, replace all your previous files with these and
update your material listing with the one in the textfile.
12th of November 2006
There has been few issues i like to clear out.
Some people think that they can use my webhosts as their sv_downloadurl on their servers. Doesnt work - dont bother even try.
Your attemps have been logged:
81.205.39.120:27016
82.73.78.93:27016
82.139.94.146:27015
I play on css-servers under the name ics. I play mostly on 3 finnish servers but occasionally i play outside
of finland also. If you see me (someone using the name ics) playing, I NEVER ASK ANYTHING or demand anything. Most likely the person YOU see using the name ics
IS NOT ME! Never give anything, especially server admin access to anyone that you do not know very well. There isnt any backdoor
or crash bugs in skins. No one can make the server crash with them unless you as a server admin install them wrong and server wont start.
26th of October 2006
I finally updated skinpack_2 with the textfile which now says where to put the skins and so on.
Just redownload the pack and you get a txt-file along with it, i promise! I also reskinned Predaaators
predator model and this can be seen in action at routteri.ath.cx:27025. Go see. :)
22nd of October 2006
I long was wondering when Predaator would make a predator skin. Well he did one now, i added some blood
and changed it a bit and put in on the zombieserver. You can also get that from here
30th of September 2006
Looks like its happy day for zombie skin fans. 2 new zombie skins released. The other is over 8 motnhs old but upon request i
added it for public download. The other, grey one is fresh new. Link to special skins here
29th of September 2006
I couldnt get a vision for the female zombie so i just let it go but i will release the other which is been ready for 1,5 months so here it is
and you can get that from the special skins. Link to specials here
27th of September 2006
Ok, sorry for not updating this website but as a short summary, heres the thing:
- Skins work once again after mani-admin update RC2-6. Use it or later to get skins working again. Follow up mani-admin-plugin forums for more
info or if you use skins with some other mod which can set them, like zombiemod, look up updates from their site. Not from here.
There was nothing wrong on the skins and there never will be unless valve brokes all their default models in the game again. All these skins work perfectly
and they have been tested. Do NOT mail me about something being broken. I've sicken tired of replying all mails asking for help with skins so i just simply stopped. Dont bother mailing
me if your problem is about the skins not working or you cant install them. There is a reason for the files inside which clearly says what to put where to make them work.
I do read my mail, i dont reply always, but i do read them and sometimes i even forgot to reply.
Now some good news. Ive been working on a female zombie and 1 other one. It appears that somehow the bad guys killed Lara from the tombraider and she has risen up from the grave. I have been on my test server testing
it for a long time. Many people have requested it so i will be releasing it at the same time as i get to finish the other female zombie i have been doing.
Wait for them, ill try to release them at next weekend. Maybe friday if im on a mood.
Thanks for your support, i will continue doing more models after these 2 female zombies.
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Valves great update on 24th of August broke almost ALL source plugins including mani-admin-plugin. (THANK YOU VALVE!) Its useless to say that the plugins would not break if they would use VALVEs API which is VERY limited and pretty much useless and therefore plugin makers need go to around their restrictions with hacks and VALVE once again broke all of these. So what does this means? Skins were broken since the method of setting them does not work anymore. Waiting for new WORKING mani-admin version which would fix the problem but no luck yet, lets wait what Mani can think up. In the meanwhile, mani-admin-plugin has been hacked 4 times so i'd change to another hosting. There will be a note here when there is a working way to get skins working. In the meantime, sorry, i cant fix the issue. |
02.07.2006
New Zombie skin. Its on special skins. I cannot do skins for you right now, even if you request. I have my hands full of work.
25.06.2006
I've been able to compile skins for some time now, like 3 weeks. Reason why i havent updated this site is, that i wanted to be alone and get over the workload etc. Now, with this update i will introduce to you 4 soccer skins and 1 real female skin for counter-strike source! I also added Hellknight to Special skins.
Have fun!
26.05.2006
IMPORTANT!
Valves latest update to counter-strike source once again broke the whole compiling method we modelers used. Now models cannot be compiled directly. Untill i or someone else will figure out how to go around the problem Valve created, no more new models for anyone. Pass all complaints to Valve's direction.Shit happens
13.05.2006
Hm, another skin, zombielunatic, which had a problem. If you are using it and experiencing any problems, re-download the package now. Instructions how to fix the skin are in the package.
Sorry :-/
11.05.2006
Relocated all downloads to another server due to diskspace limitations. If you cant download something or link is broken, notify me and i will fix it.
Latest update 22.04.2006
Optimized 2 old admin-skins to smaller filesize upon request. Here you go Boom :)
21.04.2006
What is skinpacks-section without another skinpack.. so i added 1 more. 5 skins in a pack!
17.04.2006
Added skinpacks section. I will be packing up some of the old and new skins ive done in the past week. Have fun.
16.04.2006
There was a slight problem with the latest admin skins for valves new gsg9 & arctic models and it has been fixed now. Also link for t_rowena was broken. Fixed
13.04.2006
READ THIS IF YOU E-MAILED ME!
I kind of feel like valve is shitting us to the face. They screwed up the skins once again. First they want custom models to be on by cvar (cl_minmodels 1) and then the custom skins do not work when that is used as 1. Now that setting needs to be 0 to get them work. Also valves 2 latest updates lifted up the cpu so happy days with CS source coming up to your homes. Thanks valve for screwing up the players.
Anyway, i feel stressed up and yes, you who bombed my mailbox with 50+ requests asking loads of skins which would take weeks to make, are one reason for that. I dont get the fun-feeling when i do the skins anymore so im taking a break. You can send more requests but i will not do them unless i feel like it. I havent replied to mails but i will do it after this evening. All of you will propably get "No" as an answer and for that, i am sorry. I just have to stop somewhere and the point is here.
This does not mean that i quit - i just take a break. Thanks for understanding. When i am ready, i will announce here the possible conditions and so on.
PS: as a "latest gift" (not last!), I did the admin-skins for new models, you can grab them admin skins section.
02.04.2006
I kinda bumped into this somewhat ready skeleton for female model to cs:source so i did a female skin using it. You can find it in the normal skins area. Read the READ_THIS_f.txt for more info inside the package. I'm still ont happy with the skin, i cant do proper face for example (i know, hair sucks)
18.03.2006
Ok, yet another "new" skin. Actually this is like 2 months old but i decided to share it with everyone. You can find it in the normal skins area.
17.03.2006
I published new skin, first sas i have over here. It's on normal skins page. I moved to a new image system, instead of 2 back & front image of the skin, you get the hilights of the skin in 1 large image. I will propably do 2-3 more skins this weekend, or maybe not.
11.03.2006
Ok, i've been idiot when i did the Admin-skins for guerilla & gign. I added useless textures into the package when i could have used teh default ones. If you are using the admin-skins, download the new package and see how just simply overwriting 3 files you can reduce the download amount by 66%!
Sorry for my mistake :(
09.03.2006
What im trying to do is, to make this originally hostage-skin into cs-source compatible. I got it fully working but it looks funny since it uses hl2 skeleton & hitboxes instead of source. If anyone out there is willing to help me with this, please contact me. I would do it myself but the milkshape evaluation period is passed and i really dont have money to buy it or any other program either and only editing the qc and the other files really does not pay...
Last update 02.03.2006
I made ADMIN-skins from the new ct_sas & t_leet models. They can be found from admin-skins page on Skins-section. Enjoy!
25.02.2006
Added fixed versions from L.Duke's admin skins for all to download. These make no errors to the console. Also added "new" skin, old terrorist which was before the t_phoenix model. Divided the skins page to 3 sections, normal skins, admin skins and special skins. More easier to view now.
Skins guide is also on hold. I removed the download link since i dont support the old guide anymore. You can compile models with it but its hard to use. The guide is still available to dowload, if someone needs it and knows the link.
05.02.2006
Looks like someone is pretending to have something that i did intruduced by his own work. They arent the best ones i've done but still.
Boycott these:
http://www.fpsbanana.com/?section=viewitem.skins.skins.main.8825
http://www.fpsbanana.com/?section=viewitem.skins.skins.main.8841
I made these models 4th of November -05 and this guy posted them in the last 24h. Too bad this is happening. I never post my skins into fpsbanana. Period.
I've also put the skin guide on hold. I have no interest to update it at the moment, if at all.
16.01.2006
Skins making guide is little outdated, not so clearly readable, too technical and had some stuff i didnt like + filesize would go too big if i would have added everything in it which i planted to do. I will write a new one since clearly there is need for this kind of stuff. As of now, this current guide will be online untill new is ready. I will do that when i have time and interest.
In the meantime, I made a new skin which is under test. A GIGN skin which i swore never to do - but i reversed my decicion since the stupid glass can be removed. So, the new skin will be FBI Swat GIGN without the glass. Here's a preview
** UPDATE **
Enabled the guide again..
10.01.2006
New skin, default GIGN without the stupid large Plex/Vizor/glass. Props for Pilouk, he made this possible. Apparently there are problems in the clientside skins, but the server-side versions seems to work fine.
I'm also working on the burned zombie, it doesnt work on CT-side, but the other zombies will. Trying to make the burned guy work on CT also, when i have time.
07.01.2006
Updated the skin "zombieburned" to have correct copyright information.
05.01.2006
First update for this year, a bugfix for one of the skins. FBI-CT was faulty (the guy who has FBI written on his back). The vizor file was missing. Thanks for Thelaw for reminding me and sorry to mom, i should have done this fix sooner. Those of you who have the v2 version from the FBI-skin, you can just download this patch to fix the skin. Instructions are inside. http://www.ics-base.net/css_skins/skins/fbi_ct_v2-patch.rar
25.12.2005
Mani and Beetle released new versions from their admin-plugins. Both force the 3 clientside commands to clients which they need to see custom models now on. These will not effect any changed on any other server than the ones that use custom skins. Update to the recent version to get the skins show to all users or use matties eventscripts to force cl_minmodels 1, cl_min_t 4 and cl_min_ct 4 to players. Otherwise they cannot see custom skins unless they have these settings.
Valve also updated the SourceSDK and files were moved and/or deleted from the ~/sourcesdk/bin and your cstrike dir. This means that you cant compile skins unless you do the changes which i wrote to the latest version of my skins compiling guide (v2.3). Download it from Skins page if you have problems with compiling.
*UPDATE*
Addition to previous. Valve seem to have broken the Model Viewer with the SDK-update. It will complain some error but you can get it open if you do the fixes which i wrote into the compiling guide. However, you cannot load new models. Waiting for valve to fix this...
*UPDATE 2*
I've updated the guide. Seems that the source sdk beta model viewer works ok while the official one isnt. Instructions how to update to beta are in the guide. Thank you valve, you once again wasted 2 hours of my time.
*UPDATE 3*
I Give up. Using Valves Source SDK beta will break the compiling process but the model viewer seems to work. Funny how they can screw up everything in a single moment. Updated the guide again. You can compile models if you follow it, but the model viewer doesnt work. Valve needs to fix it.
22.12.2005
Problems continue. Latest Valve update to Source broke down some servers and they cannot use custom skins. I fixed the Guerilla resource file path which was referring to GIGN. RE-download the admin-skin pack if you had problems and copy the right paths from the txt-file to your ~/skins/admin_t/t_guerilla_admin.txt file.
PS: There whould be a new mani release today so keep looking at it.
21.12.2005
Latest VALVE update to Counter-Strike Source broke all skin-choosers. Currently when i am writing this, there is no way to use custom models! I believe Mani and other admin-plugin maintainers or people who are dealing with skins will make up a solution. Untill then, bare with us (me). I also made Admin-skins for the new Valve models, GIGN and Guerilla. Once again they are in Skins-page.
*UPDATE*
Skin choosers seem to work again. No one did nothing - or did valve do a hidden steam-update which does not force models on anymore and lets people use custom ones? I say yes.
15.12.2005
Added Desert CT skin, its on the Skins page.
06.12.2005
Added new zombie, burned one. Scroll the bottom of the skins page to see it.
08.11.2005
Updated the package fin_m91 due to few errors in txt-file. The instructions were pointing into public_ct dir while it should have been admin_ct. Thanks to "noskillhere" for notifying me.
04.11.2005
Added 2 new skins in same package, female versions from the default Terrorist & Counter-Terrorist skins. Enjoy.
02.11.2005
Added new skin for special mods like zombiehorde. It was exclusively made for Pelipurkki.net community before this public release. CT zombie aka zombielunatic. Its on Skins page. Down there somewhere.
30.10.2005
Added paypal-button to the website. Feel free to donate if you like the stuff i do. This website also costs money. I also decited to make custom skins for those who like to have one. If i get too many offers, i pick which ones i will do. You will be notified in either case.
25.10.2005
Forgot few things from trhe guide, added them. Download again if you got this guide yesterday.
24.10.2005
Totally re-wrote the skin making guide. Added the necessary software + custom (default) graphics and made the guide more simple and informative. Take a look at skins section for updated package.
18.10.2005
New skin added yesterday updated because there was a typo in the path. The skin package was updated, filename remains the same. If you downloaded this skin at 17th day, you dont need to re-download the skin. Just open the package, to go cstrike-folder and you will see material and models folders. the material folders should have been named to materials. Just add s.
My mistake, sorry.
17.10.2005
New skin added.
15.10.2005
New skins added + fixed all models due to missed bonemerge error (ValveBiped.Bip01_L_Hand). This occured while using duals only. Not anymore.
09.10.2005
Skins compiling guide added.
08.10.2005
New skin added.
01.10.2005
New skins added.