When place anything in the inventory slot nothing happens and when exit out and go back to game to play, my character starts to freeze every 5 secs. I have to unload the plugin to get it to stop. Can you please help to understand what is happening?

Thank you!

When I change the graphics.itemskintimeout to 900 it stopped lagging, I still don't know how to fix permanenetly. I would also like to now what cfg config I can place it in to make it that number stay the same all the time.

Thank You!

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I switched to 13 and it began laggin again, so I unloaded Skins and Opened Skin Shop and redid the skin and it worked just fine, but before I did, I needed to pickup the box and have it in my inventory. Where the box was when I picked it up showed a ghost box of the skin that I chose for the box through Skins and when I placed the newly skined box down the ghost box disappared.

What ghost box are you even talking about? in any case though, skins does not impact your client in any way - it is skins and only skins, and they are downloaded by the client. Either get rid of some skins, either change them - there is nothing to change or fix in the plugin about lags

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What ghost box are you even talking about? in any case though, skins does not impact your client in any way - it is skins and only skins, and they are downloaded by the client. Either get rid of some skins, either change them - there is nothing to change or fix in the plugin about lags

I'm planing on only keeping 10-15 ids per category, because the lag makes the game unplayable. I have a pretty large list of ids that are provided on uMod and I merged them with the ones from another list, removed doubles and sorted in numeric order from low to high. I might have messed up merging one type with another, i don't think its that, but I think its because of the large amount of ids that are in the config that it gets overwhelmed. I don't know why it happens and I'm not saying its anyones fault, I was just mentioning it in case it helps share the issue. As for the ghost box, I should have took a screen shot, but I did not. It was the weirdest thing I've seen and shouldn't have been possible. If your curious to see my skins.json I can share it and you can look at it to see if you see a mistake then that would be great. Let me know, please...

I tryed looking for the 3rd party tool that was used to check the ids for skins, but don't know where to download it.

If I may add a suggestion or addon to the skins plugin, to add an edit button for the UI inventory, so skins can be deleted at will with buttons and check boxes that appear over the skins image box and it will update the config file after hitting a cofirm remove or delete button. That way its easyer for admins to plug and play removing broken skins not showing up or just customising the skins to keep and remove.

I have a question, besides the known client side download speed or timeout. Also I think someone has said to purge the cache memory once in a while. I guess I'll have to try that also. I just scraped all the skins for SkinShop and planing on adding them to Skins and SkinBox If I purchase it. When I get the list done I'll share it on my discord and here if I have permission to do so. I want to pass on the work that I've been doing to other admins.

If I buy SkinBox, can I expect, because its a paid plugin it will run smoother and cache memory better?
Or is it the same as Skins and just marketed for buying and doesn't have anything else special?

Thank you for your time and helping me understand about this stuff!

There is nothing related to the SERVER itself, server does NOT download anything AT ALL. ONLY client downloads, so it ALL depends on the client. Server (and plugin) only send the NUMBERS which are skin IDs. So, there can also be laggy skins which you should also consider.

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Means no, no amount of money will change the performance unless you change the skins themselves, not the plugin.

Thank You, Misticos!

You gave me alot to think about... Ok then I'll still have SkinBox in my sights.
I think I'm also interested in Skiner Plugin for Spray Cans.

Whats the best way to share the google sheet that I have with all of the ids for the other admins. Export to microsoft excel or OpenOffice and put on dropbox and then link here?

Or is there a site like GetHub or something that makes it easyer?

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I could just share the google sheet link I guess.

One of my goals was to ask a DEV to come to my server, an invatation to check out what I've been upto. I've been working long hours setting up the config files with the knownlege I have gotten from SRTBULL, Wulf, And You. Sometimes spending 24 hours getting everything the way I want it. Lots of Googling the search out of the web. I think of you guys as powerful wizards with the awesome world you created from your minds.

I feel goofy asking in the first place, but I have to start somewhere and have the posibitity of a DEV telling me I don't have what it takes. Anyway if anyone from your DEV team wants to check out my server just PM me and I'll give you the address or name to connect.

Thanks!

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Oh also is there a way to get rid of laggy ID's with some kind of Code or Checker that I can use on them?

I don't think so, just manually going through it and/or removing on request

Thank You!

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I want to share my skins.json, what's the best way to do that on here ?

You could upload it to some cloud storage, but just the json, without zips, and check that it does not include any official skins as it is something Facepunch do not like.

Ok great, stupid question, how can I tell if they are official or not?
I got the ids from skinshop database file and converted to the skins.json file. If that helps with that Question.

The ones on steam workshop are they the official ones or are they public and free to use without issue?, Are those the ones that skinshop grabs for the database.json?

Thanks!

If they are approved/in store, they are official and should not be used