Road Rash

Every slam leaves its mark. Bail often enough and your skater starts to show it: first road dust and a graze on the knee you keep landing on, then real scrapes and bruises, and in the end raw wounds on knees, elbows and knuckles, a black eye, and blood running down the shin. The marks build up over the session and never get smaller until you heal.

This pack holds the wounds, 45 see-through skin items in 3 designs, and Road Rash itself: a sandboxed ReSkate plugin (the plugin folder, no DLL) that counts your bails and puts the wounds on your skater.

The injury report (new in 1.1.0)

Road Rash's own window: a hospital's look at your session of slams. Open it from the menu's PLUGINS section (Road Rash > OPEN THE INJURY REPORT), with Ctrl+R while you skate, or with roadrash show. A heart monitor beats along its top, faster the worse you are.

• PATIENT: a crash test dummy with every mark this session left on it, patched up as a nurse would: a plaster on a moderate wound, gauze with the blood coming through on a severe one. A lens on each knee, elbow and the face shows the real wound, and a taped-on card beside every part tags it MINOR, MODERATE or SEVERE. Beside it the patient chart on its clipboard: your bails this session as they count up, the stage you are at (clean, dusty, scraped, raw, wrecked), the vitals monitor with your heart rate and pain on the faces scale, which side took more falls, what comes next and in how many bails, your bails of all time and the times you healed. Heal with one press.
• WOUNDS: every stage of every wound, big and taped to the chart: knees, elbows and the face, in all three designs (scrapes, gravel rash, cuts), on light, mid or dark skin, with or without blood.
• SETTINGS: Road Rash on or off, fresh blood, wounds over your tattoos, and a jump to any stage (10, 14, 20 or 24 bails) to see it on your skater.
• THEMES: six looks for the whole window: Asphalt (blood running down from the top), Blood Bank (it drips all the way to the floor), Emergency Room, Surgery, First Aid and X-Ray.

Mouse or controller: click, or LB / RB for the tabs, the D-pad to move, B to close. The window moves by its top bar.

Road Rash is in the pack

Road Rash is leaving ReSkate's built-in features, so this pack carries it as a ReSkate plugin, ported by ReSkate's developer.

• ReSkate with plugins: Road Rash is on from the start; everything is in the injury report. In the console: roadrash 0|1, roadrash show, roadrash heal, roadrash bails 20, roadrash blood 0|1, roadrash tattoos 0|1 (road rash while your ReSkate still has a Road Rash of its own).
• ReSkate 2.1.x and older: nothing changes. Its built-in Road Rash uses these items as before, with the settings below.

What you need

A ReSkate with plugins (Road Rash then comes from this pack), or a ReSkate version that has Road Rash built in. You can tell the built-in one by the Road Rash switch in Mod Options > Player. If you have neither, update ReSkate: without it the items are installed but nothing puts them on.

What happens

• 10 bails: the first marks, on the side you fell on most. Dust, a small graze, a faint bruise. The leg first, the arm one bail later.
• 14 bails: bigger: a real scrape with scratches in it, a second one further down, bruises round it. The other side starts.
• 20 bails: the worst: raw wounds on the knee and down the shin, on the elbow, the forearm and the back of the hand, large bruises, and a bruised face. Four bails later the face gets worse too (a black eye).
• Which side: the side whose arm and leg hit the ground hardest. A flat fall counts half for each side.
• Three designs: scrapes, gravel rash and cuts. Every arm, every leg and the face draws one of them at random, so two sessions do not look the same.
• Blood: the worst wounds bleed. Switch it off and they are dry, with scabs.
• Clean again: when you close the game, or with Heal Road Rash.

It works on every skin tone and on any skater. The marks are on the skin, so clothes cover them: a knee under long trousers shows nothing.

Install

Install with the mod manager. To install by hand, extract the zip into its own folder inside Skate\Mods.

Settings

In Mod Options > Player:

Setting	Default	What it does
Road Rash	on	off = the marks go and the count starts again
Road Rash blood	on	off = no fresh blood: the worst wounds are dry and scabbed
Heal Road Rash		all marks off, the count back to zero, new designs drawn

The same from ReSkate's console, plus two more:

Command	What it does
roadrash 0 / roadrash 1	Road Rash off or on
roadrashblood 0 / roadrashblood 1	the blood switch
roadrash heal	heal
roadrashtattoos 1	the wounds may take the place of your own tattoos and moles until you heal (default 0: they stay)
roadrash bails 20	set the count, to see a stage at once

Your choices are saved with your profile.

If nothing shows

• Not enough bails yet. Nothing shows before the tenth. Type roadrash bails 20 in the console to check that it works.
• Clothes cover the marks. Try shorts and a T-shirt.
• Your own tattoos are in the way. An arm or leg that wears one of your tattoo items keeps the tattoo (the game has one tattoo layer per arm and leg). Type roadrashtattoos 1 if you want wounds there. The same goes for the face if you wear a moles item.
• This pack is switched off in ReSkate's mod list.
• No Road Rash switch in Mod Options > Player. Your ReSkate does not have the feature yet: update it.

Good to know

• Nothing is saved to your skater. The marks are put on while you play. Your saved look is not touched.
• Menus. While a game menu is open the marks are off, so the outfit you pick there goes on your skater as usual. They come back about a second after you close the menu.
• The wounds are items. The pack adds them to the game's tattoo list and moles list under names that start with "RoadRash". You do not need to pick them; ReSkate does that.
• No blood on clothes. The game has no layer to paint on clothing, so the wounds are on skin only.
• The neck stays clean. Blood from the chin stops under the jaw, where the face layer of the game ends.
• Other players. What other players see of your wounds in multiplayer has not been tested.

Changes

• 1.1.0 - The injury report: Road Rash's own window, done up like a hospital, with your skater's marks on a bandaged crash test dummy, a patient chart with vitals, every stage of every wound on any skin, the settings, a jump to any stage and six themes. Your bails of all time and the times you healed are kept. Ctrl+R or roadrash show opens it.
• 1.0.1 - Road Rash itself is in the pack now, as a ReSkate plugin (ported by ReSkate's developer), for the ReSkate releases that no longer have it built in. Same 45 items.
• 1.0.0 - first release, 45 items in 3 designs

Credits

Made by Fourth Studio with ReSkate Studio.

Plugin port by ReSkate's developer.