Hall of Meat for Skate 4

The nostalgic one. Skate 3's Hall of Meat, back in skate. through ReSkate, rebuilt from Skate 3's own files. Crash, and the picture closes in to a dark, grainy blue-grey spotlight while your skeleton shows through the body: hurt bones glow orange, breaks burn red and the game drops into slow motion, while Skate 3's Thrasher score panel counts your bail the way Skate 3 did.

What's in it

• X-ray skeleton drawn with Skate 3's own bone meshes and bone texture, on the ragdoll from the moment you crash until you get back up.
• Skate 3's orange glow: bones heat from white to orange as they're hurt; breaks burn red-orange.
• Skate 3's damage model: 25 body parts, each with up to six damage levels from bruised to broken, with Skate 3's points and impact thresholds, and hits that spread to connected parts.
• Skate 3's score graphs for bail time, drop, air, speed and rotation, and its HUD rules for when each row appears.
• Skate 3's car bonus: 2,000 for every car that takes you out, with its own chip.
• Broken-bone slow motion with Skate 3's slow-motion sound, and red screen edges on a break (single player only; never in multiplayer).
• Skate 3's bone-crunch sounds, one for every new injury.
• The HoM look: Skate 3's colour matrix on the game picture, spotlight, black corners and film grain.
• Each map's best bail, saved with your profile (NEW BEST / BEST under the score).
• Triggers on every crash, on or off the board. Glides, hippy jumps and plants don't count.
• Works in multiplayer sessions (the slow motion stays single player).

Requirements

• A ReSkate with Skate 3 Hall of Meat built in. This package holds Skate 3's art, meshes and sounds; the code that draws them is part of ReSkate itself. It is on its way into official ReSkate (https://github.com/Dingo-Shenanigans/ReSkate/pull/150): once your ReSkate has it, installing this package is all you need. To check, type hom status in the console (~); if ReSkate doesn't know the command, your ReSkate doesn't have it yet.
• Until then, use the ReSkate build that has it: get ReSkate-HallOfMeat-<version>.zip from https://github.com/layton-brewer/Hall-Of-Meat-for-Skate-4/releases/latest and copy ReSkateLauncher.exe and ReSkate.dll beside Skate.exe. It is official ReSkate v2.0.1 plus Hall of Meat, so multiplayer works with everyone on 2.0.1.
• ReSkate 2.0 has its own, separate Hall of Meat (Custom Stuff > Player > Hall of Meat). Leave that one off to see this one; this one steps aside whenever it is on.

Install

1. Close the game.
2. ReSkate with Skate 3 Hall of Meat (skip once official ReSkate ships it, see Requirements): download ReSkate-HallOfMeat-<version>.zip from https://github.com/layton-brewer/Hall-Of-Meat-for-Skate-4/releases/latest, and copy ReSkateLauncher.exe and ReSkate.dll from it into your skate. folder (where Skate.exe is), replacing the ones there. Steam: right-click skate. > Manage > Browse local files.
3. This package: in the ReSkate launcher, open MODS, find Hall of Meat and install it (or drag this zip onto the MODS page). Make sure it is switched on.
4. Start the game with ReSkateLauncher.exe. In game, keep ReSkate's own Hall of Meat off (Custom Stuff > Player > Hall of Meat).
5. Bail. Hard.

To switch it off, turn the package off in the MODS tab (in game: Insert > MODS).

Console (~)

• hom status: shows it is running, and your best bail.
• hom lead <ms>: pulls the X-ray ahead if the bones ever trail the body on your machine (saved).

Troubleshooting

• Nothing on a crash: type hom status. Unknown command: your ReSkate has no Skate 3 Hall of Meat yet (step 2). If it answers, check this package is installed and switched on (step 3), and that ReSkate's own Hall of Meat is off (step 4).
• No bone sounds: the game found no sound output device; plug one in and they start on their own.
• It went back to normal after a ReSkate update: the official launcher puts back the official ReSkate.dll. Redo step 2 until official ReSkate includes it.

Credits

Hall of Meat, its art, meshes and sounds are from Skate 3 by EA Black Box. Thrasher is a trademark of High Speed Productions. This is a fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by EA.