big al said:any news on a face server
not about release date for kitserver that would support that.
But i did do some research for this and figured out that it's not possible to insert new face files as new items in the AFS, because the game seems to use file ordinals instead of file names. In other words, when it loads a file from AFS, it does it like this: "give me item #6", instead of "give me item, named ball08tex.bin". So, if a new item gets inserted into the AFS - even if the AFS structure remains correct - the game eventually crashes as the #X no longer corresponds to the same file as before. It seems that the only way you can add new files to the AFS is by adding them at the end - so that file ordinals of all original files stay the same. That unfortunately doesn't help with extra faces. So, looks like for the face server, the face BINs will live outside of AFS - just like kits for kitserver.