Trying to swap weapon models

[PowderdJedi433]

Somehow I can get the nude mod to work by hiding the original clothing .upk file by renaming it, and then renaming the _BRDF_Mappings.upk version to the original .upk file name.

That said, I want to simply swap weapon appearances. I want my Tommy gun (Colby 1922) to look like the CAP40, I want my Colby RSA to look like the Colby Commander, and I want the OBIR to look like the FFA. Can someone please help me with this? I feel like it should be as simple as swapping the .upk names but when I do that, it makes the affected guns simply disappear, and it also completely wrecks the coloring of every single other gun in the game, changing them to be colored yellow and pink.

Is there something I'm missing? Or what's the problem? Any help with this would be super awesome

Edit: I also posted this somewhere else, and got a response -- "there's a lot of stuff serverside so even if you could do it clientside nobody else would see it so it would be totally pointless" Wrong. I want it to be ONLY clientside so ONLY I can see it. I don't care what anyone else sees. I just want the weapon appearance for myself.

[PowderdJedi433]

There has GOT to be some kind of workaround here. Come on guys, just a little bit of help or ideas would be nice.

[orlaub]

Take a picture of the gun, print it out and tape it to your monitor.

How's that for a workaround?

[PowderdJedi433]

Seriously? Can someone even tell me why this is impossible so I might be able to reverse-engineer it and make it work?

[azndarkblade]

Not impossible. Saw this on APB forums

[PowderdJedi433]

Can't contact him to ask him how he did it. He's got contact lock on his youtube account so I can't even send him a PM. Man I'd kill to figure it out.

[gogogokitty]

idk about anything on how apb works, but could you find your current weapon id and change it to another weapon id?