Rationale

The Skins section of cs-maps was conceived in order to provide accessible, easy to use, tested skins. Having downloaded a few skins in the past I noticed that they were all zipped in different ways. Here they have been recompiled such that you only have to unzip to your c: drive [if you installed Half-Life somewhere other than c: or in a non-standard fashion then you can figure it out for yourself]. A further bonus is not having to go through half-a-dozen links to reach a file location. All skins have been run on my machine and any that I was not happy with do not appear on the website.

Backup

I recommend that you backup your cstrike directory before trying any skins. This means that you can replace some or all of your old skins after trying some new ones. A regular cstrike folder with maybe a few extra maps will zip down to about 90 Meg.

Instructions

Most skins can be simply extracted to c: and will overwrite the old files. However, some skins include a modification to the hud.txt file [stored in c:\SIERRA\Half-Life\cstrike\sprites] and a little more effort is required to install them. There are instructions in each zipped skin on how to install but essentially you open the hud.txt file and edit the relevant line [you did make a backup first didn't you? There is a nice clean hud.txt here if you need it]
Skins which require a hud modification are marked thus [*hud]

Notes

If you use a skin which employs a suppressor where the original weapon was not silenced - other people not using the same skin can still hear you shooting while you can not hear them firing at you!

AK47

A great gun. Make sure the loudest end is pointing away from you.
I have yet to see a better skin for this weapon. It will have to be a high resolution version because to make any significant changes would be sacrilege. If you have a hi-resolution skin for the AK - send it my way!

Best regards

Aguillar