When I play teams with bots all the skins are the same. I've tried changing the enemy skin, top and bottom color, and I'm at my wit's end. What am I doing wrong?

First of all; make sure you have the correct team set by using the "team" command. Typing "team blue" in console will make you join the blue team for example. You probably already did this, but just to be sure.

After that you have two main options to decide what the enemies are going to look like; using brightskins or using the original skins. 99% of the players nowadays probably use brightskins. You control what brightskins to use with the "teamskin" and "enemyskin" commands. By just typing those commands in console you can see what skins are currently used and if i remember correctly it's "2_red" for teammates and "2_white" for enemies. There are probably more brightskins available in nQuake, you just have to figure out their names (a good guess is "2_green" if that exists )

If you don't want to use brightskins then you can set "enemyskin off" and "teamskin off" - then you can control the colors of the players with the "enemycolor" and "teamcolor" commands instead. "enemycolor 4 3" gives a red torso and brown pants for your enemies for example.

Hope it helps somewhat and if you want to dig more on your own then don't forget that there's the ezQuake manual available where there are chapters on the player skins topic.

Good luck, and welcome to the QuakeWorld.nu forum btw!

It is also possible that "gl_nocolors" is enabled, which would strip team mates and enemies alike of their colours and skins. Make sure it is set to 0.

it was gl_nocolors. thanks guys