probably is

yeah my knowledge ends at vtfs sounds and scripts
that all sounds pretty complicated

There's this texture family line in the qc, maybe you can work with that and maybe something to make them cycle randomly. the qc file is in the decompiled mdl file, if you didn't know

I once tried to implement that one rng thing from l4d2, the one Ellie wrote, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. I don't really know much about vmts anyway. JimmyElPelado helped me with this one, and I think I was able to find it on google too, but it turns out it's not rng. It just cycles through skins. Thanks though, if I ever figure out how to make the skins not change on death and also when the game lags, apparently, then I'll let you know

nice mod i wish i knew how to make rng work with mine
i hope you eventually find a fix to the skins changing on death