Originally Posted by firebolty

It's most likely not a problem with your system.
1) Be sure the gradients are activated
2) Go to single player
3) Type in ''/dl Sunny'' (without the quotes)
4) After it says "Download Complete" in the chatlines, type in "/lp 0 Sunny" (without the quotes)
5) If you don't want to do steps 2-4, you can just play a few matches in multiplayer to download your items automatically.

*Either way, your gradients should show up after completing these steps.

Originally Posted by aslask

I recommend using the stable 3.9 version.

Anyway, if you replace the contents of your item.dat with the following code, it should be ok.

#sunny 452514
TEXT 0;0 0 0 0 0 0 
ITEM 0;44 33 0 33 47 33 0 34 0 0 0 34 0 34 47 0 0 0
BODCOL 0;0 0 1 35 2 35 3 0 4 0 5 35 6 0 7 0 8 35 9 0 10 0 11 0 12 0 13 0 14 0 15 0 16 0 17 0 18 0 19 0 20 0
GRADCOL1 0;0 40 1 40 2 40 3 40 4 40 5 40 6 40 7 40 8 40 9 40 10 40 11 40 12 40 13 40 14 40 15 40 16 40 17 40 18 40 19 40 20 40
GRADCOL2 0;0 28 1 28 2 28 3 28 4 28 5 28 6 28 7 28 8 28 9 28 10 28 11 28 12 28 13 28 14 28 15 28 16 28 17 28 18 28 19 28 20 28
FORCOL 0;0 33 1 33 2 33 3 33 4 33 5 33 6 33 7 33 8 33 9 33 10 33 11 33 12 33 13 33 14 33 15 33 16 33 17 33 18 33 19 33 20 0
RELCOL 0;0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 0 10 0 11 0 12 0 13 0 14 0 15 0 16 0 17 0 18 0 19 0 20 0
REPCOL 0;0 33 1 33 2 33 3 33 4 33 5 33 6 33 7 33 8 33 9 33 10 33 11 33 12 33 13 33 14 33 15 33 16 33 17 33 18 33 19 33 20 0
BELTNAME 0;
TRAILCOL 0;0 92 1 92 2 92 3 92
TEXBODY 0; 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BMAPBODY 0; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TEXJOINT 0; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BMAPJOINT 0; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TEXTRAIL 0; 0 0 0 0
TEXGROUND 0; 0
FLAME0 0; 0 100 90 0 1 0 30 200 255 0 10 120 255 255 0 0 0 42 0 0 30 15 16 0 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLAME1 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLAME2 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLAME3 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FLAME4 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Originally Posted by SkulFuk

If you used to have textures make sure you've deleted the texture files in custom.

Originally Posted by aslask

Right. Have you tried deleting the entire custom folder and then play a game or two online? I really can't understand how this isn't working, the only solution I can think of is deleting it, as I suspect the folder might be set to read-only or something that has the same effect.