I know there is a way to force team skins, but can you force by player id?

http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?player-skins

Using latest ezquake

Trying to do make a video and sometimes it just uses the base 24 bit skin instead of the team colors (red or blue)

enemyforceskins 2

http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/docs/?vars-multiplayer#enemyforceskins

what is the different between that and teamforceskins 2 then?

spectating you aren't on a team so I guess you would need to have both on "2"

yep

I wish you could type something like forceskin red.png user id

but that did work after naming a skin for each id.

you can see the video I uploaded to youtube here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Y68xG2zXU&fmt=22