Author Topic: Peer Viewable Client Side Faces and Decals  (Read 1767 times)

Other players really need to be able to view the faces and decals that players have downloaded and are currently wearing. Even if it's implemented in a way that you have to rejoin the server when you change your character's appearance to another custom face/decal to allow others to see it. These aren't very large files, I don't think that it should be a problem to upload them either to Amazon's cloud services or to the server host directly (who could disable custom faces and decals server-side). An argument could be made around the fact that people would start wearing obscene things, though there could be an option to turn off viewing custom faces/decals which would be enabled by default for a vanilla client. The Faces/Decals/Prints section sucks and I really think that a better group of people would form around it if such a thing were to be implemented because it actually legitimizes donning good attire.

Other than the obscene possibility, I can't think of any argument against this. Thoughts?

Agreed. Ban anyone who abuses it.

Agreed. You also did bring up on how some people would abuse it.
I bet if this was put in the game, somebody would wear a naked lady shirt. I can feel it.

Agreed. You also did bring up on how some people would abuse it.
I bet if this was put in the game, somebody would wear a naked lady shirt. I can feel it.
I was thinking more about shock images like goatse etc. It's not a problem as much in Minecraft because the player skins are so low-res.

So what, people have names like
"I LIKE TO WHIP FAT mondayS"
just ban them.

If anyone is afraid of seeing obscene stuff then they could just turn it off in options. "oh but then they miss out on a feature" Yeah, a feature we don't even have yet.

It would be better to have a block content button in the F2 player list, when you select a player to block his content, and if you don't want to see anything you could have an option in the options menu like said below.

If anyone is afraid of seeing obscene stuff then they could just turn it off in options. "oh but then they miss out on a feature" Yeah, a feature we don't even have yet.

I never knew why it was like this, you can have custom skyboxes/prints hosted on the server and clients can download them except you can't do that with faces/torso images. I think it works the same way like the crosshair does.

EDIT: Hold on I just realized something, okay so lets say a server host puts in some custom faces. How would other people be able to equip them, would the image and thumb be downloaded and then shown up in the Avatar Options? Wouldn't that mean that the GUI has to be server sided or something?

I understand now why Badspot never made this feature, you would pick a custom face on one server but then if another server didnt have it you can' t use it, you can't really pick or upload your own faces, only the server host can pick this. It's possible but a lot of things would have to get edited, I think the best way this would work is if it works like in minecraft, images are uploaded to a server however overtime this will occupy a lot of Badspot's disk space.
« Last Edit: March 31, 2013, 10:31:54 PM by Altiris »

I think only faces that are approved on rtb should be allowed to remove any profanity/abuse

EDIT: Hold on I just realized something, okay so lets say a server host puts in some custom faces. How would other people be able to equip them, would the image and thumb be downloaded and then shown up in the Avatar Options? Wouldn't that mean that the GUI has to be server sided or something?

I understand now why Badspot never made this feature, you would pick a custom face on one server but then if another server didnt have it you can' t use it, you can't really pick or upload your own faces, only the server host can pick this. It's possible but a lot of things would have to get edited, I think the best way this would work is if it works like in minecraft, images are uploaded to a server however overtime this will occupy a lot of Badspot's disk space.

No, I don't think that's the idea. You have a decal image on your computer. It is then uploaded to the server you join and displayed to everybody.

I think only faces that are approved on rtb should be allowed to remove any profanity/abuse
The whole point is that they're personal faces.