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Posted 05 August 2012 - 03:59 PM

We've been discussing among silEnT dev team members one thing for some time and we don't know whether we should implement this thing or not. That's why I start this thread to ask you - players - if you would like that to be implemented.
The idea is to allow players to have avatars that would be displayed in game.
Players/clients would be given possibility to specify an avatar, the img that could be used instead their name in different places, for example in the players list or over player's head, like the fire team icon but personal. Or when the player gets killed also, the players avatar could be used in addition to displayed name.
That's the main concept. Please share your opinions.
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 04:28 PM

My only concern is if this would cause even bigger database sizes for largely populated servers.. But of course I'm sure it would be up to the server manager / owner to determine whether or not to use the feature.
How would we chose the image? Would it be an image on the clients machines, where the path to the image is defined by a client-side cvar? Not sure how you'd implement it but it'd be good to know..
All in all it's a nice idea though

Suggestions:
I may suggest having a command to remove avatars, and even a ACL option to allow/disallow avatars per-user. Some people might abuse it, or put hateful imagery up such as swastikas etc, which my clan for example, would not tollerate.
Chuck
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 04:56 PM

The other thing is that avatars would be retrieved and stored client side so there would be no impact on the db size.
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 05:17 PM

Edited by Dragon, 05 August 2012 - 05:17 PM.
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Posted 05 August 2012 - 05:51 PM

Regarding abusing of the images you are right, some server avatar ban cmd should be available.
I think just a flag in admin.db to allow avatars would be fine.. That way you can restrict it to certain level players only, AND just make a command (maybe LUA?) which removes (or adds) that flag from the user specifically - such as !plavatar [player] [1/0].
The other thing is that avatars would be retrieved and stored client side so there would be no impact on the db size.
Ok I hoped that would be the case

Edited by Chuckun, 05 August 2012 - 05:51 PM.
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Posted 06 August 2012 - 05:45 AM

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Posted 06 August 2012 - 07:55 PM

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Posted 09 September 2012 - 06:52 PM

As cool as it sounds I don't think stuff like this is a good idea - In my opinion (of course it's just an opinion since it's really not my place to say) SilEnT should be optimised for performance over things like this

Edited by Chuckun, 09 September 2012 - 06:52 PM.
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Posted 10 September 2012 - 10:02 AM

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 11:34 AM

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 11:01 PM

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Posted 11 September 2012 - 11:34 PM

I have mixed feelings about it, it sounds like fun but it could be used to run hacks since it will access a client-side file that the server owner doesn't have control over. It would be like running a non-pure server.
Thanks to you guys we are able to make up the decision which is:
we won't implement avatars!

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Posted 12 September 2012 - 03:31 PM

The goal of this poll and thread was to gather more opinions on the subject so we could consider more points of view. Thanks to you guys we are able to make up the decision which is:
we won't implement avatars!
thank you for that

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 03:00 PM

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Posted 13 September 2012 - 07:26 PM

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Posted 20 July 2013 - 04:49 PM

all the way, but the idea with the img url sounds funny .. you could do it like this ... in your silent/profile you would
put in a jpg/png image and rename it to silavt.png/jpg or something like that... but i like the idea
- hellreturn likes this
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Posted 21 July 2013 - 12:50 PM

The avatars over players's head is useless imo but avatars on players's helmet, medpack, weapons instead of original icons, class levels etc, like in COD:BO are really funny but it's a lot of work with render I guess. To prevent abusing it, the avatars could be selected in such a limbo menu and admins can upload additionals avatars to their servers by pk3 packs.
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Posted 21 July 2013 - 02:49 PM

I like that idea sol, but like you said, it's a lot to render and I don't really think it would be worth it.
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