Suggestion for custom skins.

[midnightheart]

I was reading posts on various forums about the disabled custom skins and people asking why they were removed.
An employee answered that lots of players complained about people making custom skins that were near invisible and really hard to see. This is completely understandable and reasonable.

My suggestion is to have the lights that are on your armor be their own separate thing and be placed on all models always. Meaning that if someone were to make a completely black or camo skin then separate armor light file would be place on the model. This way players would be able to see the other player no matter what the skin was. As long as the lights were placed appropriately so that no matter what angle you saw the player from you could see their outline from the bright lights. You could even have the lights produce a an aura around the player allowing for perfect sight on no matter what.

I feel this would make those who want custom skins and to show them off happy. And it would also keep models perfectly visible. Keeping players happy who felt exploited and also making it so custom skins could be tournament legal.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope that it will be considered.

~Sincerely midnightheart.

[nunphix]

I agree. I love the concept of custom skins that has been adapted on Shootmania, however I was disappointed when I heard they were disabled for peer 2 peer.

I like the idea of having a separate texture for the model that is not editable and static to all male/female skins. Currently I have seen a type of light/aura around player models in game that matches their lights already, not sure if that is based on the game or if its actually implemented on all player models.

It might take a bit of time but being that this is in beta it might be good to handle this now, I know that the customization is a key point for your advertising. Possibly we can even have an option in settings to change the color of our lights for free for all matches to be specific.

Another idea on this would perhaps be to have an approved list of skins on the Shootmania site. That would avoid any exploitative skins.

Hope that helps!

Looking forward to seeing how/if this turns out.
-nunphix

[dreammyw0w]

I think they should make it like in trackmania with the cars.

You can color your skin ( ingame )

For example:

Red pants , blue short , black sleeves etc etc.
+Add a custom image on the shield on ur back. (this image you would have to design urself in gimp or PS, save as jpeg with the right dimensions and then upload to the game.)
+Add a custom image on the patches on the sleeves.( "" "" "" )
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Awesome skin

This , imo , would be so awesome and is really missing in this game.

[nunphix]

I think they should make it like in trackmania with the cars.

You can color your skin ( ingame )

For example:

Red pants , blue short , black sleeves etc etc.
+Add a custom image on the shield on ur back. (this image you would have to design urself in gimp or PS, save as jpeg with the right dimensions and then upload to the game.)
+Add a custom image on the patches on the sleeves.( "" "" "" )
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Awesome skin

This , imo , would be so awesome and is really missing in this game.

Awesome idea! Especially since they are more familiar with that. Maybe they can even look into having stock images possibly achieved through skill like Call of duty.