Custom user skin colors?

[Trackmaniack]

Hey all, I came up with this idea fairly soon after Maniaplanet first hit the scene...but now that the beta of ShootMania is (hopefully) a year or so away, maybe I can suggest this again, see what you all think.

One of the big points of Trackmania is user customizability, right? In particular, painting your own skin just the way you like it. Well, here's a thought of taking that to the next level in Shootmania. At least, if there are vehicles. When a player sees a capturable vehicle on the map and grabs it, then the vehicle will dynamically change color as to the player's pre-defined paintscheme...for example in the painter before you ever play a match you can go in and paint say, a tank model, a helicopter model, a boat model (whatever), and of course, a playermodel. Then, when you go ingame, you get those colors pasted on to whatever vehicle you grab as a way of personally identifying yourself on the battlefield.

And for team games, then you'd set certain colors to be variables of team colors...so like, all the pink in your model becomes red, or something.

[tcq]

Sounds like a nice idea. But this would still imply that the data for custom paintings is distributed between all players, before the match starts. So you can either have a very long loading screen or boost people with high end bandwidth.

[Trackmaniack]

*nods* This is true...but I don't come up with the technical power to do it...just the idea itself.

[PozitiveRP]

Simply not a clever idea in an fps game. If you choose the brown color, for example and in a case that you're a topfragger, everyone will focus on you just because they saw you color.

[tcq]

You got a point there. But i think it's also pretty depending on the type of map (if you choose a colour which is nearly the same as the blocks in the game, it would be pretty unfair) and the type of game mode you are playing (in a team mode, i don't see a problem with this).

[Trackmaniack]

Well, this is true, but then, everybody becomes more equal...at least IMO...if I were a top fragger (probably -not- gonna happen ) If everybody saw my colorscheme, yes, they'd come after me, until eventually, I was booted from the top of the ladder and someone new takes my place.

[Unit2209]

Its ok Trackmaniack just change it to Hot pink so you can blend it on those snowy maps.