Custom Avatar graphics, Kinda like portrait space, cep wif Avatars Options

[Guest_InsanaMuerte_*]

I know it sounds weird, but it can be really cool!

Problem with this: If the cost for this is rather low, like the portrait space, anyone could make themselves a dragon or something for an easy low price.

Solution: Just have people monitor what Furres send in for what they want for their personal avatar space. If it's unsuitable, just turn 'em down and tell 'em to make a different thing =o)

Ta da..? o.O;

[Leticia]

An avatar consists of three positions, lying, sitting, and standing, facing four different directions.  Standing has three different posistions.  So you have five positions for each of four directions, requiring 20 sprites, instead of one, and also hampering download time.  Moreover, if you click on a person, you see their portrait - but you generally only click on one person at a time.  If you're in a busy area, there might be five people present with cutsom avatars and you'd have to wait for each of them to load when you entered the area...

A pain, neh?

Better would be the ability to specify an extended species, so that to people with that patch installed, you would appear to be that species, and if they did not have that patch installed, you would appear to be some default species.  That way to your friends and RP group (and whoever else had the patch) you could look like one thing, without making everyone who walked by you download 20 sprites.

[Guest_InsanaMuerte_*]

Err, how 'bout if you just click on the Avatar to see his/her desc, Furc'll tell you if he/she has a custom Avatar, and if you would like to download it (by using `accept or `decline type commands)  =oD

[Guest_Wizarth_*]

Trouble with an extended species is of course, you go some-where else with the same extended species ID, you look like their patch instead.

My personal variation is to allow PlayerName.FSH files to be included in a patch, including portrait and avatar patching, or a subset thereof. Of course, it would probably blow the size of a patch up significantly, but then, that is the dream makers/admins problem. They would have to decide who gets custom's and who doesnt. Or no-one is going to visit their dream!

Trouble with that idea, was I had it before buyable portraits came out. And I dont see a feature being released that would make a revenue earner obsolete. I'm not saying DEP is mercenary, just that it doesnt make any sense. Of course, you could cut that idea down to being only avatar patching, but then there would probably be a ruckus about being able to patch avatar's for free (except for time to create, time to upload/download, etc...) but not portraits.

Heh, its an idea, not neccessarily a good one!