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Since Minetest has no central server for your account, like Minecraft, I think avatar customization - changing of skins - should be built-in into the client itself. Basically upload your skin from it and have it work to the same way it does now.

An avatar server has been made and there are already mods that add skin changes.

All that needs to happen is for the mods to download the skins needed, for that player.



On regard to your suggestion, maybe there should be a lua function to get a texture file from a client, ie:

Zeg9 made an ingame skin chooser:
http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4147

Its A Good Idea! I Like The Idea

rubenwardy wrote:On regard to your suggestion, maybe there should be a lua function to get a texture file from a client, ie:

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player.get_texture_file("player_texture.png","player_"..player.name..".png");
// 1: the file in the clients texture pack
// 2: where to write the file to on the servers texture pack

I always prefer the decentralised solution. And that would also be useful for other things.

I am not a core developer, so this may make me sound like an idiot, but if the server gets the client's ip, name, password, etc. shouldn't it be able to get a texture?

InfinityProject wrote:I am not a core developer, so this may make me sound like an idiot, but if the server gets the client's ip, name, password, etc. shouldn't it be able to get a texture?

No, since the client isn't set up to serve requests for its texture and stuff. The client either pushes that stuff, or the client is changed so it can handle requests to transfer this information/.

jmf wrote:Zeg9 made an ingame skin chooser:
http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4147

Yes, I like that option. I didn't think skins for Minetest was in any way a practical idea until I saw Zeg9's plugin. His in-game skin changer proved me wrong though, and is quite nicely done.

Casimir wrote:I always prefer the decentralised solution.

Yes, decentralized is definitely a must. One of many reasons why I don't like this "sign into the game with your forum account" suggestion that was going around for a while.

0gb.us wrote:Yes, decentralized is definitely a must. One of many reasons why I don't like this "sign into the game with your forum account" suggestion that was going around for a while.

I agree to you.
If the forum account would be used, it would bring a LOT of confusion.
The name "john", that I have got ingame was already used in the forum, so I took "jmf" here.
It would be a huge problem to change all the privs on every server i visited, so this forum->ingame thing is no option.

Depends, if you logged in with a forum account, because Minecraft has the auth server and a ingame name changer.

So yes, it is viable.