[Mod] Character Creator [1.1] [character_creator]

Rui · by **Rui** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 00:20 Post

This mod allows you to customize your skin.
This is porting of Voxelands feature.

Usage: /character_creator or access from supported mods.

Supports

Minetest 0.5.0 or above
Skinsdb
3D Armor
Unified Inventory

Dependencies

None

Licenses

Source: MIT
Textures: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Downloads

Current version is 1.1 (2019/8/28). See the releases.

Don · by **Don** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 01:00 Post

Cool. +1

firefox · by **firefox** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 05:59 Post

how do you use it?
can you only select premade skins or can you choose your head, torso, legs, arms and feet?

anyway: +1

Rui · by **Rui** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:47 Post

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Desour · by **Desour** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 08:34 Post

that is very useful, I think
but i miss cape

Rui · by **Rui** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 09:22 Post

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cx384 · by **cx384** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 12:59 Post

Nice mod.
you should add glasses ( sunglasses, 3D glasses, heart-shaped glasses, ... ).

Rui · by **Rui** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 15:09 Post

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benrob0329 · by **benrob0329** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 16:36 Post

Idea: being able to chose what style of face you want, e.g. Sam style, this style, MC style, etc.

Sane · by **Sane** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 18:03 Post

This looks interesting.
Maybe you could open it up a bit. An api for other mods would be nice, so that they can extend the options.

cd2 · by **cd2** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 07:39 Post

wow! this looks really cool!
I will try this out now :)

jp · by jp » Mon Aug 31, 2015 08:28 Post

The concept is good (the code too), but the interface is quite improvable.
What we expect from a character creator is a visual preview in real-time with the least text as possible.

You could have e.g. a character in front face on the right, and something compact like that on the left :

Hairs
[<] brown [>]

Eyes
[<] blue [>]

Skin
[<] tanned [>]

etc.

[<] [>] are arrow-buttons that the user can click for tuning his appearance.

Second and last point : you should not have so much textures. Instead, make a bunch of generic white-ish textures and use this method for colorize them.

Good luck.

Rui · by **Rui** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 15:14 Post

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Sane · by **Sane** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 17:33 Post

Rui wrote:@Sane
It's currently possible.
You can add skin data to character_creator table.

Ah good to know. Thanks.

Rui wrote:@jp
Dropdown menu or arrow-buttons...
I can't decide which to use...
I think dropdown menu is good visibility than arrow-buttons.

Uhm well I like the buttons idea. I think it's more intuitive because there is less text reading involved. Just hit a button and check the result in the preview (there was a preview, wasn't it).

benrob0329 · by **benrob0329** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 02:18 Post

@Jp, I was going to suggest the same thing XD

Sokomine · by **Sokomine** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 23:02 Post

jp wrote: Second and last point : you should not have so much textures. Instead, make a bunch of generic white-ish textures and use this method for colorize them.

I still need more variety for my mobf_trader mobs. NPCs in general might profit from customizable skins. It would be great if the individual texture parts could be shared between mods.

benrob0329 · by **benrob0329** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 01:27 Post

Idea: glasses, ties, capes. etc

Minetestforfun · by **Minetestforfun** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:22 Post

Great idea ! +1 !

(maybe improve the formspec and add a preview ? :p)

Ferk · by **Ferk** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:54 Post

Nice!! Another cool mod that would be nice to have by default.

While this is less flexible than uploading a completely custom skin, I think it has several advantages: it will be easier on the bandwidth, the characters will all look more consistent and harder to confuse with something else, and if we add enough variety of hairstyles and accessories I don't think anyone would miss having a completely custom skin.

Plus the player skin could be randomised by default (maybe using the player name as seed?), so every player would look different from the ground up, even if they don't care/know about customising their character.

Sokomine · by **Sokomine** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 15:03 Post

Ferk wrote: Plus the player skin could be randomised by default (maybe using the player name as seed?), so every player would look different from the ground up, even if they don't care/know about customising their character.

Sounds like a very good idea!

Rui · by **Rui** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 21:59 Post

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Don · by **Don** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 22:20 Post

I like it!

benrob0329 · by **benrob0329** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 00:09 Post

I like it too! But would a single male/female option clean it up a bit?

Rui · by **Rui** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 02:38 Post

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benrob0329 · by **benrob0329** » Sat Sep 05, 2015 02:41 Post

Ok, that looks awesome.

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