Guest Posted April 10, 2003 Posted April 10, 2003 Well what would a clan be without its own skin, before u release .3 , try to add the feature for the host to download everyones skin, and send to all clients, of course use some compression method to compress and then uncompress once at client, and some check to see if they got the skin or not and then everyone can see a clan in there own unifroms and looks!
mavrick_uk Posted April 11, 2003 Posted April 11, 2003 good idea?? is that what you were looking for? honest opinion aswel
Guest Posted April 22, 2003 Posted April 22, 2003 i dont know every time theres a new clan you have to dowload more stuff so in other words LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iggy Posted April 23, 2003 Posted April 23, 2003 well just make a jpeg and the program will make it a bmp wen it goes to your derectory
[xNet]DrDre Posted April 29, 2003 Posted April 29, 2003 yea convert to jpeg. gzip compress, send to clients, unzip, convert tpo bmp, size should only be bout 23k or so and even a 56k can get that fast, and possibly make it the new guy has to wiat before joining till everyone has skin., and the host send it kind of slow to 56k, like in the client, put wat connection u have, the host sends the data at like 1k for 56k ppl ( normal for broadband), therefor the 56k wont get killed by lag. and once everyone has it, the client gets in. 26 56k ppl will only cause the host 36k of bandwidth, not too much, noting that most cable goes bout 50k+
Keva Posted April 29, 2003 Posted April 29, 2003 or the the MTA admins could release every so often a skin spack which contains clan skins etc that players will have to download
[xNet]DrDre Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 but then, what would the server do if the people refuse to dl it? my idea is pretty good. people could optionally put the dl on their site, but it the person doesnt have the skin, itll auto dl. and if its chged but the filename exists, it renames and writes to an ini of a filesize for which img to use, ie, the old skin was 32k, then the clan updated to a 45k, the ini would have an entry for 32k skin by name of clan.bmp and know which file to use, or if its 45k to use that.. i know thats confusing, read it bout 30 times u might understand what im saying lol. a programmer should.
Sandstorm Posted May 6, 2003 Posted May 6, 2003 i sugjested it in the Post called Gang Wars and i allready made some skins
sp3ctum Posted May 7, 2003 Posted May 7, 2003 This seems like the feature used in cs, but it could be done as a check-box integrated to the gta3mta console ("force skin download" etc.) in the server settings, couldn't it? A skin's usual size is about 60kb 200 kb. As for the 56k-ers this could take some time to download so the master of server should take this into consideration. The other way to do this is to somehow compress the skin.bmp and send it to the client uncompress it. This should be possible from the client to the server and from the server to the client so that everybody would see each other's 1337 k33l skins Any comments?
xerox Posted May 7, 2003 Posted May 7, 2003 As long as the default skins are viewable.... this shouldnt matter. And is only an option for cablers.
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