Crossfire Forum

Since most players look the same way, their name should perhaps be drawen above/below their image? As it is now, one has to click on them to find out who they are which is a bit annoying.

It would also be nice if players were made of many pictures that you can combine, so you could look a bit different from all the other players of the same race. Dragons should perhaps be of different colours, depending on their type (just like "real" hatchlings).

Maybe that'd be too ambitious, but something like letting players upload their custom picture would rock!

Pics aren't too big, so not a big bandwidth use i think... And it'd be real cool

Of course that would require assigining unique pictures to players and such.....

I have made and committed the different dragon animations for the different colour dragons, Someone should notify the man in charge of dragons and ask him to add the code to switch the faces. I'll take a look myself soon if this isn't done.

As for uploading your own images... That would likely look horrible. Anything that would look nice we can always add to the game and when there are enough add this feature in... Well each player is at least 4 and preferably two animation frame images to have them look good. I spent a long time working with the player images and barely scratched the surface. People get drawing and remember to keep the style in mind when you do...

A feature letting players to upload their pictures would definitely end up being abused.

I think the idea of drawing players' name on top of him/her is not bad, but I guess it would need some modifications on the server side. I'd guess the client is not aware of the players' names?

I think that there is work being done on localizing this sort of thing in the client actually. I knwo there is work being done on localizing the communication like for say and shout and perhaps having 'auras' like health or spell effect indicators or other localized phenonema anyway. How far along this is I have no idea. I for one don't want to see names and health bars and other clutter up all the time, but if there is a toggle to turn it off then I could live with turning it off.