Custom Outfit Skins

Novacane · 2012-05-25, 10:48 AM

So we've had decals. We know there will be cosmetic buyables from the store. Why not take it to the next step and let Outfits submit entire custom skins for their vehicles and player armor?

Give out a paint kit (blank textures with the details, shadows, etc.. on layers so we can paint under them) and allow outfits to come out with their own take on their faction's textures for their own use. It wouldn't just be client side, everyone would need to see that outfit in their textures to make it worth while.

Some concerns I can see are:

We might paint them in another factions color.
There could be an impact on performance if a lot of custom textures were being used.
There would need to be a human to approve all new submissions.
Not painting inside the lines or flipping the texture to make it not fit right on the model anymore.

Some requirements could be:

Limit the ability to submit custom textures to outfit rank so not everyone has access to the ability to submit them.
A fee for the service (Monthly, Yearly, One-Time, etc..). This would be to offset any costs associated with the approval, storage and distribution of the custom textures.
The payment options could be flexible so the outfit leader wouldn't be the only one that is allowed to pay for it.
We can't paint them with other faction's color schemes.
We can only paint your factions vehicles. No textures for hacked vehicles you may own. (Assuming that is still in PS2)
Other boiler plate requirements for not distributing copyrighted material. Maybe even some sort of a EULA that would need to be accepted.

The performance issue would be the only one I can think of that might be a problem. I have no idea nor claim to have any idea how their engine works or handles textures but, by limiting the number of outfits using the service through rank and monetary means should put a limit on the number of extra bits being used on this service.

I think this would be a nice addition to give larger well established outfits that would allow them to stand out among the crowd a bit more than the average outfit.