Skin Downloader?

It is possible, but there is more important stuff to do.

Apart from that not everyone (e.g. me) wants to see millions of crappy so called skins.

Well 4 me,seeing everybody's skins is more important.What is invisible skin?Is this even possible?We'll see a gun at least won't we?Unaimable skins...I don't get it...Bad dimensions,yeah thats a problem.

id probably add a few of zatlines skins, but thats pretty much it. There should never be standard skins, dealing with unteeish things.

i totally agree with landil, dont wanna see all those ugly skins /clan skins, and furthermore: what happens if someone changes his skin? will you download that one again, and how?.
If youre solution would be, to download his whole skin folder: retards could use that to crash youre game, if they put like 900 skins in their folder ...

I like what you say.I thought,maybe in next update,we should have a LOT of skins.Maybe moderators should,open a thread where guys,will post best skins they have.Moderators'll look through them,and take whichever ones they like.

Then,I'll wait,4 more official skins.

I thought 'bout skin pack,not too big,not too small.50skins 4 example.I have 252 skins,and well,thats a bit too many,but I use only one,so its okay 4 me.

The idea has been brought up multiple times before and rejected for the above reasons. As for my stance, I propose a skin downloader to be added eventually but with different qualities as mentioned. First off, skins wouldn't be automatically downloaded; that's ridiculous and could cause players to wait a long time while skins download. If possible, a preview of the skin without downloading it would be nice but I'm not sure that's possible without just downloading it... With regards to inappropriate skins (aka, taking your eye virginity away), you take that risk each time you download a non-official map. The mapper could append pornographic material and you wouldn't have a clue until your arrive in the map. But if it's anything to consider, I've never seen a map like that in my life and I've been around since 0.3.4. And as for invisible skins and skins with bad dimensions, that can easily be taken care of with a nifty in game skin delete function. As soon as you download a skin you down like, delete it. To be honest, I don't know what unaimable skins are so I have no comment on that. ^^'

Here's an idea to help player's have less hassle. When accounts are in place, a function can be added with the skin downloader to rate skins. Player can view ratings when they consider downloading another player's skin. It would go like this: Player A has a new skin and player B downloads it then rates it 4 stars. Player C see's player B's 4 star rated skin by viewing "skin information" (which I guess can be viewed on player B's profile, if programed that way) and disides to download it and rate it 5 stars. To everyone else, player A, B, or C's skin rating has 4.5 and the cycle goes on and on. I'm not sure how this information would be kept, since I'm clueless at coding, but it seems like a good idea to me.

Just add the new skins as official ones in the next version? I mean, we don't want to download a new skin per week, the skins folder shouldn't grow that big... And I guess such an automatic skin downloader would be painful to implement and not worth it.

Aaah, please, this is sad... It's actually a great idea. I would have used those awesome skins, which I have seen all around the graphics forum (or even make my own) if others could see them...
But right now, if I would like to use that cool skin, people just see that boring, brown, default skin. (
Skin is something that shows my own identity. If I would join with my Icy skin, everybody would remember me for a long time...
Also, skins are small files, nothing to heavy to download. + there couldd be an option, to turn the "custom skins" downloader off - for those, who don't want it.
That would be just AWESOME!

This would push Teeworlds greatly forward.