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Topic: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

Other topic came with the decent idea to make name plates of tees take the color of their team. This made me think, why not make name plates just as customizable as skins or weapons?

This would add some extra PNG file to the Teeworlds folder which provides an example of every allowed character in names. These could be customized to whatever you want, just like skins. Considering only you see it unless you share your file it won't cause any issues. The file could also contain 2 rows of all possible characters providing a way to edit  different nameplatings for both the blue and red team.

This will not only solve the perceived problem of the other topic but at the same time provide a new way for creativity to fill the air. Considering the important function customizing serves for Teeworlds I think this would be a great addition.

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Re: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

Hmmm. I might be misunderstanding, but you want to change the words that appear over your head when you enable nameplates? If that is what you are referring to, then there is one problem you might be missing...If you use an image for your nameplate, then what shows above your name to everybody else?

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Re: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

My idea is that every character gets a space in the PNG like body parts have a specific location in skin PNGs. If I place an image in the area of character A, others will still see it as an A. Of course putting images in the small space available for nameplates wouldn't be very functional, but customizing the existing characters would.

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Re: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

Oh I get it. Cool. It would be great, but I think it might lead a lot of extra code. Then again, what do i kno? xD

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Re: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

Not really a great enhancement and would need more code, art and bandwidth, I don't think it would fit very well at all. Also, it might be distracting.

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Re: [IDEA] Customizable nameplates

Random Tee wrote:

would need more code, art and bandwidth

I don't see why there would be a limit to code. As long as it well written it should not provide problems. Also I don't understand what's wrong with more creativity, as that is the thriving force behind Teeworlds in the first place. Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue considering it comes from your own client and doesn't work any different from the current exchange of skins.

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I don't think it would fit very well at all.

Considering you can customize it into anything and will only show for yourself unless you share it, it's just a matter of taste if it fits in. And obviously you can always stick to the nameplates currently provided by the game if you don't feel like customizing. There are plenty of skins out there which don't fit Teeworlds even remotely but that doesn't mean the entire idea behind custom skins is bad.

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it might be distracting.

In that case you're free to stick to the existing nameplates. Whenever I use a skin which I consider distracting I switch to another one or go back to the skins provided by the game.