Customizing multi player

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1

Hi my game is both single and multi player. I have separate models for my single player but for online gameplay I want to give the ability to players to create their own avatars. They can either use what I give them or upload their own from something like maya or blender. How would I make this possible. I’ve finished the single player but this multi player stuff is new to me. Thx

2

Welcome. Please try to ask one question per thread. Googling for minecraft skins told me they were located at http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/<USERNAME>.png.

Here’s an example of a script that downloads a skin for a particular user and optionally sets the texture of the renderers material to that texture.

using System;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class DownloadMinecraftSkin : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string username = "Statement";
    public bool applySkinToRenderer = true;
    public Texture2DEvent onDownloaded;
    public ErrorEvent onError;

    [HideInInspector]
    public Texture2D skin;

    const string urlformat = "http://skins.minecraft.net/MinecraftSkins/{0}.png";
    public string url { get { return string.Format(urlformat, username); } }

    IEnumerator Start()
    {
        using (WWW www = new WWW(url))
        {
            yield return www;
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(www.error))
                OnDownloaded(www.textureNonReadable);
            else
                OnError(www.error);
        }
    }

    void OnDownloaded(Texture2D skin)
    {
        if (applySkinToRenderer)
        {
            Renderer renderer = GetComponent<Renderer>();
            if (renderer && renderer.sharedMaterial)
                renderer.material.mainTexture = skin;
            else
                Debug.LogError("Missing renderer or material", this);
        }
        onDownloaded.Invoke(skin);
    }

    void OnError(string error)
    {
        Debug.LogErrorFormat(this, "Downloading minecraft skin '{0}' failed: '{1}'", username, error);
        onError.Invoke();
    }
}

[Serializable]
public class Texture2DEvent : UnityEvent<Texture2D> { }

[Serializable]
public class ErrorEvent : UnityEvent { }