Possibility for user to customize skins?

Hey unity-community!

I heard of unity3d from a friend of mine after I was asking him if he knows a good alternative for flash to creat 3D-scenariors for the web browser. So now it happened and I got an important question for which I hope to get an answer in this board.

Imagine you are a forumla 1 or racing car driver and you want to customize the color/skin of your ride’s front-part in game. The way to customize it should be pretty easy: Click a button, OS-popup, choose any .jpg-file you want from you desktop/hdd, upload and in the end your car’s front-part looks as awesome as you wished. Afterwards you can drive with this customized car.

The idea is pretty easy, but actually I want to know if unity3D is able to do this? If it is it would be great to read a really short manual to create something like this. Just a few points I should follow. I am sure you guys can help me with this question/issue.

THANK YOU!

Yes actually pretty easily, the jpg just has to qualify as a texture.

the WWW class allows you to download images and use them as textures on the corresponding material

thank you very much for this information! Can you tell me something more about the things i have to configure to let it run?

THX

Check out the documentation on WWW and GUISkin