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Aha, i guess, maybe the skin idea won't be such a good idea XD

i thought i mentioned the uploading part, my bad :(The file will be uploaded on the DayZ website so it will be linked to your account no matter what server you go on. think of it as how the MC skins work.

I know the DayZ use more polygons, I just used that as an example which some people would be familiar with, which is why I Gave the example of the shirt as that would be a more likely solution.I think anyone could upload a skin, but at first it could only be simple skins like importing an image to go on the front or back, doing the arms would probably be too hard for allot of people, changing the color would be easy too do also, I reckon it would be a pretty easy thing to do, as long as the parts of the clothes that are being edited are only the flatter parts like the front and the back and not the side. I do see your point thou, for an application like this you would need more advanced editing software, instead of paint you would need something more like photoshop...

So this is an addin that will only effect your initial starting clothes when you first spawn, with the game you should get a skin loader where you can download a template of the clothes that you start with and then you can manipulate it so you can have different designs like patterns, images or anything else on it, provided that it fits parameters (not sure if thats the right word) of the file so for example on a shirt if you had a design that was over .....kb in file size it would fail to upload and if the skin loader detected that the skin that was being uploaded had pixels that were outside the perimeter of the item being edited then it would again, fail the upload, here is a picture example as I cant explain it that well... So the an example i could compare with would be a MC skin editor so i will reference this and another way i found. so here is the MC skin editor, you can see that if the file was saved and uploaded it would work fine as it fits the shape, scale and whatever else. The requirements are all met. If a pixel of for the sake of scale Pixels were added that overlapped the boundaries of the template it upload would fail. so with a game like DayZ where it is more realistic than Minecraft if I were to take a template of a shirt and use this as the template given by the Devs of DayZ This picture being the Template ------> Anything inside those lines would upload fine, but if I were to upload a file that looked like this -----------> The front would be acceptable as the pixels meet the requirement, but the back would fail as it is larger than the set requirement. This post may be a bit random but I felt like I couldnt explain the idea properly without examples to look at..... Thanks for reading, what do you think?

Thanks guys, this really helped, looks like i'm gonna buy it in Alpha :D thanks for the info!

Hi, im new here so i'll make this short, I heard about there being a standalone version of DayZ coming soon and I was wondering if this was just a version of DayZ that you could buy without the need of ArmA 2 but was essentially the same game, being that you can connect to ArmA 2 DayZ servers with the standalone version or will I need to buy the Standalone version to play with people in the standalone version. Ive also seen the pricing structure but dont fully understand it, so if we buy when it is released then we get it cheaper and do we get the updates for free or will we need to pay more as the updates progress until we actually pay the full retail amount. Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere but i couldn't find anything that helped me understand it right.