Custom Face Textures

[korrobravin 96]

So I did a little playing around today, and I found some interesting things about custom face textures.  One, they are still SOMEWHAT accessible if you modify your identity class in your DayZ profile config located in your "Documents\DayZ Other Profiles\(ProfileNameHere)" to use the "Custom" face ingame (which is supposed to take the face.face.jpg file in your profile folder and apply it to your character's face.)

I did this by popping open my profile config, and dropping these lines in:

class Identity{	face="custom";};

Now when I do this with the jpg face, it gives me a hideous white dome:

 

And when I try to use the PAA method, I get a little further:

 

 

Now this clearly means that the server isn't allowing any kind of custom files or such (possibly due to security concerns and the likes of that, which is understandable, but .paa/.jpg files should be harmless enough, as long as the file size is kept below 512kb or so, such that the server doesn't get bogged down from everyone's custom face, perhaps clear the face data when that person disconnects?)

 

And so I must ask, will we be getting the ability to have custom faces, like Arma 2 does, or will we be forever restricted to the default ones currently available? 

 

 

Honestly it would be nice to be able to just select "Custom Face" in the character creation screen, and to differentiate between the male and female characters, perhaps have the files "face_male.jpg/paa" and "face_female.jpg/paa"  and have it work off that?