Are custom skins illegal??

[symptom 185]

I found a website that has custom skins for Arma 2 and are suppose to work with the DayZ mod. Is it legal to do this or not??

http://imgur.com/a/FAWIn#42

[SqTH 260]

Nope.

Yet you have to allow the upload of files from the client to the server to make that work, with a limitation size in Kb.

If you try to join a serv that disallow it, you'll just get simply kicked.

[Polak (DayZ) 14]

No, its't not, and here is the tutorial

the problem is that not all server are allowing this. they kick you for excesive "custmom face" file because they have set it to 1bytes and obviously the file is bigger than that.

Edited August 22, 2012 by Polak

[CerebralZombie (DayZ) 151]

Sweet~

[waffen-79 32]

they're are perfectly safe to use, in fact, someone should tell the servers that don't support custom faces this is not 2001 anymore

WHY DO THEY DISABLE THE ONLY CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION WE HAVE????

[symptom 185]

How do we enable it on the servers?

[sonicrainbrony 136]

I am not an admin, but I guess there is some kind of a server config that has a line about the max size of the custom player skin.

[ironman Tetsuo 181]

they're are perfectly safe to use, in fact, someone should tell the servers that don't support custom faces this is not 2001 anymore

WHY DO THEY DISABLE THE ONLY CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION WE HAVE????

because people don't always understand why there are limits to the size of files in a multiplayer game, Imagine how much more data needs to be sent/received if all the players in a server were rocking these custom skins instead of the 1kb files.

There is also another problem called copyright

Edited August 23, 2012 by ironman Tetsuo

[gizm0 96]

because people don't always understand why there are limits to the size of files in a multiplayer game, Imagine how much more data needs to be sent/received if all the players in a server were rocking these custom skins instead of the 1kb files.

There is also another problem called copyright

copyright isn't an issue cause if it was APB would have been shutdown by now.

[fosty99 160]

You can use them, but you are going to have to reduce the file size a lot if you want to use them online.

I believe if it is above 100kb you will just get a bright white character skin when you join a server.

[CrazyJoe (DayZ) 8]

Illegal? LOLZ, you need to look up what illegal means.

[waffen-79 32]

copyright isn't an issue cause if it was APB would have been shutdown by now.

Ahh APB, I just recently got back to it, just for kicks

heck, sometimes I wonder "Do Developers like money?" because both DayZ and WarZ aren't even close to the player customization offered in APB why won't they adapt something even remotely similar