[Client] Avatar download size limiter
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PhaxeNor
As the title says, add a download limiter for avatars.
If avatar size exceeds N value then skip download and show a gray avatar instead.
This way we don't need to wait for large avatars to download and will actually free up a lot of memory and cache space.
Also partially creating it for the meme, but it would actually be nice to have as I really don't want to go into public worlds and download extremely large avatar files as I'd probably hide the avatar anyway.
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LaFont
Big agree, no need to download xxxhardEboyxxx7979's rimlight wolfboy avatar with its 3 gigs of 2D-audio earbleedy goodness.
xxx_red_xxx
That last paragraph is an automatic block from me. You're one of those jerks that doesn't wanna see anyone's avatars.
PhaxeNor
xxx_red_xxx: I guess you're right. Running around with None as your safety settings is hidding peoples avatars.
If you have a avatar that has 4x4k textures, I'd rather not load your avatar. No matter how nice it is. I like my frames thank you very much.
xxx_red_xxx
PhaxeNor: remember, none is fun
dragonos130
i would say a multiple option slider depending on what you want would be nice yeah i would guess 5 options 5MB 15MB 25MB 50MB and then 75MB as some things are going to be a lot bigger. would be nice to have and allows everyone to have an option for their speed
Dreadrith
I have an extremely slow internet compared to the rest of the world, 5 MB download speed. I have my safety set to show nothing besides friends just so I wouldn't lag the whole time because I'm downloading some person's huge colorful avatar.
However, that makes me unable to interact with anyone because I see everyone as a gray avatar and makes me react awkwardly towards them. This option would be a huge lifesaver for people that have internet problems like I do.
The Small to Big file sized avatar download would also help a lot of people interact more with the players in the room.
Nepsy Neptune
100-150mb should be the limit for avatarsn (due to big anims)
Yaki
I would recommend a logic system that loads in lower file sizes first then once most are done the client would start to load in the larger file sizes. This could just be an optimizing feature instead of as said before a possible blanket ban of big avatars. Some people hang out with animators and their avatars tend to be relatively big. I wouldn’t want to force people to go down the list one by one after to just unhindered the avatars assuming that option would be allowed.
OhBaNoBa
Good idea. But it needs to be easy to change on the fly. I'm completely done with this if it's configurable via slider in the settings menu.
Eremite
I'm all for this as long as it is a configurable option in-game (as opposed to editing config files), not a blanket ban of "all avatars over X size" get blocked.
I've seen some 500MB+ avatars poppin' up in cache and that's just obscene.
Another nice feature would be to download avatars from smallest to largest or remove the blocking to allow more concurrent avatar downloads.