Virtual Webcam

[LigH]

You missed the sarcastic smilie, derula. On purpose. Certainly.

And no, we have a lot more diversity. Sum up the traits (face type, hair color, hair style, beard style ...), and multiply with variants of armor (some don't always wear full sets of the same kind) and regularly wielded items.

[derula]

You missed the sarcastic smilie, derula. On purpose. Certainly.

Well... I was being sarcastic on the "5 different character models" and "everyone looks the same" parts, of course. But not for the rest... it is trivial to create a second character that looks exactly the same as another, and many look alike anyway, so observations from a series of screenshots mean nothing. On the other hand, I can squeeze some pretty troubling statistics out of my logged character names. So, yeah. Fear me.

[miadon]

Miadon once used a self-built client to make "live" images for his signature. Long ago.

It was just a simple Linux shell script, using ImageMagik to take a screenshot of the PS window in a infinite loop that took a snapshot every 5 seconds and saved it to my /var/www/htdocs folder.   Just 5 lines of code, and apache required for it to work.

[miadon]

ta-da  my webcam... (at least whilst I am awake).. refreshes every 5 seconds

The Code:

#!/bin/bash
x="0"
while [ x="0" ]
do
import -silent -window "PlaneShift Arcane Chrysalis (0.5.9.2) [Miadon Watec]" -resize 320x240 /var/www/htdocs/webcam.jpeg
sleep 5
done