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Hey guys

I've been working on the ball customization for my game (AffordaGolf) yesterday and I made it so that each player can change his ball color and texture as he likes.
And this next image is some of the possibilities:

You think that it's enough to add an option to the menu saying "I would like to see player's custom balls" so that nobody gets offended? And most of all, I don't get sued or something.

Look at Call of Duty. People create some outrageous call signs and they don't get sued.

It if your able to make the option to not offend, that would be nice

I am able to do it. The players that don't want to see custom textures just dont download them, and they will see only the colors

Very cool features. It is always good when a game lets you play with your balls.

hallsofvallhalla wrote:Very cool features. It is always good when a game lets you play with your balls.

Really????? Haha. I don't think you need a game to do that.

But back to my original post. It would be a great feature especially if it's a game for all ages because you could have people that think they are funny but really being offensive.

hallsofvallhalla wrote:Very cool features. It is always good when a game lets you play with your balls.

I'm here to please the people! xD

KyleMassacre wrote:

hallsofvallhalla wrote:Very cool features. It is always good when a game lets you play with your balls.

Really????? Haha. I don't think you need a game to do that.

But back to my original post. It would be a great feature especially if it's a game for all ages because you could have people that think they are funny but really being offensive.

Yeah I'm adding that feature for sure, I remember that in Call of Duty Black Ops (1) the first screen would tell you if you wanted to hear curse words or not. And I think there are games that have anti-blood options too.

I don't think you have to worry about being sued for copyright issues. At least as long as you are pro-active with takedown requests. That was one of the nicer parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright act. A platform owner is not immediately legally responsible for the actions of their users provided they respond within a reasonable time to take-down requests and ban repeat offenders from the platform.

Probably the biggest issue is pornography. There is a certain demographic on the Internet that the split second a photo upload is allowed, they instantly respond by uploading as much offensive pornography as possible. It also opens the door for child porn to be uploaded to your servers, which is a very tense and dangerous situation. Many countries (such as the US and most EU countries) have zero-tolerance laws where child porn must be immediately reported to police or you are now complicit in its distribution and even an immediate police response can still be quite taxing and time-consuming. Issues like this are the reason why so many games and other services don't allow photo uploads and the ones that do are very careful with it.

Jackolantern wrote:I don't think you have to worry about being sued for copyright issues. At least as long as you are pro-active with takedown requests. That was one of the nicer parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright act. A platform owner is not immediately legally responsible for the actions of their users provided they respond within a reasonable time to take-down requests and ban repeat offenders from the platform.

Probably the biggest issue is pornography. There is a certain demographic on the Internet that the split second a photo upload is allowed, they instantly respond by uploading as much offensive pornography as possible. It also opens the door for child porn to be uploaded to your servers, which is a very tense and dangerous situation. Many countries (such as the US and most EU countries) have zero-tolerance laws where child porn must be immediately reported to police or you are now complicit in its distribution and even an immediate police response can still be quite taxing and time-consuming. Issues like this are the reason why so many games and other services don't allow photo uploads and the ones that do are very careful with it.

I see.. well they aren't being uploaded on my servers. You will give a URL, and that URL will be with you in every room, then each player from that room downloads all those URL's and apply to the specific ball. And they are all readonly (unity's way) so they dont stay at your PC after it.
So should be good right? :/ But still people can report and "mute" those balls.

Hmmm...well if that is how it works that should be alright

I've searched and searched but can't find if Unity actually saves the image or it's just a temporary file that will be deleted after use... But I'll try to dig deeper.

Unity Docs wrote: Returns a Texture2D generated from the downloaded data (Read Only).

They never mention a save location :/