Planet M.U.L.E.

Experimenting with building custom skins, and it's kewl to have a different look, but...

...found a significant problem.  If other players don't have a skin with the same title, they can't play with me, which forced me to switch back to default.

My solution, for the short term, build a new data.jar file with my custom skin as the default, but that's annoying to have to quit the game and switch jar files to switch skins.

Anyhow, yeah, that seems like it needs a little tweaking, not that many peeps are using the skins feature yet, but I am sure if they started seeing some of the options, they would get into it.

The skin feature was mostly made for us developers to try different graphic styles. It is not complete so you can't fully change the look of the game. We might improve it later on though to make it more user friendly and let people upload and share their skins. It will however not come in the next update.

Building a new data.jar file can give you a problem when the game updates itself. Likely the update will fail and you'll have to download the game client again.

Still if you want to work on your skin I suggest you do as you've done now. Replace all pictures in the "images" and "skins" folder in data.jar. Please send the skin to me when you're finished. I would love to see it :)

A few of us have been posting screen shots of what we are working on in the design/art forum.