Rendering your avatar elsewhere

[kevinc]

I'm creating a 'Customize your avatar' user interface. The users can change hair, glasses, hats, clothes etc. I'd like to show their character beside these custom options. The character will be updated as they select new clothes, hair etc. Is it possible to render the character again somehow? What would be your advice on how to do this?

Thanks

[Bax]

So you have OpenSpace running, with the user avatar on the map, and you want it to change accordingly to the changes the user makes in your "Customize your avatar" interface?
Well, you simply have to call the OpenSpace.setMyAvatarSkin method passing an object describing the new avatar appearance (check the examples provided with OpenSpace, you have a button to modify the avatar appearance).
Of course the changes will be displayed on all the clients connected to the the same map.

[kevinc]

Inside my 'Customize your avatar' gui i want to show my avatar. This is NOT my avatar inside the OpenSpace map. I'd like the avatar to be a 'copy' of the ingame avatar. The user can make all the changes they want and if the choose to save then I can apply my changes with OpenSpace.setMyAvatarSkin.

Kind of like in YoVille where you have your customize options in the gui and beside the options you have a picture of your avatar and as you change the options the avatar updates.

Know what I mean?

[Bax]

When you call the OpenSpace.setMyAvatarSkin method, OpenSpace internally calls the onSkinChange event listener on your avatar movieclip class.
You can do something similar: in your avatar movieclip class add your own method (for example setSkin) which handles the skin changes made during avatar customization (passing the same data you would pass to OpenSpace.setMyAvatarSkin).