Can other people see my custom formula skin?

[7TRiiiBES]

In the Trackmania Nations Forerver if you buy a United Forever account, you can set up your own skin and horn and everybody else can see it and hear it whether they have a United Forever account or not. Ive bought this game yesterday because its currently on sale, so Im interested if other people can see my custom formula skin/horn. Thanks for the answers :)

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How should others know? Unless you're using the same nickname in game...

Besides this, it is generally advised to upload your skin/horn/avatar on a "reachable" and more or less public storage, and provide locator files, so the others game clients won't need to download the files from your local PC (which can be very slow if you have a low to medium speed DSL only)....

[7TRiiiBES]

What the hell are you talkin about? You completely missed my question lmao

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lmao? What about being more friendly?
You are posting in the wrong forum then.

Because I see you're mixing up Trackmania Nations / United with Maniaplanet.
The skin handling is a little bit different.

Besides this, why are you asking in a forum if anyone can see your skin.
Ask it online... but you probably won't like the answers... :-P

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Im not being unpolite at all, its just the way I write. Yes, Im new and have no idea what this ''Maniaplanet'' excatly is, in the Trackmania Nations Forever if you had an account which you have bought, you could download a custom skin and put it in a specific folder and everybody else could see your skin, they didnt need to download it in order to see it, I was wondering if thats the same case with this Trackmania

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Ok.
Maniaplanet is a game platform for the newer Nadeo games: Trackmania² (which is Canyon, Stadium and Valley at the moment) and Shootmania (Storm with sub titles like Elite).
In Maniaplanet you have an account, where you can register the different titles.

For each title there is a profile, where you can select a skin.
Of course you can create or put a skin into the corresponding folder, and if you select that skin in your profile, at the next start of the game, you will be asked if you want to share that skin.
It is only a little bit more complicated with Maniaplanet, but still feasible.

Now, regarding skin sharing, what I wrote above is still valid: with the download/upload and the locator.

[7TRiiiBES]

Hmm, Im not sure what excatly do you mean, are you saying that if I wanted everyone to see my custom formula skin, I would need to upload the skin file, lets say, on Dropbox? Also, concerning this download/upload, on Trackmania Nations Forever, sometimes I would need to wait for a good 2-3 tracks before somebody elses custom formula skin would load, it would be a gray formula until it loaded, then I would see it perfectly fine, but I didnt need to download anything manually to see various custom formula skins of different players (Ive seen many through course of like 7-8 years xD), it was all done automatically

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Yes, you understand perfectly.
Manual download is not required, the game handles it automatically.

You don't absolutely need to upload your skin to e.g. Dropbox, but if you do - and use a locator file (name: yourskin.zip.loc, inside only the link to your dropbox, just search for tutorials about maniaplanet locators in the internet ;-)) - then others will more easily see your skin.

You know, skins in Maniaplanet can be bigger, as Maniaplanet can handle larger textures. And often there are also custom sounds in the skin files.
Therefore download/upload times will be longer anyways here.

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Ooooh, you mean they will see it easily because if they also have a slow download/upload, it will take maybe even more than 2-3 tracks for my skin to load for them because of the larger and better textures, but if I decide not to upload it anywhere in a 3rd party service, they will still see my custom skin, but it will just take longer for them depending on how good their Internet connection is? XD

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exact.

Every player with a payed and registered key can use custom skins.
And custom skins from other players are simply downloaded into a cache.
Only if you have a very good skin, you might make it available for others, e.g. on Maniapark.com, where you will also find tutorials regarding skins and mods.

[7TRiiiBES]

Yeah, now it makes perfect sense, thanks for clarification :D Happy New Year

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thanks, happy new year to you, and happy driving :)