My idea is this have an online library where authors can share the jpeg save files that are used for custom npcs. Stoacademy.com has a feature for uploading custom aliens but it is glitchy and restricted to aliens only. It would help foundry authors out if they could share their designs instead of reinventing the wheel all the time. Any thoughts from the starbaseugc guys???

I agree, it would be nice if we could get some sort of database setup at StarbaseUGC where we can share costumes and even entire NPC profiles. I don't know that STOacademy is the right place for that sort of resource.

not just costumes, we could share races.. maybe someonem akes a epic race... gets in contact with the mission guy and says "oi, Can I use your racwe for X project?"

I just had an idea for an experiment.

When I save a costume in the Foundry, the editor exports the costume's portrait to my screenshots folder. From there I can re-import it into another Foundry project, or even into the main game for my alien captain.

I've uploaded one such portrait. Someone try saving it to your STO screenshots folder and see if you can upload it into the Foundry.

If it works, we might be able to share costumes without needing a distinct database.

IF ONLY...

They would allow us to (legally) Mod this game...

You can. Its as easy as dropping the image file into your screenshots folder. It shows up with the @handle of whomever saved it.

I've been doing this for a good while at this point.

Recently they added an 'import' and an 'export' button to the costume editor in the Foundry.
Costumes you export to disk get saved to your screenshot folder as a headshot jpeg.

Simply use something like dropbox or google drive to get that file to someone else.
They simply have to drop it into their screenshots, and then that costume will be available via the aforementioned import button.

This also addresses the idea Thay asked for above.
Create an Epic Alien.
Share the costume, share the alien design.

It's actually already very easy to do.
There is no need for new feature.

Now , if we're talking about the ability to share maps.
That.
That would be really cool


Peace, Love and Happy Writing

I would love to see maps! But my post was about creating a database of custom characters for all authors to use. Would it be as simple as creating a deviantart or photobucket account???

I have to say it would be nice to have a web archive of various aliens.

I created some really cool Boslics. (the purple haired version)

Yeah I made a real decent Xindi reptillian (only missing the small tusks and the head spines are not canon of course),a yriddian (the yridian npc is not a foundry asset), a betelgussian, Boslic, Tiburonian, Kazon and some other canon races. I like playing around with character creators and even creating custom skins in games.Plus you could share admiral characters so that there wouldn't be new admirals all the time.