[FREE] MCHeads - Minecraft avatar Generator

[Mister_Fix]

Hello, today i will be showing you the website i created for MCHeads.
MCHeads is a tool that extracts your skin off Mojang's servers and does whatever you request it to do:

http://mc-heads.net/avatar/Mister_Fix

Which will give a 180x180 image of my face.

Example with customizable size:

http://mc-heads.net/avatar/Mister_Fix/100

gives:

[size varies from 1 to 300]

You can "browse" user's skin with

http://mc-heads.net/skin/Mister_Fix

Or download user's skin with

http://mc-heads.net/download/Mister_Fix

Or switch to someone's skin

http://mc-heads.net/change/Mister_Fix

see how they look from the front:

http://mc-heads.net/player/Mister_Fix/60

Or from the back:

http://mc-heads.net/player-back/Mister_Fix/60

Want the default skin?

http://mc-heads.net/avatar/char

Or even, create an avatar from a skin that's not hosted on mojang!

http://mc-heads.net/notpremium.php?url=(URL of skin image)&s=100

You can also get someone's avatar by UUID

http://mc-heads.net/uuid/c5ef334745934f398bb12eaa40dd986e/100

And of course, the random avatar feature

http://mc-heads.net/random/100

And lastly, if you don't need the helm element on someone's avatar, you can use

http://mc-heads.net/nohelm/Mister_Fix/100

Notes:
*Some services may reqire a file extention on attachment and because of this all of the features will work if you add a .png to the end, with the exception of direct skin switch, download and skin.

*All features are not case sensitive
that's all the features i made for now, i'll be glad to add more features, so feel free to suggest ideas in the comment section below!

- Mister_Fix

 

[Mister_Fix]

Wow, this looks really nice, Mister! Thanks for sharing this with us, I love it!

Your feedback really helps me, this is the second year of MCHeads and there's very few feedbacks :I

 

[Squid1]

I have used this site a lot. Good job!

 

[Mister_Fix]

Looks like an exact copy of https://minotar.net/

It was inspired by minotar, written on a different programming language and has some extra features [DOUBLEPOST=1414008217,1414008134][/DOUBLEPOST]

I have used this site a lot. Good job!

Thank you i really appritiate the support

 

[kill_da_trolls]

Looks like a decent alternative to Minotar. Would you mind adding https support?

 

[Mister_Fix]

How is this different from https://a.vatar.co/ or https://minotar.net/?

Again features are everything, both minotar and mcavatar are missing the features i have.[DOUBLEPOST=1414033675,1414033483][/DOUBLEPOST]

Looks like a decent alternative to Minotar. Would you mind adding https support?

I was never quite sure why people went so crazy over an SSL certificate to this kind of website, thete is no sensitive data sent, so the only thing that SSL would really do is slow down MCHeads because of all the SSL handshakes..

 

[ConnorPeet]

I was never quite sure why people went so crazy over an SSL certificate to this kind of website, thete is no sensitive data sent, so the only thing that SSL would really do is slow down MCHeads because of all the SSL handshakes..

Well, to start with, sites served over https (i.e. everyone who's sane) won't be able to use your service at all. So there's that. The overhead is trivial anyhow; non-existent to the relatively glacially slow PHP 5.4 application you run. If you're really concerned that much about speed, you could start with choosing a (better) caching solution.

Also, probably be a good idea to open source your application on Github.

 

[Mister_Fix]

Well, to start with, sites served over https (i.e. everyone who's sane) won't be able to use your service at all. So there's that. The overhead is trivial anyhow; non-existent to the relatively glacially slow PHP 5.4 application you run. If you're really concerned that much about speed, you could start with choosing a (better) caching solution.

Also, probably be a good idea to open source your application on Github.

I'm still kind of considering about opensourcing, i would see no reason for you to say my caching system isnt good enough as its the mean speed boost here. And lastly, dont judge a developer by his programming language, it might be slow but its totaly a-ok if you know how to use it
But hey, thanks for the feedback anyway

 

[ConnorPeet]

- Open source is good. Leads to better security, performance, stability, etc through increased contribution.
- Caching layer is slow. Based on load time differences of caches vs uncached content.
- Didn't say that PHP is bad (it is, but don't get me started). Just that compared to the handshake, implemented in C and optimized for years, is orders of magnitude faster than even a basic PHP script. tl;dr TLS handshake will not have a noticeable impact on performance. This is 2014. Not 1994.

 

[Mister_Fix]

- Open source is good. Leads to better security, performance, stability, etc through increased contribution.
- Caching layer is slow. Based on load time differences of caches vs uncached content.
- Didn't say that PHP is bad (it is, but don't get me started). Just that compared to the handshake, implemented in C and optimized for years, is orders of magnitude faster than even a basic PHP script. tl;dr TLS handshake will not have a noticeable impact on performance. This is 2014. Not 1994.

Of course there would br diffrrence between cached and uncached content, if the script detects an uncached username it must connect to mojang for a UUID lookup request to make the script non case sensitive, then it must connect to mojang again, asking for the correct cased username's skin, generally 3rd party connection are slow, but it does it only once per username, and its not like it takes it aes to load while doing that...

 

[Mister_Fix]

bump?

 

[Mister_Fix]

Just added a random avatar feature,
http://mc-heads.net/random/45
will output a random head sized 45x45 pixels
this is also competible with the .png extention, and by not declering the size the feature will output a 64x64 pixel random avatar.

 

[Widow]

You pretty much just ripped off other sites, nothing special.

 

[Mister_Fix]

You pretty much just ripped off other sites, nothing special.

How did i rip off the other sites? my site has more features then all the other sites combined, there's no rip off whatsoever, if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything.

 

[pm_dragon]

How did i rip off the other sites? my site has more features then all the other sites combined, there's no rip off whatsoever, if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything.

What are the more features?