Allow us to use our characters as a forum avatar?

[Splatpope]

1) get all hair/beard/skin color/eye sprites + jumpsuits + eyewear maybe

2) make a dumb php character selection gizmo, requiring a forum login, that simply ends up saying "i need that sprite and that sprite" etc

3) make a dumb whatever cgi language script that will mix the images together, skin first, then jumpsuit, then facial features, then just zoom it as needed; feed it the sprite names selected in the php script and retrieve the final image, saved somewhere convenient in regards to the account who logged in the character selection thingy

4) keep up a sql database linking forum usernames to the images

5) mod phpbb so that the avatar selection screen says "retrieve character" which simply changes the avatar to the image linked to the username

i guess that's how I'd do it

Would something like this truly be too hard to add here?

1) duh, or not so duh if all images are saved in some byond format and you need to extract them one by one

2) "hard" part is getting it to log in with a forum account, maybe if it's modded inside phpbb it will be easier (add a section in the user control panel ?)

3) this part will be truly hard if there are no image libraries in perl/whetever, but I'm sure it exists, I'm sure it can't be that hard to do

4) actually no, just save the generated images in webroot/characterselect/characters/character_*username*.png

5) I guess modding phpbb requires to know php and isn't super hard ? I don't know, never tried

also this is really tricky if the staff doesn't have total control over the web server