So it appears Roblox recently changed how they generate images of users’ avatars, which has broken a minor function of one of our webhooks.
Originally, we used the line
avatar_url = "http://www.roblox.com/Thumbs/Avatar.ashx?x=100&y=100&Format=Png&userId="..player.UserId
to grab an image of the player’s avatar. This has since broken.
Due to the nature of the way we’re doing this, I don’t think we’d be able to use
Players:GetUserThumbnailAsync, as that’s more for GUIs and things in-game as opposed to external resources.
Currently, when I try to get my own avatar image, it gives me a URL like this:
https://tr.rbxcdn.com/96974da4e61b4f672f56c4c6001c0e29/352/352/Avatar/Png
Which, sadly, doesn’t incorporate the user’s ID at all. Instead, it seems to generate a completely different, longer identifying string. Going through the properties of Player on Documentation, there’s no such thing I can call, so getting this string seems to be impossible.
Does anybody know about any other way to get the link to an image of a user’s avatar using their user ID? It just makes life easier.
This is totally just a silly feature of our webhook which gives face-to-a-name effectively, and we don’t really need it at all, we just like it a lot.
