Have http://www.roblox.com/Thumbs/Avatar.ashx return the guest look for negative user IDs

As of now, if you try to do something like http://www.roblox.com/Thumbs/Avatar.ashx?x=352&y=352&userId=-100, you’re going to get the N/A sticker. It would be better to get the default guest avatar. This will allow us to (a) generalize parts of our code that get thumbnails and (b) get the guest avatar, which there is no way to get as of now afaik.

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That link is pretty obscure, so it might be a better idea to go ahead and add a method like :GetThumbnailFromUserId(userId, thumbnailType) (with thumbnail type being w/ gear, w/o gear, and headshot) to Players.

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Totally agree, would also work well when you’re testing in servermode.

Roblox created two accounts for guests now. They are these:

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