Avatars

Post by **Ameena** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:04 pm

I've finally just given myself an Avatar...will make it easier when I'm scrolling down a thread to see posts put up after the last one I sent

. If I wanted to do my own Avatar, however (like, mess around with a DM portrait and use that, for example), would I have to upload it to some website somewhere in order to use the URL? If so, is there a site in which I can do that, seeing as I don't have one of my own.
I haven't done a pic yet, just would like to know in case I can be arsed to do so in future

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Oh, and another thing, do Avatar pics get automatically shrunk if they're a big pic, or do you have to draw them small to begin with?
Thanks in advance

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Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:31 pm

Yep, you need to host an avatar somewhere -- we disabled file uploads on these forums due to security issues. We can host it here if you like -- just send me the image and I'll sort it out.

They are not automatically shrunk which is why there's a limit of 80x80. We're normal people here and we don't see the benefit of massive avatars and uberl33t signatures that are 18 pages long.

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:10 am

I hear you.

Post by **Ameena** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:31 am

Okies cool

I might mess around with some of the DM portraits at some point and change them and give them different names and maybe make a dungeon and use them.
The dungeon I was making before is erm...well, I DLd v0.32 the other day and was gonna transfer my dungeon file from 0.30 across to it only to find it wasn't there so I must have forgotten to transfer it to 0.30 from 0.29 lol. Oh well...was fooked anyway lol.

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:42 pm

i moved my avatar on my webspace and can't update it. when trying to set it up as off-site avatar, i get this:

Code: Select all

Could not write avatar file to local storage. Please contact the board administrator with this message

DEBUG MODE

Line : 77
File : /home/www/dungeon-master.com/www/www.dungeon-master.com/forum/includes/usercp_avatar.php

the new url is: http://www.sucinum.de/pics/amber80.gif
maybe it works with adminpowers or it can be hosted here as a workaround.

Post by **linflas** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:48 pm

seems that everyone here experiments this uploading problem...

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:35 pm

i didn't even want to upload it, that's the problem

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:45 pm

*spooky admin power engaged*

it was there in your profile, jsut a broken link...very strange....

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am

Hey admins did you make a CHMOD 777 on the images/avatars directory ? This needs to be done to enable avatar upload.

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:13 pm

No, it's not set to 777 because I disabled the ability to upload avatars for security purposes. Where is everyone seeing this option? Have I missed it somewhere?

Post by **linflas** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:55 am

of course there's no avatar upload here because all the customized avatars are directly loaded from their respective website. the problem happens when you want to change your avatar's url.

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:08 pm

OK, thanks for clarification. I have no idea what the prob is. Would probably be fixed by an upgrade in the forum software. I had intended to do that over Christmas, but stuff got in the way, and it seemed unnecessary after I considered it further.