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Old 01-22-2009, 05:06 PM   #1
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What is the trick to get the .gif avatars to show their motion?

I see that Raider has his working but mine and 480sparky's avatars don't do their thing.

Is it the file size or something else?
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Old 01-22-2009, 05:17 PM   #2
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My normal animated avatar is 85x120 pixels, and the max is 100x100, so my animated avatar is too big. Chris' is 80x80, so it works. I just took a single frame of my avatar and posted that.
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My normal animated avatar is 85x120 pixels, and the max is 100x100, so my animated avatar is too big. Chris' is 80x80, so it works. I just took a single frame of my avatar and posted that.
I can fix that for you if you like
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Mine is only 80 x 80 but 21.7kb.
Is it because it is bigger in kb than allowed?
I think it said it needed to be less than 100 x 100 and 9.8kb.
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Mine is only 80 x 80 but 21.7kb.
Is it because it is bigger in kb than allowed?
I think it said it needed to be less than 100 x 100 and 9.8kb.
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I am not sure why your 80 x 80 gif is not working.
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If the avatar physical size or file size is a really big deal, Nathan could probably tweak that setting if you PM'd him. I don't think there's anything special about the size limit now... probably just a default setting.
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...I am not sure why your 80 x 80 gif is not working.
Maybe because 21.7 kb is larger than 9.8 kb?
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Maybe because 21.7 kb is larger than 9.8 kb?
Looks like the ghost in the machine changed it to 97.7 kb.
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Looks like the ghost in the machine changed it to 97.7 kb.
Huh?
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Huh?
When I go to "edit avatar", it now says "Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 97.7 KB (whichever is smaller)."
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When I go to "edit avatar", it now says "Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 97.7 KB (whichever is smaller)."

You must be special, then.

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You must be special, then.
Could be. Didn't give that a thought. I don't even have an avatar on this site yet.
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Could be. Didn't give that a thought. I don't even have an avatar on this site yet.
Before you go searching for one, how about a little avatar-parity? 97.7kb for everyone?
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Before you go searching for one, how about a little avatar-parity? 97.7kb for everyone?
I couldn't do that if I wanted to, but Nathan can. I see he's logged in to the Admin Console now. Maybe that's what he's doing.
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I couldn't do that if I wanted to, but Nathan can. I see he's logged in to the Admin Console now. Maybe that's what he's doing.
Does this mean my dancing cow could dance again???
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It's set for 100x100 but I had the size wrong. Sorry about that. You can now upload larger files.
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It works now.
Thanks Nathan.
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Old 01-23-2009, 09:22 AM   #18
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How do I get my flag avitar to 'fly in the breeze'?

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If you avatar is a gif image and was designed to wave then you may have copied it incorrectly. If this is a jpeg image then you would have to have someone make it animated-- not an easy process.
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