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Animated Avatars

April 18, 2005 7:11:54 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
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Reply #1 April 18, 2005 8:01:36 PM
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Reply #2 April 18, 2005 8:15:26 PM
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Now I really feel old.

For those who can make them, I say go for it.

For people like me, well............uh? the static one is okay, right?
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Reply #3 April 18, 2005 8:28:25 PM
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The avatars on WC have to be in .jpg format.

Note: Image will be scaled to maximum of 50x50 size. .JPG file format only.

As far as I know .gif and maybe .png are the only formats that support animation.

(Someone more knowledgable correct me if I'm wrong.)
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Sleeping Dragon
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Reply #4 April 18, 2005 9:13:45 PM
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You're correct, tjesterb. Why not a change? Allow .gifs. Just a suggestion.
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Reply #5 April 18, 2005 9:18:06 PM
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Reply #6 April 18, 2005 9:29:31 PM
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I think allowing .gifs would be probably easy if the coding was set up correctly. It should be able to be switched in a control pannel (Only if they made one)
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Reply #7 April 18, 2005 10:06:32 PM
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Cool beans SD
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Reply #8 April 18, 2005 10:42:43 PM
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Thanks Bichur. Frogboy? Any hope for this? Weaksid said it can be done and he's never lied to me.
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Reply #9 April 18, 2005 10:44:50 PM
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They look good SD! I vote yes!
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Reply #10 April 18, 2005 11:00:32 PM
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.gif's might increase load time....maybe not one at a time, but pages of them sure would.
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Reply #11 April 18, 2005 11:00:57 PM
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I vote yes!yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyeyes!!!!
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Reply #12 April 18, 2005 11:07:05 PM
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Cerebro said the one thing I thought but never posted. If people start putting .gifs in place of the .jpg. This could increase or decrease load time. I guess it would come down to how well the server will handle the file format. It's a iffy issue. The developers should know more on this subject since they coded the site.
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Reply #13 April 18, 2005 11:08:18 PM
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Also while I'm at it, it comes down to... Did the developers think ahead to maybe allow other image formats to be used?
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Reply #14 April 18, 2005 11:11:55 PM
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SD is doing some really sharp ones, and they work at less innovative sites...lol...I'm sure we can do it here


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Reply #15 April 18, 2005 11:12:36 PM
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Animated avatars would drive me nuts personally.

But if they are allowed I bet you all that Jafo's avatar would have something to do with that "spell correction" smiley of his.
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Reply #16 April 18, 2005 11:19:07 PM
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Looking at the .gifs posted against the .jpgs. It will definally increase load time. You think it's sluglish now.....
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Reply #17 April 18, 2005 11:19:54 PM
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.gif's might increase load time....maybe not one at a time, but pages of them sure would.


No offense, but who said go find a monkey wrench?

Maybe if it hadn't been mentioned they might have missed it (hope hope).

But yeah, you're right. AnS [to name just one] has lots of animation on their site and it takes forever to load (dialup), but then they also have a lot of graphics {tho not as much as I seem to remember}.
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Reply #18 April 19, 2005 12:01:34 AM
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Reply #19 April 19, 2005 12:02:39 AM
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Reply #20 April 19, 2005 5:11:04 AM
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yes yes yes!
even ls-universe lets u do it
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Reply #21 April 19, 2005 6:13:18 AM
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As far as I know .gif and maybe .png are the only formats that support animation.

Only gifs support animation and they are limited to maximum 256 colours.

.gif's might increase load time....maybe not one at a time, but pages of them sure would.

Depends. Gif doesn't compress as much as jpegs, but since they are limited to max 256 colours the size get limited as well.
But if there is a large amount of frames in the animation even a 50x50 image might grow to quite few hundered kilobytes. Deviantart allows gifs, but have a limit to the size of the avatars.
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Reply #22 April 19, 2005 6:22:50 AM
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So let's make it a 50 x 50 pixel .gif with a max size of 10-15 k. A lot can be done with only 10k
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Reply #23 April 19, 2005 6:28:40 AM
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I created my own spellcheck smiley.

SD, go for it and see if an error pops up. I've seen skin perviews that were gifs.
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Reply #24 April 19, 2005 7:58:57 AM
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So let's make it a 50 x 50 pixel .gif with a max size of 10-15 k. A lot can be done with only 10k


I like this idea.

Besides, if it slows things down too much, we can alway go back to static.
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Reply #25 April 20, 2005 12:50:34 PM
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bump. Would like to hear from Fogboy or T-man or someone as to whether or not it is being entertained.
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