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How do you create Alternating Avatar Images

Faded_SneakersFaded_Sneakers City of AngelsRegistered User regular
edited June 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
I have seen several people here with avatars that seem to alternate through a series of images.

I was wondering if this is something that can be easily set up in the profile area. I looked but could not find anything.

Or do I need to somehow create a specific jpeg with all the images pre attached?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks!

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  • minirhyderminirhyder BerlinRegistered User regular
    Do you mean an animated gif?

    Like this? post-13204-1336091269.gif

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    People used to be able to have rotating avatars by setting up a script somewhere (on a webserver they had access to) that would return a randomly selected image when the script URL was accessed.

    I didn't think it was possible to do that anymore, though since the Vanilla forums seem to require you to upload an image instead of providing an image URL.

  • Faded_SneakersFaded_Sneakers City of AngelsRegistered User regular
    Its not an animated GIF from what I can tell.

    What you explained Japan makes sense because the image does not change until you refresh the thread or go to the next page etc.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    the URL link for a profile pic got grandfathered in with the vanilla forum switch, unless they changed it, you can't do it now

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  • Faded_SneakersFaded_Sneakers City of AngelsRegistered User regular
    Aha gotcha.

    Thanks for the clarification.

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  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    Quick related question - CAN you use a GIF? I tried but failed

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    y2jake215 wrote: »
    Quick related question - CAN you use a GIF? I tried but failed

    You can, but the image size MUST be 80x80 when it's uploaded. If you rely on the server to resize it, it will not be animated.

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