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Title: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on December 18, 2007, 01:27:14 PM
Animated Gifs no longer work as avatars...  :( This is a huge issue that might bring the entire system crashing down!!!  ::)
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: darkdep on December 18, 2007, 03:17:01 PM
They don't?  I don't believe anything has changed here...and pretty sure pwrca has an animated GIF that still works...
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: bitterman on December 18, 2007, 04:20:04 PM
I think it works  ;)
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on December 18, 2007, 07:04:32 PM
Geeze mine doesn't... :(

editted by me:

This one works my others didn't weird.
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: RossW on December 18, 2007, 09:20:30 PM
Too bad they work... I seem to recall there might be an option to hide those things or that might have only been signature.
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: kennyman on December 19, 2007, 12:03:45 PM
Quote from: RossW on December 18, 2007, 09:20:30 PM
Too bad they work... I seem to recall there might be an option to hide those things or that might have only been signature.


I was looking into that too. Seems if you want to turn off the animations you have to hide everyone's avatar from your view. Signatures and avatars are separate and each can be hidden.
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: gonzobluefuzz on December 20, 2007, 07:12:47 AM
mine seems to work just fine

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Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: fishycanuck on December 22, 2007, 08:06:45 PM
Argh Dan your current animated avatar is giving me a headache!
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on December 23, 2007, 10:21:10 AM
Is that any better?  8)
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: babblefish1960 on December 23, 2007, 11:32:48 AM
The Christmas cat is much better, that old guy doing face calisthenics was somewhat disconcerting. ;)
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: fishycanuck on December 23, 2007, 11:42:19 AM
Yes! I like that cat!
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: succinctfish on December 23, 2007, 02:21:25 PM
Now that's a nice Christmas present dan. :)
I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from that other avatar.  :o :o :o
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on December 23, 2007, 08:30:53 PM
Quote from: succinctfish on December 23, 2007, 02:21:25 PM
Now that's a nice Christmas present dan. :)
I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from that other avatar.  :o :o :o

Wait for New Years Eve!  :o
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on December 24, 2007, 06:42:59 PM
There how is this avatar?
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: babblefish1960 on December 24, 2007, 07:31:13 PM
It is quite lovely Dan2x38 you big weirdie, I hope you change your socks as often! ;D
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: latios on December 24, 2007, 10:22:55 PM
Don't come to my house,my monkey will shoot you LOL :D . The monkey ate my homework. ( I hope you know its not real).
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: Vizerdrix on January 09, 2008, 07:59:30 PM
So what was the final consensus on this?  My new avatar is supposed to be animated, but it's not displaying it! :(  It works fine on my desktop... 

I want my kitty to pet my fish! :(
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: dan2x38 on January 09, 2008, 08:03:50 PM
I think if the forum software has to resize the GIF to much to fit the frame the animation will not function. The other alternative might be the program used to create the animation might not be recognized.
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: Vizerdrix on January 09, 2008, 08:06:02 PM
Weird, I stole this from another (non-fish!) forum, so it should work and be the proper size...  It was so cute too!
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: darkdep on January 10, 2008, 10:04:53 AM
The consensus is that animated GIF's are allowed.  They must be 100px by 100px, or the website will resize them...and probably lose the animation.
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: Vizerdrix on January 10, 2008, 05:12:49 PM
Does anyone know how to resize gifs?  Seems mine is 150 x 150...
Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: gonzobluefuzz on January 10, 2008, 09:48:11 PM
Quote from: Vizerdrix on January 10, 2008, 05:12:49 PM
Does anyone know how to resize gifs?  Seems mine is 150 x 150...

photoshop/imageready should do the trick 4 ya


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Title: Re: Animated Gifs as Avatars?
Post by: Vizerdrix on January 11, 2008, 08:34:11 PM
Quote from: gonzobluefuzz on January 10, 2008, 09:48:11 PM
photoshop/imageready should do the trick 4 ya

Thanks!  I'll have to try and find a copy of one of those programs.