Most awesome idea YET!

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Ok, avatars are neat and all ... animated, 100 x 100 ... yadda yadda ... but it's the same ole file over and over. Someone suggested making them random and members could have more than one. Interesting, but not the coolest I've heard.

How about this. Can I specify a file outside of GTPlanet? Maybe something like ...

webcam.jpg


... resized to 100 x 100 of course.

That would be totally awesome! That way you'd know for sure if I was sitting at my computer or not. I could put it in my sig, or paste the link to the bottom of all my posts, but that's rather annoying.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

~LoudMusic
 
Yeah ... it was cool until I realized that resizing the image can't be done with the app I'm using for my webcam ...

Well now I have to do some searching.

~LoudMusic
 
I think someone asked for this before, but I'm not totally sure. I still really like the idea though, and am all for it.

Btw, I noticed something odd when I zoomed into your webcam pic.... ;)
 

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Originally posted by Zero
OK, stop that now, I am not doing anymore of them
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That's the cool part. If I find something to automate it, there will be a new image available every 15 seconds. Pretty darn spiffy! But I need something that will resize it. I'd like something that would crop it square and then resize it. I need to go on a shareware escapade again.

~LoudMusic
 
Oh, here it is. This app can save all different sizes, and do all kinds of fun stuff to the image. But it doesn't appear to be able to crop and resize to 100 x 100. DOH!


~LoudMusic
 

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well, you could specify an image from another site...so if you made a site with the webcam with it 100X100, and then in theory, it should change the avatar everytime the cam changes...
 
Right, but when you do that for an avatar, it copies the file to the database and loads it from the gtplanet server.

~LoudMusic
 
ohh...THAT'S BULLCHIEVE!!

Jordan, you know, if you had it so that it just transfered the file from the site, then you would have more server space...just like with the
 
But I believe it would be more difficult to regulate the image size and file size. Image size is important because the website design depends on the image not being too large. And the file size is a curtosy for members who have slower connections.

But if there is an easy way to regulate "off-site" images, I think it would be really cool.

~LoudMusic
 
Loud...slow connections? I have the epitimy of a slow connection...

28K whoo hoo!

I could care less about how big the images are...I'd personally like to see a 200X200, 1MB limit for avatars...
 
dude, it'd take you 292.6 seconds (nearly FIVE MINUTES) at 3.5kbs (your MAXIMUM file speed) to download just ONE of those images. Are you sure that's such a good idea? (:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by MazKid
Loud...slow connections? I have the epitimy of a slow connection...

28K whoo hoo!

I could care less about how big the images are...I'd personally like to see a 200X200, 1MB limit for avatars...
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At 20 posts per page it would take you just under 2 hours to load a page if your connection was working to capacity.
 
Assuming that there are 20 DIFFERENT members posting in that thread on the same page (I view 100 posts per page).

~LoudMusic
 
Hehe. There's really not much source code to speak of...it's just <img src> tags...the keys to this particular hack are the changes made to the MySQL database via Telnet...the administrator has to set some things to allow off-site avatars in the database so that he can regulate sizes, etc.

I'm never comfortable managing my site from a command line. :scared: :chicken:
 
I currently, and always have, view 100 posts per page...

It's not really that slow to me...
 
Originally posted by MazKid
I currently, and always have, view 100 posts per page...

It's not really that slow to me...
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Once you get everything cached it should go pretty quick. You're just getting the html file from then on, and that's only about 20kb. A few seconds a page, and it loads as it downloads.

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by Stealth Viper
Hehe. There's really not much source code to speak of...it's just <img src> tags...the keys to this particular hack are the changes made to the MySQL database via Telnet...the administrator has to set some things to allow off-site avatars in the database so that he can regulate sizes, etc.

I'm never comfortable managing my site from a command line. :scared: :chicken:
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Afraid of the command line? But it's SOOOO powerful (:

~LoudMusic
 
This is an awesome idea, LoudMusic (almost makes me want to setup my own webcam/avatar!). But, if I installed this vBulletin.org "hack", I would also have to disable the "normal" use of custom avatars (uploading them to my server), which is more trouble than I care to get into. :(

I do, however, have one idea...keep an eye on your PM box.
 

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