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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: joeybob on June 07, 2013, 09:11 pm

Title: Animated Avatars on the Forum?
Post by: joeybob on June 07, 2013, 09:11 pm
So I uploaded an animated .gif for my avatar, but as you can see it's not animated.  Is there anyway to do this?

I know it's not real important.  I just want to see my psychedelic monkey dance XD
Title: Re: Animated Avatars on the Forum?
Post by: ☼LightOfPi☼ on June 07, 2013, 09:22 pm
It's certainly possible since jesusofrave has an animated avatar if I'm not mistaking!

Did you create the gif yourself? If so: how? And is it within the filesize limits?
Title: Re: Animated Avatars on the Forum?
Post by: joeybob on June 07, 2013, 09:28 pm
Good point!  I'm not sure on the file size limits as none are listed on the "Forum Profile" page.  I'll have to play around and see if I can get it working.

EDIT: I should have pointed out, that I did not make it myself.  But the site I got it from does allow resizing.
Title: Re: Animated Avatars on the Forum?
Post by: joeybob on June 07, 2013, 09:47 pm
There we go :), now my monkey is free to dance.  That just made my day XD

To anyone else who is interested.  I uploaded the original gif, then downloaded the still image from the forum to get the "allowable size" which was 65x52.  Then I went to http://www.smileygenerator.us/gifresize/index.php and re-sized the original animated gif to 65x52.  Uploaded the new image file, and bingo bango, it now dances.