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Game Development => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Genesis on May 27, 2015, 06:04:55 AM

Title: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Genesis on May 27, 2015, 06:04:55 AM: I'm sorry if I'm getting annoying with the whole avatar thing, but this should be easy. I'm not asking for the dimensions to be expanded or anything, but just to allow me to weblink, just like what you do for avatars? I sorta wanna use a gif, but the file size limit is killing me.

I would ask for .gifv support...it's like Html5 stuff and what not, but that's harder lol. Just a simple weblink.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Teostra on May 27, 2015, 07:09:05 AM: What about .webm's? Their file size is a lot smaller than a .gif and they present a lot better quality than .gifs too. I don't know if this site is capable of presenting .webm's considering it's a bit of a new format. But that might be something better than having a .gif avatar. Especially if it's still going to have a small resolution, the file size would be negligible.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Ѕhadow on May 27, 2015, 01:23:21 PM: Well for now you'll either have to sacrifice image resolution or the length of the gif size.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Genesis on May 27, 2015, 05:13:51 PM: There's a lot of things better than a gif now a days. Imgur has gifv. Look at my sig, that's a gifv. A webm is literally a video...but it's using html5 and what not. It's snazzy. And gfycats are the same as gifv...if SL could support new formats, I'd be so happy...

I would love to use it Teostra, but SL doesn't support it.

But, that's not what I'm asking...I just want a simple weblink. It literally should be easy...super easy.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Neji on May 27, 2015, 07:20:09 PM: Point of an avatar is an image - logo, if you want.

It's not intended to be a movie ;))
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Genesis on May 28, 2015, 09:28:46 PM: It wasn't a movie, but rather a swirly thing.

(http://i.imgur.com/ayFuqWd.gif)

I had fun making it, but oh well I guess.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Raifudo Oppa on May 28, 2015, 11:02:19 PM: Quote from: Genesis on May 28, 2015, 09:28:46 PM
It wasn't a movie, but rather a swirly thing.

(http://i.imgur.com/ayFuqWd.gif)

I had fun making it, but oh well I guess.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. I've seen Gifs uploaded like the one from The Forbidden Nin (http://shinobilegends.com/clan_avatars/clan-105.gif)
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Genesis on May 29, 2015, 12:25:05 AM: That's 149,525 bytes. Mine is frkn 3 million. I asked someone on Reddit to compress it and they resized it down, but only go it to 800K bytes.

(http://i.imgur.com/YNgj8E3.gif)

In my rage and frustration, I put something that was 70,000 bytes in protest.

(http://i.imgur.com/UOYXL27.gif)
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Raifudo Oppa on May 29, 2015, 12:43:22 AM: Quote from: Genesis on May 29, 2015, 12:25:05 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/UOYXL27.gif)

D'awww. Kawaii desu neko neko something something niiiiii
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Ѕhadow on May 29, 2015, 01:40:19 AM: The Forbidden Nin gif has less frames (36) whereas Genesis's has around 200 I think. I didn't count them all.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Genesis on May 29, 2015, 10:01:55 PM: 200 frames in a gif isn't a lot in 2015. >>
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Ѕhadow on May 29, 2015, 10:06:21 PM: Quote from: Genesis on May 29, 2015, 10:01:55 PM
200 frames in a gif isn't a lot in 2015. >>

And I'm not Neji with mod powers. Though I totally can code.
Title: Re: Allow weblinks for clan avatars?
Post by: Neji on May 30, 2015, 06:00:56 PM: It's not a coding issue really.

My point is, as stated, that an avatar is a static thing - an image of your character, if you may :)
A gif is limited, which makes it somewhat fair.