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General fluff => Off-Topic => Topic started by: time-killer-games on July 09, 2014, 10:12:25 pm

Title: animated gif avatars
Post by: time-killer-games on July 09, 2014, 10:12:25 pm

Enable animated gif avatars like right now. I spend hours trying to find a decent converter to scale my avatar down to suit the file size limit. I uploaded it to find out it doesn't animate. It's stuck on a frame in which I'm not actually picking my nose! Look closely! My finger isn't even touching the rim of my nostral! The horror!!!!!

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: Josh @ Dreamland on July 10, 2014, 09:15:29 pm

As a security mechanism, the server re-encodes all uploaded avatars itself. It prevents such feats as the attachment of non-image data to images. Unfortunately, this causes only the first frame of animations to be rendered. This is a known bug in the forum software we use. I am able to disable that security feature, but am generally inclined not to do so. Are you able to specify a link to an animated avatar?

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: time-killer-games on July 10, 2014, 09:53:41 pm

Here it is:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79893663/avatar.gif)

Shank you! :D

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: Darkstar2 on July 10, 2014, 10:34:32 pm

You missed a spot !

:D

Make sure you get in there and scrape it all out.

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: Josh @ Dreamland on July 12, 2014, 04:02:37 pm

That's quite large, bytewise, for an avatar. I'll make an exception while the community is small, I suppose. I am able to shrink it to just over 600KiB by fitting it to the correct size, anyway. I'm also able to shrink it to 900KiB simply by encoding it with a non-shitty, non-Windows GIF encoder. But that's another story.

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: time-killer-games on July 12, 2014, 04:06:11 pm

what the fuck did you do to my avatar?
(http://enigma-dev.org/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=300;type=avatar)
nevermind, i dont want to know just forget it no big deal

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: Josh @ Dreamland on July 12, 2014, 04:08:57 pm

I set it to a correctly-scaled version of the GIF you posted.

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: time-killer-games on July 12, 2014, 04:10:49 pm

that's not funny it isn't animated and there's a black rectangle covering my sexy nose! Forget it.

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: Josh @ Dreamland on July 12, 2014, 04:12:45 pm

Are you using Internet Explorer, or something? It renders fine in all of my browsers.

Title: Re: animated gif avatars
Post by: time-killer-games on July 12, 2014, 04:56:09 pm

Okay now I'm on my tablet and it looks just fine, weird. Thx