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eddz
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Topic: .gif's? Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:02 |
Is there a way I can use an animated .gif for my forum signature or profile pic? I've tried, but failed.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:03 |
I'm sure I've seen it done.
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Ricochet
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:05 |
There's no big difference. You just have to copy an animated gif.'s location in the avatar or signature box, just like you normally do using a plain pic. How exactly did you failed?
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Dean
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:08 |
No - it can't be done.
Honest. 
okay - it can, but I hate them so if I was King of the World I'd invent a system that automatically deleted the user ID of anyone who used one as an avatar or in a sig-file. 
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Ricochet
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:10 |
^ you do know that, by blinking, my avatar is practically animated.
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Dean
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:14 |
 yep.
It freaks me out every time 
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Ricochet
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:15 |
All merits go to The Miracle.  (who, yes, had freaky ways to impress you)
Edited by Ricochet - June 15 2009 at 17:16
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Rivertree
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:26 |
I could hack some lightning into my avatar
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:39 |
Very few people know this, but my avatar is actually an animated .gif of a wombat that doesn't move.
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Rivertree
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:52 |
and this exactly proves that animated gifs don't work here
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progkidjoel
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Posted: June 23 2009 at 02:43 |
Vompatti wrote:
Very few people know this, but my avatar is actually an animated .gif of a wombat that doesn't move.
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eddz
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 14:49 |
whenever i copy the location of the .gif (which i created myself) and preview my signature, there is nothing there. I use bbcodes.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 15:03 |
Do you upload your gifs to photobucket or something first?
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eddz
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 15:34 |
I used my ever so visited (sarcasm) wetpaint account, then copied the address.
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