How to create a cool forum avatar \ badge

[Mio Vespucciano]

Thank you for this great explanation Suella. Your thread is highly informative. :smileyhappy: <(^.^<)

[N1ck Lionheart]

love you

[Eio Tuqiri]

Thanks Suella,

I had fun following your instructions and playing with images.

So no chance I can change that awful white blob that has Posts and Topics in it?  I notice yours doesn't have that.  I didn't pre choose any of the 4 background images they offered.

 

 

[Lillyanna Oleander]

Thank you for this. I did use one of the prefab ones first.. But I was reading through the posts before I saved! and well now have the unformatted one I think..

 

Thank you and good Tutorial  

[wiked Anton]

Hi, thanks for the tips, but how can I get rid of my "avatar" image ( the skull thing) altogether? your help would be appreciated

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

Hello wiked. Click my settings, located beside the envelope up and right in your monitor --> 3rd Tab called "Avatars" and there you change it using default avatars or your own one - you have to upload it first in your pics here.

[Ember Hanly]

I will have to work this out somehow, I don't seem to be getting a "Browse" option, but I was wondering if it was becase I hadn't ever posted anything on the forums before. I was trying to set up a feel for it before the fashion discussions coming up next week.

Thank you for the helpful tips! I got half way there at least, I'll keep fiddling.

[Peony Sweetwater]

Thank you Suella - I now feel that I can write my comments with my pixel head held high :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2:

[April Looming]

Thanks for posting this!!!

[Eloise Baily]

/me hands Suella a great big hunk of Colston Bassett.

Thank you for my new forum badge

[Ariel Vuissent]

Thanks for this! I finally have a forum badge

[Kylie Jaxxon]

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Ariel Vuissent wrote:

Thanks for this! I finally have a forum badge

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Hey, you figured it out...very  nice.  Congrats

 

[Ariel Vuissent]

Thanks! I must have gone to three or four different sites at least, plus your guide here, to put it all together - finding the right place to upload pics here, and such. Took a while, but I got it! Thanks so much

[Dazler]

Thank you for your excellent notes. These have given me the confidence to build a badge for myself. Do you like my woodland effort?

[Suella Ember]

Haven't been to this thread for a while. Thanks for all the thanks from everyone! Glad to see you all have super, sexy badges

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Dazler wrote:

 Do you like my woodland effort?

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I do! Do you like my outrageously saracastic new animated badge?

If I get a spare moment I might try to do an update here with how to create animated badges (but, in short, you create an image with all the layers you want for each animation phase and save it as an animated GIF file. It can be a bit tedious though as you'll need to get all the layers overlayed correctly so that the transitions don't look too jerky! You can also record a short video in SL and save that as an animated GIF.

[Kaya Kiyori]

Thank you Suella! When i saw the Avatars in the forums i really impressed. Your guide helped me alot and saved many time! I hope LL will improve this feature in the future.

[Raven1 Short]

I still haven't figured it out

[Vixie Rayna]

Thank you for the awesome tips!! :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2:

[Xiija]

is there a test posting area?

[Kobuk Farshore]

Not that I know of, Xiija, but once you've changed your badge it applies the new badge to all previous forum posts, so you can just refresh any page you previously posted on to see how you newest upload looks.

[Levia Larsson]

I'm sorry to revive this rather old thread. But just like Ember I wanted to get a feel for the forum first, before I started posting. This tutorial is very helpful, but I also don't seem to get the "browse" option to upload my own profile picture.

There hasn't been any reply to Ember's comment yet (and it looks like she managed to have her custom badge now). So is it a fact that you can only create and upload your own badge if you've done a certain amount of forum posts, or at least one?

** edit: Indeed, writing your first post does the trick (for those of you who are also wondering).

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[Seductive Dreamscape]

Thanks so much for this, always wondered how to get a pic up there !!

[Gench Laxness]

For future Googlers:

After installing the Firebug add-on:

1. Under the Social Connect tab on the My Settings page, click the theme thumbnail for Tokyo Madness to activate that theme.

2. Now, right-click the same thumbnail, and select Inspect Element with Firebug.

3. You'll see a slice of code open in the bottom half of the window, with a chunk something like

<img class="skin-thumbnail" border="0" />

hilighted.

4. Scroll up a little from what's hilighted, you're looking for a line that reads

<input id="lia-portraitBadgeTheme_0" type="hidden" name="lia-portraitBadgeTheme" value="tb_tokyomadness">

5. Click on the part that reads "tb_tokyomadness" and it should turn editable. Change it to tb_none and press Tab once.

6. Back on the settings form ("Create a Profile Badge"), scroll to the bottom and click the Save button.

The page should refresh and the preview on the right should now look like the default, no-settings style.

EDIT: You will still have the same background image, so set that before you do this little hack.

 

[dannyc89]

Using a test post to say thank you!

Edit: and a fresh page all to myself, to boot! :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2:

[CheriColette]

Thanks Suella and everyone else

My first attempt....later I will work on it some more, now I have the gist of how to do it.