Avatar Changes?

[shamanyouranus]

Perhaps Ralle made some changes to how avatars work, but for some reason (at least for me) avatars have some problems:
-Avatars no longer allow alphas. Transparent backgrounds are automatically filled in with white.
-Animated gifs do not work as avatars. It just shows the first frame of the gif. Does this only apply to large filesize gifs?

Are these bugs that only I'm experiencing, or did Ralle change something to save bandwidth or such? And more importantly, how do I bypass this crap?

 

[M0rbid]

No, I could not upload my animated Darth Revan Christmas Avatar aswell...
and hell, that one was awesome.

 

[Grey Nightmare]

The alpha, I noticed to, as for .gifs - Some work, some don't. I've yet to work out the pattern, for e.g.

Ganondorf's Blinking Pony works, that was uploaded recently.

 

[rcshaggy]

I think it uploaded it to a image site first and downloaded the small file size for it and used it as a avatar.
Oh and I'm good with my Medivh one now, but it looks so damn small though. :'(

 

[Dr. House]

I do not have any of these isues and besides that i do not think its a very big deal that the background is automaticly filled in with white. you could just simply change the BG in photoshop or something and upload the avatar again and its fixed. But as far as that ye the animated gif thing is anoying now my nice DR.House can´t drink beer and eat cookies now he only drinks beer

 

[fladdermasken]

I've encountered the transparency issue as well.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

It's that the site resizes the avatars when it adds them to it's database, which seems to mess with the alpha channels or animation if it's not a size that works well with that.

 

[Pyritie]

yeah vBulletin's pretty crap at dealing with resizing. If your avatar is bigger than 100x100, I suggest you resize it yourself in photoshop or something.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

AFAIK when avatar is too large, it wont show transparency and if gif, will not be animated. just frame 1 of the gif will display

 

[Joe-black-5]

yeah vBulletin's pretty crap at dealing with resizing. If your avatar is bigger than 100x100, I suggest you resize it yourself in photoshop or something.

Ahh D: that is why my avy's get so small

 

[Crayons]

nothing's wrong. GIF avatars still work like they should.

And in your case Shaman, your GIF is working. Although it is at a much slower framerate. Or at least, according to me and my 38 kbps internet