[Lurch]

If anyone has Windows 8.1, can you please tell me how to put a pic up for my avatar Batfrog made a great pic of my game character and even when I type in the URL for it, it doesn't appear as my avatar. Instead what shows is an X and says User Avatar . But NO pic. I even tried different pixel sizes. No luck. The pic itself is 800x600 and the requirement is no more than 150x150. Maybe that's the problem, Idk. Batfrog has windows 7 and apparently its a bit different from my 8.1. Any help would be appreciated. Ty in advance.

[Key]

are you talking about the windows-user avatar picture or the forums avatar picture?

[Lurch]

Frog took a screenshot of my character in the game. He then added KR Lurch to it and sent it via PM to me. He gave me instructions to make it my avatar but it doesn't show. And its for the Forums avatar.

[Key]

are you using the url to the webpage or the url to the image?: post the link he gave you here

[Lurch]

I am using the URL to the image itself. Since it doesn't work with the avatar I decided to make it my sig instead. Still doesn't work. Here is the URL. http://i.imagesafe.org/ad9db2f.jpg. If it won't go to avatar then maybe my sig. I will come up with something else for the avatar later.

[Dopie]

Hey Lurch, saw your thread and just thought I'd whip up something --

It should meet the size requirements, if you wanna use it


URL: http://i.imgur.com/SCm9ReH.jpg

[Lurch]

yes ty that will be fine. That's the skin Key made for me 3 years ago. lol many thanks

[Lurch]

Nope didn't work either. Tried it at 150x150 pixels then 100x100. No go. I give up. I'll just leave them blank I guess. I'm no computer technical wiz obviously. Isn't anything ever EASY? UGH

[Dopie]

Nope didn't work either. Tried it at 150x150 pixels then 100x100. No go. I give up. I'll just leave them blank I guess. I'm no computer technical wiz obviously. Isn't anything ever EASY? UGH

Hey bro, I got you.

Check these steps below, and we'll get you squared away:

Step 1:

Take your cursor to the upper-right hand corner, where the "Welcome,..." is, and click the drop-down and hit "Profile"

Step 2:

Click "Edit Avatar"

Step 3:

Paste in the URL that I provided for the avatar, or any other avatar.
http://i.imgur.com/SCm9ReH.jpg

Step 4:

Success!

Hopefully this helps.

[Yato]

Yup, what Dopie said with a step-to-step is how you get avatar I had one of my avatar, and my sig

[Gollum]

If you're doing your signature too, that requires [img]and[/img] tags. example: [img]linkgoeshere[/img]
You only need to add those to your sig though, avatar should just have the link pasted.

[Lurch]

That's exactly what I did before. still didn't work. Go figure. Maybe there is something in my computer settings I need to change. Idk.

[Dopie]

That's exactly what I did before. still didn't work. Go figure. Maybe there is something in my computer settings I need to change. Idk.

After you hit "Submit" or whatever the button says to accept your new avatar, do you receive an error message of any sorts?

Can you take a screenshot of the page, using your print screen key, or use the Snipping Tool inside of Windows, and upload your screenshot to www.imgur.com, and let us see what happens?

If all else fails, I do believe the phpBB Admin Console does allow Admin's to add/edit a users avatar and signature, and pending how busy they are/how frequently you change yours, this MAY not be a problem to do?

[Lurch]

Put the URL in exactly like Gollum said then got a message saying not possible to determine the size of the image.

[Frog]

I reuploaded it again.. Try and use this link: http://i.imgsafe.org/2059bae.jpg

[Lurch]

Nope Batfrog that didn't work either for either the sig or avatar. I'm done with this but at least others can see what I was TRYING to put in. thx anyway all. Just like with getting UU to work with windows 8, I call it ain't happening.

[Key]

I think there may be something wrong with your account's permissions, but I can't be certain since I don't have the ability to view it. You'll have to personally ask another council member unless they see this post and are able to check.