Maybe more avatars on different genres.

$ The Millionaire $

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Maybe more avatars on different genres.

$ The Millionaire $

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How about flags for different countries?

$ The Millionaire $

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Re: Avatars
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Oct 15 2020 12:54 pm

How about flags for different countries?

Yes, because I need to show my support for various nations that some may not like. ;)
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Re: Avatars
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Thu Oct 15 2020 12:54 pm

How about flags for different countries?

Yes, because I need to show my support for various nations that some may not like. ;)

Kurisu Yamato

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

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Maybe more avatars on different genres.

$ The Millionaire $

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How about the looney tunes characters too?

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Thu Oct 15 2020 09:04 pm

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

Ah yes, what better place to show my support of Moloch than on bulletin board systems!
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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Thu Oct 15 2020 09:04 pm

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

Ah yes, what better place to show my support of Moloch than on bulletin board systems!

Well, if you were rastafarian, we'd at least twist one up :-P

Anyone want to do a gunga.bin ... or would that be cana.bin :-)

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Thu Oct 15 2020 09:04 pm

Yes, because I need to show my support for various nations that some may not like. ;)

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

I'm still looking for a great Allah ANSI.

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: BlaZ to Mortifis on Thu Oct 15 2020 08:59 pm

Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Thu Oct 15 2020 09:04 pm

Yes, because I need to show my support for various nations that some may not like. ;)

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

I'm still looking for a great Allah ANSI.

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

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Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: the doctor to DIGITAL MAN on Fri Oct 16 2020 11:53 am

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

<shrug>

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to BlaZ on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:50 am

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

Isn't "Allah" just their word for "god"?

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Fri Oct 16 2020 02:08 am

Re: Re: Avatars
By: Mortifis to Kurisu on Thu Oct 15 2020 09:04 pm

while we're at it, we might as well have a collection of religious symbols and idols as well :-P

Ah yes, what better place to show my support of Moloch than on bulletin board systems!

Well, if you were rastafarian, we'd at least twist one up :-P

I was already considering a marijuana leaf; now I'm going to make that and an ankh and the cross-buster.

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to BlaZ on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:50 am

I'm still looking for a great Allah ANSI.

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

probably both. i live with a muslim so i can ask her.
but pretty sure it's both.
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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:49 pm

Re: Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to BlaZ on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:50 am

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

Isn't "Allah" just their word for "god"?

yeah. you probably arent supposed to draw allah or use his real name.

i'm wondering if they can draw jesus because he's considered a prophet by muslims.



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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to BlaZ on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:50 am

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

Isn't "Allah" just their word for "god"?

Among Muslims.

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Re: Re: Avatars
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:49 pm

Re: Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to BlaZ on Fri Oct 16 2020 12:50 am

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

Isn't "Allah" just their word for "god"?

It is. But you're not supposed to draw him/it or their prophet, Mohamed. I think it's Mohamed you're not supposed to draw pictures of, it's a major offense to the Muslim religion (I think... I don't know much about it).

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On 10/16/2020 12:50 AM, Digital Man wrote:

I'm still looking for a great Allah ANSI.

Is it Allah or Mohamed we're not supposed to draw?

IIRC image depicitions of sentient beings in general are frowned upon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/29371/is-drawing-god-allowed-in-islam

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Howdy,

I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice work :)

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Re: Avatars
By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Jan 31 2021 10:08 am

Howdy,

I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice work :)

Thanks. :-) It was my intention all along, but I didn't consider that most sysops would only import SYNCDATA via one network technology (e.g. QWKnet) while seeing messages from those same systems/users on other network technologies (e.g. FTN) - so there was a gap there in the association between the 2 net-types and thus avatars weren't usually working on FTNs. It was pretty easy to fix but does require that systems update to SBBSecho v3.12 to see the benefit.
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On 01-31-21 10:08, deon wrote to Digital Man <=-

Howdy,

I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice
work :)

Now if only the author of Multimail could add avatar support, so I can see them. :)


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On 1/31/2021 12:36 AM, Tony Langdon wrote:

I just noticed that avatars are workingin FTN fed echo areas - nice
work :)

Now if only the author of Multimail could add avatar support, so I can see them. :)

You'd need access to the SBBSDATA echo as part of your multimail feed,
and it would need to keep a local database.

I do think a web service lookup would be a good idea for other clients
to integrate with. Though it might bloat the output, even having the
author avatar as a header in the qwk packet as an option for each
message or extension file might be an idea as well.
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On 02-04-21 05:06, Tracker1 wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Now if only the author of Multimail could add avatar support, so I can see them. :)

You'd need access to the SBBSDATA echo as part of your multimail feed,
and it would need to keep a local database.

Well, the first part is easy, given that I would be accessing my BBS.

I do think a web service lookup would be a good idea for other clients
to integrate with. Though it might bloat the output, even having the author avatar as a header in the qwk packet as an option for each
message or extension file might be an idea as well.

Sounds like it needs a bit of thought. I haven't looked into avatars at all yet, because for me they currently serve no practical purpose.


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In my /sbbs/data/qnet directory I've got 645 *.avatars.ini files, however in the avatar chooser it only shows me a total os 272. Am I missing some step or something? AVAT-IN and AVAT-OUT run several times a day.

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Re: Avatars
By: nelgin to Digital Man on Fri Sep 26 2025 12:48 pm

In my /sbbs/data/qnet directory I've got 645 *.avatars.ini files, however in the avatar chooser it only shows me a total os 272. Am I missing some step or something? AVAT-IN and AVAT-OUT run several times a day.

data/qnet/*.avatars.ini are *personal* avatars of QWKnet users. text/avatars/*.bin are avatar collections available to users of your BBS to use as their own personal avatar.

For more details:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:avatars
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Re: Avatars
By: Digital Man to nelgin on Fri Sep 26 2025 11:47:44

In my /sbbs/data/qnet directory I've got 645 *.avatars.ini files, however
in the avatar chooser it only shows me a total os 272. Am I missing some
step or something? AVAT-IN and AVAT-OUT run several times a day.

data/qnet/*.avatars.ini are *personal* avatars of QWKnet users. text/avatars/*.bin are avatar collections available to users of your BBS to use as their own personal avatar.

For more details:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:avatars

So if i create a custom avatar and have AVAT-OUT (?avatars export) running,
the custom avatar will be on all DOVEnet BBSes as long as they have AVAT-IN running?
And if i have AVAT-OUT changed to ?avatars export -share, the custom avatars of the users become chooseable for other users on DOVEnet BBSes?
Or is a custom Avatar usable by the user who has created it only always?

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Re: Avatars
By: Mindsurfer to Digital Man on Sun Sep 28 2025 06:21 pm

For more details:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:avatars

So if i create a custom avatar and have AVAT-OUT (?avatars export) running, the custom avatar will be on all DOVEnet BBSes as long as they have AVAT-IN running?

Correct, as in, your custom avatar will be displayed along with your content (e.g. network-posted messages).

And if i have AVAT-OUT changed to ?avatars export -share, the custom avatars of the users become chooseable for other users on DOVEnet BBSes?

No, -share is for exporting custom avatar *collections* typically created by the sysop (not users). I think the documentation covers this pretty well:
https://wiki.synchro.net/module:avatars

Or is a custom Avatar usable by the user who has created it only always?

A custom personal user avatar is not available in the avatar chooser for other users to easily/automatically reuse (whether the avatar was exported to a network or not).
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