Never seen that myself. Some people have .gifs that cycle on a timer, though.
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Never seen that myself. Some people have .gifs that cycle on a timer, though.
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Leech is one of the players who's avatar does this. I'm not entirely sure how it's done. Maybe he will pop in and tell us.
It's actually fairly simple, but requires some tools not available to every person. Most importantly, you need a server host which allows server-side scripting, such as PHP. Depending on the forum software you're going to use the image on, the server might need to allow PHP (or your script of choice) files to be named as an image file, since some forums enforce linking to PNGs, GIFs, or JPGs.
Once you've got such a web host, you upload the images you want to it, and create a server-side script which will randomly pick one of those images, and then either redirect the browser from the script to the image, or print out the image data with the correct MIME type
Edit: an example script --
<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre><?php
$fileList = array();
$handle = opendir('.');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
$file_info = pathinfo($file);
if (strtolower($file_info['extension']) == 'png') {
$fileList[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);
$imageNumber = time() % count($fileList);
$img = $fileList[$imageNumber];
header ('Content-type: image/png');
readfile($img);
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The above reads the folder where the script is stored to find any PNG files. Then it picks a random PNG out of the list and displays it.
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I have a php script to display a random image as an avatar, but I could have sworn that when I tried to use it here, it didn't work... Hmm...
P.S. - I tried to make a script similar to that, except I wanted it to grab any PNG, GIF, or JPG in the directory, but it would never work. PHP hates me. 
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Mine is a php script that randomizes images in a specific directory. Do a search for "PHP image randomizer" and you'll get several examples and instructions.
Nifty!
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Yes, I like Force Fields.
I've seen some people who have avatars that change repeatedly. Every time you reset the page, the Avatar changes. How do you go about doing this?
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