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Managing your chat avatar

HOW-TO

1) Chat avatars are based on your nickname specified in Preferences. If you don't assign a nickname, the system uses your username.

2) Upload an image file that matches your nickname exactly (case is important) and ends in .jpg or .gif or .png So, for example nickname Jim would upload Jim.jpg or Jim.gif or Jim.png as an avatar. If your name has a space in it, go ahead and let the upload replace the space with an underscore _ because the system will be able to find your avatar anyway. (Please note that jpg, gif, or png, must be lower case.)

3) Try to keep the file size small - a few kilobytes is reasonable. 50k or larger is stretching it. The image should look good at 50 x 50 size.

4) Whichever image file is the most recently uploaded is the one that is used. In other words, if you upload a myname.jpg and then later want to use an animated gif, just upload myname.gif If you want to go back to using the .jpg file later, just re-upload it (and overlay the old one) or revert to the older one and it will start to be used.

5) You can use a different avatar simply by uploading a new one of the same name and replacing the old one. Note that the wiki software sometimes takes 20-30 minutes to update images you replace that already existed. If you reload the image page several times this often kicks it into refreshing.

6) If you change your nickname, you will also change avatars because each unique nickname can have its own avatar.

An Avatar Collection

This is a collection of images that would make good avatars. If you find images that you think "hey this would be a cool avatar" - upload it and put in this gallery to share with others who might be looking for something to use. Click here for more avatars.