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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