NetNessie
07-27-2005, 09:18 AM
I've had this idea for a while now, but havent really worked towards it. I decided that now would be a good time to get it started.
Everyone who has an avatar has changed it at one period or another for a celebration or holiday. Every year members of this forum alter thier avatars around to suit Halloween, Christmas, Winter-een-mass etc.
What I propose is a automated system, that does it all for you. You upload your avatars, set what avatar you want for what occasional or time period. And chronological jobs do the rest. For example, when you set up your account, you will have a file like:
<font color="#999999">somehost.com/avatix/netnessie/3drealms.gif </font>
You set up your profile on the forum so that it refers to that file, then whenever its time for a change, Avatix automatically replaces the current avatar with a new one. The forums you visit arent altered a bit in the process, all they do is refer to a file which is replaced routinely.
This system involves using something I've titled as "shuffles". Each shuffle is a specific rotation of avatars, you can see a demo-page here. (http://lazymoon.x3fusion.com/private/avatix/shuffle.htm).
Within each shuffle you setup your avatars. You can specifiy specific holidays, or you can manually enter a date range for your birthday or another event. You can also do a random shuffle, so that when the avatar is not set from a specific occasion, it will randomize between a pool of avatars on a weekly basis.
This demo-page which can hopefully explain this is here. (http://lazymoon.x3fusion.com/private/avatix/details.htm)
Shuffles allow you have have a shuffle of avatars for differnet sites. That way you can cylce avatars for steam on the steam forums, or avatars of Duke for 3DR.
I can do the web design work myself as well as create the relational database, I just need someone to help to put together the server-side code to get this baby started (PHP & MySQL is prefered).
Anyone interested in helping me get this project started?
Everyone who has an avatar has changed it at one period or another for a celebration or holiday. Every year members of this forum alter thier avatars around to suit Halloween, Christmas, Winter-een-mass etc.
What I propose is a automated system, that does it all for you. You upload your avatars, set what avatar you want for what occasional or time period. And chronological jobs do the rest. For example, when you set up your account, you will have a file like:
<font color="#999999">somehost.com/avatix/netnessie/3drealms.gif </font>
You set up your profile on the forum so that it refers to that file, then whenever its time for a change, Avatix automatically replaces the current avatar with a new one. The forums you visit arent altered a bit in the process, all they do is refer to a file which is replaced routinely.
This system involves using something I've titled as "shuffles". Each shuffle is a specific rotation of avatars, you can see a demo-page here. (http://lazymoon.x3fusion.com/private/avatix/shuffle.htm).
Within each shuffle you setup your avatars. You can specifiy specific holidays, or you can manually enter a date range for your birthday or another event. You can also do a random shuffle, so that when the avatar is not set from a specific occasion, it will randomize between a pool of avatars on a weekly basis.
This demo-page which can hopefully explain this is here. (http://lazymoon.x3fusion.com/private/avatix/details.htm)
Shuffles allow you have have a shuffle of avatars for differnet sites. That way you can cylce avatars for steam on the steam forums, or avatars of Duke for 3DR.
I can do the web design work myself as well as create the relational database, I just need someone to help to put together the server-side code to get this baby started (PHP & MySQL is prefered).
Anyone interested in helping me get this project started?