Well, that's too bad, since I just added one of your features... =/

The other one turned out to be bit too much of a hassle code-wise for a not-particularly-useful feature, so I thought it wasn't really worth it in the long run. After all, if you want to see somebody's adoptables, you can just view their profile.

I like the idea of this. I have a collectible card site. I was wondering If I can hatch an image of a card. If I can that would be perfect.

Can the Admin setup a page that the users can pick from?

Can users trade them?

Also are there any websites that I can see a working demo on this and what pages it effects?

Looking forward to the repsonses :)

I like this idea but I would like to have some creatures with it.. I wouldnt know the first thing about creating them.

I second the motion to have a link or the egg within the postbit ...

Once again.. are you going to supply the gifs for us to have a selection to add.. it would be nice if you could..pretty please

cool hack.

how about an option to make your adoptable turn into a fighting creature and pit peoples adoptables against eachother? The adoptables which are more mature can get new features or something :p

You could challenge someone's adoptable if they have set their status to be available for fights.

maybe an adoptable cemetery if there's like a life expectancy for each adoptable.

or what about adoptables that require care? maybe combine this with vbplaza/vbux so that users can user their points to buy stuff for their adoptable. (food, water, collar, etc) And you can use the vbplaza setting to display gifts, but display stuff that the adoptables have instead.

maybe a runaway center for adoptables that have left their owners do to lack of care.

This is such a cute idea!!! Can you...or anyone...supply some pet images though. I don't have a clue how to make them myself! :confused:

These kind of hacks are always very popular... I am sure some people are going to worship you for releasing this. =)

You can make any image you want hatch from the egg.

I'm not sure what you mean by the second question - there is already a page listing all available adoptables which users can access.

They can not be traded directly at the moment, but such a feature could probably be implemented in later versions.

This doesn't affect any existing pages except the user profile page - the rest of the adoption center is contained in a new file that you upload when you install the hack. The other template edit is just to add the adoption center link to the navbar.

As for a working demo, well, on my site guests can't see adoptables and my test forum is not accessible from any other IPs than mine, so I guess somebody else would have to show you one. =/ At least you have the screenshots.

Well, the thing is that I'm no better at it than you are. I let my users create adoptables for each other, and then just watch on the sidelines. :p So sorry, I'm afraid I can't supply you with pet images.

I think you're looking for something more like P3tz. That's a full-fledged virtual pet thing that's compatible with currency systems where the pets can fight each other and need care. This is meant just to be a simple little thing if you're not looking for all those features and just want your users to be able to adopt something and then leave it alone.

I also second having the adopted animal on the postbit, instead of the profile. I'm sure this would not be hard to do though. I'm sure it's just moving things around. Or even in both.

I understand you cannot make the adoptables, I dont' think I can either. I've been asking members to step up and make them. But maybe we can set up some sort of sharing here, so that if one forurm has a bunch and they want to share, the other people can use their animals too. Just an idea.

The problem with putting adoptables in the postbit is mostly all the queries it adds to every thread view.