Hi Sebastian :)
I mean the forum custom icons, see the pict

The mod I use for custom icons is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=244351

Works great for me on vb414. There are less requests like promised.

However I use Absolute path (http://cdn.domain.com/forum/image/buttons vs. images/buttons) in my image_dir style vars and this plugin doesn't seem to support it when I run the "refresh".

Overall I think this is a very significant performance enhancer that VB should have built into the software about 2 years ago. Thank you for writing this add-on and keep it going.

@giorgino
The way you use that mod seems to be no different than the basic vb4 setting (forum prefix).

check our board. We have different icons for almost all our games - starcraft2, tiberium twilight, tiberium wars, red alert3....
www.united-forum.de

I've tried to install your mod that work but it reset the forums custom icons to default icons... what's wrong?

@giorgino
The feature to use forums custom icons is builtin in vBulletin 4. You can add to every forum an own imageprefix, so it will use forums custom icons. If you use the vBulletin imageprefix for your your forums, these icons will instantly added to the sprite.

If you want to further use the Forum Category Icons addon, i can create you a plugin, so this icons will also added.

But i would advise you to use the builtin solution from vBulletin, so you didnt need an extra addon and an extra plugin from us on top of this.
This could make your workload during every vBulletin Update easier (less addons and plugins = less problems)

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@klaus
Can you send me the output, when using an absolute path, via PN? This would help me finding the problem :)

Best regards
Sebastian

Will give it till it can be loaded with less fuss... looks good :D:up:

Ouch Sebastian!
I don't know how to customize each icon per forum basis, with standard vB4 features. Can you advise me a guide to perform this? So I can uninstall the plugin and use yours?

@giorgino

In the ACP go to
-> Forum Manager
-> search for the forum you want to edit
-> edit forum
-> scroll down to 'Style Options'
-> Prefix for Forum Status Images --> add your forum prefix there (you can have a different one for each forum - and you need to add the prefix in your subforums as well, if you want the special icons to show up there). For forums which should use the default icons - do nothing.

you then need icons which are named accordingly
So if your forum prefix is, let's say, 'sc2_'
you need the following additional icons
sc2_forum_new-48.png
sc2_forum_old-48.png
sc2_subforum_new-48.png
sc2_subforum_old-48.png

In your ../statusicons folder.

Unfortunately we can't make the template changes easier. :(

In order to use sprites we need to replace the image codes in those templates. And since images are widely spread around in those templates it is a bit of a hassle to replace that code.

In addition we can't just upload the whole templates cause the code inbetween the image parts might be modified heavily on some boards and shouldn't be replaced.


If anyone has an idea how to make it easier - please let us know.