why not use png instead of gif, gets better edges then

It uses both. When you construct an avatar pack, you have to make each image in both versions for browsers that don't support PNGs.

I installed this in my 3.7 and it works fine, but the page that displays when a user creates an avatar does not look anything like my site at all.

How do I make this fit within the theme of my site?

There are CSS controls in the Living Avatar Admin CP that let you change the colors and font styles.

But that does not make it look like it is part of my site. What about all the navigation and header logos that are part of my forums? I need this to look like it is a natural part of my site, not just the colors and fonts.

LA doesn't do that inherently. The best you can do is add the appropriate font colors and styles.

You can also do what I did for my forum. I created a separate vB page with the header and footer, and put the LA pages inside a resizable iframe. It's not terribly difficult to learn, but it will require a little bit of effort on your part to make look the way you want. Learning how to make your own pages is a useful thing to know anyway for other projects you'll want to incorporate down the road.

Here's the two tutorials:

How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates)
Iframe SSI script II

Here's what an example of how I did it. Log in using test as both a username and password:

http://www.cogonline.net/forums/living_avatars.php

Thanks for the help. It is a bummer though that a mod that claims to be compatible with vbulletin does not offer a way to make a mandatory page that all users must use actually look like it is part of the forum.

This was very good advise. Those two pages were the perfect solution. I also had to modify to the "living_avatars/includes/functions.php" file to make it run a bit smoother. For example, I no longer needed the "Return to Forum" link, so I removed it. And because it was in an inline frame, I added "target="_top" to some of the links. And anything in the LA code that referred to index.hp, I changed to my LivingAvatars_vb.php file.

If anybody else needs help in this area, send me a pm and I will help you.

Yeah, I've been meaning to make the same changes to mine, just haven't gotten around to it yet And so far, only one of our members has used the LA, so I figured I could get to some other things first (going to do some avatar packs once I get my Wacom Tablet). I'm glad it worked out for you though.

I've always presumed that since most mods use the forum header and footer, that there must be a particular issue with this mod that subduck decided to leave that out. Maybe an issue with custom headers and footers perhaps.

Well, if you ever need help doing it, just send me a pm