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Living Avatars
Version: 1.2.0, by subduck subduck is offline
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Category: Major Additions - Version: 3.8.1 Rating:
Released: 04-30-2007 Last Update: 03-02-2009 Installs: 563
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Introducing Living Avatars!

Today is a great day and I have something really cool that some of you are going to love! It's called Living Avatars, a new vBulletin addon that I've been working on for almost one year.

This program will allow your users to customize their avatars by using the mouse to drag and move items around (items such as clothing pieces, etc). In order to collect items, you need to spend points, the more you post on a forum the more points you get! Thus, Grow your Forum with Living Avatars!

Tour

Click here for the tour movie.



Here is how it works in detail:

1) Download and install Living Avatars to vBulletin (install instructions below).
2) Once installed, go to the Living Avatars admin panel and click 'forum integration'.
3) The user profiles of your members will now have an extra link:



4) Now, the more a user posts on your forum, the more points he or she will earn. If a user has posted 500 times, and then you install Living Avatars, then that user will start with 500 points.

5) Once users have a few points, they can then start spending their points to collect items:



6) Now that they have collected a few items, they can create their ultra cool avatar! Check it out:



I highlighted the canvas in red, in that box (the canvas) you can use your mouse to drag items around. It seriously works beautifully.

7) Now, press the 'Save Avatar' button and your avatar on vBulletin will be updated:



And that's it! Cool yeah?!

Ok, so on with the install instructions:

Installation Instructions
Installation is very simple, just follow these steps and you shouldn't have any problems (if so, then I'm sorry and I'll try and help you out asap!).

1) Download & Extract living_avatars.zip
2) FTP the living_avatars folder to your forum
Example: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/living_avatars/
3) Run Setup: forum/living_avatars/setup/
4) CHMOD the Living Avatars 'avatars' folder to 777 (this folder: /living_avatars/avatars/)
5) Delete the setup folder (/living_avatars/setup/)

Now that Living Avatars is installed, go to the admin panel of Living Avatars and click the 'Forum Integration' link, from there you can press one link which will update the vBulletin modifyavatar template to insert the Living Avatars link.

Upgrade Instructions

1) Download & Extract living_avatars.zip
2) FTP the living_avatars folder to your forum (overwriting previous Living Avatar files)
Example: http://www.yoursite.com/forums/living_avatars/
3) Run Setup: living_avatars/setup/
4) Delete the setup folder (/living_avatars/setup/)

Uninstall Instructions
1) If you enabled the forum integration link from the LA Admin Panel, then login to the LA Admin Panel and disable it.

2) Drop these tables:
la_admins
la_avatars
la_groups
la_items
la_items_purchased
la_packs
la_points_spent
la_positions
la_settings

3) Delete the living_avatars/ folder.

Why should I use Living Avatars?
"Grow your forum with Living Avatars" - Simply that! Not only is Living Avatars a lot of fun to use but it's also addicting. Users will want to post on your site in order to gain enough 'points' to purchase a certain item (ex: Sword of Doom!). Imagine having certain items that are rare & expensive, such as "Dracula's Cape" which can only be purchased 3 times and costs 50 points (aka posts)...get it?

Where can I download more Avatar Packs?
You can download free user created avatar packs here:
Avatar Packs

How can I create Avatar Packs?
Please read this tutorial if you are interested in creating avatar packs:
http://www.livingavatars.com/help/p2_articleid/2

LA 120 Released
+ New Frontend & Backend
+ New theme editor

LA 115 Released
+ Better vBulletin integration

LA 114 Released
+ Online/Offline feature now works correctly.
+ LA admins can be deleted from the admin panel.
+ Fixed a positioning bug in the canvas.
+ Fixed IPB and SMF userid/avatarid conflict.
+ Fixed PHPBB3 download.php file change.

LA 113 Released
+ SMF Support (1.1 -> 1.3)
+ Better Forum Link Integration.
+ Less Warning Messages.
+ 'Bring to Top' is now used.

LA 112 Released
+ Added IPB 2.3 Integration.

LA 111 Released
+ Added phpBB3 Integration.
+ Fixed Crop Tool.
+ Better LA link integration for phpBB2.
+ Fixed a bug that caused avatars not to show up in the forum.

LA 110 Released
Updates & Fixed Bugs
+ Database changes, redid a lot of the LA Grouping logic.
+ You can only reinstall LA if logged in as admin.
+ Fixed 'Items Misplacement Issue'.
+ Fixed mysql error when adding admin with high userid value.
+ Items & groups an be moved around & deleted.
+ Removed admin/forumlinks.php file.
+ Add/Remove Forum link added to settings page.
+ New layout for admin panel.
+ New groups can be added.

LA 102 Released
+ Avatar Packs can be upgraded.
+ Avatar Packs can be uninstalled.
+ Minor changes to the design layout of certain pages.
+ Fixed a points remaining calculation bug.
+ Fixed a mysql_connect() database warning for vB users.
+ Other small misc fixes.

LA 101 Released
+ Better error checking when saving avatars.
+ Update to work with the vBulletin File System.
+ Fixed some vBulletin & phpBB integration issues

Always Backup your Database before Upgrading
Living Avatars might have database changes during the upgrade. Please, take the extra time and backup the living avatars tables (the tables that are prefixed with 'la_' in your forum database) before upgrading to new versions. I always do as much as testing as possible before releasing updates but it's still better to be cautious.

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Old 11-23-2008, 06:39 PM
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cant get this to install on vb3.74 just keeps coming up with mysql error
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I see this has been asked several times by other members but there has not been an answer posted yet as to what could be the issue here. Everything worked great on my forum for over a year now until today when I got a "You do not have access to this area" message. Nothing has been changed on the forum so I am not sure what could have caused this. Reinstalled and still do not have access.
OK, I fixed this. I am going to attempt to explain how I did it. I am sure that there is a much easier way but I am not very good at db stuff so it was a lot of trial and error for me.

I dropped the table la_admin
Rebuilt it manually using the MYSQL operatons to recreate the table using 3 fields. Using MYSQL insert I recreated the field values using the info that I found in the install.php file.
Code:
  $DB->query("CREATE TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "admins (
  userid     TINYINT(3)   UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  username   VARCHAR(64)          NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  email      VARCHAR(64)          NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (userid)
  ) " );
Then I just inserted myself and the other admins in the values. I had to go about creating the table manually because I kept getting syntax errors with the code above.

Anyway, I now have access back and I hope that helps someone else out with the same problem
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Come back to us subduck!!

I'm ready to make some new packs! hehe

Your forum is offline
If subduck is no longer supporting this, is there a way to have another coder expand on it? I am willing to pay at this point.
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If subduck is no longer supporting this, is there a way to have another coder expand on it? I am willing to pay at this point.
If you are operating on your DB rebuild, what exactly is it that you need help with?
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The site will be opening again this month
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Yay!!!!
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I am concerned about it breaking again when we upgrade to 3.8. Anyone done this yet with LA? My members have also suggested several enhancements such as the ability to return and trade limited edition items. I use it in conjunction with vbcredits. I have a great graphics person who has extended our collection of items considerably and it is an integral part of our forums.
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The site will be opening again this month
THANK YOU!!!! I am happy to help support this mod. Do you plan to have it compatible with 3.8? Will you be working on trading or returning items?
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Old 01-04-2009, 03:43 AM
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TOO COOL

Installed!

Working fine so far on 3.8.0 RC2
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The site will be opening again this month
Good to know. I've been wanting to do a major series of packs for the next version.
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