Making the Pictures in Social Groups viewable by non-members?

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Hi everyone,

I'm now running vBulletin 3.7 beta 4 on my forum and we've been having some fun with getting members involved with the social groups.

We want to utilise the social groups as sort of 'picture databases', where each one is for specific type of thing, and people who have that can join and submit their pictures of it. However, I want the pictures to be viewable by everyone, not just the social group members -- I don't want them to have to join just to view the pictures. The way the social groups currently work, users can look at all the thumbnails, but if they click on any thumbnails, it tells them they can't view it and asks them to join.

While poking around, I found this code in group.php:

PHP Code:

if ($group['membertype'] != 'member' AND !can_moderate(0, 'caneditalbumpicture'))
    {
        if ($vbulletin->userinfo['permissions']['socialgrouppermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_socialgrouppermissions['canjoingroups'] AND can_join_group($group))
        {
            standard_error(fetch_error('must_be_group_member_view_add_pictures_join_x', 'group.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=join&groupid=' . $group['groupid']));
        }
        else
        {
            standard_error(fetch_error('must_be_group_member_view_add_pictures'));
        }
    } 


I figured that was the basic code that was stopping them viewing the pictures as non-members, so I removed it to see what would happen. Now, non-members can click on the images, however, when the image page comes up, all the content is viewable but the image itself will not load.

I've tested this on multiple pages and browsers with our normal user 'test' account versus my admin account, and it's the same -- the normal account can see the picture page but the picture does not load. (Whereas for my admin the picture of course loads no problem.)

I've poked around further but I cannot see what else could be stopping the picture itself from loading. I'm not familiar enough with php, coding, or the way vBulletin works in general to really easily figure this one out, so I thought I would just ask in case anyone else had any idea?

Thanks in advance for any help!