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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 09-28-2007, 08:44 AM
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1) There's a mod to use other points systems, see livingavatars.com
2) It is integrated
3) What errors? This is working extremely well for a large number of people.

It's very easy to be critical, this is a great mod and the work involved in creating it should be respected.
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Old 09-29-2007, 03:17 PM
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Can the user have the option to the Living Avatar as well as their own custom avatar or does it replace the avatar system?
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Hi

I run a German forum and I really like living avatars but upgrading is such a pain in the ass because I have to manually search all files for English text and translate it every time.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use phrases in the next release.

I do the German translation for you for free then.

Thank you in advance

StarBuG
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Originally Posted by StarBuG View Post
Hi

I run a German forum and I really like living avatars but upgrading is such a pain in the ass because I have to manually search all files for English text and translate it every time.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use phrases in the next release.

I do the German translation for you for free then.

Thank you in advance

StarBuG
I second that request :up:
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Can the user have the option to the Living Avatar as well as their own custom avatar or does it replace the avatar system?
You can have either or. This adds an addition to the avatar system, it does not replace it.
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Old 10-04-2007, 07:29 PM
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hi
test on local . when upgrade it see this error

Living Avatars Database Error

Invalid SQL: SELECT value FROM la_settings WHERE varname = 'version'
Error: Table 'forum.la_settings' doesn't exist
Error number: 1146
Date: Thursday 04th of October 2007 08:28:17 PM
File: http://127.0.0.1/vb/living_avatars/install/upgrade.php
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Old 10-05-2007, 12:26 PM
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I was hoping to see this hack integrated within vbulletin. and it has its own point system? hmm not such a good add-on as i thought

1) I already have a point system, using an other one just for LA? no ty

2) its not integrated into vbulletin...

3) I get errors...
I'm not sure why you figure that.

1. The point system can be easily converted with a simple file edit.

2. Um, yes it is.

3. That's not the mod's fault, since it's apparent that it's working for most folk. You likely have another mod that's interfering.
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hi
test on local . when upgrade it see this error

Living Avatars Database Error

Invalid SQL: SELECT value FROM la_settings WHERE varname = 'version'
Error: Table 'forum.la_settings' doesn't exist
Error number: 1146
Date: Thursday 04th of October 2007 08:28:17 PM
File: http://127.0.0.1/vb/living_avatars/install/upgrade.php
testin in my host . see this error too
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Old 10-06-2007, 03:22 AM
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Hi! First I would like to thank you for your wonderful mod! It is great, and I can see it growing much bigger with many many addition packs users will make

However I have one problem using the mod with my website, my forum is currently behind an aMember user authentification script and your mod does not play nicely with the cookies generated with it. vBulletin is compatible with it.

Here are the cookies created by aMember:

Quote:
_amember_ru
webbys
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
154988032
29898483
414570752
29886413
*
_amember_rp
d8578edf8458ce06fbc5bb76a58c5ca4
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
154988032
29898483
414570752
29886413
*
Here are the cookies created by vBulletin:
Quote:
bblastvisit
1191643103
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
2626541952
29959838
604730752
29886413
*
bblastactivity
0
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
2626541952
29959838
604730752
29886413
*
And the cookies created by your mod:

Quote:
bbuserid
4
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
4226607360
29959840
2202606160
29886415
*
bbpassword
7e3137e1a79632329d14b91e63d6b5be
www.dogtrickacademy.com/
1024
4226607360
29959840
2202606160
29886415
*
Is there any way to modify the mod cookies handling so that it can use the cookies created by aMember? The user login and password are both stored in aMember and vBulletin.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you!

Jean
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could you do this with cars??

Preferably the acura integra and rsx.

Diff paint colors, spoiler options, rims.
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