How do i get an avatar?

[sunnyjacob]

You know how sometimes when you log onto eq2players.com, in the box in the middle of all the equipment, there is a picture of the player? Well how do i do that?

[Seagoat]

<p>That's called a paperdoll.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  You can take a paperdoll screenshot in-game by using <b>Shift+PrintScreen</b>.</p><p>All the following information is assuming they haven't changed the way paperdolls work since the last time I took one:</p><p>It's saved in your EverQuest II directory on your hard drive, and it's named "<b>paperdoll_charactername.jpg</b>" (unless you've turned off your JPEG format in your screenshot options; then it should be named "<b>paperdoll_charactername.tga</b>."</p><p>The game will overwrite the paperdoll every time you press <b>Shift+PrintScreen</b>!  This means you can only take one at a time, so look in your EQ2 folder to make sure you don't want to keep the one that's there before taking a new one.</p><p>To make it appear on your EQ2 Players character profile, you need to take the following steps:</p><ol><li>Go to the <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">EQ2 Players</a> website.  (Sign in if you're not already.)</li><li>Click "<b>Characters</b>" in the menu on the <i>left</i>.</li><li>Click the character's name in the menu on the <i>right</i> of the character you want to upload a paperdoll for.</li><li>In the tabs above your character profile, click the red "<b>Admin</b>" tab.</li><li>Below the "<b>Admin</b>" tab, click "<b>Manage Images</b>."  [This isn't the same as "<b>Manage Screenshots</b>!"]</li><li>Under the "<b>Profile Image</b>" header, click "<b>Browse...</b>" and locate your character's paperdoll image.</li><li>Once the filename appears in the text box next to the "<b>Browse...</b>" button, click the "<b>Upload to Server</b>" button.</li></ol><p>Tada!  You should now see your paperdoll image on your character profile.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>If you don't like the way paperdoll screenshots look (who does??), you can always request that a paperdoll be made for you by one of the artists on the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/show.m?forum_id=2603" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Signatures forum</a>.  Any 170x305 image will work, really.</p>

[Alenna]

<cite>Seagoat wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>That's called a paperdoll.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" />  You can take a paperdoll screenshot in-game by using <b>Shift+PrintScreen</b>.</p><p>All the following information is assuming they haven't changed the way paperdolls work since the last time I took one:</p><p>It's saved in your EverQuest II directory on your hard drive, and it's named "<b>paperdoll_charactername.jpg</b>" (unless you've turned off your JPEG format in your screenshot options; then it should be named "<b>paperdoll_charactername.tga</b>."</p><p>The game will overwrite the paperdoll every time you press <b>Shift+PrintScreen</b>!  This means you can only take one at a time, so look in your EQ2 folder to make sure you don't want to keep the one that's there before taking a new one.</p><p>To make it appear on your EQ2 Players character profile, you need to take the following steps:</p><ol><li>Go to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/" target="_blank">EQ2 Players</a> website.  (Sign in if you're not already.)</li><li>Click "<b>Characters</b>" in the menu on the <i>left</i>.</li><li>Click the character's name in the menu on the <i>right</i> of the character you want to upload a paperdoll for.</li><li>In the tabs above your character profile, click the red "<b>Admin</b>" tab.</li><li>Below the "<b>Admin</b>" tab, click "<b>Manage Images</b>."  [This isn't the same as "<b>Manage Screenshots</b>!"]</li><li>Under the "<b>Profile Image</b>" header, click "<b>Browse...</b>" and locate your character's paperdoll image.</li><li>Once the filename appears in the text box next to the "<b>Browse...</b>" button, click the "<b>Upload to Server</b>" button.</li></ol><p>Tada!  You should now see your paperdoll image on your character profile.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p><p>If you don't like the way paperdoll screenshots look (who does??), you can always request that a paperdoll be made for you by one of the artists on the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/show.m?forum_id=2603" target="_blank">Signatures forum</a>.  Any 170x305 image will work, really.</p></blockquote>do I shift+PrintScreen at my character sheet or when I'm actually in game and if in game I am guessing I make sure my character looking out at me from the screen. I have some screen shots I took of my characters from the character sheet saved on my computer can I use those?

[Seagoat]

<p>Hehe, you can't take a screenshot of what you see in-game unless you're in-game!  <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  So yes, Shift+PrintScreen while in-game and you'll get a paperdoll snapshot that you can use.</p><p>As I mentioned above, any 170x305 image will do, so if you'd rather use a different image, just crop/shrink it down to size and upload that one instead.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Alenna]

<cite>Seagoat wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Hehe, you can't take a screenshot of what you see in-game unless you're in-game!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" />  So yes, Shift+PrintScreen while in-game and you'll get a paperdoll snapshot that you can use.</p><p>As I mentioned above, any 170x305 image will do, so if you'd rather use a different image, just crop/shrink it down to size and upload that one instead.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></p></blockquote>Do I have to save the screen shot on my computer or is it saved automatically in a folder on the EQII server for that character? please excuse these questions.sorry if I"m asking dumb questions I just want to know the mechanics of it.

[Seagoat]

<p>No problem!  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  I <3 questions!</p><p>When you take the screenshot in-game, it's saved to your computer in your EQ2 directory.  The poor game servers would have buckled under the weight of my many thousands of screenshots ages ago if they were saved there, hehe.</p>

[Alenna]

<cite>Seagoat wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>No problem!  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" />  I <3 questions!</p><p>When you take the screenshot in-game, it's saved to your computer in your EQ2 directory.  The poor game servers would have buckled under the weight of my many thousands of screenshots ages ago if they were saved there, hehe.</p></blockquote>Thanks did a trial with my New alt kerra Warden last night while she was adventuring and it worked.  so soon my Main will have hersbtw I tried to delete a screenshot I accidentl uploaded and got told I needed to put a check in the checkbox there is no checkbox to put a check in how do I delete the screenshot from the manage screenshots in Admin?

[Cadori Seraphim]

Is this feature currently broken? I am uploading my image but after the page refreshes (like it loaded) I see nothing.. just the same screen with no image and the box to upload.Adding: I just tried this with IE as well (as I was using firefox before) and still nothing <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Cadori Seraphim]

/sighThis is still broken for me.. Why does this site never work? I pay for the extra features of teh EQ2Players site and its always jacked up.

[Hellswrath]

Did you make sure that you are uploading a paperdoll screen shot and not a normal screen shot?