How to Setup Ecomodder Mileage MPG image in Your Signature

[ps2fixer]

Originally Posted by wmjinman

Just followed the instructions & did mine, too. Thanx a million!

I noticed some guys have the MPG bar graphs in the sig, too. assuming I wanted to brag about my steady improvement with that graph, is the process similar?

Thanx, you guys rock!!
Bill

Seems I didn't get an email for this reply. I think this is what you're looking for.

[img]http://ecomodder.com/forum/fe-graphs/graph7165.gif[/img]

@Jeff88

I thing the images are too wide to do that, I'm not aware of a "mini" version for the image. I think it would look nice as Daox described, image then stats.

[jeff88]

Thanks for the advice guys, I was unaware that I can do two separate pics in the sig. I will play around and see what Daox's suggestion does and try to see if I can get a little beginners luck to make something work.

[jeff88]

Originally Posted by Daox

set it up like this?

<car picture><mpg signature>
<car picture><mpg signature>

Daox, I tried doing it this way, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it right. I uploaded the two pics to Photobucket and then used the images code to put them in the sig, one on top of the other (like a thread post). When I tried to add the second pic, I got an error code for 500 max characters, because the code was kind of long. I switched the code around to switch the pic on top and bottom and it worked within the character movement (know idea...). Then I added in one of the two fuel logs (I had deleted one temporarily for some reason). Now it's saying:

You have included 5 images in your message. You are limited to using 4 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.

Images include use of smilies, the BB code [img] tag and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.
Your signature cannot be longer than 1000 characters including BB code markup.

From what I can tell, I have two pics and two fuel logs (considered pics) and 2 quotes, so I have the 4 max, not 5+. If I don't include the quotes, it seems to work, as if quotes are considered pics. I also can't get the pic and log next to each other like you suggest, I think it's just all too big to fit into the signature.

Originally Posted by ps2fixer

I think the images are too wide to do that, I'm not aware of a "mini" version for the image.

I tried messing around with the size of the log image. The only thing I could find online is two types of coding:

[IMG=500x100]

[IMG width="500" height="100"]

Neither one works to change the image size, it just displays the code, rather than the pic.

[ps2fixer]

For the too many images error, the first quote has a which is counted as a photo, if you removed that, it should work as how you had it setup with out issues when you had no quotes. Max length might be hit, 1000 characters isn't a lot when you have 2 full website addresses for images, 2 links, and the 2 fuel log images.

The [url] code isn't needed, but it is kind of nice to be able to click the fuel log and be able to see the details.

[jeff88]

So I got the max images to work, no problem. I was able to get under the max characters. I was at 1,005 , but what I did was I added the Photobucket code in, but instead of having the link and the pic coding, I left the link and added the pic as a [sigpic]. By doing that, I had the exact same pic, with waaaaay less characters, but it still linked to the PB pic. Of course I can only do that with one of the pics, but that was enough to meet the character requirement.

My only issue is that I can't get the pieces in the order I want. I want either Daox's idea:

<car picture><mpg signature>
<car picture><mpg signature>

or my original plan:

<car picture> <car picture>
<mpg signature><mpg signature>

I tried forcing the size of the mpg signature, by the ways I said before, but it didn't work. I think this might be stuck where it is at this point.

[Daox]

I fixed it for ya. Just had to modify some of the hard returns.

[jeff88]

How did you do that? Every time I deleted the hard return it would delete the next character, usually a [ bracket.

EDIT: So it's only showing up in some of my posts. A couple of them in this thread have it corrected and a couple of them have the old style.

[Daox]

There was an extra one or two in there. It looks like your car images are still a bit too wide though to fit in a normal post. Tweak them and it should all fit. I don't think you can resize an image on the fly with the forum code.

[whatmaycome14]

awesome, thanks!

[jeff88]

So I messed with the photos and got it to *mostly* work. My 4Runner pic works perfectly. I cut off some excess on the side which made the overall length a little smaller and so the pic and MPG image are on the same line.

I got the Corolla to do the same thing, side by side, but I can't seem to get the Corolla pic to be the same size. If I make it smaller, it makes it too small and if I increase the size in Photobucket or my photo editing software, it doesn't load as a bigger image, it stays the same small size. I put another pic in with a lot of extra space, but it's still smaller. I will try taking a pic of the Corolla in the same spot as the 4Runner at the same-ish distance and see if I can crop and size it to work.

Almost there...

EDIT: So after this response, I saw that my 4Runner pic and MPG image are not on the same line. I checked the preview for editing your sig pic and it has it correct, but no in primetime, it is wrong. The Corolla is fine though. Maybe I need to retake a pic of the 4Runner and make it smaller to work correctly.