How to create language packs/avatar sets

[Zef Hemel]

Language pack
Right now you will have to create two seperate packages for a language pack (if you have translated images too):

• Go to Admin > Package Manager > Create a new package
• Put the filename of your language file (assuming you already uploaded it to your YaBB SE directory) in "Directory to pack" so for example: dutch.lng or german.lng
• Leave the "Root directory" empty
• Fill in the filename of the language pack in "Filename of package" make sure its extention is .lp.yp so for example dutch.lp.yp or german.lp.yp
• Press "Go!"
• If you translated the images too:
• Create a directory in your YaBB SE directory, for example "dutchimages" in there create a directory YaBBImages copy/upload all your translated image files there
• Go to Admin > Package Manager > Create a new package
• Fill "Directory to pack" with the directory you created for your images (in my example dutchimages)
• Fill "Root directory" with the same path as "Directory to pack"
• "Filename of package" should contain the filename of the package to put these files in, for example dutch-images.lp.yp
• Press "Go!"
• You can now download the packages

Creating an avatar set
There are two ways to create an avatar set. The first is by just packing all your avatars into a package, the second is to create a seperate directory for your new avatars and packing that.

Packing all your avatars

• Go to Admin > Package Manager > Create a new package
• Put YaBBImages/avatars in "Directory to pack"
• Leave the "Root directory" empty
• Fill in the filename of the avatar set in "Filename of package" make sure its extention is .as.yp so for example moviestars.as.yp
• Press "Go!"
• Your avatars are now packed and can be downloaded from the Packages directory

Selectively pack avatars

• Create a directory in your YaBB SE directory example called myavatars.
• In there create a directory called YaBBImages
• In YaBBImages create a directory called avatars
• In there copy/upload all avatars you want to put in your avatar set
• Go to your board to the Admin > Package Manager > Create a new package
• In "Directory to pack" put the location of your "myavatars" directory relative to your YaBB SE path.
• In "Root directory" put the same as you put in "Directory to pack"
• Choose the filename of the package you want to create, but make sure it's extention is .as.yp
• Click "Go!", your package will be created right now
• If everything went alright you can download the package from your Packages directory now

[Wiedo]

can i upload my avatars package to you sow you can use it for your package server?
Or do I have my own package server now?

[Matt Siegman]

send it to zef.... and me (so I can put it up on my serv)....
package servers are still in the stone ages, so we keep them to ourselves.... you can't have one

[Sheriffen]

I tried to create and install my swedish language, but all I get is this error-message:

"Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /home/v/vaktuell/www/yabbse/swedish.lng on line 18"

 

[Larry_Laffer]

@sheriffen:

Edit your language file and look if in some line 18 OR ABOVE at the end of the line there is always a semicolon ';' or that there is a ')' missing in the line starting with require_once.

Sometimes it is also missing " marks.

[Karreman]

Extracting avatars
An Error Has Occurred!

2: fopen("././YaBBImages/avatars/01-megaman.gif","wb") - Permission denied
(/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/team-ppm.com/httpdocs/yabb/Sources/Packer.php ln 125)
 
that's all he does when i try to install the megaman package..

The language package does work..

Please help?

[Matt Siegman]

chmod your /YaBBImages/avatars directory to 777

[Zef Hemel]

All directories within your YaBB SE folder should be chmodded to 777.

[Wiedo]

looks like my avatars set is added to the yabb se server... thanx for the creds Zef!

[sydney078]

In case someone else besides me ever has a Buffy, Angel or Charmed board I have 2 sets of avatars made- one at 85x85 and one 90x90 from all three shows

[Marko]

i can give you more than 3.600 Avatars, wold you like to have them?

[Zef Hemel]

i can give you more than 3.600 Avatars, wold you like to have them?

Upload them here: http://www.yabb.info/avatars/

[Marko]

what must i do, i won't upload them one for one. I wold upload them at once, can i send you the avatars per mail? as a .rar file?

[Zef Hemel]

what kind of avatars are they? And how big (pixel width and height)?

[Marko]

its all diferent picticres, but i think all are under 100x100 Pixel