Maintaining your site page in the Palace Directory 

NOTE   

Custom avatars are only applicable for web based users (Palace Viewer and 

InstantPalace).

M

To create a custom avatar library

1. Create one 44x44 pixel GIF file for each of your avatar images. Use a transparent 

background for the portions of the image you don t want visible.

2. You must name these files using the format

 cfnumber.gif,

 where number ranges 

from 0 to 103. For example, 

cf0.gif

, 

cf1.gif

, 

cf2.gif

, etc.

3. Put these files in a directory where your Palace web server can access them. If you 

are using your default Palace installation, this directory is 

/palace/avatars

.

4. Connect to your Palace server, and enter owner mode (see To enable operator and 

administrator mode on your client on page 30).

5. Point to the new avatar directory:

 avatarurl http://server/directory/

where 

server

 is your Palace web server address, and 

directory

 is the directory 

where the avatar images reside. The default local settings for the URL are entered 

by default. You must also enter the port number if it is different from the default 

port of 9998.

The trailing slash is required.

6. Turn custom avatars on by entering the command:

'avatarurl on

You can turn this off with the command 

 avatarurl off

, in which case the default 

avatars are used again. If you turn the command back on, it uses the same URL for 

the custom avatar directory.

7. When a Palace Viewer user logs onto your Palace, they access this new avatar 

library. 

Maintaining your site page in the Palace Directory 

Registering your Palace site automatically creates a web page for it in the Palace 

Directory; this is called your Palace site page. Users can access this page by clicking 

your Palace link in the Palace Directory, or the Palace Info button on the Palace Viewer.

Your Palace page contains information such as:

Whether or not your Palace is up and running 

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