motd picture size issue

RavenDan29 · **Author**

I dont know how to make websites so im trying to use a picture uploaded to facebook but i keep getting white areas round the motd page in game, ive been playing around with different sizes and ratios but i still cant get it right what is the motd page pixel size please!!!!

MasterMind420 · 01-03-2012 , 11:53 Re: motd picture size issue

motd 766x383
banner 340x56
just make sure when you resize them not to maintain the aspect ratio.

SuperShadow · 01-03-2012 , 14:45 Re: motd picture size issue

What may look good on your client MOTD screen, may not look good to another client who is running at a different screen resolution. What you need to do is have the picture rescale in both directions without any intervention.

For that, you need an HTML page to be called by your server MOTD file. The HTML file will in turn call the picture you want to display and resize it to fill 100% of the area both vertically and horizontally.

Copy the code below and save it as an html file on a webserver (I'm am guessing you can do this using facebook). Replace "image_name.jpg" with the name of your picture file and point your MOTD file on the game server to that html page (Note, you should be able to test it first by going the HTML file directly with a browser).

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="image_name.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

Dr. McKay · 01-03-2012 , 17:40 Re: motd picture size issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperShadow

What may look good on your client MOTD screen, may not look good to another client who is running at a different screen resolution. What you need to do is have the picture rescale in both directions without any intervention.

For that, you need an HTML page to be called by your server MOTD file. The HTML file will in turn call the picture you want to display and resize it to fill 100% of the area both vertically and horizontally.

Copy the code below and save it as an html file on a webserver (I'm am guessing you can do this using facebook). Replace "image_name.jpg" with the name of your picture file and point your MOTD file on the game server to that html page (Note, you should be able to test it first by going the HTML file directly with a browser).

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="image_name.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

You don't actually need to upload that HTML file to a web server. Just paste that code into motd.txt and make sure you set the URL to the image correctly.

RavenDan29 · 01-04-2012 , 11:22 Re: motd picture size issue

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398552_1733576236796_1760278902_829757_885292 033_n.jpg">
<html xmlns="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398552_1733576236796_1760278902_829757_885292 033_n.jpg">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="DSFMOTDNEW.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

like this?

nope that doesnt work

<html xmlns="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._829757_885292 033_n.jpg">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="DSFMOTDNEW.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

maybe this?

nope cant connect to server

or do you mean this?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...85292033_n.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

ok now i know what you ment that worked thx can the same be done with host.txt? ok geuss not probably a different code?

Dr. McKay · 01-04-2012 , 11:34 Re: motd picture size issue

Quote:

Originally Posted by RavenDan29

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398552_1733576236796_1760278902_829757_885292 033_n.jpg">
<html xmlns="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398552_1733576236796_1760278902_829757_885292 033_n.jpg">
<head>
<title>MOTD</title>
<meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0" name="GENERATOR" />
<meta content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
</head>
<body><img alt="" height="100%" width="100%" border="0" src="DSFMOTDNEW.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

like this?

nope that doesnt work

src needs to be the full URL to the image.