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It is important to understand a few basic ground rules before you begin creating custom Yahoo emotes. #1 There can be two versions of each emote. One is not directed at anyone in particular. These are commonly referred to as "room emotes" (top panel). For instance your room emote may display something like: YourName smiles at everyone in the room In Emotepad, that emote would look like this: smiles at everyone in the room The second version is directed at a specific user that you have selected from the chat room’s user list. These are commonly referred to as "user emotes" (bottom panel). For instance, if you had selected a user from the chat-room user list with the name “MyName”, that person would be your intended target. Your user emote may display something like: YourName smiles at MyName In Emotepad, that emote would look like this: smiles at %s< When creating a custom user emote (bottom panel), you use the following substitution characters in place of the targeted user’s name: %s That’s all there is to it. Just remember to use %s in place of another user’s name when creating a custom user emote. (NOTICE: Some emoticon's character codes contain the % character. Some chat clients like to strip away this character when you try to use these emoticons in a user emote. Sometimes you can add an extra % and get the desired result, but sometimes adding the extra will cause the chat client to display some weird looking stuff. It doesn't seem to be a problem with room emotes, they work fine without adding anything. So you may have to try a few out and learn which emoticons will work in your custom emotes.) #2 There is a substitution character that is used to separate the emote name, room emote code (top panel), and user emote code (bottom panel) sections. That character is: \ Keep that in mind while creating emotes. That character cannot be displayed by using an emote. It will be stripped away and unseen. Emotepad will try to prevent you from typing that character into the Edit view. Because that character cannot be used in emotes, it also means that emoticons (smiley faces) that use that character cannot be used. #3 In order to use your emotes, you have to be in a chat or conference room.If you edit these files while in a chat window (which is okay to do), you will not see the changes until you close the chat window and re-open it. #4 Using Emoticons (Smiley faces) Some chat clients display a maximum of six (6) emoticons per emote. So if you try to use 7 or more emoticons, don’t be surprised if all you see are the first 6… and the others replaced with the emoticon’s character codes. #5 Using multiple sized fonts. Some chat clients limit the number of times you can change font size. Two size changes is the limit for some chat clients, while others have no limits. #6 Different Chat Clients There are many chat clients that work in chat rooms. Each of these clients have their own system for displaying emotes. What looks perfect in one client, may appear differently in another. Email: emotepad@emotepad.awardspace.com Copyright © 2006 |
