Hello. I have some questions in regards to photos in the games themselves outside of the portrait we select to represent our selves as we play our characters.

For instance photos used to show more of what our character looks like, photos of places in our games, or photos in general.

How can we insert these into the character descriptions?

I know we can't just copy and paste from a Google search. Can we use html codes to put the pictures in?
This allows the photo to be seen without people having to click on a link.

or

Do we simply put the image address link in where we want it to be?

Okay, thank you. If I have made a mistake by using html codes I will go and correct that when I know the answer. I couldn't find this in any of the rules, unless I wasn't looking in the correct area. And there didn't seem to be a forum topic about it, unless I didn't type in the correct words to find it in the search. Thank you. Babs

Have a look at the FAQs for RuBB Code Tips and Tricks /help/content.cgi?t=faqs&page=rubbcode under Permitted Formattting ... | Images and How do I ... | Put pictures in a post ?

Short version: use <img src="URL"> code and note you'll need to host the image yourself (your own webspace or your Google Drive or similar).
This message was last edited by the user at 03:03, Mon 04 Sept 2023.

Details for how to insert images can be found here.

RPoL faqs (rubbcode)

The basic code example is:
<img src="http://beta.rpol.net/images/banner-light-beta.gif">

There's limited options for image insertion and manipulation compared to standard html.

You'll want to have your image uploaded to a third party hosting service, like Imgur and use a direct link to the image.  You'll also need it to already be resized as you can't define display height/width.

So, is that the same as this:

<img src="Insert URl here"> ?

So, I can just make it simple and be in the rules, but just having the url link posted? Is that okay?

Correct.





You can also do that.  Any URL posted automatically gets turned into a link, so other players in the game would be able to click on it to open the link to the image.

The code itself is fine, but as nauthiz and I mentioned, you'll need to host the image yourself - ie can't just link to an image on any old website.

This a) makes sure that the image you want is the image you get (if you just linked to a website, you've got no control over it, so they could upload something else in place of the image you linked to, using the same file name) and b) means you're not using another website's bandwith, which is a faux pas in nettiquete.

As a separate issue, you're also responsible for ensuring you're not breaching copyright.  There's gernerally various exclusions coming under the 'fair use' label as long as the user isn't profiting from it, or claiming it as their own work ... but you'd need to research yourself how that applies in your jurisdiction as laws are different everywhere.

Okay. Well, I had done a Google search. Was using celeb photos and doing a copy and paste image link into html code. Apparently that isn't allowed, so I am fixing that and just leaving the link. Until I can figure out another way to have the photos in the posts and what not. How would I do it with Google Drive?

Been a while, but I think you just save the file to your Google drive, and it can create a link for you ... when you select a file in Google drive, then under the triple dot menu and select Share, then on the submenu there's a Share option that lets you specify who can access it and a Copy Link option that generates a link you can post as the URL.

Okay. I will give it a try tomorrow. Thanks. I am fixing all of the others now so that I won't get myself or anyone else in trouble. I am glad another gm brought this to my attention.

As a heads up, Google Drive has enabled and disabled at various points in time, the ability to direct link to image files.  I'm not sure if that feature is currently working or not, or if there are any functioning ways to get around it.

You'll need a link that ends in an image file extension, like .jpg or .gif in order to embed the image.  So a dedicated image host, like Imgur, may be a better alternative if google drive doesn't currently support that feature.


Of course if you just want to post whatever URL you get from google drive people will be able to click on it to visit the link and (presumably) see the image, assuming you set the permissions to "anyone with the link".

I was looking to link an image from drive.  This would explain it.  I'll rework my images on a hosting site or just link them.

Thanks for the reminder about this.

What is the size limit for photos that are posted in games?

If you're embedding an externally hosted image, there isn't one per se.

However in my experience you don't want the image to be wider than around 600 or 700 pixels.

The responsive version of the site (r.rpol.net) can deal with oversized images but I don't believe the standard site version (RPoL.net) has been updated with similar functionality, so a very wide image will distort the rest of the page it is on.

So, a couple of more questions. Want to make sure I am doing this correctly.

If I upload the photos to Post Images and then use the links from there, is that allowed?

If yes, which link option do I use as there are several to chose from?

These are the options: They include the links to one of the photos I have uploaded.

Link: https://postimg.cc/87xNtP1X

Direct link: https://i.postimg.cc/nLhrVCNx/Bastet-Forms.png

Markdown: [Bastet-Forms.png](https://postimg.cc/87xNtP1X)

Markdown: [

Thumbnail for forums: [url=https://postimg.cc/87xNtP1X][i...Forms.png[/img][/url]

Thumbnail for website: <a href='https://postimg.cc/87xNtP1X' target='_blank'><img src='https://i.postimg.cc/87xNtP1X/Bastet-Forms.png' border='0' alt='Bastet-Forms'/></a>

Hotlink for forums: [url=https://postimages.org/][img]h...Forms.png[/img][/url]

Hotlink for website: <a href='https://postimages.org/' target='_blank'><img src='https://i.postimg.cc/nLhrVCNx/Bastet-Forms.png' border='0' alt='Bastet-Forms'/></a>

You'd use the "direct link".

So your RuBB tag would look like this.

<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/nLhrVCNx/Bastet-Forms.png">

Okay. That is what I thought until I saw the one with the img src in it. Thank you. I got it now. Thank you for all of your help and I hope this forum topic will help others. Thank you so much. I didn't want to be in trouble with the game modes for something was thought I was doing correctly, but not per the rules. Much appreciated. Babs