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Steam Animated Avatar [2019 Update]
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This guide is going to show the only possible way of having an animated avatar on Steam, which is only visible in Steam Friendlist and Steam Chat
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Those are not GIF avatars. The script works by changing game avatars, that doesn't require loading a new picture each time. The effect is visible in Steam Friendlist and Steam Chat.
Requirements
You will need a userscript manager. You can find the most popular below:
- Chrome Users:
Tampermonkey[chrome.google.com] - Mozilla Firefox Users:
Greasemonkey[addons.mozilla.org]
Step 1
Install the following script:
https://github.com/LiteOnE/Steam-Scripts/raw/master/Animated-Avatar/Animated-Avatar.user.js
Step 2
Open up your profile page in your browser:
Press "Enable Animated Avatar" button:
A modal window with predefined presets will appear. You can preview the presets there as well:
Select desired preset. Once you want to disable it, just simply click stop:
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Press "Enable Animated Avatar" button:
A modal window with predefined presets will appear. You can preview the presets there as well:
Select desired preset. Once you want to disable it, just simply click stop:
Changelogs:
2.1.0 – Added 3 presets
2.2.0 – Fixed issue with a lack of “/” at the end of URL
2.2.1 – Fixed timings
3.0.0 – Script has been reworked. It has 10 presets for now
4.0.0 – Script has been reworked again. Now it's easy to apply own customs presets.
4.2.0 – Fixed when a browser blocks requests due to HTTP protocol instead of https
4.2.1 – Separated by HTTP and HTTPS protocols, if the script doesn't work try 'https' version. You can find it in step 1
4.2.2 – Added redirection for HTTPS protocol pages to HTTP protocol
4.3.0 – Final version. Overall improvements
5.0 – 2019 Rework
2.2.0 – Fixed issue with a lack of “/” at the end of URL
2.2.1 – Fixed timings
3.0.0 – Script has been reworked. It has 10 presets for now
4.0.0 – Script has been reworked again. Now it's easy to apply own customs presets.
4.2.0 – Fixed when a browser blocks requests due to HTTP protocol instead of https
4.2.1 – Separated by HTTP and HTTPS protocols, if the script doesn't work try 'https' version. You can find it in step 1
4.2.2 – Added redirection for HTTPS protocol pages to HTTP protocol
4.3.0 – Final version. Overall improvements
5.0 – 2019 Rework
### ADD ONS ###
- Chrome Users -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en
- Mozilla Firefox Users -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
### TOOLS ###
- Github repo -
https://github.com/Lutymane/Steam-Scripts
- Script without the repo directory ( raw file view ) -
https://github.com/LiteOnE/Steam-Scripts/raw/master/Animated-Avatar/Animated-Avatar.user.js
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