Clete’s Blog

For those who have no clue what I’m talking about, go to the USA Game Lounge. You can create your own avatar on the website (they are scalable vector graphics, so they look sharp). Sadly, they do not offer very good solutions for downloading your character (check below for a picture). The largest size that they offer is around 200 pixels tall (and it has a lot of white space in it). Well, I wanted mine larger. So, being the experimenter I am, I decided that I would try to enlarge the Flash SWF and take a screenshot and crop my character out. Turns out that it’s actually easier than that.

In order to obtain a picture of your character with a completely white background, follow these instructions:

1) Login to your account.

2) Click Edit Profile

3) Right-Click anywhere on the page and click on “View Page Source”

4) Press Ctrl+F (find) and type in “75.jpg”

5) Click Next (you want the second instance of 75.jpg)

Select the entire link from the text in the line of 75.jpg. It should look like this:

…/weemee/height/75.jpg

5) Now, change the link up a little bit. Note that 75 is the height of the image that you want. I found that, if you raise the number above 1075, it maxes out and will spit out blank pictures. So, try 750 or 1075:

…/weemee/height/1075.jpg

6) Go to the link! You now have a larger picture of your WeeMee. Photoshop away. The only downside to this is that you will not receive a picture with your character’s facial expression. The character is always smiling.

Yes, I know some people could not care less about this post, but I don’t think anyone else has tried this trick before, so I wanted it to get posted out there. The characters are cool looking, though.

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