vBulletin LTS

Integrating Living Avatars with vBulletin
Mod Version: 1.01, by PGAmerica

For those of you who have installed the Living Avatars mod and have faced the problems I have this tutorial is for you. I have found that although LA works with vBulletin, v1.1x it makes no effort at all to use a point system other than its own (resolved in v2.x) or match the look and feel of your forums. This tutorial will will make the Living Avatars (v1.1x and 2.x) mod fit within the look and feel of your forums and in step 1, you will find how to make LA work with vbCredits.

This is not so much a modification or hack as it is a tutorial.

Requirements:
The Living Avatar mod (found at http://www.livingavatars.com) (Works with v1.1.x and 2.xx)
1 file edit
2 file uploads
1 template edit

Credits: The Living Avatars mod can be found at http://www.livingavatars.com and is free for all. I used the
instructions by Gary King entitled "How to create your own vBulletin-powered page!" alongside a
script at the http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/iframessi2.htm to make this work. Thanks goes to Digital Jedi for sending me the links for this.
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NOTES:
This document assumes that you have installed the "Living Avatars" mod. If you have not, please go to http://www.livingavatars.com, download it and get it running on your site. Once that is done, go to Step 1 in this document.

Note: If you are installing v2.x of Living Avatars, skip step 1 of these instructions

http://www.christianfunforums.com/forums/LivingAvatars_vb.php - You will need an account to see it. If you don't want to register, just look at the screencap attached to this post.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1: Go to http://www.livingavatars.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6786&postcount=4 and follow the instructions to merge LA with the vbCredits mod.

Step 2: Make a new template named "LivingAvatars" and put the contents of the
"LivingAvatars-template.txt" file in it.

Step 3: Edit the included "cpnav_livingavatars.xml" file to refer to your forum
directory. Currently, it is set to "/forums/".

Step 4: Upload the "LivingAvatars_vb.php" file to your forum root folder.

Step 5: Upload the "cpnav_livingavatars.xml" file to your "/forum root/includes/xml" folder.

Step 6: Modify the "modifyavatar" template
Look for 2 references to
and replace it with That's it

Note: The Living Avatars mod can be found at http://www.livingavatars.com or in this post at vbulletin.org. Thanks goes to Ideal Web Tech for pointing this out.

Note: This works with vBulletin 3.8 as well.