You might've seen people on the forums that have signatures with images like this:



This is a folding@home quick-stats badge I designed, which you can place in your signature, website, wherever. Its stats are based on those from folding.extremeoverclocking.com, which I have found to be fairly consistent with kakaostats.

If you would like to use it, go to:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/search.php
 
...and find your user ID number. You can get it from your EOC user stats URL, like this:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=385045

For the basic white-on-black badge, plug your user ID (that's the numeric bit, 385045 in this example) into this url:

http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/385045.png

Then, in the EVGA forums, select 'Forum Profile' in the top right corner. Find 'Signature' and add the following:

[image]http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/385045.png[/image]

...and if you want to be able to click the badge to go to your stats page, wrap it in a link tag like this:

[link=http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=385045] 
[image]http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/385045.png[/image] 
[/link]

 
...replacing '385045' with your own ID, of course.

that's it!


Chimp Challenge 2009 Badge

This year is the first year EVGA is participating in the Chimp Challenge, and I highly encourage everyone to take part! All you have to do is change your folding name to EVGApes for the duration of the competition. We're done with this year's Chimp Challenge, and congrats OCN on the win! Everyone can still use these badges though, EVGA or not!

Those participating in 2009's Chimp Challenge can use a special badge to display their team's information. Once again, this is not restricted to team EVGA. All you have to do is go to the badge maker, plug in the EOC ID number for your CC name, and have it generate one for you. The style you choose will be ignored, since all the CC09 badges are designed with a consistent theme (like a jersey or team uniform).

For Team EVGA (EVGApes), you can simply use this:

http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/449361.png

And here's how the badge looks:


OR

Alternatively, you can display the CC09 badge along with your personal badge in a single, compact image. To do this, simply go create a personal badge as usual, and select the button labeled Add Chimp Challenge 2009 Badge. This will overlay the CC09 badge on top of your own, hiding your personal stats but displaying your username and team. As an example:

http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/nvidia01/nvidia01/1025/0/50/0/0/0/0/50/200/0/0/0/0/255/255/255/0.png


OR

You can manually change your current personalized badge over to the dual badge by adding 1024 to the first numeric parameter in the badge string, as follows:

http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/nvidia01/nvidia01/1/0/50/....../0.png
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/nvidia01/nvidia01/1025/0/50/....../0.png
 

Usage

These badges can otherwise be used just like any other image -- They can be posted in threads by using the above code, they can be placed on websites by using something along the lines of:
<img src="http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/385045.png"/>
and so on.

Do note that they only update when they're linked to directly; If you save one to your hard drive, you will be saving the image with the stats displayed on it at that moment. Don't be afraid to hotlink; That's how they were designed to be used.


Windows Sidebar/Desktop Gadget

Info coming soon.


Customization

You can customize your sig badge by heading to the BadgeMaker at:

[http://piro.pirocast.net/badges/badgemaker.html]

...and playing with the settings. Give it your user ID, tell it which icon you want, and play with the color settings. The BadgeMaker will generate the badge for you, give you a link to use, as well as the appropriate signature code.
 
Colors can be defined as RGB (red,green,blue) values. for any given object, you pick a value for red, green, and blue, and they mix together to create new colors.
 
To easily find a color, you can use this: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
just click on a color and it will give you the RGB values to use for it.
 
You can change the color of four parts of the image:
1) Background: Defaults to black, but you may change it to any color you wish. Bright colors not recommended in conjunction with bright text, as it will make the text hard to read.
2) Background Overlay/Texture: You may select an overlay, which applies a subtle texture to the badge background to enhance its appearance.Color values can be positive or negative since overlay textures span a variety of colors.Positive values add an amount of the given color; negative values subtract it.
3) Icon Glow: There is a glow behind the icon that can be enabled with a checkbox in the BadgeMaker.
4) Icon: The icon itself can be colorized. Color values can be positive or negative, just like background overlays.
5) Text: You may set the color of the text. Dark colors are not recommended against dark backgrounds.

Example skins

Replace the '0' at the end of the string (right before the '.png') with your user ID number from EOC.
 

NVIDIA Green:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/nvidia01/nvidia01/1/0/50/0/0/0/0/50/200/0/0/0/0/255/255/255/0.png


(PRODUCT) RED:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/tendrils03/red01/0/60/0/10/255/-255/-255/100/0/20/0/0/0/255/255/255/0.png


Hot Chips Red:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/evga02/nvidia03/1/100/0/0/0/0/0/255/150/0/200/50/0/255/150/100/0.png


GTX Orange:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/gpugtx280/evga01/1/25/12/0/-100/-100/-100/255/100/0/200/0/-200/255/150/50/0.png


Protein Purple:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/fah01/fah01/0/25/12/40/0/0/0/0/0/0/20/8/50/200/150/255/0.png
 

Basic Blue:
http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/nvidia02/1/12/12/100/100/100/200/20/8/50/200/200/255/0.png




Notes

• It will only display the team name if you're on team evga (not that i need to say this here, really), otherwise it will simply display the team number. 
• This image is a semitransparent PNG (i.e. the background is transparent, and the edges are smooth, so it blends in with any background color).
  As a result, any browser that cannot properly render semitransparent PNGs (i.e. IE6) will render it as though it's encased inside a black box. If this is a problem for too many people, I can make a very quick adjustment to make it blend in properly here (though it won't anywhere else) without using transparency. But really now, who could possibly still be using IE6? :)

Changelog

EDIT: Moved colorization information to original post.
08.10.22 EDIT: Added skins information, cleaned up post.
08.10.23 NEW: New NVIDIA icons.
08.10.23 UPDATE: Skin Editor complete! go to http://piro.pirocast.net/badges/badgemaker.html
08.10.29 NEW: Background overlay images added. GTX280 and 9800GTX icons added.
08.12.09 EDIT: Added info on making badges link to your stats page.
08.12.15 UPDATE: BadgeMaker now generates signature code for you.
09.01.10 NEW: A bunch more background overlays added.
09.01.12 NEW: A bunch more icons added.
09.01.31 NEW: (RED) icon for (PRODUCT) RED added.
09.02.20 UPDATE: Made a change that removes the hideous dark outline for people using light backgrounds in their badges.
09.02.22 NEW: GPU GTX285 and GPU GTX295 icons added.
09.04.28 UPDATE: Chimp Challenge 2009 Badge available.
09.04.29 UPDATE: CC09 Badge version 2 (compound) available.
09.05.07 UPDATE: CC09 Badge now displays CC09-specific stats.
09.11.11 EDIT: Reposted thread in new forum. Hello everyone who joined up since I wandered off!
10.05.04 UPDATE: Badge updated for CC10.
10.06.16 UPDATE: Badge caching fixed. Threads on the forum should load a bit quicker now since badges won't have to reload on every access.
10.06.16 UPDATE: CC badge now shows PPD instead of total points, since the contest is over.
17.09.20 UPDATE: Badges are currently offline as the server is unable to connect to ExtremeOC to pull stats. Keeping an eye on the situation.
17.09.27 UPDATE: Badges are back online! Will be another short outage in the next few days as the XML API is updated and the badges adjusted.
 
Enjoy!

 
Edit by Cool GTX ... Removed [UPDATE 9/27/17: Online again!] ... replace with [UPDATE October 2019: Broken]

yeah, they link to the old forum, there's some other things I need to update or move to this thread as well. =)

Yeah, I had already taken care of the links in the thread itself, and updated my signature a few moments ago or so I thought. Looks like the sig editor ignored my changes. It's a little annoying that there's no way to switch out of rich text mode in the new forum. ^^;;

edit: yay, all links should work now.

Adding this to the stickies!

tnks allot XDXDXD

I used this guide in the old forums. Thanks for re-posting it.

It takes a while until you show up on EOC. First you have to send in a completed wu, then stanford has to run an update, then EOC needs to run an update. So it can take up to 10h after you have finished your first wu until you show up there
Here you go
http://folding.extremeove...ge.php?s=&u=486043

Badges are down temporarily. I believe my host is having some connectivity issues.
 
EDIT: They're back up. All is well.

thanks for the info planetarian, and thanks again for providing this service for us :)

edit: badges are working again, awesome

Thanks for doing this, adds interest, I will have to play with mine some more as I see some guys have some interesting creations.

Thanks for taking the time to create this fine sig.

close! place the URL in an image tag, like this:
 

[image]http://piro.pirocast.net/badge/494590.png[/image]

testing. . . .

I don't see that I have a number so I'm using my name
Hey gang I don't seem to have a number, so now what?? I have the page, I have a ranking in Evga, I just don't have a number.

Are you talking about your user id from eoc? If so i looked it up and your id # is 488852