Make-your-own Userbars.

[DeathRay2K]

Because there's some sort of userbar fetish at this forum(), I'll share with you a little thing I made to make making them easier.
To use it, put this in a image code:
http://www.d2kstudios.com/userbars/userbar.php?
along with the parameters below.

The parameters are:
bgi
The background image; Will be scaled to 350*19. If you don't supply a background, the background will be black.
fgi
The foreground image; Will remain exactly the same. If you don't supply a foreground, it will only display the background and text.
t
The text.
l
The number of pixels from the left side that the text should be. That is a lowercase L. Defaults to 225

Easy eh? It automatically adds the shine and lines, you just need to supply a background image and a foreground image, plus text.
Here's an example one:

[The Eagle]

interesting DeathRay, post this in some Userbar forums - it looks very useful.

btw, I find no userbar is complete without a border, is there any way to add that into it?

[DeathRay2K]

Sure, I'll add that now.
Alright, they now have borders. And, I've added three more possible parameters:
r
The red value of the border.
g
The green value of the border.
b
The blue value of the border.
All three default to 0 if they aren't set, so, for instance, if you want an all red border, you only have to set r=255.

[EatsP1es]

dude

/slaps him for being so good

and yeah, canada, good nation :P my bro's marrying a canadian so i have no choice but to say that :P

[DeathRay2K]

lol
I'm also thinking about adding the ability to generate gradients as backgrounds as well...

Edit:
I've added a new parameter, that acts as r,g, and b all together, as well as an added alpha (Note, alpha is only up to 100, wheras the others go up to 255)

c
A combined r,g, and b, as well as an alpha channel. Seperated by commas (,), and in this order: r,g,b,a. Alpha channel ranges from 0 to 100, with 100 being the least opaque. You only need to set it as far as you need to. For instance, if you wanted a green border, you would set it to c=0,255. All values default to 0.

[DeathRay2K]

Alrighty then.
I've added yet another parameter, this time for setting the background colour, if you don't want to use an image for it. It works the same as c, except without an alpha channel.

bgc
The colour of the background, in the format %red%,%green%,%blue%. It defaults to 0,0,0, so if you want a yellow background you'd just need to set bgc=255,255.

Now, and example that uses some of the new stuff:

[chickendippers]

That's very cool! Check out my userbar biatches!

[The Eagle]

LOL

... nothing on it

[chickendippers]

That is the point

[Flak]

He's as deep as a rather shallow puddle.