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So I just cracked the code of how to code a dragon's picture after you have exalted them without having to copy the image url of the exalted dragon/edit in Photoshop, etc. etc. Here's the normal coding for a dragon, I'm using my avatar dragon, Lyn: [Code] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/422040/42203903_350.png[/img] [/url] [/code] The dragon ID # is bolded: [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903 http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/422040/[b]42203903[/b]_350.png [/quote] The picture ID is bolded [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903 http://flightrising.com/rendern/[b]350[/b]/422040/42203903[b]_350[/b].png [/quote] This is what most people already know how to change, 350 is the default and leads to full-sized images, if you wanted an avatar you would change the above url's to the following: [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903 http://flightrising.com/rendern/[b]avatars[/b]/422040/42203903.png [/quote] Note that the first '350' changes to 'avatars' and the second '350' is deleted out entirely alongside the underscore. This allows you to have the following result: [Quote] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/422040/42203903.png[/img][/url] [/quote] Now you can also turn that code into portrait easily as well, using the following: [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903 http://flightrising.com/rendern/[b]portrait[/b]/422040/42203903[b]p[/b].png [/quote] Change the '350' or 'avatars' to 'portraits' and add a 'p' at the end of your dragon ID. Giving you the following [Quote] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/422040/42203903p.png[/img][/url] [/quote] Now... onto the reason this post was made - this, in the guides I've found previously, has been called the 'mystery number' [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42203903 http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/[b]422040[/b]/42203903_350.png [/quote] See anything familiar between that mystery number and your dragon ID #? No? Let me post another dragon's- this time my gal Kraken: [Quote] http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=42011730 http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/[b]420118[/b]/42011730_350.png [/quote] If you haven't realized it now- the previously considered [b]mystery number[/b] is actually very easy to create. For all dragons it seems to be the first [b]4[/b] digits of the dragon ID, followed by the number that comes [b]after[/b] the next two. So for Lyn her first four are: 4220 The next two numbers are 39, but we'll add 1 to that and make it 40, voila there's her [b]mystery number[/b]. Result: 422040 Using Kraken, her first four are: 4201 Next two are 17, add 1 and you get 18 Result: 420118 How is this awesome? Ever wanted to use an exalted dragon's picture in a thread before but you wanted the small avatar pic instead of the full size one? Don't have an imaging program that allows you to resize it perfectly and don't want to use websites to do it for you? Code it yourself! Here's two exalted dragons I have that I coded the avatars for: [code] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43179505] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/431796/43179505.png[/img] [/url] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43179506] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/431796/43179506.png[/img] [/url] [/code] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43179505] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/431796/43179505.png[/img] [/url] [nextcol][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=43179506] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/431796/43179506.png[/img] [/url][/columns] [b]Now- go forth and conquer! ^_^[/b]

@arikin Technically, the "mystery number" isn't the first four digits rounded up one. It's all but the last two digits, rounded up one, which is an important distinction to make when dealing with dragons who have varying numbers of digits in their IDs. This number represents which "batch" of one hundred dragons this one belongs to. So your dragon with id 42203903 is the fourth dragon in the 422040th batch of one hundred dragons. For example, here's Firage, dragon number 12 on the site. [code]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/1/12_350.png[/code] Being dragon number 12, he's in the first batch of 100 dragons, so, 1/12. Dragon number 99 is also in batch 1, but dragon 100 is in batch 2. And dragon 1234 is in batch 13. You get the picture. [b]Edit:[/b] Also, the often-missed coliseum image variant: [quote]http://flightrising.com/rendern/[b]coliseum/portraits[/b]/351156/35115521.png[/quote] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/coliseum/portraits/351156/35115521.png[/img]

There are also tools that can generate the code: Dragon Image BBCode Generator (Regular / Small / Avatar / Sprite / Bar).