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Steam Animated Avatar [2019 Update]

By Delite and 2 collaborators

This guide is going to show the only possible way of having an animated avatar on Steam, which is only visible in Steam Friendlist and Steam Chat

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Feb 21, 2019 @ 9:39am

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Overview

Requirements

Step 1

Step 2

Changelogs:

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Those are not GIF avatars. The script works by changing game avatars, that doesn't require loading a new picture each time. The effect is visible in Steam Friendlist and Steam Chat.

Requirements

You will need a userscript manager. You can find the most popular below:

Chrome Users:
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Mozilla Firefox Users:
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Step 1

Install the following script:

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Step 2

Open up your profile page in your browser:

http://steamcommunity.com/my/

Press "Enable Animated Avatar" button:

A modal window with predefined presets will appear. You can preview the presets there as well:

Select desired preset. Once you want to disable it, just simply click stop:

Changelogs:

2.1.0 – Added 3 presets
2.2.0 – Fixed issue with a lack of “/” at the end of URL
2.2.1 – Fixed timings
3.0.0 – Script has been reworked. It has 10 presets for now
4.0.0 – Script has been reworked again. Now it's easy to apply own customs presets.
4.2.0 – Fixed when a browser blocks requests due to HTTP protocol instead of https
4.2.1 – Separated by HTTP and HTTPS protocols, if the script doesn't work try 'https' version. You can find it in step 1
4.2.2 – Added redirection for HTTPS protocol pages to HTTP protocol
4.3.0 – Final version. Overall improvements
5.0 – 2019 Rework

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