Profile picture
What TornLife's research has established about Profile picture, and the questions players asked about it.
What TornLife has verified
- The Torn Wiki says a player's profile image appears under their honor bar at the top left of the profile. Clicking it shows the player's other uploaded images, so a profile holds several uploaded pictures. (documented; Profiles › Profile Information › User Information, )
- Profile pictures are uploaded, not linked by URL. Patch list #440 (07/07/2026) fixed newly uploaded webp profile pictures appearing as broken images for avatars in chat, so webp is an accepted upload format. (confirmed by Torn; Patch list #440 : Attack logs 2.0, New level 8 chain scenario, Travel arrival l…, )
- Patch list #440 shows the webp avatar fix, the most recent profile picture change in this pack. (confirmed by Torn; Patch list #440 : Attack logs 2.0, New level 8 chain scenario, Travel arrival l…, )
- Torn staff confirm the in-site crop tool does not support cropping GIFs while retaining their animation; this is a limitation of Torn's own cropping system, not something the user can configure around on-site. (confirmed by Torn; Unable to make GIFs a profile picture?, )
- The wiki says to set a profile signature go to Preferences, then Profile Signature, and edit there. The editor is opened by clicking the A in the top right corner. (documented; Profiles › Profile Information › Profile Signature › How to edit your Profile S…, )
- Torn staff state that a GIF must be in a 200:275 (width:height) aspect ratio to be set directly as a profile picture; this was stated by the same staff member across three separate bug reports. (confirmed by Torn; Unable to make GIFs a profile picture?, )
- If an uploaded GIF is not already in the correct 200:275 dimension ratio, Torn's system forces the user through its crop tool, and that crop step strips the GIF's animation, leaving a static image. (confirmed by Torn; Unable to make GIFs a profile picture?, )
- Recommended workaround from staff and officers: resize/crop the GIF to exactly 200x275 pixels using an external tool (e.g. ezgif) before uploading, so Torn's own crop step is never triggered and animation survives. (players' tests; Unable to make GIFs a profile picture?, )
- A developer confirmed that even when a profile GIF with a 'single-loop' setting (play once, then stop) is successfully set, Torn's site-generated 48x48 avatar thumbnail re-encodes each frame into a new GIF and this process ignores the original loop setting, forcing the thumbnail version to loop continuously; the developer said there is no simple fix and does not consider it worth pursuing unless there is more demand. (confirmed by Torn; Avatar loops gifs that aren't supposed to loop, )
- Torn staff confirmed that animated PNG (APNG) format is not supported for the resized mini-avatar image; users who need the small/avatar-size version of their picture to keep animating must use GIF format instead of APNG. (confirmed by Torn; APNG still not working as mini-avatar-image, )
- A patch note changed image size limits specifically for faction and company profile images from 150KB to 500KB; this applies to faction/company profile pictures, not personal player profile pictures. (confirmed by Torn; Patch list #175 : 12/01/21 — changes to Company (2021-01-12), )
- A 2022 patch note records a refactor of the profile status system, but gives no detail on GIF handling or animation behavior. (confirmed by Torn; Patch list #253 : 23/08/22 — changes to Profiles (2022-08-23), )
- A staff reply addressing a separate 0MB-download issue noted that Torn has no native 'download' button and that the browser handles downloads; the staff member suggested using an external tool to convert a downloaded webp file back to gif format, illustrating that Torn's own image pipeline can output non-gif formats (webp) that need external conversion before being usable as an animated gif again. (confirmed by Torn; Why I can't upload my gif profile picture, )
- In a 2021 case involving animated profile pictures appearing at the poker table, Torn staff reported that some GIFs were hidden under a .jpg file extension, and that the site's animation-stripping ('first frame extraction') algorithm had to be applied to all file extensions, not just recognized GIF files, to correctly suppress animation where it should not display. (confirmed by Torn; Poker Profile picture is playing gifs, )
- Staff confirmed in 2025 that a GIF must be an exact size or exact ratio of 200:275 to avoid being forced through the crop tool, reiterating the dimension requirement for personal profile picture GIFs. (confirmed by Torn; GIF meets size limits, forced to crop., )
- Separately from the upload/crop issue, Torn staff confirmed in 2021 that animated GIF profile pictures at the poker table were deliberately stopped from looping there, after a player complaint; this is presentation-layer suppression at specific game screens, distinct from upload-time animation loss caused by the crop tool. (confirmed by Torn; Poker Profile picture is playing gifs, )
Questions about Profile picture
- How do you set up a profile signature in Torn?
Go to Preferences, open Profile Signature and edit it in the editor, which opens from the A in the top right corner (Torn Wiki, 2023-09 capture). The…
- How do you add a profile picture in Torn?