Tracking - Banner advertisements

Note: This feature is implemented in Silent Wings Viewer 1.10. It will not work with earlier versions

If you are running a tracking event server, you have the possibility to show banner ads in the viewer. This has been implemented to help getting sponsors for such events. Currently, this only works with vPos-compatible servers.

To set it up, you need to add an additional php query to your server, called

getbannerinfo.php

It must return a list of banner ad files and a tag for how many seconds each ad should be shown. A simple example of getbannerinfo.php could look like this:

{banner}buynlarge.png{/banner}
{banner}silentwings.png{/banner}
{banner}youradhere.png{/banner}
{time}10.5{/time}

In this case, the viewer will show the banners in this order, in an ever-going loop. Each banner will be displayed for 10.5 seconds. Several common image file formats are supported, including .jpg, .png and .gif. We do recommend using .png files as these do not have any compression artifacts, and you can use the transparency function to make it blend with the background.

If you want a pause without any banner, create a banner which is empty. It could be a one-pixel transparent .png file, for example. Put this empty image in between where you want it displayed.

The banners are displayed in the upper left corner. If they are wider than 2/3 of the screen width, they will be scaled down to fit within the 2/3 screen width.