Emoticons Petition

[Matiih]

Hello, how are you? I am searching for some tutorial of emoticons to put on the character's head.
For example: You write in chat "<3" and head for about 2 seconds, a text balloon with a heart (Image created and placed in any directory).
Please be waiting for help or any links already developed (I have not found) Good luck and thanks

(if not the correct section, please move the post and sorry)  :sad:

[Likestodraw]

I know there's something like that in Mirage Realms. You could see how they do it by downloading Robin's bundle.

[zerohero]

Just parse the users input and if it starts with a special character than tell the client to draw the smiley or whatever instead of the text. If you use the same method that the chat is drawn with it shouldn't be very hard to implement from scratch at all.