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Ikariam World Map
Ikariam World Map
This script adds a pop-up to the Embassy and Alliance Diplomacy pages to show a world map; it also shows a mini-map of the local islands when you are in the island view.
On the map, it will show the location of your Alliance members and your own islands. When the mouse hovers over an island, a tooltip appears to tell you the island name, co-ordinates and the names of all the Alliance members on that island. Clicking on an island will take you to the island view for that island, allowing fast navigation of the world map without having to load the world view every time.
There are multiple options for configuring the script including some basic Skins to set the colour scheme and more detailed options to set the individual colours. These are all accessible from the Configuration pop-up (click on the orange ? icon in the top right of the full-world). The mini-map uses the same colour settings as the full world-map but has the added bonus that by clicking on the world icon, in the top-right, you can reposition the mini-map to your liking.
The script supports multiple languages (many still need populating with translations but the support is there waiting for the translations) and includes support for right-to-left languages (Arabic/Hebrew) when approved for use on those servers.
Screen Shots
Change Log
Version 1.0.1
- Source: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46874
- Current Version: 1.1.12
- Author: Martynius (http://userscripts.org/users/68307)
- Type: Greasemonkey Script
- License: GNU General Public License v3
This script adds a pop-up to the Embassy and Alliance Diplomacy pages to show a world map; it also shows a mini-map of the local islands when you are in the island view.
On the map, it will show the location of your Alliance members and your own islands. When the mouse hovers over an island, a tooltip appears to tell you the island name, co-ordinates and the names of all the Alliance members on that island. Clicking on an island will take you to the island view for that island, allowing fast navigation of the world map without having to load the world view every time.
There are multiple options for configuring the script including some basic Skins to set the colour scheme and more detailed options to set the individual colours. These are all accessible from the Configuration pop-up (click on the orange ? icon in the top right of the full-world). The mini-map uses the same colour settings as the full world-map but has the added bonus that by clicking on the world icon, in the top-right, you can reposition the mini-map to your liking.
The script supports multiple languages (many still need populating with translations but the support is there waiting for the translations) and includes support for right-to-left languages (Arabic/Hebrew) when approved for use on those servers.
Screen Shots
Quoted
Click on the Open World Map button to show the world map.
The Full World Map (using the Map skin)
The World Map Configuration Pop-up
The Island Mini- Map (using the Map skin)
Repositioning the Mini-Map (click and drag on the world icon in the top-right of the mini-map)
Reset the position of the Mini-Map using the Menu command (Available only in the island view)
Version 1.0.1
- Bugfix: Moved main body of the script into a function to stop inital delay when loading page.
- Feature: Added black & white scale bars around the map.
- Feature: Added scale numbers.
- Feature: Anchors to click through to islands.
- Feature: Delete variables once used.
- Feature: Inline images.
- Feature: Added mini-map on the island view.
- Feature: Alliance co-ords are saved in GM varaible for use on island view.
- Feature: Unused data stripped out of islandMap.
- Feature: Added International Language support and fixed display for Right-To-Left languages.
- Feature: Added variable sized squares to show number of alliance towns on an island.
- Bugfix: Fixed Embassy display
- Feature: Added colour selection and skins.
- Feature: Added configuration and help displays.
- Bugfix: Fixed alliance shading to fade between two colours rather than use hardcoded values.
- Feature: Added ability to select island colours based on which luxury goods it produces.
- Feature: Added ability to set alliance shading colours and whether to display as variable sizes based on number of alliance members on the island.
- Feature: Added script details section.
- Feature: Updated French and Hebrew Translations.
- Bugfix: Fixed Mini-Map bug when a row/column had no islands in it.
- Bugfix: Moved Mini-Map to right (left on .ae/.il) of screen on v0.3.1
- Feature: Island Mini-map can be repositioned by clicking and dragging the icon.
- Feature: Updated skin colours.
- Feature: Map data, Language detection and Colour Select creation moved to separate modules for maintenance and ease of re-use.
- Bugfix: Improved code to parse alliance data and fix clash with "Member Town Resources" and "Favorite + Attack Counter" scripts.
- Feature: Improved code to drag using jQuery UI draggable interface for a smoother dragging experience.
- Feature: Updated Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish & Turkish Translations.
- Bugfix: Fixed z-index bug when moving map over some images.
- Bugfix: Updated included pages to run on v0.3.1 Alliance Diplomacy URL.
- Feature: Split Configuration panel into two tabs.
- Feature: Added option to select language other than the server default.
- Bugfix: Updated Russian Translations.
- Bugfix: Updated CSS displaying sea, islands and fixed CSS bug displaying the world map grid.
- Feature: Added Greek, Italian, Romanian and Vietnamese translations.
- Bugfix: Updated Turkish Translations.
- Bugfix: Changed to parse island drop-down menu to get own town locations so players with no alliance can see own town locations.
- Feature: Updated FrenchTranslations.
- Feature: Added Hungarian Translation.
- Bugfix: Recoded map generation for speed up.
- Bugfix: Changed parsing of own islands.
- Bugfix: Fixed height of tabs in configuration menu.
- Feature: Updated Hebrew Translations.
- Bugfix: Fixed co-ordinate parsing for [0X:XX] and [XX:0X] islands.
- Feature: Added translations for most languages using Google translate.
- Bugfix: Reworked display of own islands.
- Feature: Updated Czech language translation.
- Feature: Added option to reset mini-map location in the Greasemonkey menu.
- Feature: Added option to turn of mini-map.
- Feature: Added automatic update checker.
- Feature: Updated Chinese, Czech and Hungarian language translation.
- The script uses static data based on Nikitakit's Island Map Script to generate the island maps.
- The alliance data is saved from the Embassy or Alliance Diplomacy pages so no additional server requests are made.
- The script uses jQuery to simplify much of the html parsing/manipulation to make the script smaller and simpler to read/update.
- Version 1.1.1 of the script has been modularised and re-usable components are now hosted in the IkariamScriptResources Google Code project (using best software development practices regarding code maintenance and re-use). This has simplified the main body of the script and has made the modules easier to maintain.
- The code is CopyLeft and is released under the GNU General Public License v3. The basics of this mean that it is free to use and other developers are free to use/modify the source code so long as credit is give to the author (me) and that it remains free software. For full legal details/implications, please read the license. (The modular components are also released under GNU GPL v3)
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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Martynius" (Jun 5th 2009, 11:17pm)
Date of registration: Jul 26th 2008
Thursday, May 28th 2009, 9:01am
Well you have a 100*100 grid so that is 10,000 table cells, if 2/3 of them are islands then they each have a link to click through to the island page and two layer tags to handle the colouring so that is another 20,000 elements on the page, giving a total of 30,000 - if you compare it to the normal alliance page where there are maybe 150 alliance members, 6 columns with an (over-estimated) average of say 5 tags in each cell then this is 4,500 elements or less than 1/6th of the amount in the world map. I know it's resource intensive but there is not much that can be done about it that I haven't already and I have already done a hell of a lot of optimisation.I think the script is a bit resource intensive. I could do without the fading of the minimap when moving it around, for example. The in-built Note display can be used much more smoothly. I also had to wait a long time for the colour menus to load, and now that I've changed them, I don't think I ever want to do it again. It also takes too long to load the world map, especially given that I already have the All-in-One embassy script, which also takes a long time to load. Perhaps it could be cached and only update when you want it to?
The mini-map fades for a good reason - so you can see what you are covering up as you move it. Unlike the notes page, where you make a note and then close the page, the mini-map stays visible (unless you turn it off completely in the options) and so you want it to not cover anything up. There is no significant performance difference in fading or not-fading the mini-map, when it moves, so I'll leave it as it is as it becomes more usable like that. Also, moving the mini-map should be an infrequent activity as you should set it up once and then ignore it. Personally, I've set mine up so they are in the bottom-right corner of the island view, half in and half out of the map so that they don't cover anything up. I preferred the layout of the v0.3.0 map where the mini-maps could sit in the top-left and would not obscure anything but, good or bad, the views have moved on from that.
I've just tried using the note page and there is no noticable performance difference between moving that and moving the mini-map on my computer - I understand that people have computers of different specifications but I cannot invest in another computer (of lower spec) just to test how a script responds and then spend 10+ hours trying to shave milli-seconds off the response time. Sorry but that's impractical. This does not mean that I am ignoring your complaints, it just means that I will do what is reasonable and practical and where I can make improvements I will.
The reason it takes a long time to load the world map is that all the calculations to generate the map are done once you first click on the button - this means that if you visit the embassy/ally diplo pages and do not want to view the map then your computing time is not wasted creating a view that you are not going to use. This is one of those optimisations that is hidden from the user as you do not notice the page NOT taking longer to load but you would notice the difference if every time you loaded the embassy/ally diplo pages they took an extra 2-3 seconds to complete loading. So yes, the world map will take a while to load once you click on it but this is to save you from the entire page taking longer to load.
Can it be cached - no in general as it's a script and not a web page so it can't be cached and has to be generated on the fly. However, there is a possible way but it would be memory intensive. I will look and see if I can make it more efficient but there is a trade off between faster loading times and increasing memory usage. I could generate the popup and the islands much faster by creating a static piece of html but then I would have to build in a way to colour it as this part cannot be statically generated and this would become much more complex than the current method and would add more memory requirements. There is no point in making the pop-up appear faster if the overall responsiveness is slower and more memory intensive. (Also there is no point caching the island view as you would have to cache 10,000 views.)
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Edit:
I've done some testing with caching the world map:
- Making a cache of the HTML and saving it in a GM variable takes about 0.5Mb of storage per world map and takes an average of 1060ms to load (on my computer). This time is an underestimate as this is just a simple test and does not take into account the testing that will be needed to validate that the cached map is not outdated and would need regenerating.
- Creating the world map without using a cache takes an average of 1400ms.
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This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Martynius" (May 28th 2009, 11:05am)
Date of registration: Jul 26th 2008
Thursday, May 28th 2009, 10:49pm
The mini-map position is remembered separately for each island image (and reset separately). So if you set it for one image, it will be in that position for all islands that use that image - but not for the other 4 island images. You will need to set the position individually for each island image.Great thing,Martynius! Thx a lot!
One thing(there's always something) : Can the position of the minimap be remembered?
I used the reset button for the minimap,but on some islands it stays where I want it to be,on others it goes to default.
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Friday, May 29th 2009, 8:44am
Ohhh,that's it.Thanks.It was kind of strange...
The mini-map position is remembered separately for each island image (and reset separately). So if you set it for one image, it will be in that position for all islands that use that image - but not for the other 4 island images. You will need to set the position individually for each island image.Great thing,Martynius! Thx a lot!
One thing(there's always something) : Can the position of the minimap be remembered?
I used the reset button for the minimap,but on some islands it stays where I want it to be,on others it goes to default.
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Date of registration: Mar 16th 2009
Birthday: Jul 27th
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Occupation: Shogun
Friday, May 29th 2009, 11:04pm
Throw it away and get Ikariam Alliance Sorter instead. Much faster and offering about the same features in its latest version.[...] given that I already have the All-in-One embassy script, which also takes a long time to load. [...]
Date of registration: Apr 6th 2008
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Gender: male
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Saturday, May 30th 2009, 1:41pm
first of all congrats for the awesome script! its fantastic.
i have the same question as shinobi
i have the same question as shinobi
Any chance of being able to have it remember certain other islands, such as perhaps the known locations of war targets or potential farms? Not saying automatically track those islands based on "I want to know where X alliance is", but rather manually input island coordinates for future reference? Otherwise, awesome script.
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Date of registration: May 4th 2008
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Saturday, May 30th 2009, 4:39pm
Awesome script ^_^ It works as advertized.
One tiny feature that could be added in a later version is to optionally gage island populations either through a growing point or a colour code system.
i.e. Islands with 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-8, 9-15, 16 players all look different.
Thank you for your hard work.
One tiny feature that could be added in a later version is to optionally gage island populations either through a growing point or a colour code system.
i.e. Islands with 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-8, 9-15, 16 players all look different.
Thank you for your hard work.
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Date of registration: Jul 26th 2008
Saturday, May 30th 2009, 8:08pm
Erm..... you may have missed the options to do this:Awesome script ^_^ It works as advertized.
One tiny feature that could be added in a later version is to optionally gage island populations either through a growing point or a colour code system.
i.e. Islands with 0, 1-2, 3-4, 5-8, 9-15, 16 players all look different.
Thank you for your hard work.
The Fade option will fade between the base colour (yellow in this example) and the fade colour (red) for different numbers of towns on the island. Similarly the "Vary Size" option will show the islands in differing sizes based on population.
Ranges for changing the size/fade are 1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6+ (if there are 6+ alliance towns on an island then you should control the island anyway).
Ranges for changing the size/fade are 1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6+ (if there are 6+ alliance towns on an island then you should control the island anyway).
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