Ikariam: Local GFX

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Wednesday, March 4th 2009, 11:14pm

Ikariam: Local GFX

With this script, you can ask the browser of Ikariam game use the gfx file from HDD instead of from the server.
With the gfx file from HDD, you can speed up the loading progress.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42934

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

BlueFusion

Game & Board Admin

Date of registration: Feb 15th 2008

Posts: 2,984

Birthday: Apr 25th

Gender: male

Location: UK

Occupation: Student

Monday, April 13th 2009, 12:26am

Approved

scubaman

Candidate

Date of registration: Apr 20th 2008

Posts: 132

Location: Virginia

Sunday, April 19th 2009, 7:55pm

I had issues with this script, as have others.

Despite following all directions to a T I can not get it to work. Further research not only shows others with similar problems but that its missing certains files etc, that you will have to manually download/configure.

I'd skip this script.

.02C

iknietjij

Student

Date of registration: Mar 12th 2008

Posts: 47

Wednesday, May 13th 2009, 10:15pm

Any chance this would get updated to 0.3.1 since there are some changes? And once you set it up its great for speeding up the game

Scripter of:
Ikariam chat links
Ikariam missing resources
Ikariam remaining transport space (together with Martynius)

p.s.: Santa did it.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Friday, May 15th 2009, 6:04pm

Quoted from "iknietjij"

Any chance this would get updated to 0.3.1 since there are some changes? And once you set it up its great for speeding up the game

I still got no info about the update day for .vn server.
because I play only at .vn server, so you need to wait some days.

you can rip all yourself. or just rip and send me the CSS files, I will do the rest.

for 0.3.1 version, I will rip the gfx pack for right-to-left language also (Israel, ...)

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Saturday, May 23rd 2009, 12:41pm

good news

Hi all

I have just got info that the .vn servers will update at 2009/05/26.
So I can begin to rip at that time. the pack will release at 2009/05/27 or 2009/05/28

thx for using the script.

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Wednesday, May 27th 2009, 1:56pm

1st patch for Ikariam v031

hi all

the 1st patch for v031 is here: (need gfx pack version 014)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2jttmtbzm0…31_20090527.zip
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KUYCAHOQ

unzip this file into your old gfx pack folder. don't need to update script.

the right to left version will release soon.

any bug report is welcome.

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

iknietjij

Student

Date of registration: Mar 12th 2008

Posts: 47

Wednesday, May 27th 2009, 6:12pm

Thanks! Works nicely. I just missed the following images:
interface/mission_transport.gif
interface/mission_occupy.jpg

For the next patch/version, you could add that. Grabbed them myself now though.

Scripter of:
Ikariam chat links
Ikariam missing resources
Ikariam remaining transport space (together with Martynius)

p.s.: Santa did it.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Thursday, May 28th 2009, 1:38am

Quoted from "iknietjij"

interface/mission_occupy.jpg

thx for report

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

boktom

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Date of registration: Mar 16th 2008

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Location: Sunny side of the street

Occupation: Looking for resources

Thursday, May 28th 2009, 1:10pm

Tried messing with it,followed instructions,but can't get it to work.

Too bad,looks good...

ex-player on Ikariam.org/Iota

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Thursday, May 28th 2009, 3:26pm

Quoted from "boktom"

Tried messing with it,followed instructions,but can't get it to work.

Too bad,looks good...

read this page for more info: http://userscripts.org/topics/24778

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Saturday, May 30th 2009, 1:50pm

right to left languages support

new version was released: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42934
- right to left languages support
- full gfx pack for both left to right or right to left languages

Note: if you are using left to right languages only, you don't need to update the script.

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

iknietjij

Student

Date of registration: Mar 12th 2008

Posts: 47

Monday, June 1st 2009, 12:19pm

Another image that seems missing:
skin/relatedCities/show_city.jpg

Scripter of:
Ikariam chat links
Ikariam missing resources
Ikariam remaining transport space (together with Martynius)

p.s.: Santa did it.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Monday, June 1st 2009, 1:15pm

Quoted from "iknietjij"

Another image that seems missing:
skin/relatedCities/show_city.jpg

thx, but could you please give more info about which page will need it?

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

iknietjij

Student

Date of registration: Mar 12th 2008

Posts: 47

Monday, June 1st 2009, 1:16pm

If you deploy a troop in an alliance members town, and click on 'show military', you will see an image on the left-top. That's this image:

Scripter of:
Ikariam chat links
Ikariam missing resources
Ikariam remaining transport space (together with Martynius)

p.s.: Santa did it.

fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Tuesday, June 9th 2009, 5:16pm

updated another way to install the script for windows user.
please take a look at the script page for more info.

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

pocollo

Wanderer

Date of registration: Jun 15th 2009

Posts: 1

Monday, June 15th 2009, 5:22pm

Quoted from "fanha99"

updated another way to install the script for windows user.
please take a look at the script page for more info.

Great thanks to Fanha.

Follow your instruction here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42934
I got stuck at step 8: when I press "Test" button and nothing happen.
I spent my time to try to use your useful script. And found a way to fix the messing-problem:
a- Besure close Firefox first, before open the "prefs.js" file. That file should be in somewhere like this:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8vedu32s.default"
b- Edit the "prefs.js" file, just paste these code at the end of the file:
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://s1.ikariam.vn http://s3.ikariam.vn");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
[*] Notice the RED text, it is your server address! Just open your browser, log into the Ikariam game with your account, and you will see your server address in the address bar. Copy and replace your server address into the RED text in the above code.
c- Save the file "prefs.js" and run Firefox, log in the game, go to "options", and now when you paste the local address and press "Test", it should work well.

If you really want to understand about this mess, here are some stupid-technology explanations about 3 codes that pasted into "prefs.js":
- By default, Firefox browser prevent all the accesses to local files for securities-reasons. If you want to use LocalGFX script, you have to request a permission for specific addresses that use local files.
- So, the first code means "I want to talk about LocalFileLinks policy":
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
- The second code is the list of trusted addresses that want to have permission: here we have 2 addresses (Red text).
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://s1.ikariam.vn http://s3.ikariam.vn");
- The last code tells "how to use LocalFileLinks permission", here we want an "AllAccess" permission:
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");

Good luck to you, and forgive me about my bad english.

(*) @fanha: did you ever work for Gameloft SaiGon?

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "pocollo" (Jun 15th 2009, 5:27pm)

Martynius

Wealthy Conqueror

Date of registration: Jul 26th 2008

Posts: 770

Monday, June 15th 2009, 11:49pm

While I'm appreciative of the technical explaination I am also incredibly aware of the security holes doing that opens up in your broswer. The fact that you are allowing the local file system to be accessed means that any page on the websites you allow access can potentially abuse your own file system. While I am fairly certain that GF would not do this there is also the issue that it allows ANY script that also runs on those web-pages you have allowed access to also access your file system. This is a major security hole as you not not limit the access to your file system - it can get at everything.

Instead I would suggest that the OP could modify the script so that the ripped images are stored within the script using base64 data URIs - this would mean that the graphics do not need to be zipped up in a separate file and could all be installed with a single click. http://www.dopiaza.org/tools/datauri/ is one example of the many tools out there that will encode URIs for you.

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fanha99

Newcomer

Date of registration: Feb 24th 2009

Posts: 19

Tuesday, June 16th 2009, 6:46am

@Martynius: yeap, you are right. there is an security hole while you set right to the browser to access the HDD file.
there is another web game of gameforge have this function inside the game.

- you can avoid this hole by setup one web server (single server just for you or local server for you LAN) and use the address like: http://127.0.0.1/standard_skin/ and don't need to do step 3 and 4 of the install step.

thx for your suggestion.
I knew this way. the standalone animated Ikariam script use it.
I choice my way for some reason:

1/ easy to update:
- local GFX: all I (or some one) need to do is rip the file from server. almost don't need to edit the script. (script for 0.3.0 don't need to change for 0.3.1)
- encode URI: need to encode (some or all image), copy paste to the script each times server update. that is a little difficult to track out which URI is ok for new version.

2/ light:
- local GFX: just need few line of code.
- encode URI: put all into the script. now a days, all the image files of 0.3.1 is about 5MB. you need to put all it into script and the memory too (<-- I am not sure about the memory)

3/ easy to modify the interface
- local GFX: just need to find the right image file, replace it with the one you like, you will have new interface. ex: some one can rip image from the Fantasy theme and replace the it to the file in the origin gfx, you will have new theme and the fast speed too
- encode URI: rip the image, need to encode, search the origin URI in the script, replace it.

Ikariam: Local GFX Load image file form your HDD to speed up the loading progress.

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "fanha99" (Jun 16th 2009, 7:05am)