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* setup your TR-account so it knows where on your machine to finde the local files. | * setup your TR-account so it knows where on your machine to finde the local files. | ||
| + | ==How much trouble is this== | ||
| + | * installing local webserver: once | ||
| + | * running local webserver: always (put it in windows start-up) | ||
| + | * downloading set of images: occasionally, (when developers change something on that front) | ||
| + | * Telling TR to use local images: once for every mage/server round you play | ||
=Get the image-directory= | =Get the image-directory= | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 19 March 2006
Contents
Customized TR look
Why would you want that?
- To reduce page-load times if you have a slow connection
- To make it look like your good old AM
What to do?
- download the image files, from here for example
- setup your computer so it can get to files on your machine using the HTML protocol (have a simple local webserver running)
- setup your TR-account so it knows where on your machine to finde the local files.
How much trouble is this
- installing local webserver: once
- running local webserver: always (put it in windows start-up)
- downloading set of images: occasionally, (when developers change something on that front)
- Telling TR to use local images: once for every mage/server round you play
Get the image-directory
- Download them from above adress.
- Unzip them into a new, empty directory.
- indoing so they make a new subdirectory images.
- These files should contain all images currently in use by the game (sometimes the image file is not totally up to date, few images may be missing - bug the developers on the UBB forum!).
- What I do is open Notepad, and type a small text like this:
- <HTML>
- <h1>MY TR SKIN HOME</h1>
- I extracted my downloaded ZIP files in a subdirectory in here.
- </HTML>
- <HTML>
- and save that as "index.html" (with the " " around the filename, otherwise it becomes index.html.txt) in the directory).
- having this html file will also help you select the WWW root directory, and test your connection
Make your local machine talk the HTML: protocol
(if you didn't have something like it installed already).
- Download a freeware simple local webserver program. My choice was AnalogX SimpleServer:WWW.
- Install it.
- Start it.
- You may have to tell your firewall this program is allowed to act like a server.
- You will have to tell it what directory to use as 'WWW root'.
- Set it to the directory where you just extracted your ZIP files to and where you made the index.html file.
Once it is running,
- Open your webbrowser
- go open this adress http://127.0.0.1
- if you see the text from the previous section, you are all good!
Let TR know where your local pics are stored
- Surf to The-Reincarnation page
- Login to your mage
- Go to options
- change the skin directory by tagging and typing new adress: http://127.0.0.1 [ /subdir [ /images ] ]
- if you ever want to change it back: go there again, tag change skin dir and blank out the entry
NOTE: UNSURE IF adress has to end with /images or not... try it out!
Trouble shooting
- If you end up with very white TR pages, your browser cannot find a .css file (class style sheet, the layout file for TR pages)
- likely you mistyped the adress of your image directory
- try adding " /images "
- watch your caPiTaLs
- it could be you accidently deleted your local mainmenu.css Right click save as.. here
- If you end up with pictures with occasional red cross picture, like this: http://guild.the-reincarnation.com/images/missingfile.jpg
- that picture is missing (image files are not up to date/code has changed...)
- right click the red cross icon to see what filename it was looking for
- either make your own 'dummy' replacement
- or go find it on the live version of the-reincarnation: http://guild.the-reincarnation.com/images/filename.jpg and save it from there.
Advanced stuff
- customize your .css file to your likings.
