Skins

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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 (See section 6 for the retro.css file)

This page tells you how to set such up. Note that there is also an old method mentioned on the UBB/portal. That one used the FILE:-statement, but for current browser versions this no longer works, neither in Firefox/Mozilla, nor in IE. The reason for this is that allowing non-local pages to use FILE:-statements is considered a security risk. Therefore it is by default disabled in your browser, and you are adviced to leave it that way.

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>
  • and save that as "index.html" (with the " " around the filename, otherwise it becomes index.html.txt)
    • in the same directory as where you extracted the zip files.
    • having this .html file will help you select the WWW root directory.
    • having this .html file will help you test your local WWW server is working.

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 (preferably only in your local network/TRUSTED zone).
    • 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!
  • You may want to have the webserver program start up everytime you turn on your computer. Drag and drop the icon to the Startup-folder in your Windows menu for that.
  • Please realise that you open your http:// directory to anyone who knows your IP-adress. You may want to prevent that through settings of your firewall and/or your WWW-server.

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]
    • Whether or not you need to fill in the [subdir] part, depends on where exactly you extracted the ZIP file, and what directory exactly you made the WWW-root.
  • if you ever want to change it back: go there again, tag change skin dir and blank out the entry.

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 " or even " /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.

STUFF CURRENTLY MISSING

  • Own Guild/Allied icons in ranking list. [1]
    • locations of pictures..... ____________________unknown so far_________

Advanced stuff

  • customize your .css file to your likings.
  • This is the link to a retro-style sheet retro.css from beta. By DaveMCW.
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