Internet Explorer 8 does not need any adjustments to allow graphics packs.
Opera users can only use the Internet method to use graphics packs.
The rest of this guide focuses on browser adjustments for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 1.5+ in Windows.
How to setup Firefox to allow linking to local files for AE only:
For Firefox versions 1.5 to 3.x.
- Step 1: Find the user profile folder
- First go to your start menu,
Start menu > Run > type in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
This will open a folder containing another folder which has the syntax ********.default, open that folder. Keep that folder open for Step 2.
Most users will just need to download the user.js file. Try Download Link 1 or Download Link 2.
If you already have a user.js file, you may need to edit it with a text editor. Just add these lines below whatever is already in your user.js.Code: Select all
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites","alpha.astroempires.com beta.astroempires.com ceti.astroempires.com delta.astroempires.com epsilon.astroempires.com gamma.astroempires.com helion.astroempires.com"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
Step 4: Restart Browser
- The browser will auto-load the new file you created when it starts up.
- First go to your start menu,
- In IE7, Go to Tools > Internet Options... > Security(tab) > Trusted Sites (icon) > Sites (button).
- Add alpha.astroempires.com, beta.astroempires.com, ceti.astroempires.com, delta.astroempires.com, epsilon.astroempires.com, gamma.astroempires.com, helion.astroempires.com, and finally, uncheck the option for Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone. Apply the changes, you should not have to restart your browser.
- The Local Disk method.
This method is ideal for most users and for editing graphics packs.
- Unzip your graphics pack into a folder, preferably a folder with a short simple directory structure. Then, Go to your account display settings in AE and hit the "Browse" Button. This will open up your file directory. Find your unzipped graphics pack folder and the file style.css in the main directory. Select style.css and hit the "Open" button. Now in the box left of the Browse button you should have a line of text showing the directory structure to style.css. Copy that line into the box below, and remove style.css from the end. Here is an example image:
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- Unzip your graphics pack into a folder, preferably a folder with a short simple directory structure. Then, Go to your account display settings in AE and hit the "Browse" Button. This will open up your file directory. Find your unzipped graphics pack folder and the file style.css in the main directory. Select style.css and hit the "Open" button. Now in the box left of the Browse button you should have a line of text showing the directory structure to style.css. Copy that line into the box below, and remove style.css from the end. Here is an example image:
- The Internet Method.
This method is for people that have special browser needs. It is difficult to setup.
- The most common way of doing this is to host a web server that contains your graphics pack. That is too complicated to describe here. However some users have public web servers such as this one that will host the graphics pack for you. In this case, just copy the given link (for example, http://piett.kiserai.net/ae/ds-o) into your AE display settings Internet form. Here is a picture of a correctly configured form:
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- The most common way of doing this is to host a web server that contains your graphics pack. That is too complicated to describe here. However some users have public web servers such as this one that will host the graphics pack for you. In this case, just copy the given link (for example, http://piett.kiserai.net/ae/ds-o) into your AE display settings Internet form. Here is a picture of a correctly configured form:
- The Old Version method.
All old graphics packs used a different layout, now known as Layout Version 0. You must use the Old Version form to use those old graphics packs. It is very similar to Local Disk method, except style2.css will be in the graphic pack's /image folder. The only objective is to find the file Path of the graphics pack.
- Unzip your graphics pack like you did with the local disk method and find the style.css in the images folder. In windows you can right click on the style2.css and go to properties. That dialogue box will give you the file Path (highlighted blue in the example below) that you need to copy into AE's Path prompt. The exception is that you need to remove \images from the end of that line. The screen shot below shows a correct installation path.
- Unzip your graphics pack like you did with the local disk method and find the style.css in the images folder. In windows you can right click on the style2.css and go to properties. That dialogue box will give you the file Path (highlighted blue in the example below) that you need to copy into AE's Path prompt. The exception is that you need to remove \images from the end of that line. The screen shot below shows a correct installation path.
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