Student Helps: Scripts and add-ons that make UD easier and prettier!

**Violet Begonia** · Admin Number of posts: 891 Age: 47 Registration date: 2008-09-27

This thread is for posting links to scripts and add-ons that make Urban Dead just a little bit easier.

First, Urban Dead runs best in Firefox, and the vast majority of scripts and add-ons are for Firefox, especially Firefox 2.

Add-ons:

Greasemonkey:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

UDWidget:

http://udwidget.vebzom.org/installation.html

UDTool:

http://rapidshare.com/files/139340207/UDtool0.7.1.rar.html

Greasemonkey scripts (need to install Greasemonkey!):

I'll start with a fantastic one for talky people: Bigger speech box!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35289

Then UDelorean and Profile Previewer: 5 stars for these!

http://userscripts.org/users/47615/scripts

Building state script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35023

Refresh button:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35026

MassContacts:

http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/MassContacts

Finally NEVER USE UDBrain. It's a scouting tool for The Dead. Turn it off immediately if you have it.

**Linkthewindow** · Number of posts: 378 Registration date: 2008-11-04

There is a Firefox 3 UD tool here.

**Violet Begonia** · Admin Number of posts: 891 Age: 47 Registration date: 2008-09-27

That's actually the same one I linked. Wink

**Linkthewindow** · Number of posts: 378 Registration date: 2008-11-04

Whoops, sorry. I just saw a rapidshare link and thought that you had the old one. FF2 users can find a FF2 UD tool in the "Firefox Extensions" section of the wiki.

**Revenant** · Number of posts: 5 Age: 24 Registration date: 2008-12-13

That UDTool is actually based on an older, buggier version – the most up-to-date UDTool is actually 0.6.9, offly enough. The 0.7.x line were experimental revamps of 0.6.x and development was discontinued, with the later 0.6.x versions only being posted on forums by The General.

Having said that, since UDTool's URL updating seems to have stopped working recently, I advise you use udWidget instead. It's not quite as good on URL updates as UDTool was (when it worked, which was... not reliable), but it is superior in all other respects.

For those having trouble installing udWidget in Firefox 3, I am working with Swiers on updating the official version, but in the meantime I suggest using Nightly Tester Tools to force installation.

Also, I really need to finish working on BiggerSpeechBox. It basically works, but lacks polish.

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**mere bystander** · Number of posts: 448 Age: 45 Registration date: 2008-10-23

How does the Nightly Tester tools allow us to install UD Widget in FF3? (I'm sorry, but I'm a little dense about these things.)

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**Revenant** · Number of posts: 5 Age: 24 Registration date: 2008-12-13

Nightly Tester Tools was created for people who use testing versions of Firefox. Because of the way most extensions are coded, their extensions would not normally work in these versions, so Nightly Tester Tools was created to allow testers to bypass the version checks.

Once you have installed Nightly Tester Tools, simply go to Addons, right-click an extension that's been marked incompatible such as udWidget, and select Force Install. It will prompt you to confirm; confirm, then do the same for any other extensions you want to enable. (Note that this won't necessarily work for any extension, but works fine for both UDTool and udWidget, among others.) After they've been force installed, hit Restart Firefox and you should be right to go! Smile

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**Sonja Red** · Admin Number of posts: 264 Registration date: 2008-06-22

Revenant, I'm so pleased I could kiss you! I've been annoyed ever since I accidentally installed a newer version of Firefox and several add-ons stopped working. This is an awesome solution.

Thank you!

cheers

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**Dazaras** · Number of posts: 41 Age: 18 Registration date: 2009-07-01

I'd like to share a GM script that I'm going to use from now on, mainly because I made it.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Sweirs, a UD wiki denizen, made a script called ScentMapNumbers to help everybody figure out what the heck all those colors meant on that Scent Death skill. The script reports the red and green color values of each square, which Kevan said should correlate to the number of dead bodies and the number of standing zombies, respectively. This gave everyone a quantitative number to work with, from which they found an approximate correlation.

What I did, is change the output of the script from the color values to the estimated zombie numbers.

In Summary: When you use scent death, this Greasemonkey script shows you about how many zombies are in each square. I think this makes the scent death action actually useful instead of just taking up space on my screen.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/53456

Edit: oh, and bonus cool points for doing it without knowing how to do javascript

**Sakito Nakamichi** · Number of posts: 6 Registration date: 2009-09-16

Thank you so much! These are wonderful add ons for the site!