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[n8t3d0gg]

Hey guys N8t3D0gg again, this time I wanted to go over Amakna's security features implemented into the game to "prevent" botting and how to get around them. This will be fairly simple as Amakna has done a really bad job at it quite honestly.

Many of you may be familiar with SCAR's FindColorTolerance procedure, and if you are not, it is just like the FindColor procedure but gives you the option to express a color tolerance (if you don't know what color tolerance is google it :smile: ). This procedure was added to SCAR to get around one of RuneScape's Anti-Botting measures which causes the games colors to change by a small margin.

Amakna copied this security feature and increased the margin by which the colors change. They increased it by such a large amount that it renders the FindColorTolerance procedure useless because the tolerance would need to be set so high to capture all the color possibilities that SCAR would mistake other objects on the screen as the desired target.

To get around this we need to be specific! We need to tell SCAR exactly what colors to look for. Lets look at an example :

Say we are creating a script that farms wheat. So lets select our wheat color.


I normally like to go with the brown part of the plant just because its easy to distinguish, but you could choose any part of the wheat plant so long as you keep track of the co-ordinates at where you selected it.

So using the color picker tool I'm given the information :

Color Picked: 614299 at (182, 597)

So lets add this to our function that will identify our wheat.

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Now comes the fun part. This consumes MOST of my time when scripting. Dofus changes color shades a total of 10 times! So throughout the day AND night you'll need to log on and check to see if the color at our co-ordinates (182, 597) has changed from 614299 and add it to the function.

Eventually your function will look like...

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Now your script will accurately find the wheat at all times.

**REMEMBER** 10 is the magic number!

Okay, so we now know that the color display on Dofus changes 10 times. Not everything displayed actually changes colors however! This is critical to know as well as it will spare you from a lot of headaches.

Take a look at this image :


Everything contained in the red boxes does not change color. This includes monsters, npcs, your character, other characters, any pop up windows such as your inventory or a level up message, and items.

The most important things for us, way points, plants, trees, water, ore do change color.

Hope everyone is able to take something from this short tutorial.
Happy Scripting! :wink:

UPDATED:
** Characters and Monsters are effected by the color change!**

[margreg]

is this color change things also work in mines ?
what i mean is iron color and fighting iron anti bot monsters - do them also change colors during the day like it is with wheat ??
wheat change color as u said 11 time ( didn't check this for myself, only a few color change inside my scripts), but also when u fight monsters, they also change colors and even your own color is changing.
Does it happends inside mines ?
mine fighting and iron color changing ???

[n8t3d0gg]

margreg, on May 5 2009, 07:11 AM, said:

is this color change things also work in mines ?
what i mean is iron color and fighting iron anti bot monsters - do them also change colors during the day like it is with wheat ??
wheat change color as u said 11 time ( didn't check this for myself, only a few color change inside my scripts), but also when u fight monsters, they also change colors and even your own color is changing.
Does it happends inside mines ?
mine fighting and iron color changing ???

Yes there is one exception to the rules. I don't believe Amakna did this on purpose either, there just kinda dumb :laugh:. In mines, you do not have 11 different possible color shades like you do normally. There are only two! The second one appears (and it effects monsters, your character, npcs, etc...) whenever you finish a fight.

To make that more clear... enter a mine, and there you have your first set of colors, everything as it would appear when you enter it. Get in a fight, finish the fight, and now the room will be a different color shade.

It is important to note that this does not always happen, but there is only 2 color shades you need to worry about in mines.

Another exception to mines... lanterns! Yes lanterns actually produce a color overlay on objects changing there color. So if there is a lantern shining on a waypoint, the color will be different where the light hits it.

[margreg]

Thanks man that helps a lot.
I will reconfigure my script now :grin:

[lilwitte]

NPCS, Players, and Monsters seem to now be changing colors (NPCS on the map he showed do change colors in Oto Mustam and Solar I confirmed and so do monsters, I assume also that players change with them as to not break the game's "harmony" feeling)

[n8t3d0gg]

lilwitte, on Aug 11 2009, 06:45 AM, said:

NPCS, Players, and Monsters seem to now be changing colors (NPCS on the map he showed do change colors in Oto Mustam and Solar I confirmed and so do monsters, I assume also that players change with them as to not break the game's "harmony" feeling)

Yes, Ive observed this as well. Ive currently working on 'cracking' how the color changing works. This is probably the biggest deterrent for scripting for Dofus because it takes such a long time to get all the colors.

[harjukki]

dofus cant get enough color chancing toget us stop botting ;D

[huracan89]

i'm sry but hwo did you get 6 numbers in your color number i always get 7 for some reason... even the color picker says its 7

[Babek]

These things make my head hurt aren't there any working scripts? where I can just add and click play?
I've been through the free forums and no one ever shows or completes anything, and where I see questions I want to know the answer to the replies are always search the forum.... searching obviously does not give any results like my problem getting scar to click the wheat, the cursor hovers over the wheat but doesn't actually click I've seen 3-4 of this question and either there's no reply or it's I'm sure I've seen the answer to this somewhere on the forum search for it....

[lilwitte]

Your Answer to no click: "Add In - 3rd Most Common - You didnt turn silent mouse off!"
the silent mouse option is an option within SCAR itself, i dont know where it is, but search all the options... I no longer have my all-knowing and awesome devoted SCAR PC... it crashed for no apparent reason and boots to a BSOD... im slowly recovering some of my scripts from this site and puting them on a pendrive with a SCAR portable and will get back to coding again in a few weeks...

[margreg]

Babek, on Nov 9 2009, 02:44 AM, said:

These things make my head hurt aren't there any working scripts? where I can just add and click play?
I've been through the free forums and no one ever shows or completes anything, and where I see questions I want to know the answer to the replies are always search the forum.... searching obviously does not give any results like my problem getting scar to click the wheat, the cursor hovers over the wheat but doesn't actually click I've seen 3-4 of this question and either there's no reply or it's I'm sure I've seen the answer to this somewhere on the forum search for it....

Working scripts are in the elite section of this forum.
If you just looking for a simple gatherer script, you may use the script I made in the tutorial section of this forum. It explains how to write simple wheat farmer, and if you correct color section in it you may see how it works and gathers wheat. Beleave me it works, it is the most simple script ever :grin: