Work in Progress: UT2004 Stats Signature

[N4rkoT1k]

Hi fellow UT-lovers,

I used some of my spare time to program a tool that reads data of specific players from http://ut2004stats.epicgames.com/ and inserts them into a database.

The target is to create .png files to use as signature banners, something like the player banners of https://www.gametracker.com/ but with specific player data. This will be a tricky part since I have not yet done something like this before.

I am currently working on getting all the information of a player from 'ut2004stats' (not just specific ones like right now).
Furthermore I want to add rankings for all data types, e.g. leaders for vehicles.
The performance of the data-reading process is also improvable..

Perhaps the tool has to be divided into two parts in the future:
1. "Scanner" that permanently loops through the players to get their information and generates updated .png files on a server
2. "Presenter" that displays all data. This might be a website but I am not sure yet...

To me this is a "fun" project which I don´t know if I will ever finish it or if it ever will be useful to someone

Let me know what you guys think!

[Butze]

N4rkoT1k mit php kannst du doch auch ne webseite auslesen und mit pregmatch die tabelle filtern.
Mit den Daten kannst du dann Bilder generieren. (Name, Score usw. wie bei gametracker)

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$url = 'http://ut2004stats.epicgames.com/playerstats.php?player=xxxxdeine playerid';

$quelltext = @file_get_contents($url);


$regex  =  "/<table.*?>(.*?)<\/table>/smi";
$regextr  =  "/<tr.*?>(.*?)<\/tr>/smi";

preg_match_all ($regex, $quelltext, $match);

usw und sofort..

Wenn ich am Wochenende Zeit habe, dann kann ich mal ein php script basteln..


Gollum the headhunter

[N4rkoT1k]

Yes it would also work with PHP
The Code for this part looks something like this now (Language: C#):

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webBrowser.Navigate("http://ut2004stats.epicgames.com/playerstats.php?lang=en&player=" + lngID);
HtmlElementCollection tables = webBrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("table");
// Ermittelte Tabellen durchlaufen
foreach (HtmlElement table in tables)
{

}

Takes like 1-2 seconds for the whole reading and writing process per player

There should be libraries for PHP or C# to draw images. Will need to look that up soon.
I guess I will go on using C# for this. Maybe the website is going be PHP..

It´s already nice to see some rankings for these 19 players.
Golly has a shit ton of playtime but the maniac of us seems to be Alfred072176:

[Butze]

There should be libraries for PHP or C# to draw images.

You can generate images with text... in php
Do you know captchas? its exactly the same thing.

http://php.net/manual/de/ref.image.php
http://www.phpforkids.com/php/php-gd-li ... riting.php

Demo

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<?php
  //Set the Content Type
  header('Content-type: image/jpeg');

  // Create Image From Existing File
  $jpg_image = imagecreatefromjpeg('sunset.jpg');

  // Allocate A Color For The Text
  $white = imagecolorallocate($jpg_image, 255, 255, 255);

  // Set Path to Font File
  $font_path = 'font.TTF';

  // Set Text to Be Printed On Image
  $text = "This is a sunset!";

  // Print Text On Image
  imagettftext($jpg_image, 25, 0, 75, 300, $white, $font_path, $text);

  // Send Image to Browser
  imagejpeg($jpg_image);

  // Clear Memory
  imagedestroy($jpg_image);
?> 

[N4rkoT1k]

Haha this is actually pretty fun
First try to give it a shot

[N4rkoT1k]

A little update on this:
- I am now getting all the information that is shown on a specific player-site
- Entered more players to the list => 36 Players at this point to get more data
- With this info I was able to create statistics that already exceed the info of 'ut2004stats':

[N4rkoT1k]

Here some onslaught stats of golly, rotten and alfred:

[N4rkoT1k]

Another update:
- Entered more players to the list => 64 Players at this point to get even more data
- Added support for entering multiple EpicGames-IDs to a single player. The "Scanner" gets all data of these EpicGames-IDs. I am currently trying to create merged stats from all these datasets of a player e.g. hours played, frags, deaths, ONS statistic etc

[Miauz55555]

More than one ID with the same name means a forgotten password/ lost .ini or it's an other person who set this name for the epic stats too.
Nice work N4rkoT1k btw.

[Wormbo]

I think a different CD key also leads to a new global stats ID. The components are CD key hash, stats name and stats password, but I don't know what the masterserver acually does with them to generate your global stats ID.