Intro and support
While Urban Dead does a good job of supplying the player with all of their basic requirements to play the game, the interface leaves something to be desired. However, there is a solution. Thanks to the miracle of Greasemonkey for Firefox (and now GreaseKit for Safari and Greasemetal for Chrome), the players can take control of their own interfaces, making them look however they want and adding plenty of extra functionality to boot. If you need help installing or setting up Greasemonkey/Kit/Metal, I'm not the guy to ask. Once you get it installed though, you should be able to just click on the Install links I provide below to start using the scripts.
If you like my scripts and find that you're using them, I highly suggest clicking the watch link at the top of the page, then periodically checking your Watchlist for any changes to this page. If a script you like has been updated, just click the Install link for it again, and you should get the new version of it automatically.
I have tested these scripts exclusively in Safari for Mac using GreaseKit. They should all work in Greasemonkey. Greasemetal seems to have less functionality implemented, so I can't make any promises for it, but most of my scripts are pretty simple, so I'm guessing they should work. If you run into any trouble with the scripts, make sure you're using the latest version of the script, and if the issue persists, please contact me via my talk page so we can try to troubleshoot it there. I'll say right now that I don't have much patience for people who ignore answers that have already been posted in plain sight, so please don't be one of those people.
I have begun editing and creating a variety of userscripts to replicate the functionality of some of the Firefox extensions I've seen. Most of them are just minor aesthetic changes, but several of them greatly enhance the look and feel of the game to such an extent that it is hard to go back after having used them. I claim no credit for the work done on the modified releases by their original authors. I've also generally been lazy with updating the comments at the top of the code in them, so most of them don't have me listed as a contributor or have the changes I made listed.
Original releases
UD A-GPS Coordinates
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updated 2009-09-01
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version 1.0.1
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| Like several other GPS scripts, it simply displays the GPS coordinates for your character next to the suburb name above the minimap. I felt this was necessary since I noticed logical errors in some of the other GPS scripts I was using, and also did not appreciate their approach to handling the problem. Please note that this script does not work with Midianian's Urban Dead Map Links script. I've posted a modified version of his script below that works with this script.
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UD Better HP Colorizer
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updated 2009-10-02
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version 1.0
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| Colorizes the HP value for each character based on how high their HP is and declutters things by removing the actual "HP" text from next to the character's name. Colors range from peach at nearly-full HP to reddish-pink at 1 HP. It works best when it's paired with a script that modifies the character links from their original pink color to something else (such as the Better Name Colorer script, below), that way the HP values contrast more, instead of blending in. It currently does not do anything when you're zombified and using Scent Blood (planning to change this at some point). Credit goes to Sean Dwyer for the original concept.
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UD Same Character Highlighter
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updated 2009-09-12
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version 1.0.1
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| When you log in, you're sometimes greeted by a long list of actions that happened while you were away. Especially annoying is when you see that several dozen of them were done by "a zombie," with no indication offered of which zombie did what. This script is configured such that mousing over a character will underline all links to that character on the page, allowing you to see just who was responsible for what. It works with survivors too, of course.
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UD Survivor Aggregator
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updated 2009-09-28
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version 1.1.1
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| Rather than displaying the names of the first 4-5 survivors at your location on the minimap, this script will display a count of the number of survivors. Essentially, just like how zombies show up on the minimap, except for survivors. By design, it doesn't count the survivors at neighboring blocks, just at your current block, but if people want that as an option, I might be up for coding it.
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UD Zero Out Buttons
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updated 2009-08-29
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version 1.0.1
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| Simply removes the buttons under the minimap to things like the Wiki, the FAQ, your Skills page, Contacts, etc. It's nice to have if you pair it up with QuickLinks or some other script that provides you access to those links anyway. If you don't have some other script that adds those links, I'd suggest avoiding this script. Also, make sure this script executes last. If you're using GreaseKit with the rest of my scripts, you're probably okay since they execute in alphabetical order (if you're using other people's scripts as well, and they started with something that comes after "UD Zero" alphabetically, you may have issues). If you're using Greasemonkey, move it to the bottom of the execution list, that way it comes after QuickLinks and most of the other scripts, otherwise you'll possibly run into issues.
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Modified Releases
AP Recovery Time Indicator
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updated 2009-08-30
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original author Sean Dwyer
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| Displays an estimate (accurate to within 30 minutes) of when your AP will be fully recovered. I wish I could configure it to determine when the AP tick would occur, but GreaseKit doesn't support the GM_* functions at the moment, so I don't see how I can program it to remember when the character's tick would occur. It borrows code from a few extensions and userscripts, though I'll probably rewrite it with entirely original code at some point.
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Better Name Colorer
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updated 2009-09-07
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original author gurujery
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| Uses different colors for characters that are in your contacts list. Essentially, the colors are more muted (almost pastel) in color, which greatly increases the contrast and makes their names much easier to read, in my opinion. I'll probably be changing this into a general custom CSS loader eventually, rather than restricting it to just name colorizing.
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QuickLinks
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updated 2009-08-30
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original author Vaevictus
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| Adds a menubar to the top of the UD screen, making it easier to select a few common actions. I've added quite a few additional buttons to the menubar, negating the need to have the buttons under the minimap for the Wiki, FAQ, Skills, Contacts, and others. I've also fixed a few minor bugs, changed the appearance slightly, and added it to a few more pages. If you're using it with Zero Out Buttons, this script needs to be executed first. This script will not be receiving any further updates.
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UD Building State Colourizer
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updated 2009-09-29
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original author Midianian
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| Colorizes some of the text on the page pertaining to barricade levels, generator/radio statuses, and a handful of other useful events. A few of the color and style choices "shouted" too much for my tastes, so I've modified almost all of them to provide better contrast on the screen and also to only "shout" when necessary. I also added the functionality to underline text.
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UD Item Combiner, Organizer, and Sorter
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updated 2009-10-12
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original author Midianian
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| An absolutely incredible script that makes your inventory usable by rearranging and combining buttons. I modified it slightly to hide some useless buttons that just waste your AP, and I'll be modifying it more as time goes on, but it's a great script. I can't speak highly enough of it, since it makes the game much more playable.
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UDMap
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updated 2009-10-16
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original author Janzak
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| Displays an additional set of minimaps under the main map, allowing you to see your current suburb, as well as any other suburb. I modified the appearance slightly, have started adding Necrotech buildings to the dataset (currently about 40% done), and fixed an error in the way that it calculated your location (2009-10-17: fixed another one as well).
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UD Map Links
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updated 2008-08-30
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original author Midianian
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| Displays links to the wiki and Red Rum maps for the suburb you are currently in. The only change I made was to allow it to play nice with my A-GPS script.
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To Do and Ideas
- A new menubar/HUD: While I've managed to modify QuickLinks to meet my needs for now, it's code is ugly and rather hackish. I'd love to take some time to rewrite it from scratch with better modularity and the ability to add or remove buttons more easily. Making it contextually aware would be a nice bonus too, since you don't always need all of the buttons displayed, and I'd really love to move the status info (i.e. HP, AP, XP, name) up there as well, just to clear up some more space.
- Caddy Healer: There's already a script that's supposed to do this (where "this" is displaying a list of the lowest HP people in a convenient location), but it doesn't seem to work in Safari. I figure I can write one without too much difficulty. Might be fun to make a Caddy Killer as well for PKers. Hmm...
- Building State Colourizer: Again, contextual awareness. While having the doors open and the barricades down might be something calling for red text for survivors, it might be better to have green for zombies. Other similar examples exist. It might require a complete rewrite though. Not sure.
- Survivor Table Sorter: UDToolbar had awonderful feature that allowed it to sort the list of survivors at the current location by their activity. I fully intend to implement this feature at some point, since I found it to be the best feature in UDToolbar. I've got a basic (i.e. buggy) version running right now, but haven't had a chance to work on it in the last few days.
- A way of coordinating recon within a group: UDBrain allows anyone using it to share data. It'd be nice if they had something like that, but just for groups. I don't think it's possible in Safari with just userscripts though, given the way that they lock things down.
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Original releases
Modified releases
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