Image Protection

[Blinker.]

Hello ,

i was wondering how to make the image go to cache like lua files .. so people can't simply take images of their mta folder..

Thanks in advance.

[.:HyPeX:.]

Make them cache?

Or just edit it with fileWrite functions, add some random character when stopping the script at the start of the image file, and remove it when loading, so it will be corrupted.

[Gallardo9944]

You can fetchRemote your images every time. I don't think this is really suitable for players with low-new solutions.

I'd suggest you to teaEncode the data after doing fetchRemote and flush it on disk. Then, if file exists, just read it and teaDecode it (don't forget it's binary)

[IIYAMA]

Or when you are a starter in lua, convert them to textures and delete them.

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/DxCreateTexture

Like this:

local image = dxCreateTexture ( "filepath.png" ) 
fileDelete ("filepath.png") 
  
addEventHandler("onClientRender",root, 
function() 
   dxDrawImage(0,0,1000,1000,image) 
end) 

[RenanPG]

If it's not a heavy file, you can encrypt them using somehing like:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Base64Encode

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Base64Decode

addEventHandler('onClientResourceStart', resourceRoot, function() 
  local img = fileOpen('img_encrypted.png') 
  local pixels = base64Decode(fileRead(img, fileGetSize(img))) 
  fileClose(img) 
  local newImg = fileCreate("img.png") 
  fileWrite(newImg, pixels) 
  fileClose(newImg) 
  image = dxCreateTexture("img.png") 
  fileDelete("img.png") 
end) 

[Blinker.]

i already did what gallardo said , thanks anyway

[3B00DG4MER]

Does changing file extension

like .lua to .png or .png to .something

does that MTA read it ?