Image ecnrypted (and memoryblock)

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Blendman

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Posted: 17th Apr 2016 14:36

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Hi

In one of my games, I use image encrypted (AGK2 tier1 basic).
For the moment, the technic i use is simple:
- I decrypt the image, save it (as temporary image) on the harddisk, load it with loadimage(), and delete the image, and go to the next.
But it's not very secure.

So I would like to know how I can do without creating the temporary image on the harddisk.
I have though to use CreateImageFromMemBlock'), but it doesn't work.
I'm looking for a way to "decrypt the image in the memory and load it from the memory" for example.
An idea on how i can do that ?

Thanks .

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Kevin Picone

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Posted: 17th Apr 2016 16:41 Edited at: 17th Apr 2016 16:42

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It seems to work like the Dbpro commands, where you needed to write the header data into the mem block, followed by the raw data. Images have a header of 3 integers (12 bytes), the first integer is the width (offset 0), followed by the height (offset 4) and then the depth (offset 8).

Scary Little Rabbit added an example to the CreateImageFromMemblock page.

One thing that’s worth noting though, is that the encryption tends raise the entropy on the data set, meaning encrypted data compresses poorly. An alternative might not ne encryption at all, rather to rearrange the it. For things like animations you can cache common strips/blocks, pull out ‘null’ pixels, mixed with some abstract shuffles (transposition) of all the data or some of it. So it’s fast to build the texture at runtime and will compress better in your final release.

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BatVink

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Posted: 17th Apr 2016 20:40

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Write a small program to encrypt your media:

1. CreateMemblockFromImage()
2. Encrypt memblock
3. SaveMemblock()

In your final game:

1. LoadMemblock
2. Decrypt memblock
3. CreateImageFromMemblock()

The image files will be the same size as a BMP image : (width * height * 4) + 12 bytes.

You can view more in my tutorial here.

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Posted: 18th Apr 2016 08:48 Edited at: 18th Apr 2016 09:00

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@Kevin Picone& Batvink :
thanks for the informations.

But I think the files will be too much big...
For the moment, I use PNG compressed, I don't want to have a game with 100 Mo of images instead of my current 8 Mo ^^.
So, it seems AppGameKit doesn't have a feature to load an image directly in the memory.

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