Is there a way to add custom textures to stones?

[Drawgood]

Hello, I have been looking through the different forum threads here and saw a post about how, with special instructions, a user can use a custom image for the board. But I am not seeing whether there is a way to select a custom image for the go stones. The selection available on the site now is already pretty good. But I think I personally enjoy seeing at least a slight texture difference on the stones. Just like choosing custom colors it can have an effect of increasing esthetic appeal, but also to keep the mind interested by the different textures.

The shell stone texture that is available is not bad, but I think they are too faint. I tried looking at them on the phone, on the big screen, and on my laptop screen. Sometimes I almost do not see them at all when brightness is lowered for the darker lighting of the room at night.

If there is a way to do something like that , could you please explain how? Thanks!

[AdamR]

@Drawgood

whether there is a way to select a custom image for the go stones

This is currently not possible from within our interface, sorry.

If you are comfortable with a complicated technical solution, it would probably be doable by utilizing some browser extensions like tampermonkey and injecting custom scripts.

Of course if you - or anybody else - feel like going the extra mile and programming the solution directly into the interface, it would surely be a welcomed addition and our frontend is opensource online-go.com · GitHub

[shinuito]

@AdamR

If you are comfortable with a complicated technical solution, it would probably be doable by utilizing some browser extensions like tampermonkey and injecting custom scripts.

In particular there was a few people doing that

Custom boards

I was just looking for something like this, so the topic was perfect timing… I like the flat style of GoKibitz, for some reason I find it calm and peaceful and friendly, so I wanted to replicate it in OGS. Specifically I really wanted the flat edges on the white stones, but since the OGS plain style has a black border on the white stones, and uses HTML canvas to draw the board, I had to make some JavaScript changes. In order for this to work, you will need to use Tampermonkey which injects a use…

and

Josekle Development

Here’s a funny coincidence… I’m like 90% sure this other post on the front page of r/baduk is using some code I wrote to customize stones: https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/ssxkxb/ogs_theme_hikaru/ edit: yeah, actually they even credit me in the header. I should send a PR though, I think they are doing some unnecessarily goofy stuff to redraw OGS’s goban

pointing to

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/ssxkxb/ogs_theme_hikaru/

and also

https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/taatjk/heres_what_ive_been_coding/

I believe upside_brigade was working on a PR to goban, but that it was running into some problems.

Probably something was updated in that direction

Image stone support

but I’m not sure exactly how much extra work would be needed to make custom stones.