Sten

Least-significant nibble steganography implementation for GameMaker

Maintained by: Nommiin

Compatibility

Windows: ✅

Mac: ✅

HTML5: ❓

Ubuntu: ❓

Android: ❓

iOS: ❓

Xbox One: ❓

PS4: ❓

Usage

Simply create a surface and a buffer that contains data you want to write to the surface. Use stenSet to write data to the surface and stenGet to read data from the surface into a buffer

Notes

To prevent the data from being misread, be sure to disable any blending modes whenever rendering to the input surface, if not using _stenToSurface

Example

See the object oMain to see a usage example

Function Reference

Primary Functions

stenSet( surface, buffer )

Embeds the buffer data into the surface and returns the originally passed in surface index

stenGet( surface )

Gets the surface as a buffer and extracts data based on the header, returns a buffer containing the data if success

Internal Functions

_stenToBuffer( surface )

Creatse a buffer and copies surface data to it

_stenToSurface( sprite_id )

Creates a surface based on the sprite's size and renders said sprite with no blending to the surface