Using only BBCODE to have a dice roller - NO database changes

[Renmiri]

My forum is dedicated to Final Fantasy fans and one of the games has a very fun minigame called Blitzball that we enjoy. To make the game work we need dice. I could have installed the Dice Roller Hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=959071#post959071) but I opted to just create a new bbcode instead.


Installation:

1) Download my plugin, import into vB

2) Create 1 BBCode
Tag: dices
Replacement: nada
Example: 6
Description: rolls x dices each with y faces y
Use option: yes

3) unzip the diceblue.zip images, upload all images in there to your forum images folder

4) Enjoy!

Using it
Write y whenever you need x dices of y faces rolled
See it working here
(http://eternalspira.ffproject.net/showthread.php?t=724)
Known issues:
n/a

Credit to
The BB code was inspired by the Dice Roller Hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=959071#post959071) and the dice images came from there too :D

[s0b]

GREAT!! I was using the 'RPG dado' but it was inestable.

Very much thanks!

[Renmiri]

You are quite welcome!

This should be very stable and fast since it only uses default BB code handling.

[OrangeFlea]

What's the highest single roll possible? I plan to run contests so 100 would be good. If there are no pics to correspond with such a high number, is there a way to omit the images and just have the rolls displayed as text?

[Renmiri]

No limit for highest single roll, 100 will work easily.

Right now there is no option to bypass the pictures but I had another older version with no pics. I can post it here later.

[thincom2000]

This is great, except if someone edits their post, or a post is not cached or is uncachable for some reason, the dice result does not remain the same. I foresee probable cheating and complaining members...

This could be avoided by:
Not allowing posts containing the [dice] bb-code to be edited. The post content could then be modified to contain the dice results instead of the bb-code, preventing re-rolls when post caching is disabled, or when the cache is rebuilt.

[Renmiri]

Well, yeah, mine is a pretty simple implementation of the dice hack. The complete dice hack with security and such is at
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=959071#post959071