Thought you might be interested to see some shots of what i'm doing with this hack.

it should be more a horizontal postbit addon but lol vertical works as well.

That looks so cool...

Wow.

/me installs and votes

One question, where's the "Personal Shop Cost: This determines how much it costs for users to buy their own personal itemshop." option located?

Well, if I dont get slowed down by bugs or template stress, somewhere betweel 2-3 months shouldnt be too off I assume.


Holy ++++ that looks amazing.
*cough* Feel like sharing? :D


Geometry sucks.
I rest my case
;)

Thats outdated stuff being removed for v3.
Thanks for the vote :D

I installed this hack and uShop but the points won't show up.

Hm. Well AFAIK the RPG uses the same variable as uCS for points display, so I think this is better off in the uCS support thread ;)

Okay. a few questions..

On my forums I already have the status bar, Ushop stuff, and the forums are heavily hacked.

IS there anything I'd really need to do before I install this. While I am REALLY into installing this, I'm kinda hesistant on doing it because it could have a major negative impact on the forums. The last time this happened literally killed my user database.

So I need some of my questions answered.

The only thing I can think about is check the $post query for any other hacks queries in it, and then rather apply the rpg query bits instead of replacing it all :)

Hello Revan,

FYI: the arena alignment was still wrong with XP and I.E. 6.0 (I expected/hoped it was only 98se IE 5 and Opera 7.2).

The RPG stats disapear in PM's. That is (afaik) because the templates use variables like $rpgclass3 and not $post[rpgclass3] like vars. It magically knows what it is in a post, but doesn't have a clue in a PM. The downside of making it know, is that you'ld need a performance killing query?

Don't forget to remove it from the User FAQ in the Admin CP. ;)

*deletes FAQ thread from his forums and explains this to his members who were wondering why they couldn't find the option*

Does the Lottery fall into the same category?

I can't see anywhere for people to purchase tickets.

This hack is being put together using Relic's new Dawn of War game art, which is based on Warhammer 40k universe.

All of the artwork unfortunately is copyrighted IP by THQ / Relic Entertainment, so I can't share the artwork.

My midi's don't play when I select one individually, and when I select play random midi's I get an error after every turn. What gives?

Share it anyway! :) Tease! :p

You have to create a lottery in the ACP ;)


I'll look into this for v3 ;)

The hacks been running pretty well my users arnt getting any experence from posting and i cant figure out why...

Maybe you didnt set the exp per post to on and a count above zero?
Thats the only thing I can think about lol

this looks pretty cool, will be installing, let you know how it goes

Thx!

Also, how can I put the Extended RPG Stats in the users public profile? I want to take it out of the postbit and only insert the box with the stats in their profile. (I don't like that black screen with no options that surrounds the Extended RPG Stats.

But I want to leave the Dropdown RPG Stats info in the postbit.

LOL, i got to be stupid :p thax man ^_^


And I made my own little post bit set up for rpg info under the sig. But I want a link that says more, and when they click on it, it collaps more information in tables. How would I do that?


Edit: I figured it out ^_^

warlord:i already talked to revan abou thta, he said he'll probably make it. I'll probably do the templates but we'll keep u informed on that

Yep Ill try to get some rpg stats in the profile.
It will add a bunch of extra queries tho, so I personally wont be using it :p

On a side note Im almost done with the new rpgadmin.php file, Ill post some screens when its done ;)

yes please :D

Is that new rpgadmin.php file you're making the one that controls how the midi's play?

It is the file that controls the ADDING of midi's.
The playing of midis is battlefight.php ;)

If I can just get the embed tag to work without giving me tons of WMP controls, Im gonna switch from bgsound to embed in a heartbeat :p

Note that the following questions aren't urgent, I'd much rather have the midi problem fixed first, :) lol... but here's a a few questions I had.

Ok, I've been readin' through this RPG manual (which is very helpful btw) but I still have a couple questions.

1 I created a lottery... but how do my members buy a ticket?

2 The manual says:

Q: Can I have my own shop?
A: Of course. Go to the Item Shop and click "Buy Personal Itemshop". You can set up a shop for a fee, and you can sell up to 10 items, each at any price you set. You'll earn any money a person spends at your shop, minus a 15% tax.

But I don't see anything in the itemshop that allows you to buy your own itemshop, nor do I see anything in the admincp that would enable this option.

Im updating the rpg manual for users as we speak ;)
And users can buy a ticket through the lottery.php once the lottery has been created :)

Thank you kindly. :) Guess I should've checked for a lottery file.

*smacks his forehead*

Any idea on an ETA on the battle midi's?

By the way.. in that dropdown/RPG in actual postbit addon, how can we make it so that the dropdown menu is checked by default instead of vice versa? I tried to do it myself, but seems it didn't work. :(

OK I tried this and wrestled with it all night through tons of mysql errors. I had to call it quits so I'll try again next release and hope it's a little more stable.

Its in the install query.
Where it says DEFAULT '1'; change it to DEFAULT '0';


@rinkrat: dya mind telling me where and how you got those SQL errors?
The only thing changing query wise for v3 is some tables dropped and renamed, so if errors are completely unrelated then meh :p


And theres no specific eta on any midi fix.
When Im done touching up all the files this hack already uses, I do plan to release it as a new minor version number upgrade, it will be like a mini v3 just without all the new features lol ;)

ok, installed fine, np.. lotto works.. had to creat links to Battle arena, HEal center, and Item shop tho..

only thing I cant seem to figure out is how to actually use weapons, armo, spells ect.. have tobe a certain level?

Yeah, I already manually edited every user in the database to 0 instead of 1.

Yes, that sucked my bunghole.

But now I did it your way, so I don't have to manually edit every new user.

I hate it when I miss the obvious. LOL

You gotta select Battle types for each item category. They're set to Non Battle Items by default.

Go to your admin cp, drop down the item shop menu list, then click Edit Items. From here, click edit next to a category and select a battle type for that category. You must do this with all your categories, (three categories are standard) to use items in those categories in battle.

got it, many thx! Good addon

It turns out that a few people tried it while it was working last night and they are demanding I reinstall it so I'll let you know if I get errors this time around and I'm going to see this through!!

OK I got it in there this time and no errors!! woohoo!!

There are SO MANY settings, can you point me to a starting spot for these settings to make it so people don't pile up weapons troo easily? I'm too lazy to read this whole thread, so if there's a link already, sorry.

where exactly do we go to change DEFAULT '1'; to DEFAULT '0';

You dont

Uber hack

Um if you dont want people to get the best weapon right away then I suggest you hit Edit Items then crank the price up to above and beyond. ;)
There really aint a step by step walkthrough to getting this hack ready, but you should ask Dyntheos here, he done more setting tweak then well me XD


I assume you know what I said that about, so you do it in the SQL for the column of the user select rpg postbit