I would also love to see some Screenshots...
:D

As is installed this hack, i first thought my users will laugh at me and dont like it.
Well... Now noone want to miss it - Shop and Battle will make this hack PERFECT!

Thanks, AutomatikStudio !

Any chance of adding permissions for having the pet, like usergroup permissions. I am converting my site to subscription and only want subscribers to have pets.

Closing shop....

This is an announcement I was hoping I wouldn't have to make. I pushed for weeks to not have to say this, hoping there was some way out. But unfortunately there is not.

I, personally, will no longer be doing any official development of vB3 Pets. I have 25 hours of school a week in addition to maintaining almost 20 websites and doing countless small graphic/multimedia projects for different clients. I have way to much on my plate...I really probably need 4 or 5 plates to hold all the stuff I've gotten myself into.

So what is the status of version 2 of this hack?
Well, good question. The bits and pieces of information I've been giving about the status of the coding have been the random bits and pieces of info I occassionally get from the guy who's coding. I honestly can't tell you exactly how much is done. I can only go by what he has told me, which lately hasn't exactly been much. It just goes to show that you can't put much trust in other people. Obviously people have priorities, but communication is the number one key to accomplishing a goal and communication on a certain coder's part has been practicaly non-existent. I have been under the impression that the coding was almost done for almost 3 weeks now but it seems that I'm being avoided lately, so I can't really tell you for sure where things are.

So who's hack is it now?
It's yours. It's now the property of anybody that would like to contribute to it. The only thing I ask is that it not be used for commercial purposes. It must remain free. I'm not positive what the current coder plans to do with his code that he has thus far. I'd say I would ask him but he hasn't returned my e-mails or IM's in many days now. If he wishes to release his code, so be it. To my knowledge, all of the things listed in the first post about what would be in version 2 have been coded minus the battling and stores, which are supposedly somewhat finished.

In closing...
In addition to the fact that I have no time to develop this anymore, motivation was quickly lost to continue working when someone stole all of mine and your ideas. I advise other coders to be careful of what information you release about your upcoming hack. People steal ideas and make them their own REAL quick. They even try to sell them at first. Heck...they even post in the guys thread they stole the ideas from telling people to buy their hack. But that's just people I guess.

Again, I'm very sorry for all of the people that have been waiting patiently for this hack. I to have been waiting, hoping things could work out. Feel free to PM or post if you have questions.

Thanks for listening.
Josh/AutomakStudio

Josh, that is a Total Rip off!

Remind me again what you're talking about?

Damnit. I was looking forward for v2. :(

Sorry to hear it Josh...we all get busy. I hope you will still help with the releases and such. I mean its a fabulous hack, and great addition to any community.

hope was skyrocketing, hope is down to the lowest.....

Josh, The fact that you are abandoning this hack and us...

The fact that there is real world out there and that is my #1 priority. There are more importantant things for me right now like graduating college and solidifying my source of income. So back off.

Well I have not installed this hack because Im still running Version 2.3.2, will it work on this version or do I have to update?

Sorry to see you have to much to handle but oneday soon you'll have time.

Laters

Part of life and especially part of the web is Finishing what was started.
Look big guy, I have no harsh feelings toward you. I love the hack and if you see
that that you can see where I feel ripped. Especially after preparing my members
for 2.0.. Now that makes me and others here look like untruthfull people. Because
of you. But hey... Maybe that's just how you do things.

Hopefully someone will take over the hack and make it to the 2.0 release.

Josh, if you want to discount all the crap between us, I would very much like you to work as part of the petzVB team, as if image creation speed is upped development and release time would be greatly reuced thus providing a hack with the options and facilities everyone wants from a pet hack. I hope you consider this Josh as Im looking for people to create the pet images and you would be perfect for this, because of your past experience.

Thanks mom, but like I said...there are certain decisions you have to make in life. Certain things have higher priority over others, and frankly, my education is more important to me than a pet hack. Sorry you don't understand. But you aren't in my shoes. And don't forget, there's always the other pet hack. It's pretty much got everything we had planned on coding.

Hey Dave. I'll gladly discount the crap between us. You have my apologies for anything rude I may have said to you. And thank you for the offer, but as I have said, I am incredibly busy and I also feel that it would be somewhat hypocritical on my part to abandon this hack and start helping on another. I might try to contribute a pet pack on down the road, but for now I think I'm going to have to turn down the offer. Thanks again though.

Really nice hack!, please add more thing to pets... upgrate!! v1.1!! please!

Oh, well, I'm not bitter, thanks for providing what you did. :)

Take care and make sure you get that education your striving for. :)

There is another pet hack around here somewhere, i guess i'll head that way, shame it only has 1 animal to choose from currently though. :/

Had the install.php file been taken out of the zip file, as it's missing when I download it.
If so, would someone be able to send it to me, as I'd still like to try out this hack :D

Thanks

Everything is still in the ZIP.

Downloaded the zip 3 times now, and the install.php file just isn't there for me :(

Well there isn't an "install.php" there is an "install.html" though. And I just downloaded it and it's there.

Install.html is there. It's just that in the html file it listed zip contents to include install.php.
Must have been a typo :)

All the best with your education Josh.
I just hope someone will take over the development of this hack, as it's got great potential.

Doh...silly me. :nervous: My apologies. I do imagine that has confused a few people.

Would there be a way of contacting the owner of the pet when there stats are getting low?..

Just an idea.. cos you do get people that dont post that often..

Now that I have VB3 Pets installed, our members have been asking questions which I've been unable to answer.
What does the 'exp' mean, and how is it influenced?
Presumably the 'health' improves the more they post, but what do the numbers (e.g. 334 / 919) mean?

Thanks

Leave the guy alone already....great hack! v1.1 forever LOL :)

Real life is what you make of it. Josh has to get away for a while. Don't piss him off right now, so he will never come back ;)

Whoa, didn't realize he left. :S I sent him a PM regarding this. You can disregard the PM I sent you then. Blast my lack of internet. -_-

the gold is here now so where is the pet v2 now ?

check first post which explains why there will be no V2

I installed! Great hack. :) The only problem I had was that I only installed in postbit_legacy since it said OR. Once I posted it in postbit it worked fine. :)

Do not install this hack! It messes up your Custom Profile Fields!

I had to uninstall for mine to work again :(

Like he said. Do not install this hack. Because everybody uses custom profile fields. And also, this hack is taking over the world. And it will also take over your soul as well. So like TheComputerGuyWhoIsActingLikeHeIs12 said, do not install this hack! :rolleyes: ...............okay! I'm just kidding. You SHOULD install this hack. TheComputerGuy....remind me again why you felt the need to come on here and tell other people not to install my hack? All you did was install it, then you saw that you "thought" it messed up your custom profile field but never even posted to ask about how to fix it, THEN you come on MY thread and tell people not to install MY hack. Seriously...what on earth was your thought process?

Hey peeps, just upgraded to vb3 gold and vbpets still works great.

ComputerGuy I use custom profile fields too but vbpets doesnt interfer with them at all..

Only one question: what the heck is a "Querie"

:o Havent found it. Dont know what to do :(

A "query" is a command that you run to alter your database. You can execute the queries in either phpMyAdmin or through the vB control panel.

Thanks :D I found out by myself yesterday :) Now I am trying to find the option to add a new template... dame where the f**k i can do this :(

style manger --> take the drop down of whatever style you want to add new template --> add new template

Sorry to hear that v.2 probably won't ever be out... it sounded really good.

The initial version is still an awesome hack, though. Thanks for making it!

Thanks KamuiX. I think I've about decided to make this like a "mini-pet" hack. Because I know not everybody wants that huge Pet system. So this will just be a small one. At any rate...back to work.

Nice hack... i installed it!
How can one insert further animals?

So whats happening with this, is there going to be no new versions? will this hack die or will it live on, it looks like a good idea, but if i install it and then it doesn't work in future 3.X.X versions then what is the point????