vBWar 3.0 for vBulletin 3.0
 

I thought I would move this over to the appropriate forum for discussions about the progress of my hack. I would also like everyone to post your comments/suggestions here as well and not in the vbWar 2.2 thread.

Currently the hack is coming along nicely and still needs alot of work. The admin piece is almost complete (approx. 70%). I am rewriting everything for the most part and redoing the Access Permissions differently with this version as well as member management.

I have posted some screen shots of the current admin piece and the vbWar options as well. Enjoy!

just for those unfamilliar with the vb war concept is it possible to provide a demp#o or a brief description.. is it like the vb battle hack ?

looks very nice :)

This is a Clan Management System in that you can manage your members, wars/matches/scrims along with the results, join apps, challenge requests, servers and their stats and clan news.

This was based off of vWar which can be seen here.

Ohh yeah, looks great!! :D

ETA? As in.. Estimated... a month?

For the first beta? No...hopefully sometime next week, not sure when though as I have alot to do still....

Well, my clan has some problems mainly due to planning stuff...

We got

1. Alpha team, playing ladder games
2. Bravo team, playing co-op tournements
3. Azzcup, a tournement we?re hosting ourselves
4. A ladder site
5. Generel stuff...

So we have a massive problem planning stuff, getting reminders, scheduling etc etc... So some advanced planning option would be cool, since we?re about to start another thing, bringing yet more probs scheduling and planing...

What can I say, we?re a busy clan :D


Oh yeah!

An option to specify the different gametypes for the games would be cool aswell...

Other than that, I think the sg?s looks very promising.. Good work!

The Divisions part of the hack should help you in that part if not what else could I add?

Can You make a sg of the division options, then I?ll try and make some suggestions other might find usefull aswell...

If my clan should move from PHPBB+PHPNuke to VB, wich we?re hoping to be able to do, since VB is much more configurable than PHPBB, we need the following options...

VbWar -Since we use a "PHPBB version", wich are essential to us.
Gameserver list - Possibility to list our publicly available gameservers.
Teamspeakserver list -Publicly available comms servers.

And since You allready working on the two first, I?m pretty sure, that nomatter what, I?ll be a happy puppy :)

That?s basicly what a clan of our size needs, besides the planning options and a load of sponsors :D

You can take a look here http://www.badazz-danes.dk, to see our current site, I think You?ll get an idea without having to register.

wish list:
Team Speak Servers
Game Servers
Team selection from those signed up and facility to email team that has been chosen.
Option for regular email sent to members listing up and coming matchs + an optiojn to signup for these matchs from the email (via a link)
Email reminder option so that members can choosen to have a reminder email sent to them on the day of a match they have been selected to play.
Options to define roles of members e.g War Arranger, Clan Leader and display them on a per game/clan basis so that each game/clan has seperate leaders etc.
All events displayed int the Calendar, but only showing the events for games that the member plays.

thats for starter, im sure once i have had a good think could come up with a lot more.

I would like to see when people from your clan signs up for a match or signs off, that the clan leader is recieving a mail about it. :)

Mikal:

Yeah, cool suggestion!

Dark Wizard:

I know this might be asking for too much, but I?m gonna ask anyways ;)

How about a feature that enables You when a match has been played, for the teamleader to write some info about for each members performance in the game? Only viewable for the clan offcause... We use that a lot, to find out where a member needs to train and which maps that causes problems etc etc...

Otherwise I?m a happy puppy :)


How much do You want for this hack btw?

Ugh....let me get through what I have now and look at this in a future version....

Nothing but donations are always accepted... ;)

Ventrilo integration would be nice.

hey mate this hack looks awesome cant wait for it to be released, can u do me a favour and put Delta Force Black Hawk Down as a game on there too please, i didn't see it in the screenshots.

ty

The screen shots aren't complete.....

Working on that as well and will try to get it in the first release.

hey DK, will this be like an update, because my squad has many many matches in our records, and once i have put em all in (jus installed vbwar 2.2) will i need to do the same wen we go up to vb3 wit the vbwar?

This will be both an update from vbWar 2.2 and a full install of vbWar 3.0, you will not lose any data. :rolleyes:

hey dw - i had an idea, atm wen the matches are posted in a forum, it is our match forum, do u reckon there could be a way once the match is complete for them to be automatically moved to a different forum, i.e. we have a forum where people sign up, and a subforum called "Previous matches" where we move em after the match.

hope u like this idea

That would require alot more coding...

hey mate any update on vbwar, will it be out soon :P plz!!

nice progress Dark, can't wait to see it in action

We (us @ mobileforces.org) would love to see Mobile Forces as a Game Option ... would probably be trivial as it's a modified UT1 engine - but if you could add this it would save me screwing up your code to add it for our vBWar ...

Regardless, I'm very much looking forward to this being comple and ready to play with - as are my clans of lunatics :)

I'm still working on it...hopefully soon. I can't give anyone an ETA yet...

Here is the list of supported games:

• * America's Army
  * Alien vs Predator 2
  * Battlefield 1942
  * Call of Duty
  * Command & Conquer: Renegade
  * Contract J.A.C.K.
  * Daikatana
  * Deus Ex
  * Devastation
  * Drakan: Order of the Flame
  * Ghost Recon
  * Giants: Citizen Kabuto
  * Global Operations
  * Gore
  * Halo: Combat Evolved
  * Halflife
  * Hexen 2
  * IGI 2
  * Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
  * Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy
  * Kingpin
  * Medal of Honor
  * Multi Theft Auto: Vice City
  * Neverwinter Nights
  * No One Lives Forever
  * No One Lives Forever 2
  * Postal 2
  * Quakeworld
  * Quake 2
  * Quake 3 Arena
  * Ravenshield
  * Return to Castle Wolfenstein (+ Enemy Territory)
  * Rune
  * Shogo: Armored Division
  * SIN
  * Soldier of Fortune
  * Soldier of Fortune 2
  * Serious Sam
  * Serious Sam 2
  * Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
  * Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force 2
  * Tactical Operations
  * Team Factor
  * Tribes (no playerlisting)
  * Tribes 2
  * Tron 2.0
  * Unreal
  * Unreal 2 XMP
  * Unreal Tournament 2003
  * Vietcong
  * V8 Supercar Challenge

If it's based on UT1 then I will look into it but may need you for feedback on the vars.

That's a lot of games! :D
Well its sure is sufficient for my clan ;)

Agreed...what I'm trying to do is come up with a couple of templates to work with all of them otherwise this would take quite awhile to complete if I had to do them for each game.

this particular hack is the main reason i am moving to vb3.. i am looking forward to this hack with a lot of anticipation.. Dark Wizard you have done a great job with what I have seen so far.. very impressed..

i know this is OT for the topic, but have you made any progress on your pafiledb hack? i think i saw somewhere that you were gonna do something like that.. anyway, not the place for it.. if you hang in irc anywhere, tell me where and i will come to you..

anyway, really looking forward to the release of vbwar for vb3..

edit--

i forgot to ask, under certain games, for instance UT2003, will mod support be there for the many mods that are created for the varying games? or will we be able to add additional game types under each particular game?

UT2003
|_DeathBall
|_SAS
|_Frag.Ops

something like that? that way clans aren't limited specifically to choosing UT2003 as the game.. i noticed in your screen shots that there was a spot for selecting game type.. just wasn't sure if there would be a way for adding support for custom mods and not just the games built-in game types..

This is taking longer than expected. I am rewriting this from scratch and changing all the vbwar functions. Please expect a few more weeks before this goes to a beta stage. Sorry for the delay but it will be worth it!

That's fine! Can't wait though ;)

Are you going to make that beta release an HTL-release ? :)

ROFLMAO....sure, why not.

Yay :) HTL-hacks are just so much easier to make AND use. :)

Ok...vbWar is coming along nicely and here is a demo but without the data....

Oh man, I can?t wait to play with that, looks VERY nice :)

VERY NICE!!......gimme gimme ;)
Looking forward to it!