Add-On Releases - v3 Arcade - Professional vBulletin Gaming (vB4)

v3 Arcade is now a member of the vBadvanced family!

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47571

The support forums & data from v3Arcade.com have been merged into the vBadvanced.com site.



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v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4.x.x
For vBulletin 3.x.x, please see here.
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Please note... until v3Arcade.com is upgraded to vBulletin 4, some demo sites can be found here. Also, because of styling changes introduced in vB 4.0.8 to allow customized user profile pages, this version requires 4.0.8+ to be installed.

"v3 Arcade" is the premiere arcade system written specifically for vBulletin. It's coded from scratch - not a port of an older version - and because it was coded specifically for vBulletin it uses the product system for code modifications & utilizes AJAX technology throughout. Here's a brief rundown of the features in this version of v3 Arcade.

Supports MochiAds, v3 Arcade and IBPArcade games!

• Download THOUSANDS of *legal* free and premium games directly from Mochi Media to your v3 Arcade installation. Earn money from people playing games on your site! With just a few mouse clicks you download games directly from within your ACP or from the Mochi Media web site. You have to check it out it to see just how easy it is.
• Tournaments! Challenge your friends to see who the champ is!
• Integrated arcade statistics on your user's profile pages!
• AJAX based instant ratings, for simple to use game ratings.
• AJAX based inline score moderation.
• AJAX based instant game searching.
• Tabbed, customizable categories.
• Challenge system for one-on-one contests.
• User-permission based settings for email/PM notification, challenge settings.
• Streamlined viewing modes for users with lower resolutions.
• AJAX based quick stats, for viewing statistics by passing the cursor over a username.Mass import tools for importing games in bulk.
• Reverse and decimal based scoring.
• Arcade-only closure with customizable message.
• Per game criteria, allows you to control access to games by reputation, posts, registration length.
• Postbit based awards.
• Personalized recommendations for other games users might like, based on what they?re playing.
• Quick stats, letting a user know how many other scores are above and below theirs.
• Score ranking.
• Admin customizable ?score feedback?, displays a message based on how well as user has done.
• Numerous Admin CP settings to control things like popup opacity, maximum comment length, hover delay length, and numerous other behaviors.
• Full admin control over the types of content allowed in comments (BB code, HTML, smilies, etc.)
• Usergroup based access permissions.
• Fully phrased, for each translation into other languages.
• An ever growing collection of third party add-ons
• A slick, professional layout.
• Edit-free template updates!
• User ability to specify viewing resolution while playing games.

v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4 also has some feature differences versus v3 Arcade for vBulletin 3. Currently that list includes....

• The separate Arcade navbar has been replaced with the options being moved up to the standard vB navbar. Be sure to turn on the navbar link! (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade General Settings => Navbar Link Position)
• When viewing a game categories other than the 'All' category, the category name will now be included in the navbar breadcrumbs.
• Added a new template "v3arcade_postbit_userid_trophy_wrapper" to allow adding some HTML around the arcade award images in the postbit.
• The category tabs shown on the main page will use the vB styling instead of their own defined styles. As we go forward the vB4 version of v3A will lose more & more of it's custom styling and instead use more of the new vB4 styling features elements.
• New option to display a "New" game category tab that will display all games in newest to oldest order. In addition to the new tab a "New Games" link will also be shown in the vB "What's New" navbar link. (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade Homepage Settings => Display "New" Category Tab)

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Branding Free
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All v3 Arcade installations carry and require a small "v3 Arcade" logo in the footer, as well as the text "Powered by v3 Arcade" which links to http:www.v3arcade.com. For information on legally removing the branding, please visit www.v3arcade.com.


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www.v3arcade.com
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If you're looking for more games, add-ons, support, tutorials, or anything Arcade related - www.v3arcade.com is the place to go.


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Copyright
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All code & images distributed in this zip is Copyright ?2010 CinVin, with the following exceptions:

• class_tar.php - Credits within.
• All games & associated images, unless otherwise noted.

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Many thanks to...
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• All branding-free customers and donors, for supporting the project!
• John, the original founder behind the v3 Arcade platform.
• Tigga, the v3 Arcade lead developer (as well as all of the vBadvanced products! )
• Everybody who has provided feedback & suggestions to help us make v3 Arcade to be the best arcade platform.

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Change Log
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For the complete change log, please click here. The change log is getting too big to include inline with this thread.

[wolfsblut01]

Klasse!!!!

[Bianconnero]

very good mod
installed on www.dvbtools.com

[GhostHunter2010]

never mind i unistalled

[CharlieDelta]

Hi Gemma I have a specific issue with permission and wondering if you may be able to give me a work around.

I have custom usergroups set up for things like rosters and a mentor system. I have to have members in the mentor usergroup set as "primary users". I only allow, for the time being, premium members access to the arcade and all premium members are set as "additional users".

These permission settings work well except for the "primary users" of any custom usergroups. The permissions get overriden by the custom usergroup even though the permium is set as an additional user. This works fine with vbulletins default usergroups however.

I hope I have explained this well enough.

[Gemma]

My blonde hair is glowing brightly because I didn't understand any of that

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by Gemma

My blonde hair is glowing brightly because I didn't understand any of that

I was afraid that may happen, it is a bit of a unique issue.

In "Usergroup Manager" you have default usergroups and custom usergroups.
Basically if someone is a primary user of a default usergroup with premium as their additional they have access to the arcade but if they are a primary user of a custom usergroup with premium as their additional they do not have access. The permissions are not recognized.

For example; Joe Blow signs up to the site and is now a "registered user" he purchases a premium membership and "permium" is added as an additional user. He now has access to the arcade. But if he is moved to Senior NCM as his primary but still has premium as additional he no longer has permission and gets an error.

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[Gemma]

Nah, I've not switched my brain back on yet after the holiday period, got you now. I'll go and have a play around an see what I can come up with.

[CharlieDelta]

Thank you.

[mIQe]

I decided to get this Arcade over the other one and I'm liking it.

I'm just curious how to change the inactive tab backgrounds for the game categories? Currently the inactive are 100% transparent. I usually use a very dark but transparent image for inactive and a lighter transparent image for active. The active tab is currently using the inactive background.

But I can't find though the admincp > style manager > search in templates where this info is taken from. And looking at the code with Firebug it mentions html. Is this hard-coded in the XML file and not controlled by a CSS?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by mIQe

I decided to get this Arcade over the other one and I'm liking it.

I'm just curious how to change the inactive tab backgrounds for the game categories? Currently the inactive are 100% transparent. I usually use a very dark but transparent image for inactive and a lighter transparent image for active. The active tab is currently using the inactive background.

But I can't find though the admincp > style manager > search in templates where this info is taken from. And looking at the code with Firebug it mentions html. Is this hard-coded in the XML file and not controlled by a CSS?

Try check the vbulletin.css template for /* LIGHT-TABS */

What you are looking for should be there