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.

[cory_booth]

Thanks! Yep, that did it and I must say - seems MUCH faster than the other.
Scores are saving where they didn't before - that's cool!

I was looking forward to this release as it will get my games in the right format for a "different" forum I have... :-)

[cory_booth]

OK...
So let me get the smack now if I missed the post on v3arcade...

But...
Are there any ready available php scripts for building a CMPS or PHP Widget for scores?

[cory_booth]

One issue...
I noticed I had to enable Tournaments to get permission to play a game.
I set all Arcade permissions to "yes" for admin - got No permission
I then saw the tournament and set all to "yes" and was allowed.

Strange I needed to enable tournaments for the aracde?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by cory_booth

OK...
So let me get the smack now if I missed the post on v3arcade...

But...
Are there any ready available php scripts for building a CMPS or PHP Widget for scores?

There is the "Stats" module available for vBa CMPS on vB4. That is the big module (like what is shown on the front page of v3A.com) converted for vB4. That seems to the one most people wanted converted over. If you see any other 'arcade' related modules that you'd like to see converted over just point me in the direction.

Originally Posted by cory_booth

One issue...
I noticed I had to enable Tournaments to get permission to play a game.
I set all Arcade permissions to "yes" for admin - got No permission
I then saw the tournament and set all to "yes" and was allowed.

Strange I needed to enable tournaments for the aracde?

I will try to recreate that one. There should be no relation between the tournament permissions and being able to play a game but there is always the chance that I was coding after midnight again. (Programmers are like mogwai; there are certain things they shouldn't do after midnight.).

[Magz]

Hi Just wondering if its possible to run v3arcade as well as ipbproarcade ? If so what steps would be needed to ensure no conflicts etc ?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Magz

Hi Just wondering if its possible to run v3arcade as well as ipbproarcade ? If so what steps would be needed to ensure no conflicts etc ?

Out of the box, no, they would conflict since both platforms will end up trying to save scores being submitted. With the 2.0.0 v3A rewrite we went through and tried making sure that all of the v3A assets (templates, phrases, files, etc.) were uniquely prefixed. Some may have been missed but to date we have not gotten any feedback that are any remaining asset conflicts. So the short answer is... no known conflicts of assets but there are conflicts when trying to save scores because IPB can use IPB & v3A games and v3A can use v3A & IPB games (and Mochi games as well).

However it shouldn't be that hard to do something where both are installed and IPB is only used for one type of game (eg: IPB games) and v3A is used for other types of games (eg: v3A formatted games and Mochi games). It would be matter of renaming IPB's 'index.php' to something else, updating the IPB templates to point to the new name, turning off any IPB related plugins that are being used for v3A compatibility, use IPB for only IPB formatted games, installing v3A as normal, turn off v3A's plugins for IPB compatibility, and then use v3A only for v3A formatted games & Mochi games.

It is not something that I personally have done but I know others have. If you can reach him, "Mark.B" in the vB support forums might be able to give some pointers since he is doing this on his vB3 site. Check http://www.bowlandcentral.com/ and in the "Arcades" drop-down list the "Yellow Arcade" is v3 Arcade and the "Blue Arcade" is IPB.

[K4GAP]

I have hundreds of games that have an ".rar" file extension. I've looked over all the posts looking for any mention of how to install these games with the .rar extension...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by GaryT

I have hundreds of games that have an ".rar" file extension. I've looked over all the posts looking for any mention of how to install these games with the .rar extension...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A ".rar" file a compressed file, like ".zip" or ".tar" files. IPB games are typically packed as a .tar file and both v3 Arcade and IPB are able to uncompress them to extract & install the games.

My memory may be fuzzy but I don't recall IPB being able to work with a .rar file directly.

If you take a look inside of the .rar file (using something line WinRar), what is there? Just the game files (a .swf file and .gif files) or a .tar file? Are these IPB games or v3A games or something else?

[cory_booth]

Originally Posted by KW802

There is the "Stats" module available for vBa CMPS on vB4. That is the big module (like what is shown on the front page of v3A.com) converted for vB4.

Thanks...
After some serious hacking and slashing I was able to run this as a CMS Widget.

Starting to look real good!

[cory_booth]

One more permission error.

This time with playing a Mochi(sp) game.
Attempt to save uses the following:
http://xxx.com/arcade.php?sessdo=burn&mochigame=5173

This brings back a "you don't have access".
This is with an "Admin" account with everything on or Yes