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.

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

Gamma -

Do you know when their site will be back up? All weekend it has been

Error 503 : Service Temporarily Unavailable

Which site is down?

[doubleclick]

http://www.vbadvanced.com/

that is the site one is directed to from http://www.v3arcade.com/

[Gemma]

Dunno, I've not had any problems accessing vBAdvanced today or over the weekend.

[Hippy]

vbadvanced is good for me as well .... weird

[doubleclick]

I got it sorted out with Brian. They had installed a new anti-spam firewall, and somehow had rated my ip as nefarious.

I feel so dirty . . .

[doubleclick]

Is it possible to show new tournaments, new scores, new games, etc. above the forum directory?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

Is it possible to show new tournaments, new scores, new games, etc. above the forum directory?

What sort of information would you want displayed for tournaments?

For scores, new games etc have you tried the v3 Arcade Stats widget, it has also been developed to be used as a forum sideblock - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261177

[doubleclick]

Hi Gemma -

It would be nice to have Active Tournaments, and Tournaments Awaiting Players to show up, each in their own block with the forum css.

I just looked at the widget you're talking about. It says "A widget for users of vB4 Suite". Are you saying I can use this on a website that isn't based on the Suite?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

I just looked at the widget you're talking about. It says "A widget for users of vB4 Suite". Are you saying I can use this on a website that isn't based on the Suite?

There is instructions on how to adapt it to be a forum sideblock - not sure if that is something you could use or not? You can see an example @ www.forumbanter.com/forum.php

I'll look at the tournament options and maybe see if I can come up with anything

[doubleclick]

Nice site, Gemma! When I get some time, I'll have to come back and play over there. Pretty darned fancy to have it adapt to different monitor resolutions!

What I'm wanting to do is to show stuff *outside* of the forum directory. For example, let's say my arcade is in mydomain.com/forum/arcade.php

I want to be able to break the info I mentioned out of the forum folder and put things in other parts of the site that aren't in the vb folder to draw people in. Places like

mydomain.com/index.php or mydomain.com/otherstuff/index.htm

In a perfect world, there would be one global plugin or product that would allow all vbulletin goodies to roam free outside of the vbulletin directory. However, that doesn't seem likely, but I've seen a few mods here and there that allow interesting info to be displayed outside the "fence" of the vbulletin directory, and was hoping the v3arcade had some.