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.

[doubleclick]

Thanks again Gemma.

So, if someone invites you to play a tournament.

You log into the forum, then:
1. Click Notifications, select Inbox
2. Click the subject line to open the message.
3. Click the "View Tournament Details" link in the message.
4. Arrive at the Tournament ladder page. At this point, the user, (and in this case me) have no idea what to do. Just a deadend.
5. Click randomly (or ask Gemma) until you click Tournaments Awaiting Players.
6. Click some more, or have an flash of insight and click "sign up". Hopefully, they signed up for the tournament that they were invited to, as there doesn't seem to be any connection here between the invite and the acceptance.

Is there anyway to reduce the clicks and to get to the point? Without an instruction manual, the users can get worn out by the time they figure out how to get on board.

How about something like this:
1. Click Notifications, select Inbox
2. Click the subject line to open the message.
3. Click the "Join Tournament" link in the message, which does the same thing as step #6 above? Or get fancy and have two links, with the second being decline invitation?

That shortens the rabbit trail by half, removes a dead end, reduces navigational ambiguity. Again, this is a great script, just looking for a way to keep the user moving forward in getting to play a tournament.

[Gemma]

In the PM you receive it should link to the tournament you are invited to; all you then need to do is click the sign up button (link) on the page.

I guess you could expand the PM text a little to say something like below by editing the notify_tournament_invite_message phrase.

{1} has invited you to participate in an arcade tournament.

Game: {2}
Tournament Title: {3}

You can review details of the tournament through the link below and register your  participation by clicking on the 'Sign Up To this Tournament' link. If you don't wish to participate just ignore this message.

['url={4}/arcadetourmnt.php?do=viewtourmnt&tid={5}]View Tournament Details[/url]
['url={4}/arcadetourmnt.php?do=jointourmnt&&tid={5}]Sign Up To This  Tournament[/url]

You will need to remove the ' from the coded lines as it is only included to allow the code to show)

['url={4}/arcadetourmnt.php?do=viewtourmnt&tid={5}]View Tournament Details[/url]
['url={4}/arcadetourmnt.php?do=jointourmnt&&tid={5}]Join This Tournament[/url]

[10 Gauge]

Just installed, and it looks as thought the sub navigation bar overlaps a bunch of information, is there a fix for this? Thanks!

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by 10 Gauge

Just installed, and it looks as thought the sub navigation bar overlaps a bunch of information, is there a fix for this? Thanks!

This should fix it.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=733

[kesandal]

Originally Posted by Recon0303

I did all of this and double checked, I got rid of the nav bar like you said here, now its no longer over riding, but now the forum is still highlighted when in the Arcade tab, and the info from forum is there instead of the arcade nar bar stuff, like Tourment etc, I added all of them as seen here, but none of them show up.

I think what the issue is the forum is highlighting when I click arcade and the nav stuff from there is showing up over riding it, and I,m not sure why, I looked every where and even made more nav bars tabs and it does the same thing, any time I make a new nav bar tab, it high lights the forum tab even though I'm not clicking it, which is Odd.

Hello Gemma,

I have exactly the same problem as Recon describet it.

Is there a solution for that?

Thank you.

[Gemma]

Can you show a screenshot of your navigation manager settings for the arcade tab(s)?

[vnairp11]

I am having a problem submitting the arcade scores, it just boots me back to the forum home page. I do not have an index.php my forum.php is my index.

[Amaury]

So I noticed if I'm viewing anything to do with tournaments, such as the Start a New Tournament page, it gives me an unknown location. Everything else, though, like the main arcade page and leaderboard, is Viewing Page Arcade like it should be.

Is there a way to fix this?

Also, is there a way to separate games? Currently, it says Viewing Page Arcade when playing games, but I would like it to be Playing Game [Game].

[rootsxrocks]

Gemma, could you tell me how to edit my template to correct a problem I have had since upgrading to 4.2 some how I ended up with over writing of the navbar in the arcade http://crackercoast.com/crackerchat/arcade.php

[rootsxrocks]

Originally Posted by Gemma

This should fix it.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=733

Well DUH I didn't see this before posting going to see if that is it