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.

[Bob_R]

I hope I explain this correctly.

The index in my forum directory is actually my forum.php renamed to index.php becuase I have vBseo and I wish not to have double forums/forum in my URL.

What now?

[Bob_R]

Ironically the member who notified me of high scores not being recorded was indeed able to record high scores last night without me ever changing the files.

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

Ironically the member who notified me of high scores not being recorded was indeed able to record high scores last night without me ever changing the files.

Thoughts?

How could that be?

Do I really need the aforementioned line of code then?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

Thoughts?

How could that be?

Do I really need the aforementioned line of code then?

You could still run into problems with scores but you may get away with it, I've not come across anyone who has renamed their forum.php to index.php

This is how game scoring works. The v3 Arcade formatted games (that come with a fresh install of v3 Arcade) and the Mochi "bridge" (to allow sites to save Mochi scores locally) post back to the arcade.php script so you shouldn't have any problems using either of those type of games. However, IPB games require the index.php file to 'report' games scores to and the compatibility the hook "forumhome_start" is used to execute the code (earlier code I posted).

You may get away without any scoring issues.

[snow2000]

For some reason I can not write at vbadvanced.com: you do not have permission to access this page Why is that?

How can I delete all installed games in one step?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by snow2000

For some reason I can not write at vbadvanced.com: you do not have permission to access this page Why is that?

No idea, you would need to contact vBAdvanced owners to find out why.

How can I delete all installed games in one step?

Can't be done in one step.

You'd need to at the very least empty the v3arcade_games and v3arcade_sessions tables in your database (depending on what you are planning on doing you may want to empty the other v3arcade_ tables too) then you would delete the contents of your 'arcade', 'games' and 'images/arcade' folders via FTP.

[Recon0303]

I can't seem to get any support on this mod on the main forum at all, so this is my last try before I uninstall it.

For some reason in the RSS feed to shows High scores which is great , but the first person to get a High score on one game , was able to, but now when someone beats the score it does not replace it with the new person.

Any help would be great Thanks in advance. 4.2 Suite CMS, I do have Regular Vbulletin.

[Gemma]

Does it give you any error messages when the new highscore is achieved?

Does the new score show in the game's scoring list?

Does it happen with all game types or just one - v3 arcade games, mochi or IPB?

Did you make the edit required to your index.php file for running vbulletin CMS?

Have the highscores ever recorded properly?

[Recon0303]

Does it give you any error messages when the new highscore is achieved? No

Does the new score show in the game's scoring list? In the RSS Feed Yes works fine

Does it happen with all game types or just one - v3 arcade games, mochi or IPB? One game shows one person the first person ever to play as the high score never changes, other games nothing shows up, no award given etc, one game it gave him an award as well, but if someone beats his high score nothing.

Did you make the edit required to your index.php file for running vbulletin CMS? I was looking for any edits, can you link me the post that is required so I can make sure please? This is prolly the issue. But need teh corrects edits please.

Have the highscores ever recorded properly? No never since day 1. Had it a few months but been busy with other stuff, and was waiting for a reply from the main site and got one but they never replied back when I answered them..

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by Recon0303

Did you make the edit required to your index.php file for running vbulletin CMS? I was looking for any edits, can you link me the post that is required so I can make sure please? This is prolly the issue. But need teh corrects edits please.

Open your index.php file and do the edit in this post - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=900

Also, I've amended this file; extract the archive and upload the v3arcade_index_compatibility.php file to your includes folder overwriting the existing file.

Then go to AdminCP > v3 Arcade > Maintenance and run the Rebuild Game Scores and Rebuild Awards & High Score Cache tools.

See if that helps.