Major Additions - vB iGallery (XML Based) + vB iGallery v2.02 (Dynamic) The Ultimate Xperience

vB iGallery (XML Based) + vB iGallery V2.02



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13th August 2008 - vBulletin 3.7 Bridge Released: Download is now available
vB iGallery V2.02 now available.
More features and very easy installation, optimized and brand new User Guides - also added the fully layered PSD to design your own background images. Demo V2.02: http://www.digitalport.co.uk/digital/vb_igallery.php

Revision: 1.01(XML based Only)


vB iGallery 1.01 (XML based only) requires no database to function
(see V2.02 below for full vBulletin bridge to User Albums)

about:
vB iGallery is an XML based gallery, therefore uses no database queries. It uses Papervision3D flash technology, giving you a unique 3D gallery Xperience. Fully tested on default and custom styles, and cross-browser compatible. Coded to work with vBulletin's DHTML menu system, to stop menu's dropping behind the flash object.

This XML version uses it's own album directories - it is not integrated with vBulletin 3.7.x user albums yet. However, this will be done in a future update.

Features

• 3D Gallery in a virtual world
• Controlled by mouse and keyboard
• Various Zoom features
• Spinning Gallery - mouse controlled
• Zoom in/out of gallery globe - mouse or keyboard
• Tooltips available on all images
• Descriptions show on full image display
• Override attributes - we list more soon

Installation
Full installation instructions are provided in Word and PDF formats, within the download package. Easy install requiring uploading of files/folders and one template edit.

User Guides
English and French User Guides available. French translation by Sofia - Many thanks!

Copyright
All images used in the example album have been used with the contributors permission. Please do not remove the copyright in the footer of the gallery page, instructions on removal are in the documentation.

LATEST RELEASE Updated to v2.02 - Package updated.
Main vB iGallery file was a development version. Alignment issues fixed. Multi-line Caption/Description field moved and fixed. Domain issue fixed.

vB iGallery v2.02 (Dynamic bridge to vBulletin 3.7 User Albums)
Download it now, it's bridged to use vBulletin 3.7 User Albums - allowing easy population of iGallery. No XML to edit or to configure. Completely recoded and optimized. FULL documention within download package, in Word and PDF formats.

IMPORTANT (Affects version 2.0 only)
Some users have mentioned images missing from Profiles and Albums after installing this modification, the images have not been deleted they simply require a rebuild. Please do the following after installing this modification.

Go to your AdminCP -> User Albums -> Rebuild Thumbnails then click the 'Rebuild Album Picture Thumbnails' button.
This will fix the thumbnails not showing after installation. User Guides will updated to reflect this issue.


Additional Bonus Background Package (v2.0 & v2.02 ONLY)
5 New backgrounds have been added for you to download - these have been designed using the supplied PSD template within the Tools folder of the vB iGallery v2.02.

AUTOMATIC UPDATE NOTIFICATIONS
If you receive another notification about an update within the past 12 hours, this is auto-generated by vbulletin.org if the main release post is changed. I have made a few changes to this post due to some confusion between the 2 versions available. Please make sure you download the correct version for your forum.

[Leo Brazil]

Originally Posted by syrus.xl

It should work in the webroot, eventhough we have made changes for a version that works outside the forum root, but this is for a vBadvanced CMPS block.

Any news about this ? You can see I'm tracking this thread everyday....lol...

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by lenzo

Maybe I missed it, but I looked through this whole thread and couldn't find it.

Do you have a vba block module for this?

We have a CMPS block version running on our site, but due to the processiong use on the client-side it causes the page that its installed on to run slow. We are checking other javascript to see if it is a conflict we are experiencing.

Originally Posted by Leo Brazil

Any news about this ? You can see I'm tracking this thread everyday....lol...

So far, this hasn't been possible - I'll look into the coding we are now using on the vBadvanced CMPS center block module version, which is using a modified vbi.php file.

[Leo Brazil]

Thank you for the feedback syrus. Let us know when you have more news about it.

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by blue6995

I'm not sure if it's because of this mod or not. I recently uninstalled it, but since then all the pictures in the albums aren't showing. Alll you can see is an outline of the thumbnail and a small red cross in the top left-hand corner.

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks

Have you rebuilt your thumbnails? By using this mod it shouldn't cause loss of thumbs since it uses vBulletin standard coding to pull them from the database. I would suggest you check the paths of your images, in your ACP.

[TheLastSuperman]

Beautiful! THANKS for taking the time to make this, it is greatly appreciated and quite nice looking as well

I still have to change out the images but that can wait, tested and working on 3.6.8

S-MAN

[Spank]

Any update on resizing the gallery?

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by Spank

Any update on resizing the gallery?

I have designed a smaller version of this gallery. It was on test on our website for about a month, it still works on vBulletin's User Albums, but the path can be changed for members using their album directories outside the webroot.

Hopefully, this will be released soon - but we are concentrating on a few commercial products first.

The new smaller version will also come with details on using it has a vBadvanced CMPS center module - which is how we were testing the product. Before we release it, we need to update the coding, and add a few new variables which can be changed accordingly - because we now have this working in and outside the vbulletin root.

[VargTimmen]

Hi,

I've installed your mod and it works well. Thank you for that.
But since the change to albums/thumbs I have the problem, that the thumbs for the albumview isn't any longer there. Nor the album.php, member.php or group.php. There is just plain text. But the viewing for the full pictures is still OK.
How can I fix the thumb-viewing in my forum.
"AdminCP -> User Albums -> Rebuild Thumbnails then click the 'Rebuild Album Picture Thumbnails'" won't work.

Kind regards,
Benny

[syrus.xl]

If you right-click on where the thumbnail is supposed to be it should give you the url to where the image is. Check this first.

If this doesn't work just PM a temp admin account and I will check it for you.

Regards,

[VargTimmen]

Thank you!
I have used a wrong path for the thumpnails. Maybe you should update the manual with an e.g., due I don't know what you meant with the path. All 3 had to be relative until it worked. This caused the error, because the underlying cause for the trouble was the third pathspecification. I have set it to /home/<user>/httpdocs/board/albums/thumbs, but it has to be only /albums/thumbs.

Kind Regards from Germany
Benny