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.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by KW802

Have you done these changes yet to your /index.php file?

http://www.v3arcade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3215

Tried it. Didn't work.

Originally Posted by Gemma

You say it is only happening with some games and happened with ibProArcade too before you switched?

If you've done the relevent file edits and scores still aren't saving I'd check your server files to make sure you still have a gamedata folder for any game that isn't saving scores.

I won't go into the whole game converting/score saving process but if any IPB v32 game doesn't have a gamedata folder with the required files it won't be able to save the score and write it to your database.

I see a gamedata folder in my arcade but nothing is in there besides an index file. What else is supposed to be in there?

[Gemma]

When you download a IPB v32 tar file it will contain yourgame.swf, yourgame.gif1, yourgame.gif2, yourgame.php and a gamedata folder - which will have files within the folder - for example - YourGamev32DR.txt || index.html || v32game.txt

Every v32 game should have a folder in /gamedata. Check if those that won't save have folders or not. If they don't have folders and contents within the folders (like the above example) then you will need to re-download the tar file and upload the gamedata folder to your server (no need to re-install the game).

There has been a bug going around for years both on vBulletin and IPB arcades where gamedata folders can strangely disappear either on deletion or mass installation of games.

So if you can check for the above and see if that helps with your scoring problem

[stwan]

Gemma, it didn't help

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Originally Posted by Alex@Mk3OC

I asked this on v3arcade a few days ago and got no response. I have imported my ibproarcade into v3, but when using the conversion script on the v3arcade website it errored when trying to copy the games, now in my arcade i see the games list, scores, tournaments, but when I try and play a game there is no game to play it's just a blank box, this is for all the games installed

Anyone able to help? If we can't get this to import sucessfully we'll have to stay with ibproarcade

[CoZmicShReddeR]

Did you try it with the default theme? I mean I am using it with my Vbulletin 4.1.1 and I do not see that error... Couldn't it be an edit from something else? Also too did you upload the latest update for VB 4.11?? Mine works fine checked all the links and everything works fine...

And the only time I had those errors was in the begining and I used those edits from
http://www.v3arcade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3215
And that fixed it fine but I didn't do those edits with the latest release of VB 4.1.1 or V3Arcade...

Also I would not use that edit with this version as I didn't have to use it this time!

Make sure you uploaded all of the files to the correct directory and make sure your not running some other version of V3 Arcade that might be conflicting!

Also too make sure just in case you might not have understood the folder that says "forums" doesn't mean you upload the files to a folder called "forums" it means those files in that folder are to be uploaded to your root of your forums! I mean it doesn't hurt to make sure you didn't make such a simple mistake!

"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/v3arcade_functions.php on line 203"

Those errors are saying that file doesn't exist that's why I am assuming you uploaded those files or some of them to the wrong directory! And it could be a theme edit issue from a previous installation is why I said try the default theme...

[Gemma]

@Alex@Mk3OC

Did you disable the ibproarcade plugins?

Can you check on your server and see if your swf's were moved to the games folder?

[8thos]

Originally Posted by Gemma

When you download a IPB v32 tar file it will contain yourgame.swf, yourgame.gif1, yourgame.gif2, yourgame.php and a gamedata folder - which will have files within the folder - for example - YourGamev32DR.txt || index.html || v32game.txt

Every v32 game should have a folder in /gamedata. Check if those that won't save have folders or not. If they don't have folders and contents within the folders (like the above example) then you will need to re-download the tar file and upload the gamedata folder to your server (no need to re-install the game).

There has been a bug going around for years both on vBulletin and IPB arcades where gamedata folders can strangely disappear either on deletion or mass installation of games.

So if you can check for the above and see if that helps with your scoring problem

Oh snap! After I installed the games, I deleted the games in the tar and zip folders.

So is that what did it?? I thought the tar files were just zip-like files. So your saying after the game is installed, it saves game scores in that same .tar and .zip file? WTF

[stwan]

Gemma, I do not have ibproarcade plugin!

Games *.swf in the folder "games".

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Tried it. Didn't work.

I see a gamedata folder in my arcade but nothing is in there besides an index file. What else is supposed to be in there?

Originally Posted by Octavius.

Oh snap! After I installed the games, I deleted the games in the tar and zip folders.

So is that what did it?? I thought the tar files were just zip-like files. So your saying after the game is installed, it saves game scores in that same .tar and .zip file? WTF

No I mean if you have no folders within your gamadata folder for IPB v32 games that aren't scoring then you will need to re-upload the gamedata folders for those games.

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by stwan

Gemma, I do not have ibproarcade plugin!

Games *.swf in the folder "games".

Sorry stwan that reply was for Alex@Mk3OC

I can't reproduce the leaderboard error. The only thing I can think of is that you have a conflict with another plugin. I had an error similar to that on an early build of the arcade and it was caused by another plugin.

Maybe KW802 can shed some light on the error.