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 FF|Skyrider

By the way. Is there any "new post/thread" function on beating highscores?

I believe it is being worked on - http://www.v3arcade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3854

[Skyrider]

So far, everything works as a charm. Though I do have to admit that I dislike the fact that if you add a mochi game and you lost/won and the highscore isn't above the one you already had and you wish to re-play the game, the ads has to be shown again. Which is quite annoying if the game is a fast game. You keep have to see the ads if you wish to reload the game.

[Skyrider]

I also think that the tournament needs to be a bit improved. Sharing that you can play the tournament when all slots has been filled and that you have to play xx rounds in order to complete your round to advance. Some people just play 1 game / round out of multiple.

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

So far, everything works as a charm. Though I do have to admit that I dislike the fact that if you add a mochi game and you lost/won and the highscore isn't above the one you already had and you wish to re-play the game, the ads has to be shown again. Which is quite annoying if the game is a fast game. You keep have to see the ads if you wish to reload the game.

Yeah that is the one downside of Mochi Games but a lot of sites require legal games and this was the best way to go, of course you can still run IPB type games

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by FF|Skyrider

I also think that the tournament needs to be a bit improved. Sharing that you can play the tournament when all slots has been filled and that you have to play xx rounds in order to complete your round to advance. Some people just play 1 game / round out of multiple.

I'm not really a fan of the tournament system, partly for the reason you state and also most people sign up then forget or you get x amount signed up but still need slots to fill so sometimes the tournament never sees the light of day. I tend just to play one-off challenges - which I think is a much better system

[Skyrider]

Guess I'll disable tournaments then . Though, if I may ask. Could you add to the private messages when your highscore has been beaten that links the user directly to the game?

[Mooff]

Hi,

i have a problem with one particular game where it doesn't show the highscores in the "arcade.php?do=scores&gameid=" part. I checked in the database, everything is saved correctly. And the game does know which score is the highest and which user is ranked one.

But in arcade.php line 2648 onwords the $score query fails. I threw in some var_dumps and echos to compare it with other games, where it does work and found only one difference:
in this query:

                        $scores = $db->query_read("
                                SELECT arcade_sessions.*, user.username
                                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "v3arcade_sessions AS arcade_sessions
                                LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON (user.userid = arcade_sessions.userid)
                                WHERE arcade_sessions.valid = 1
                                        AND arcade_sessions.gameid = $game[gameid]
                                        " . iif(!empty($scorecache), 'AND (' . implode(' OR ', $scorecache) . ')') . "
                                GROUP BY userid
                                ORDER BY score $scoreorder, arcade_sessions.finish DESC
                                LIMIT " . $vbulletin->options['scoresperpage']
                        );

(which results in beeing empty, for that game, not for the others)
it creates a line as following:

AND ((arcade_sessions.score = '1618.080' AND

now this game is the only game we have so far where the last 3 scoredigits are not 000.

I confirmed it by manually changeing the score via phpmyadmin to '1618.000' and now that score does show up in the highscore list.

Any idea how i can fix that issue, so that this game has a highscorelist?

[Gemma]

Can you send me a copy of the game or a link to where I can download it so I can do a quick test?

[Skyrider]

Small issue report:

I've set the games so you can only get 1 score. However, within the profiles (Arcade Statistics) under "Latest Scores (30)" It still shows all the scores you gained in a single game.

[Mooff]

@Gemma
linked you to a download via pm

And found the cause i think
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...ith-float.html

The result is correct. Although the first five records look like they should not satisfy the comparison (the values of a and b do not appear to be different), they may do so because the difference between the numbers shows up around the tenth decimal or so, depending on factors such as computer architecture or the compiler version or optimization level. For example, different CPUs may evaluate floating-point numbers differently.