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 Octavius.

My ibproArcade stopped saving games. I tried several fixes and they did not work. It worked during vb4.07 but not after I upgraded to vb4.08.

Will v3 Arcade save games?

Don't see any reason why v3arcade wouldn't save the games, as long as you make any edits to the index.php file if you are using vBAdvanced or vBSuite CMS

[gator777]

Ok, I found some my missing .tar game files and sucessfully imported them, but I am haing a few issues.

- If I beat a high score using one of the imported games, it will only posts the first score. Subsequent high scores do not post.

- Also, when I manually "Add Game," the images do not appear (although I could workaround that by accessing the database), and the scores will not even attempt to post. What could I be doing wrong with the manual update?

[Gemma]

Are those manually installed games IPB v32 games?

If so can you make sure you have a folder called 'arcade' which has a subfolder called 'gamedata', they should have been created when you installed the arcade but the correct files may not be uploaded to these folders, when installing manually.

IPB v32 games need a gamedata folder because of the way the scores are written.

[gator777]

Thanks Gemma, I did have them in tyhe correct folder, but that wasn't the issue.

I have since dicovered that by changing the "isreverse" table in the db from "1" to "0" solved the scoring issue.

All I have left is to figure out why the manually added games will not post scores.

[Gemma]

I'll go and manually add a game on my site and get back to you

[Gemma]

Ok I've found a problem, hopefully it will solve your score errors for manual installs.

When installing manually there is a box above the game system drop down (iBPro, v3Arcade etc), on my system that box above is blank and doesn't have anything to tell you what should go in it.

It should contain the Gamename Shortname (gname in IPB) which is the swf minus the .swf (see attachment). The shortname will always be the flash filename minus the swf extension.

Can you try adding another game manually and see if it works?

[gator777]

Originally Posted by Gemma

Ok I've found a problem, hopefully it will solve your score errors for manual installs.

When installing manually there is a box above the game system drop down (iBPro, v3Arcade etc), on my system that box above is blank and doesn't have anything to tell you what should go in it.

It should contain the Gamename Shortname (gname in IPB) which is the swf minus the .swf (see attachment). The shortname will always be the flash filename minus the swf extension.

Can you try adding another game manually and see if it works?

That was it ...that worked like a champ.

Thanks for your help...

[Sarcoth]

Hmmm, I am very impressed with what I have read so far. I will have to give this a try this weekend or sooner if possible. One question first, does it already work with any of the currency systems? I'm specifically using [DBTech] vBCredits II Deluxe. I did not notice anything about he current systems in the list of features, but I can be blind occasionally.

Thanks.

[gator777]

I got so caught up in trying to work my issues that I almost forgot the most important thing ...and that was to say THANK YOU! This is a very, very nice mod...

I really like the ability you created to allow the user to increase the resolution of the game ...very nice touch

[glen290]

Installed and playing around with it to see if i decide to change ove or not, having a few issues with not saving high scores, and the mochi scores too, but cant get on to v3a.com in work due to filters..