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 trackpads

Amen and thanks for that too!!!

Uploading the file in the attachment in post #934, overwriting the existing one, should fix your problem with highscores only saving when the game is played for the first time which I seen you posted about on vBAdvanced.

[vivapotenza]

Installed, and working great!

where can i get more games that allow me to save highscores (not Mochi ones).

IVe got some games here which installed and ran ok, but when the game was complete it redirected me to the forum home instead of letting me save any scores, so ive removed them again for now?

[Gemma]

Google will help you find games - search for IPB Arcade games download - sorry you can't list games sites on here.

Highscores not saving could be due to numerous things.......

1. Games aren't highscore compatible - IPB, v3 Arcade or Mochi Games
2. You are running either vB CMS or vBAdvanced CMPS and need to make an edit to your index.php (it is mentioned any times in this thread)
3. You have a htaccess file with rules in it that 'bypass' your index.php
4. You have disabled the Arcade Forumhome Info & Index Compatibility plugin

The most common issue is running a portal and not editing your index.php

[doubleclick]

My forum isn't sending out emails to notify people when they have been challenged.

• Email notifications for received private messages, new posts in subscribed threads, and forums go out.
• In v3arcade default user settings, all are set to yes
• Just in case, I ran the Set Challenge Permissions for All

Where else should I look to troubleshoot this?

thanks,
bw

[Gemma]

The 'Default User Settings' function will only work for newly registered members, it won't work for members who are already registered.

Are the arcade settings set to accept notification by email in the UserCP?

I've not had any problems with email notifications for beaten scores, tournaments or challenges and cannot reproduce any error of non-delivered email notifications.

edit: YOu would need to get the users to updated their settings manually, or if you want everyone to be notified by email (or PM) you could probably do a database query.

[doubleclick]

Hi Gemma

I installed v3 after most of my members were already here, so if the initial default is to have no notifications, and there is no way to change that globally then I guess the database query is the only option. Maybe in a future upgrade it could be set the same way that admins can globally change the challenge permissions to force all members to allow challenges initially. Just a thought.

Back here in the present, though, I tried looking through the database to find the table that holds the settings so I could run the query as you suggested, and can't find the one that holds these settings. Do you happen to know which table these settings reside?

Thanks

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by doubleclick

Hi Gemma

I installed v3 after most of my members were already here, so if the initial default is to have no notifications, and there is no way to change that globally then I guess the database query is the only option. Maybe in a future upgrade it could be set the same way that admins can globally change the challenge permissions to force all members to allow challenges initially. Just a thought.

That is something you would need to ask the developers about. Due to the lack of activity from Brian I am unsure whether we will ever see an update of the arcade

Back here in the present, though, I tried looking through the database to find the table that holds the settings so I could run the query as you suggested, and can't find the one that holds these settings. Do you happen to know which table these settings reside?

Thanks

I'm assuming there is settings stored in the database. I'll have a look later and let you know

[Gemma]

Ok, some super-crazy combinations here. I've not worked them all out and I'd advise you to probably set everything to YES then let your members switch off as desired. Here are the queries I managed to determine.

Everything to YES

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '1023'

Allow Challenges set to YES

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '1'

Allow Challenges and Auto-Accept set to YES

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '3'

Allow Challenges, Auto Accept, Email Notification and Tournament Events

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '519'

Allow Challenges, Auto Accept, Use Email, Use PM and Tournament Events

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '527'

Allow Challenges, Auto Accept, Use Email, Use PM, High Score Beaten, When Challenged and Tournament Events

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '575'

Everything EXCEPT Email Notifications Set To YES

UPDATE `user` SET `arcadeoptions` = '1019'

[doubleclick]

wow. thank you for the extensive work. I'll run that today.

Originally Posted by Gemma

I am unsure whether we will ever see an update of the arcade

So has vbAdvanced dropped this mod? If there are no updates, then vb5 will essentially kill it off. Not good news for us Arcade Junkies!

Thanks again for going the extra mile to create that query. It is a big help in getting things hopping again with the games.

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by Gemma

That is something you would need to ask the developers about. Due to the lack of activity from Brian I am unsure whether we will ever see an update of the arcade

This and Current Version: 2.0.3 (Released 06-08-2011) nailed the coffin shut for me... Unfortunately will be porting to another developers arcade with whom I seem to be running more and more of their software....