RPG Integration Hack /w Battle (BETA)

RPG Integration Hack BETA by Bitsys
(vBulletin versions 2.2.6?, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, and 2.3.0)

This hack combines several RPG hacks into one and adds a battle hack. The hacks included in this hack are:

• Zajako's Ultimate HP/MP Stats Hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=37720)
• Zajako's RPG Elements Hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35318)
• Zajako's In battle hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42715)
• Zajako's RPname hack -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43651)
• DV class hack used with permission of J2K (aka the RPG Class Hack v3.3) ----- (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43558)
• Mewtwo's/Rake's Original Itemshop v5 -----(https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=38090)

In addition to re-releasing thse hacks, I have added features to all of them (or else there would be no point in re-releasing).

• The RPG hacks are now all editable via the admin control panel.
• The itemshop has been somewhat optimized and some fixes are included that reduce queries in showthread.php and itemshop.php . Also, Lesane's Store Hack has been integrated with the Itemshop. This can be toggled in the admin cp.

This means that the RPG hacks are database driven and have been partially integrated with the Itemshop. This was necessary in order to make a battle hack, which is also included.

Since most people are familiar with the RPG and Itemshop hacks, I will give a brief description of the Battle hack. If you want more information about either of the other two hacks, then refer to their original posts or download the .zip file and read the "readme.txt". If you are a visual learner, then you can scroll down to the second post in this thread, which contains the pictures of all of these hacks.


Battle Features:

• The battle format is turn-based.
• HP, AP, PP, and MA are automatically deducted based on what action a user takes, the damage dealt to an opponent, etc.
• Opponents in battle can use spells, one-handed weapons, two-handed weapons, shields, potions, or their fists.
• A battle is over when a combatant dies, retreats, or there is a draw. Battles can also be ended via the admin control panel.
• A wager can be set on a battle. Whoever wins the battle recieves the amount of money as specified in the wager. Outside bets are not supported yet.
• Battles can be either public or private, as determined by the admin control panel. If private, battles require a password and battles can not be browsed. If public, then any user can view any battle, but only the original combatants can fight.
• The results of a battle can be posted into a designated "Battle" forum, as specified in the admin control panel.
• Inactive battles can be pruned.

Getting started with the battle hack:

• In order to get items to disply in the item shop, you must select which items go with which RPG Type in the "Edit Item Type" Menu of the admin cp.
• In order to assign which weapon categories do what kind of damage in battle, you must go to the "Edit Category" link located in the "Edit Items" menu of the admin cp. Select a Battle type for the category and save changes.
• In order to do damage to your opponent when in battle, you must assign the amount of damage each weapon does in the "Edit Items" menu of the admin cp. The default damage is set to 0. The same principle goes for armor, potions, spells, shields, etc.

Please refer to the screenshots or "readme.txt" for more information.


Why is this a BETA hack?

I have tested the installation of this hack on vBulletin versions 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, and 2.3.0. However, because of the scale of this hack, there is plenty of room for errors. Therefore I am making the following disclaimer while this hack is in the BETA stage:


WARNINGS:

• Do not install this hack on a production board. Please keep this hack, while in the BETA stage, to a test board. The reason for not installing this on a production board is that I cannot provide upgrade instructions for going from one version of the beta hack to the next version of the beta hack. Also, this hack does not have an un-install script yet. So please remember, if you decide to install this on a production board, you are doing so at your own risk.
  
• Do not apply this hack if you already have ANY of the included hacks installed. Please refer to the list at the top to see if you have any of the conflicting hacks installed. Since I am asking that you install this on a test board right now, this should not be a problem since you can re-install a fresh copy of vBulletin in under 5 minutes, as a test board of course.
  
• There is currently no upgrade script for installing this over any of the included hacks. I will make one when this beta is completed.
  
• If you choose to install the postbit features, then an additional query will be added to showthread.php. This query is a SELECT COUNT(*) query and adds around .001 seconds to the page generation. If you don't like the idea of adding an additional query to showthread.php, then you have the option of not installing that part of the hack. See the install file for more information.

Miscellaneous:

The beta of this hack is free. The full/final release will also be free.

All installation instructions and credits are included in the attachment. If you find a bug or have problems, feel free to post them here and I will try to fix them. Please read the included readme file if you have questions. If you can't find the answer, then post your question here and I will answer it.

All hacks included in this hack have been re-released with permission of their original creators.

Screenshots are in the second post of this thread.


Installation:

Installation instructions are included in the .zip file.


ACKK! I NEED HELP!!!

If you are having trouble and need some help, please refer to the help documentation included in the .zip file. It is located in the "extra" directory.

If you need help and you have already installed the hack, make sure you check the RPG Manual link in the admin cp. Also, make sure you read the FAQ included with the manual.

MY THREADS STOPPED DISPLAYING CORRECTLY!!!
See if you are experiencing one of the following symptoms:

• All of my users are being labeled as "Guest" in the postbit template.
• No posts are showing up.
• None of the RPG variables will display in the postbit. The element/gender/class images are broken.
• I get database errors when I go to showthread.php

If you are experiencing one or more of the above problems, then your showthread.php file was not edited correctly by the installer. This problem usually occurs on boards with other hacks installed that modify the queries in showthread.php. Please go to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=2261 and follow the instructions there.


Add-ons:
The following add-ons are not included in the default installation. You must apply these add-ons after you have installed the hack successfully.

Member profile add-on
This add-on let's you display the user's RPG Stats in their member profile. See the .zip file for the add-on. It is located in the "Member Profile Add-on" directory.

Auto-update stats after posting
This add-on automatically updates the user's stats after they make a post, instead of having to click on the update stats button in the user cp. This add-on involves 2 file edits. The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...452#post356452

Donation Queue by Darkwaltz4
Moderate all Donations. See Who is Donating to Who. All Donations go through Admins or Mods. The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...652#post408652

Battle Background Midi System by Darkwaltz4
Full control over the music that plays during your battles! The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...530#post410530

Randomized First Turn Addon by Moreliator
"The following code gives the challenger a 33% chance to start the battle and the challenged person a 66% chance. Works quite well. I also included instructions on how to display "Determining..." on the battle.php browse page, that way people won't decline a challenge if they see they aren't going first. ". The add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...614#post410614

Lock RPG Options at a Specified Level Addon by Moreliator
This addon allows you to lock all users' RPG options in their USER CP when they reach a certain level. This add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...111#post411111

Personal Shop Items Have Battle Bonuses by Triade
The original personal shop, allows to have an item the don't do nothing in battle. With this add-on, you can build items with bonus in battle (the bonus is in the attack now). This add-on is located at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...328#post426328

Challengable Option by Darkwaltz4
Allows users to set themselves against recieving battle challenges. This add-on can be found at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...143#post411143


Contact Info:
Bitsys
Email: bitsys AT mail DOT com
PM me for a faster response. I prefer PMs.

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Update 09/04/03 @ 1:46pm
v0.68c

Battle debug messages were accidentally left on.
Minor shield bug was fixed in battlefight.php (Thanks Telchar).

Re-upload battleupdate.php and battlefight.php.

The new .zip file is located at the bottom of this post.


Finally, here is the .zip file (v0.68c):

[SavgeDusk]

For reference I'm writing again what I wrote a while ago (sorry I wasn't around to answer your question. x_x

This is what I wrote:
I've got a quick question.
I have a forum called "Records" to keep all the battles played. But I was notified today that some of the battle records are out of order in the gameplay. For example, in the middle of the thread it would say
"[Attack executed]
[Name] died!"
And the next line in the thread would be another attack, and so on. So, the death/end of that battle was not in the right place. And possibly other attacks too.
How can this be fixed? Because I like having this forum there for reference in strategies about how to defeat high-stat members and whatnot.


And this is what you wrote back:
Can you verify that the 'lastactive' column in the `battle` table of your database has an integer value for all of the battles? If so, can you give me some of the values in the lastactive column?

Now my response. -- I'm pretty new to the whole database scene, so I don't know what you mean by "has an integer value for all of the battles". ^^;; Can you please explain what I need to show you in very simple terms? ^^;; Very sorry.

Also, I was wondering.. Is the only cause for any setting being reduced be changing its values in the AdminCP? Like, say I change a class's Reg. Attack, would that be the only cause for it to go down when a user with that effected class updates their stats?
Because some members are switching to another skin and their HP and EXP or something, go down. -- And it looks like every time a thread or post is deleted, their settings are effected. I don't know what to tell them. =/
I don't even know how EXP is gained. x_x; I thought it was by posting, but the only way I see is through battling.

And I know this is super annoying by now, but do you think it would be possible to add in or modify the "visible" thing to only Admin. Or add in an option like that for classes? Because I'd really like to have a special one for only Admin, and not have it accessible for Moderators. -- Instead of it being for Mod and Admin, can it be only for Admin? ^^;;

One more last question (sorry), how hard would it be to code in a "Clan" option? So that you can set it to add in specific members, so that regular members can't just add in themselves. Thanks!

[lioncool1589]

how do i disable retreat battle damn those ppl on my forum using that glitch to get mucho money

[Moreliator]

Bitsy - an update on the item type page in CPANEL:

I'm still having problems. It appears that two columns are mimicing other ones. For example, I have a fire and water category that give me trouble. Whenever I check an item to be available in the fire category, I hit update and when the page reloads it has it checkmarked on both the fire AND water columns! If I try to uncheck the moves from the water category, then press update, they just come right back after page reloads.

I can still uncheck the moves off the fire column. Once I do this, THEN I can also uncheck them from the water column and it works. HOWEVER.... as soon as I check them back on the fire column they come back checked on the water column too! please help.

BTW, I find it quite fascinating the the columns giving me trouble seem related:

For example, for me, the Category Column with the ID of 3 is always mimicing Category 13's check boxes, while the ID of column 2 is alwats mimicing Category 12's check boxes... is there a way to change the ID value...could this be the problem?

EDIT yep, that seems to be the problem. I tried deleting category 13, then adding a new category. It gave teh new category an ID of 17... and I bet you guessed it... The column representing category 7 now mimics every checkmark I place in the column representing category 17!!!! I would appreciate any help you can give. And now that I look closely, it appears that every category that has a counterpart in the teens is having this problem.

-More

[Bitsys]

04-16-03 at 09:47 AM Rusty_Boi said this in Post #1489
i am getting this problem also..

well.. more or less... i fixed the dupilication thing. but when i choose Alignment or class... i get a "error on page" error. anyone have any ideas?

When you double-click the yellow exclamation point icon, what does the message box say the error is? Are you sure you didn't delete the javascript code at the top of the memberprofile template?

04-17-03 at 07:33 AM PixelFx said this in Post #1491
Not sure if anyone has had this, but when I try to donate to another member with out anonamyous setting set, I get the following error.

server info:
PHP Version 4.3.1
Mysql: Client API version 4.0.12
Linux Redhat 7.3

Database error in vBulletin 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: SELECT field5 FROM userfield WHERE userid=
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Thursday 17th of April 2003 12:10:44 AM
Script: http://www.xtremegames.ca/forum/forum/itemshop.php
Referer: http://www.xtremegames.ca/forum/item...n=donate&user=

in battlefight.php, find:

PHP Code:

That is a known bug.  For an explanation, see [url]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=362593#post362593[/url]

[QUOTE][i]04-17-03 at 07:01 PM [b]Jagang [/b]said this in [url=https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=383591#post383591]Post #1495 [/url][/i]
[B]In the [b]Battle[/b] table, the field [b]battlekey[/b] is blank even though I set a password. If it helps I am running MySQL 3.23.41 [/B][/QUOTE]

If($battleopt[privacy] != 0 && $battle[battlekey] != $battlekey) {

                eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('battle_badroom')."\");");
                exit;
                } 


and change it to:

PHP Code:

/*If($battleopt[privacy] != 0 && $battle[battlekey] != $battlekey) {

                eval("dooutput(\"".gettemplate('battle_badroom')."\");");
                exit;
                }*/ 


That will temporarily fix the problem by disabling the password check. This means that battles will be open to everyone.

04-18-03 at 12:57 PM Moreliator said this in Post #1496
Bitsy,
I think I may have found a slight mistake in thh souce code in member.php for the stat updater

      if ($hpmulti > 7.5)
        $hpmulti = 3;
      if ($hpmulti > 2.5)
        $hpmulti = 1.5;
      if ($hpmulti < 1)
        $hpmulti = 1;

I think the last two need "else" statements:

      if ($hpmulti > 7.5)
        $hpmulti = 3;
      elseif ($hpmulti > 2.5)
        $hpmulti = 1.5;
      elseif ($hpmulti < 1)
        $hpmulti = 1;

The elseif probably isn't NECISARY on the last one.


ALSO, I seem to be having a problem with the item types in the admin panel. I recently added a new item Category. now, when I go to uncheck some of the boxes I checked in the "item type" page and press submit, it reloads the page as if i made no changes at all. any suggestions?

The problem is with the "two handed weapons" category. There are two specific columns that are being stubborn and that I can't uncheck. Every other column and item category checks and unchecks fine...

Thanks, that will be fixed in the next version. Also, the problem you are having with the item types will be fixed in the next version as well. Kudos on finding those two bugs

04-18-03 at 10:04 PM Koutaru said this in Post #1499
Hmm I was thinking toward they can carry up to 10 items out of any categlory XD Can I do that? I'm a newbie in php but I'm sure if someone tells me what to look for to change, I'll figure it out

I believe you want users to have an inventory, correct? If so, then this is not possible. The original itemshop was designed so that users could only have one item per category.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
First off.. This is one hell of a hack. Good work. My members love it... hell.. my board is based on this hack now. I run a small RP community and this was a hell of a gift. Now then...

The whole user field/points system is a little wacky. You should make the VBhacker.php make a SET variable for money. Cauase for a while I had it displaying usernames as money >.>

Was it displaying usernames or RPG Names? If it was displaying RPG Names, then this means that in the Itemshop Options Menu in the admin CP the Points Field value was not correct. You should have adjusted this to the correct field # by doing the following procedure:

1. Go to your admin panel
2. Go to modify user profile fields
3. Find the Points profile field
4. Right click over the edit link and go to copy shortcut
6. Copy it in your browser
7. Near the end there will be a number. Remember that number
8. Go to edit the itemshop options
9. In the Points Field option put in field# and replace the # with the number you recorded in step 7.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
Can you give me the code for your postbit that you had on that screenie?

All of the code is located in the RPG Admin Manual.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
For some reason my forum is very sluggish.. do you happen to have a database speedup php app?

Unfortunately, I do not. There may be some people who can help you at www.vbulletin.com though.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
Users should be able to have a whole inventory.. Not just one item. And you should make it so that on the home page you can just put something like $rpgnav and have a table with all the required RPG links on it.

Although letting people add a variable such as $rpgnav would make it easier to start off with, I think most people would rather do the header themselves. This hack is already fairly standardized across forums so letting people do their own header makes the hack more forum-specific.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
Weapons should have spells that can sometimes cast.. Like poision effects.

The current battle format is not properly designed to handle status modifiers.

04-18-03 at 11:22 PM Zalastri said this in Post #1500
Random encounters... Like.. If you view a post once out of every 70 tiems you get into a random battle with a wolf or something Happy coding and good job.

The PVM idea has been suggested before and discussed quite a bit. Feel free to do a search on this thread to read more about it.

04-18-03 at 11:27 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1501
For reference I'm writing again what I wrote a while ago (sorry I wasn't around to answer your question. x_x

This is what I wrote:
I've got a quick question.
I have a forum called "Records" to keep all the battles played. But I was notified today that some of the battle records are out of order in the gameplay. For example, in the middle of the thread it would say
"[Attack executed]
[Name] died!"
And the next line in the thread would be another attack, and so on. So, the death/end of that battle was not in the right place. And possibly other attacks too.
How can this be fixed? Because I like having this forum there for reference in strategies about how to defeat high-stat members and whatnot.


And this is what you wrote back:
Can you verify that the 'lastactive' column in the `battle` table of your database has an integer value for all of the battles? If so, can you give me some of the values in the lastactive column?

Now my response. -- I'm pretty new to the whole database scene, so I don't know what you mean by "has an integer value for all of the battles". ^^;; Can you please explain what I need to show you in very simple terms? ^^;; Very sorry.

Everyone was new at one time Try this:
In phpmyadmin, click on your database name. From there, click on the table called `battle`. At the next screen, click "Browse". If the Browse link is not active, then create a battle and try again. Once browsing, look for the column called 'lastactive'. Tell me the values in that column for each row in the table.

04-18-03 at 11:27 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1501
Also, I was wondering.. Is the only cause for any setting being reduced be changing its values in the AdminCP? Like, say I change a class's Reg. Attack, would that be the only cause for it to go down when a user with that effected class updates their stats?
Because some members are switching to another skin and their HP and EXP or something, go down. -- And it looks like every time a thread or post is deleted, their settings are effected. I don't know what to tell them. =/

If you do drastic changes to the classes/races/etc. and you want to have the effects applied right away, then you can go to the Mass Experience menu in the admin CP and do option #5. This will update all user's stats for you. Once you have done this, you can make an announcement stating the changes.

04-18-03 at 11:27 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1501
I don't even know how EXP is gained. x_x; I thought it was by posting, but the only way I see is through battling.

To see how experience is gained, go to the Battle Options Menu and lok under the Experience Options heading.

04-18-03 at 11:27 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1501
And I know this is super annoying by now, but do you think it would be possible to add in or modify the "visible" thing to only Admin. Or add in an option like that for classes? Because I'd really like to have a special one for only Admin, and not have it accessible for Moderators. -- Instead of it being for Mod and Admin, can it be only for Admin? ^^;;

Thinking about it.

04-18-03 at 11:27 PM SavgeDusk said this in Post #1501
One more last question (sorry), how hard would it be to code in a "Clan" option? So that you can set it to add in specific members, so that regular members can't just add in themselves. Thanks!

It might be easy and it might be hard. I would suggest trying out the clan hack that was recently posted in the Beta forum.

Today at 03:52 PM lioncool1589 said this in Post #1502
how do i disable retreat battle damn those ppl on my forum using that glitch to get mucho money

In battlefight.php, find:

PHP Code:

$retreat .= "<INPUT TYPE=\"RADIO\" NAME=\"charaction\" VALUE=\"retreat\">Retreat<BR>"; 


And change it to:

PHP Code:

//$retreat .= "<INPUT TYPE=\"RADIO\" NAME=\"charaction\" VALUE=\"retreat\">Retreat<BR>"; 


Today at 06:42 PM Moreliator said this in Post #1503
Bitsy - an update on the item type page in CPANEL:

I'm still having problems. It appears that two columns are mimicing other ones. For example, I have a fire and water category that give me trouble. Whenever I check an item to be available in the fire category, I hit update and when the page reloads it has it checkmarked on both the fire AND water columns! If I try to uncheck the moves from the water category, then press update, they just come right back after page reloads.

I can still uncheck the moves off the fire column. Once I do this, THEN I can also uncheck them from the water column and it works. HOWEVER.... as soon as I check them back on the fire column they come back checked on the water column too! please help.

BTW, I find it quite fascinating the the columns giving me trouble seem related:

For example, for me, the Category Column with the ID of 3 is always mimicing Category 13's check boxes, while the ID of column 2 is alwats mimicing Category 12's check boxes... is there a way to change the ID value...could this be the problem?

EDIT yep, that seems to be the problem. I tried deleting category 13, then adding a new category. It gave teh new category an ID of 17... and I bet you guessed it... The column representing category 7 now mimics every checkmark I place in the column representing category 17!!!! I would appreciate any help you can give. And now that I look closely, it appears that every category that has a counterpart in the teens is having this problem.

-More

Thanks, that was exactly the information I needed to find the bug. It will be fixed in the next version.

[Moreliator]

Hey Bitsy,

We actually fixed it.... if you want the code we replaced in itemadmin.php just let me know, my AIM name is 'Moreliator'

If your getting the new version out soon, here is another thing you may want to fix: in GIVING gil, you can give letters. For donations, it won't let you, but if you arfe an admin/mod and you decide to give gil to a user, you can type in text like "egg" and it will screw up their financial account, heh. Just thought I'd let you know, although its not too much of a problem.

Once again, if you want that fix just let me know over AIM... may save you some time.

Keep up the good work. I'm goign to be opening battling on my server pretty soon... I'll let you know when its ready so you can take a look at how I implemented your hack on my site.

-more

[Airs]

The battling thins doesn't work when a peron has ' in their username.. it screws up and doesn't let the user do anything. and sends a load of error mails to the admin (me)

[Red Blaze]

I too found a bug. When I go to add hp, it won't add. For example I have 144hp and I want it to go up to 199. I have to add 55hp to get to 199, right? Well, I try adding the 55hp but it stays at 144. =/

Do you understand what I mean? I sound confusing. ^^;

[Jagang]

Today at 03:28 PM Sonikku said this in Post #1507
I too found a bug. When I go to add hp, it won't add. For example I have 144hp and I want it to go up to 199. I have to add 55hp to get to 199, right? Well, I try adding the 55hp but it stays at 144. =/

Do you understand what I mean? I sound confusing. ^^;

Are you talking about the link in the postbit? If so, my understanding is this option is for refilling health like after a battle. Say the person comes out of battle and has 100 HP out of 144HP, then instead of going to the healer and paying to restore the health you can give him/her 44HP and refill them. I don't think it was designed to raise max levels. I may be wrong but this is my understanding of it and how it works on my board.

[soccerclue]

Hi,

Can someone help me. I am really screwed up right now. My forum is at http://www.asianguild.com Can someone tell me what's wrong in my forum's Edit Profile? The RPG profile are shown two times. I think I messed up with the database. Can anyone tell me where should I change it? And I can't find modifyprofile template. Can someone tell me in which section of template is it? And when I am in the RPGCP, whenever I click HP/MA/PP link, it won't show up. It says "No user specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster" can someone please help me. Please help me. Thank you.

[PSI|Dr-X]

You didin't mess anything it's a error in this version wait until bytsis replies he will fix your problem