eXpansion plugin pack for Manialive - (updated: 3.4.2014)

[reaby]

bump.

we have new homepages:
http://ml-expansion.com, take a look =)

[TMarc]

nice

[reaby]

Major Additions
- When adding maps from mx jukeboxes now the maps automatically.
- Fixed Musicbox Added MusicboxManager (a zipfile with c# sourcecode)
(How to use tutorial at http://www.ml-expansion.com/documentati ... %20manager)
- Customized Quit window with exp-logo and server name
- new plugin: WebLink + support node.js server + website for live statistics of the game
- Autoload, has config option to disable plugins so they don't load
- ESLcup-game mode, see http://www.esl.eu/eu/tmnf/news/115154/ for rules.
- Added tennis-mode for team, works like in fast.
there is currenly only a chat command to start, which is:
/team gap <pointlimit>
gamemode needs to be in team and you have to useNewRules for it to work.

Changelog 16.12.2013
- UI texture load fix
- Refactored maniaexchange plugins code to reduce code repetation
- changed /ta dynamic time to have limits: min of 4:00 minutes and max of 7:00 minutes
- changed the map ratings: will not show at endrankings,if player has already voted for the map
- Added quite a lot checks for admingroups save and load functions.
It should handle correctly all cases with even missing files to missing write or read permissions at filesystem.
fixed adding admin to group, since i did we do reload before adding, the reference to original group-object is missing. Sometimes, when the file wasn't loaded from disk saving successed, othervice adding an admin to group failed, even a chat message was sent that it successed, now it has proper failure message too

- reducing chat messages by default + fixed audio preload of ding
- Added windows to see best CheckPoints & Best sector times
- Added buttons on the HudMenu
- Fixed groups not being saved properly sometims for all actions
- Fixed small Gui issue + Changed sectors to be more like F1
- AutoTrackManager update to latest values of Rating
- Added /admin saverecs command to save records with special authorisation
- Added save records button on to the HudMenu
- new singleton-class: DataAccess, add methods for failsafe saving, loading and async getting of data from web.
- fixes widgets_times checkpoint counter to show right checkpoint index in map with multiple laps used in rounds game mode
- Added onGameSettings change server settings change
- huge commit with new weblink plugin and needed node.js modules
- added loadscreen possibility to forcemods and added logo gfx, custom config-file removed!
- Adm, when forcing scores a chat message is displayed that the scores are altered.
- Autoload, has config option to disable plugins so they don't load

Known Issues
* If multiple users are using help or maplist or whatever window, and the other player closes the window or updates its contents the manialive actionhandler deletes the actioncodes, which renders the window buttons / clickable items non working since there is no reference what to do for the click...

Second code-block of the following forumposting contains a patch for previous issue:
http://forum.maniaplanet.com/viewtopic. ... 40#p196142

[reaby]

The plugins pack was used first time yesterday on a real match environment, which i got plenty of feedback.
Match was successfully run, the pluginspack worked like it should, some minor issues were introduced, mainly since it has not been run much on any other modes than TA.

Feedback was following:

On spectator mode, the personal best-box overlaps with players name

I did some enhancements to spectator mode, and more to come.
1. removed the personal best box for spectators
2. times widget will show the target players checkpoint times to spectator (normally you can't see it)

Players window should show players and spectators more clearly, it's important to see the logins of who are playing.

1. fixed players window to show players / spectators
2. added team-icon to indicate on which team player is
3. if you are admin, you can force change the players team by clicking the red/blue team-icon.

/team gap <number> didn't work out good, it restarted a map.. and...

1. i coded the tennis-mode in very hurry at night 2am.. so it had some problems, which is now corrected.
2. it will restart a map for setting new teamscore limits, which needs to be greater than <number>..

admins should have fast access to restart/endround/nexmap

1. they do exists, admin panel is minimzed by default, it's located at left edge of screen with wrench icon.

Overall the feedback was positive, i think it'll be even better after this update when everything that didn't work, will _now_ work. I will continue doing more enhanements for eSports aspect (mainly teams and specator-mode) as i get more feedback on usage from real environment, as more real matches are been played using the plugins pack

[hackie]

Overall the feedback was positive, i think it'll be even better after this update when everything that didn't work, will _now_ work. I will continue doing more enhanements for eSports aspect (mainly teams and specator-mode) as i get more feedback on usage from real environment, as more real matches are been played using the plugins pack

Nice Reaby, good to hear that more people using it.
It's just awesome.

[TMarc]

congrats reaby

[reaby]

Major Additions
- Added new feature to track player position usign checkpoint and times inround.
- added new global expansion events: onPlayerGiveup and onPlayerPositionChange.
- Core plugin will also provide public static variable: playerInfo, which will hold many useful infos from the calculated data on players who are playing on a map.
- - Enhancements to spectator mode:
* removed personalbest display for spectators
* changed widgets_times to display checkpoint times for spectated player
- fixed players list to show playing/spectating status of player + added also team colors before players... if you are admin you can click on the teamcolor to force change

- Added begining of the BillManager to centralize coppers transactions in order to save them in the database
- enabling send dedimania times for cup mode
- Hey, statistics started. New window to make it easier to create some windows. Need a visual fix
- added checkpoint time display for spectators
- Added Statistics, step 1 done
- Adding new plugins: overlays and statistics to autoload more additions and finetuning of overlay_positions
* We changed to use dev branch also at git
- new line plotter graphical element to draw graphs


Changelog 21.12.2013
- fixes native /serverlogin command not to show errormessage anymore
- Fixed very rare database bug with player object being NULL when updating playtime
- fixed very rare bug with chat plugin, player object may be NULL when player disconnects before connecting.
- fixed clockwidget and quit dialog to update server name when it's changed
- add team colors to widget, optimize core
- change correct homepage url
- Added ESLcup settings to HudMenu
- Translation updates

Known Issues
same as previous posting, please apply the patch if you intend to run this plugins pack.

on php 5.5.0 and later the manialive will fail to initialize, since of deprecated mysql plugin...
Workaround is editing bootstrapper.php on line 69:
error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED);

[magnetik]

I've reverted a few changes that I made some time ago, does it fix the error you had with the pager?

I'll try to move ManiaLive to github before the end of the week in order to allow you to hack the core as well (via pull request).

[reaby]

I've reverted a few changes that I made some time ago, does it fix the error you had with the pager?

This affected the whole gui not only the pager... in general it was very good for freeing memory resources, but it broke the gui for some parts.

I'll try to move ManiaLive to github before the end of the week in order to allow you to hack the core as well (via pull request).

When least expected, great things can happen
Many thanks

[reaby]

Major Additions
- fixed php 5.5.0 deprecated exceptions not to trigger
- changed mapslist not to sort by default, you can sort the list by clicking the columns header.
- extended errorhandler to log errors per server login
- Changed window class to autodetect dropdown-elements and automatically add the maniascript to main maniascripts. Since MxSearch takes most of the times more than 1 second so, added "Searching, Please wait" text, and if no results were found.
- added author time to display
- added new events: onMapSkip and onMapRestart
- added admingroups title to joining player message
- Added performance mode to core, which will disable player position calculations on checkpoint.
- added Xaseco database importer script
- Performance increase on Ranks ! needs testing
- Added helper: Timer

how to use:
Timer::set() --> will put initial values to timer
Timer::get() --> will show + return timer (microtime(true)) difference to start time.

Changed localrecords to display messages to public chat only top15 records, this can be configured too.
- When admin kicks, bans or blacklists a player, he is forced to type a reason.
Bans and blacklists can be temporarily too options: "30 seconds", "5 min", "10 min", "15 min", "30min", "1 hour", "1 day", "5 day", "week", "month", "permanent".
- Fix : Records order when 2 player has same time

Other Additions
- fixes to lineplotter, now it also draws scale
- added pleasant error messages
- (server statistics) added attemption to autoload needed extension for windows based systems when using php 5.5 or newer, and added nice infos message how to get it working.
- added language file, server uptime saved properly, other fixes
- fix for core: expPlayers array didn't reset correctly on beginround
- adding pts counter for teams mode for players
- fixes plugin loader/unloader on game mode change, when changing game mode more than one time, refactored consols --> please use ->console() in future
- fixes to players position calculation
- more checks if player is spectator, waiting or playing
- started eSports Manager
- added logo graphics
- changes to eSportsManager
- Fixes to dropdown-element.
- changes for non-team modes
- faq plugin can be localized now
- Remove support library from serverStatistics + code own lightweight methods to get same infos.
- added displaying difficulty for mania-exchange search
- map karma is displayed with gauge now
- Ranks will take in account less times to increase performances
- Better Server statistics windows. 24H display with better axis information
- PERF : MapVotes are updated in DB once only for each map. Rankngs are still estemated for accurate display of widget
- Fix issue with unlimited ram allowance to PHP
- Fixed issue with map ratings not inserted in to DB
- Fix double voting
- fixes rare exception when player has left before sending personalized message to him
- minor optimization to music widget

We also started to use Github issue tracker for todo-lists