Maniacontrol loadscreen plugin

[chco]

I've just added a plugin for maniacontrol that allows for loadings screens during map change.
It is pretty straight forward as you can simply put an url in the settings for either a .png or a .jpg file.
However, if you put a .xml as url, you can add more images and it will randomly pick one to show during map change.
The format of the xml file is like this :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<loadscreens>
    <loadscreen_image>http://yourwebsite.com/screen1.jpg</loadscreen_image> 
    <loadscreen_image>http://yourwebsite.com/screen2.jpg</loadscreen_image>
    <loadscreen_image>http://yourwebsite.com/screen3.jpg</loadscreen_image>
</loadscreens>

Should be showing up after approved by the MC team ..
You can see it in action at our Glimratten Royal or Elite server (only online at certain times)
Let me know what ya think, k?

[franck70]

Nice Idea + 1

[chco]

Nice Idea + 1

Thanks! We used to run the SMART controller, got the idea from there

[franck70]

You are a medium , yes I used Smart

[chco]

The plugin is now online and can be installed from MC.
Plugin page on maniacontrol : http://maniacontrol.com/plugins

[franck70]

Ty !

But how you configure it exactly ?

[chco]

Ow it is really simple.
When you have installed the plugin through the maniacontrol plugin menu you can click on the plugin settings.
This will give you the following :
1. Loadscreens activated
2. Loadscreens url
3. Loadscreens endMatch delay (default is 15)

1. If you have installed the plugin but want to deactivate ( but not uninstall)
2. The url can be an url to an image on a website. This can be either a .jpg or a .png file.
an url can be something like :

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http://forum.maniaplanet.com/styles/maniaplanet/theme/images/mp-logo.jpg

the example url is the maniaplanet logo at the top of the forum
You can also put many more url's in one .xml file (see the example in the first post of this thread). Loadscreens will then pick random loadscreens to show. Setting 2 would then have the url for the .xml file instead of one image. (so you need to upload the .xml file somewhere on a webpage)
3. After a map has ended, this is the time in seconds before the loadscreen appears. For Royal 15 seconds is good. For Elite you might want to lower the seconds.

That's it.
Have fun!
If you want to see the loadscreens in action you can visit the Glimratten Royal server (Europe->Netherlands->Noord-Brabant)

[niarfman]

I love you guy

And this voice ... !

Thanks for the plugin

[niarfman]

Hey Sensei,

The load screen on Franck CTF server keep the picture even when the match is started ... :/

Disabled for the moment, I can try to take a look ^^

[niarfman]

In fact, the loadscreen is displayed after the begining of the round.

Maybe a difference between Match / Round ... just an idea ...