UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Galaga Hack

I thinking of a hack much like the stars hack for under the username. It will be based on number of posts and will assign a roman number based icon. I took these from one of my favorite games, galaga.

= 1
= 5
= 10
= 50
= 100
= 500
= 1000

Problem is I might have to divide the number of posts by 10 before computing the icons to display so it doesn't get too busy. Any thoughts?

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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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Here's my code:

In ubb_library2.pl
find:


After add:


find:

change to:

Note that the $thisutext is part of a custom user status hack. This line of code may be different in your file.

Above icons need to be in the noncgi directory.

Correction for the icon building logic. This work alot better.


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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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Ohh. If you use this one, don't tell the users what it is. It'll drive them nuts trying to figure out what those little shields mean. hehe

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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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Nice hack, but what is the advantage over the normal star hack?

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
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This is the 'star' hack

It's an alternative to the star hack. Just with a different twist. Also there are more levels for advancement than the standard 1 through 5 stars. This has an infinite number of levels (you may need to create icons for 5000, 10000, etc if users have more than 50,000 posts). The way I have it setup on my UBB is every ten posts, the user gains a shield level. It helps in promoting conversation!

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To see a good example of what it looks like on my board: http://www.chainmaille.prohosting.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000023.html



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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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I'm not taking the **** whatsoever but it is exactly the star hack-

When we (Topher and I) came up with the stars the idea was that people would add different icons than the stars that I used originally

I used to have Gold, Silver and Bronze Stars - too confusing though

This is not even based on the stars hack. I came up with this one on my own without consulting anyones code. If I remember correctly, the stars hack only displays 1, 2, or 3 stars for users. 4 for moderaters and 5 for admins. This hack does not do that. Mine uses a while { loop to build the icon string based on number of posts. Did you look at the in action post to see what it looks like? I like liked the stars hack very much but I just wanted something a little more elaborate.




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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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Ah I get it!
Let's say user A has status 'cadet'
during that status the could have 2 stars with 20 posts, and get 3 stars when he has 30 posts, but still keep the same status

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
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This is a BAD, BAD, BAD hack! (spanking self with keyboard).

Posts on my board have increased 100% because of this ganged thing. Users are more addicted to gaining a sheild level than reading replies by other users. Once I posted the rules of 1 sheild per 10 posts, it's been a free for all. -LOL-

Also, there is no special treatment to admins or moderators. He with the most posts wins,
CW


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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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Menno: Status has nothing to do with it. It's purely a counter of number of posts. Admins/Mods/Members/JrMembers are all treated equally on this one. It's purely a count (+/-10) of posts by ANY given users. It keeps mod's in check (they should have more posts any the average Joe) and Admins asleep at the wheel.

It breaks down to as I posted above:

0-9 posts = no shields
10-19 posts = 1 single shield
20-29 posts = 2 single shields
...
50-59 posts = 1 five shield.
...
90-99 posts = 1 five shield + 4 single shields.
100-109 posts = 1 ten shield.
...
etc
etc
etc

Roman numbers minus the IV or IX nonsense.

CW,


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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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That's what I meant
Just didn't know how to put in into words

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About the icons. You may want to generate your own versions of 1.gif ... 1000.gif if you have anything other than a black background. They may look terrible. Try to keep them as narrow (between 8 to 16 pixels wide for 10.gif and up, 1 and 5 should be no more than 8 pixels wide)


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Code Warrior - Chainmaille Armourer
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does anyone know if this will work in 5.43?

so far i have had no luck, in what appears to be a very simple hack.

Yes, it works fex. I'll help you out later.

Yes, but it's still the star hack- it has basically the same code. The only difference is that it adds different images.

If I'm understanding what CW is saying about this hack it's definately NOT the star hack .. it's much much better!

I'm going to try to install it tonight once I can gather some cool images that will work with my website! (looking for little swords, shields, armor sort of stuff if anyone has any)

I have a feeling that my board users are going to LOVE THIS! Thanks CW!

~Kat

I've installed this hack .. it's WONDERFUL!

I do have two questions however ..

1) I'm not using the custom user name hack thingy (tried to install it, but couldn't get it to work) .. so instead I would like to use my titles instead ... this is what I have in my ubb_library2.pl file:

But it's not showing the $ThisStatus which I created, instead it's only using the two that UBB gives us ...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could use the Galaga hack and still customize user "titles"?

I found/made some images too .. but I don't like them much -- but they are all I have for now:







I'm currently hacking a clean board at http://www.cazic-thule.com/cgi-bin/hackboard/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

2. Lastly, CW - I'm a little confused on how this tallies the "symbols" ... for example, my total posts are: 1,172 so I expected to see my icons as:
[img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img]
(or something similar) - most importanly I thought I would see 1000.gif there ...

Instead this is what is under my name:
[img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/100.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/10.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/5.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img]
-- Which is making me wonder if I did something wrong - or am I just not understanding how it calculates these symbols?

Oddly enough another user has 40 posts and his symbols are:
[img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img] [img]http://www.cazic-thule.com/ubb/hackedubb/1.gif[/img]
Which means he's getting four 1.gifs where I would have thought he would get four 10.gifs


Gosh .. thanks for reading all this .. any help would be appreciated.

~Kat [img]http://ubbcodehacking.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
The eternally confused

I believe this hack divides the total posts by 10 and then does the ranking.

I took this code, added more rank icons, classified them by shape, and assigned those shapes to ranks (admin & mod, senior member & member, junior member). Now I have a post and rank widget that divides post count by five :-)

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- Armage Bedar
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Moderator, UltimateBB Code Hackers' Hideout

I like what you've done .. your board looks very nice .. perhaps I'll use something similar with little circles and squares .. I like that idea.

~Kat

In case anyone is wondering, this hack works in 5.44b! I run a Marine website so I changed the gifs to Rank Insignias. Here is the description I gave to my members about the images:
http://www.thefew.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000001.htm

Images I made:
= 1
= 5
= 10
= 50
= 100
= 500
= 1000

I'm kinda wondering if I should divide by 5 or even 3 instead of 10 because I doubt my users will get to 10,000 posts! There aren't many posts on my board yet. I have moved from WebBBS v4.02 (script kept crashing due to Perl5 not being installed correctly) to community.everyone.net to network54.com trying to find a good Forum script. All the while my users keep following...and getting upset...so UBB is DEFINETELY it! I've added a few hacks so far and I'm diving for more ... catch ya later!


AJ

do you have to have the custom user status hack installed for this to work?

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Short answer? Nope.


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Okay, I installed the Galaga code, and it's awesome! Thanks! but Since I did, I'm having the same trouble that another person did and I haven't seen a solution posted yet. My Admins and Moderators are getting overridden by my other titles.

I want to have the Admins and moderator titles override the "novice", "Skilled", etc. titles, but not specific ones (like the "Webmaster & Admin" on I have listed.

Here's my code:

etc...

This may not have anything to do with the Galaga hack, but it's the last thing I did before this broke.

-twice http://utbooty.unrealism.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

I am havin a small problem with this hack.
I have 1262 posts. But, it is displaying the icons so it shows 262, so it's not displaying the 1000 icon.

Keep in mind that the post count is divided by 10 before converting to icons... Are you sure it's not displaying 126 (100,10,10,5,1) instead of 262 (100,100,50,10,1,1)?

CW

No. It's displaying it so the icons say i have 262 posts.
How can i make it so it displays it EXACTLY with the number of posts?

Take out the /10 line.

Just a thought

Can you use any of these hacks on a Novogate board? You know the free version of UBB. Or do they only work on the full UBB ones? Right now I'm to lazy and cheap to for the full board but if only these can be hacked then hmm...

Check out the freeware forum.

Just a thought