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  3. 1.8 Armour Stands we should have

    in Minecraft General

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    What i wrote above might sound simple - and it is in principle - but implementation is another thing. Trying to take into consideration all the ways that players may accidentally or intentionally abuse it, how it might break or cause problems, etc. means a lot of careful thought has to go into anything like this if non-staff have access to it.

     

    I don't think a fully-featured armor stand configuration suite should be a high priority for the techadmins compared with some of the other projects that they were working on when i was last privy to admin meeting discussions (website, improved techadmin collaboration tools, automatic rollback plugins for grief, etc.) But I do think someone with CH experience could make at least a basic interface for players or mods to have access to these three different armor stand configurations:

     

    * normal with arms

    * short with arms

    * short with no arms

     

    /stand

    /stand small

    /stand smallnoarms

     

    Maybe a bukkit plugin is better. I don't know - I'm not a plugin dev. I just know it is possible using commandhelper for the basic functionality. The real tricky part is preventing accidents and abuse if regular players have access to this.

     

    CH lacks the ability to edit NBT data in entities directly, but vanilla minecraft may have a command for that which CH could sudo() like the summon command. I would worry about people using it to edit others' armor stands though. I also don't know what would happen to any items the armor stand is holding or wearing if you remove its arms directly. I think the best/simplest thing is to just have a command that lets you place the custom stands, rather than edit existing ones.

     

    Placement should be logged somehow. CH does not integrate with logblock, PRISM, Coreprotect, etc., so probably the simplest thing would be to log placement details to the console for admins to check in the case of armor stand spam via the command - and possibly an in-game notification to mods on C if they are already getting them for regular armor stand placements or item frames.

     

    I think if it were my server, I would let it be something that can be modreq'd. Roll out a quick and easy CH alias that all mods have access to. Maybe work on the plugin in spare time when other projects are not urgent or high priority, but if you want a quick fix with little fuss, make it a modreq'able affair. Yeah it means more work for staff to fill the reqs, but i doubt it would be as frequent as flowing water reqs.

     

    Maybe writing a plugin is easier for dumbo or another tech than I imagine it to be compared to writing a couple of aliases for mods to use. But this is something that could be written in CH using the sudo() workaround in a fairly short period of time. Just need to toss on the other two forms, a check for staff perms, a message to the console.

     

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    I realized while writing this that I spent more time writing it than i would have just writing the darned ch script if it's for moderator usage, so i stopped and went and wrote it.

    *:'/armorstand' [$] = >>>
    _assertperm('restricted')
    if ($ == '') {
        msg(color(DARK_GREEN).'usage: /armorstand <type>')
        msg(color(DARK_GREEN).'types: arms, small, smallarms')
        die()
    }
    if ($ == 'arms') {
        sudo('/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {ShowArms:1,Rotation:['.pfacing()[0].'f]}')
    }
    if ($ == 'small') {
        sudo('/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {Small:1,Rotation:['.pfacing()[0].'f]}')
    }
    if ($ == 'smallarms') {
        sudo('/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {Small:1,ShowArms:1,Rotation:['.pfacing()[0].'f]}')
    }
    console(player().' summoned armor stand at x:'.ploc()[0].', y:'.ploc()[1].', z:'.ploc()[2].', world:'.ploc()[3])
<<<

    forgive my derpy ploc() array referencing... I'm a bit rusty and tired, and can't remember how to pull out a sequence of values from an array and don't feel like looking it up.

     

    done some minimal testing, only problem I noticed is that it doesn't align to grid like manually placed armor stands. it creates an armor stand exactly where the player issuing the command is standing in the direction they are facing (yaw, not pitch. Not sure what nbt tag matches pitch on these). recommend adding this to nerdch and letting mods handle reqs for these three custom armor stand placement dealios.

     

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    edit: actually now i think about it this sort of setup might be a pain if the modreqing player has placed a lot of armor stands :/

    might be possible to do something with pcursor() and entity_loc()

    Thats sort of why I said at the start of this post we may just use the large with arms, the small and the small with arms not having people have specifically set up ones in different directions

  4. 1.8 Armour Stands we should have

    in Minecraft General

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    So i was eating a bagel a few minutes ago and thinking about this, and decided I'd look up how people did the armor stands with arms like ninja posted those pics of, and i learned it's just nbt tags. Now I'm no master coder or anything, i don't know if there's a way using the bukkit api to summon entities with specific nbt data or not... but i know commandhelper has a simple command that lets you run another command as if an OP were running it.

     

    so i wrote a super simple ch alias that anyone with a server running commandhelper can drop in and test.

    *:'/chsummon' = >>>
    sudo('/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {ShowArms:1}')
<<<

    that'll summon a plain armor stand with arms. modifying that nbt tag area can let you do all sorts of fun stuff.

    http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Armor_Stand#NBT_data

     

    I also found this plugin that someone wrote that allows you to modify armor stands in all sorts of angles and positions in-game, but i haven't tested it. Maybe it could be of interest to anyone looking to write a plugin instead of implementing a ch command that checks for the presence of an armor stand nearby the player or in the player's inventory and then issues the summon command. http://www.spigotmc.org/resources/armor-stand-tools.2237/

     

    I don't think there would be any security concerns with players being able to run a command that uses op perms just for a summon command, as long as the rest of the ch command were written well with the proper checks in place - but then I am not a tech and don't know the repercussions of such magical things in the hands of the ignorant or malicious.

     

    I'd be interested in hearing from any techadmins who are going to pursue this, whether this seems like a viable option - and if not what the concerns would be.

    Yeah I tried to get MrLoud to do this and thats what led me to make this post because /summon doesnt work for anyone not OP and so I thought that the Tech admins may make a plugin of some sort to get around it 

  7. 1.8 Armour Stands we should have

    in Minecraft General

    Posted

    A plugin or CH command could be written that would allow players to place custom armor stands so long as they have an existing armor stand in front of them or in their inventory. The current command to produce these custom stands may be OP only in vanilla minecraft, but nerd runs spigot and that means it isn't impossible to find a way - if there is an interest in doing so.

    :D 

  8. 1.8 Armour Stands we should have

    in Minecraft General

    Posted · Edited by treeninjainatree

    They are different types of armour stands on the server that we should somehow get

     

    VdtzBGf.png                                   Armour stands! Now with actual arms that can hold weapons and items

     

    l4CHCnS.png                                    Mini Armour stands! Just imagine having mini figures of your favorite players in your base or mini mayors at towns - also arms!

     

    3dAia7v.pngAlso ones with swords aiming down which require a specific command so we may be unable to get them exact

     

    Anyway armour stands are cool as fuck so we should get them as good as we can on the servers.

     

    TLDR: Get these stands

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  13. Next Survival Rev ideas

    in Minecraft General

    Posted · Edited by treeninjainatree

    Hello all, I've just been thinking about stuff for the next survival rev that sort of combines ideas from past revs and the present rev and was just wondering what people may think

     

    - Small PvE towns with rentable houses and villagers being able to trade emeralds for diamond tools/armour

    - 8 houses that are 5x5 and have 2 already placed double chests, 2 furnaces and a crafting table only the house renter may access with signs on each house saying whose house is whose and how much time is left until the house becomes rentable

    - If you have combat tag on it adds an extra 30 seconds when entering a PvE town

    - Announcement when a house is able to be rented (is renewed every 24 hours) and picks two random items out of the double chests in your house to read out when announcement is made

    - PvP is enabled 3 blocks around the house so if a clan wants to claim an entire PvE town for themselves it is possible to protect the house for there clan mate

    - 2000x2000 map with 5 portals being able to travel with them like previous revs they are at the following locations :

    x 0 z 0

    x 0 z 2000

    x 0 z -2000

    x 2000 z 0

    x -2000 z 0

    - Bumped up ore spawns so it's easy to get diamond armour at the PvE town villager traders

    - Being able to reinforce blocks like with the current rev

    - Griefing allowed for base raiding fun like on the current rev

    - Clans and snitches

    - PvP arenas placed around the map for events

    - Also could bring back the roads, could keep prison pearl and could take out random spawns

     

    If anyone has any thoughts about this, good or bad, just tell me :)

     

    -Tree Ninja who is currently in a tree

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