Inactive [MECH/ECON] Showcase v0.8.1 - Create visual shops by spawning drops on slabs [1.1-R5]

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    narrowtux

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    Version 0.8.1​
    As supposed in this thread, I created a plugin that lets you put items into glass blocks (now steps, it's notchs fault) to showcase them. This is useable for shops, to show what's for sale there, or to make clear what type of farm you built.
    Features
    • Showcase all items in a half-step Block
    • Block protection (you can't break the step block and the block below it to prevent that the item falls down)
    • Multiworld
    • Items in a showcase can't be picked up
    • Only the player who created a showcase can remove it
    • Prevents despawning of items (Normally, drops disappear after 5 minutes)
    • You can setup finite and infinite shops
    • DropChest support (disables DropChest for absorbing the showcased items)
    • WorldGuard support (works out of the box)
    • Localisation
    • Can show custom item names through BukkitContrib
    • Economy support:
      • iConomy 4 & 5
      • BOSEconomy
      • Essentials Economy
    Download & Source-Code
    Download Showcase.jar
    Browse Source-Code on Github
    You will need an economy system if you want shops.
    This will install NarrowtuxLib automatically!
    Please donate, if you really like this ;)
    Videos
    Show Videos (open)





    When you have got issues, please read this:
    Issue Report (open)

    1. Please, first check if you have got the most recent version of Showcase and the most recent recommended build of Bukkit.
    2. Then, check if the bug is already listed in the "Known Bugs" section.
    3. After doing step 1+2, report the bug with at least this information:
      • Version of Showcase
      • Version of Bukkit
      • If possible, a step-by-step explanation of the bug
      • If possible, console errors
      • When you think that this has got to do with another plugin, please list all your plugins like this:
        • PluginA, PluginB, PluginC ...
    This will be incredible helpful for me to fix it faster.


    You don't actually have to retype everything I typed here, but if you'd take it as a guideline which content you should include in your issue report, it's more helpful ;)

    Please, don't come here just to say "This doesn't work.". This says nothing.


    Usage
    Adding a showcase
    1. Start sneaking!
    2. Right-click a half-step block with the item in your hand you want to showcase
    3. An assistant will ask you which type of Showcase you want to add. Type the text before the colon :))
    4. Depending on the type you chose, the assistant will ask some extra questions, follow the assistant to finish showcase creation.
    Removing a showcase

    1. Sneak
    2. Right-click on a showcase. If this was a finite showcase or an exchange showcase, you will get your items back.
    Permissions


    ActionPermission-NodeWithout Permissions
    Create a basic Showcase.showcase.basicPlayer
    Create a infinite shop Showcase.showcase.infiniteOperator
    Create a finite shop Showcase.showcase.finitePlayer
    Create an exchange Showcase.showcase.exchangePlayer
    Buy from a finite shop showcase.showcase.buy.finitePlayer
    Buy from an infinite shop showcase.showcase.buy.infinitePlayer
    Removing a showcase of other players.showcase.adminOperator

    The column "Without Permissions" explains which user-type can use this permission when no Permissions system is installed.
    What are shop showcases?
    A shop showcase can be used to sell items to your players. There are 2 types of shops now:
    1. Infinite shop. This one has an infinite amount of items. The money that the players give to buy an item will go to nirvana
    2. Finite shop. This one has that number of items which the owner has set up. The owner will get the money from which the items were bought.
    How can a Player buy items from a shop showcase?

    1. Click on the Showcase. The price per item and the available amount will be displayed.
    2. Type in the number of items you want and hit enter. A message will show you the success of the checkout.
      • Type 0 to abort checkout
    How can you refill a finite shop showcase?

    1. Click on it
    2. Type in the amount of items to refill. Negative values will remove that amount from the showcase.
    3. Walk away or type 0.
    Commands

    The showcase command handles manual saving and loading
    /showcase save
    Saves the items to showcases.csv
    /showcase load
    Loads the configuration, translation and items without saving (Use with caution)
    /showcase reload
    Saves and loads everything after that. Useful when some items aren't in place and you want to quick-fix that.

    Configuration
    The configuration file is auto-generated and is called showcase.cfg
    Here are the configuration possibilities:
    • basicmode : this decides if the plugin should operate like in version 0.2 or before (Just the basics)
    • priceforbasic : this adds a price to the basic showcases
    • priceforfinite : this adds a price to the finite showcases
    • priceforexchange: this adds a price to the exchange showcases
    • removewhenempty: when set to true, a finite showcase will be removed when it's amount hits 0
    • showcaseprotection : turn this to false to be able to remove showcases from other players (griefers) (you should now use WorldGuard instead of this one ;) )
    • locale: standard is en-US. The german translation which is included in the jar-file is de-DE. If you type that in, it will copy the german file from the jar to your plugins folder
      • You can change the translation very easily by editing the existing locale.
      • Colors are supported, just add something like [GREEN] or [DARK_RED] to the text.
      • You can add newlines with \n
    • autosaveinterval: the time between two auto-saves in seconds. Standard is 60 secs. Use -1 to disable autosave.
    Translations

    Currently available translations:
    Changelog

    Version 0.8.1
    See the whole changelog

    Todo
    • Spawn multiple items in the same glass block (up to 4, would be aligned nicely)
    • Verify that there is no free space below the glass block before adding a showcase
    • Maybe let the showcase glow when you placed torches, glowstone or lava in it
    • Custom messages (aka localisation)
    • Sell-Showcases
    • DropChest support (so the items inside the glass won't be absorbed by a Dropchest)
    • Limit the amount of Showcases per player
    • Add a price that the creator of a showcase has to pay (there would be an independent price for each basic, infinite and finite showcases)
    • Linking infinite shops to banks (money spent for items goes there)
    • Rent a showcase for money/day
    • Autosave with configureable interval
    • Commands for save, load and reload
    Crossed items are already done!

    Known bugs
    • This plugin conflicts with some chat-altering plugins (i.e. bColoredChat) this is because the authors don't know how to correctly set up the priority of events.
    • Normal players (the ones that aren't operators) can't use showcases that are in the spawn-protection area. Either disable the spawn protection or place the showcases to an other location (Disable spawnprotection by setting "spawn-protection-size=0" in the server.properties file)
    • With the latest dev preview (not the recommended build), you're able to make slabs to double steps. I've got to investigate until they propose it as RB.
    • ATM, Showcases won't save enchantments. So please just don't try to sell yours because that wouldn't work either.
     
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    SulimirCular

    Nope ^^
    still this error
     
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    CyrussM

    Ok i test it again.

    Hoffen wir das beste xD
     
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    MiHo

    Then I will use your plugin again I think, currently it's wasting to much resources on huge servers.
     
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    narrowtux

    Stop server, redownload, start server. Sometimes weird errors happen when updating.
     
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    Missnostalgia

    I don't know if i am too tired or not, but I did that and it still gives me Invalid answer =x

    Advanced bans
    Bcoloredchat
    Bedhealadvanced
    BigBrother
    Bukkit Piston
    Chaircraft
    Citizens
    Firelord
    Iconomy
    Iconomychestshop
    Iwolvesadoption
    Lockette
    Jobs
    Loginmessge
    McMMO
    Muddersmilk
    Minecraft Mania
    Natural Giants
    Neometorites
    Permissons
    Scheduledannouncer
    Showcase
    Stackable
    Toolnofier
    Uquest
    Weathersync
    Xwarp

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 10, 2018
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    SulimirCular

    yh... sry dude for spamming u ^^
    its working now..
    thx
     
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    beatcomet

    Will you add auctions feature to this plugin?
     
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    Kostronor

    One thing that comes in mind when creating showcases:
    • Can you add something like reload or so, for editing the .csv?
    • Can you add a feature for filling empty showcases again? That would be helpful when selling showcases to players. It would be like a huge amought for "buying" the shop and after this one time fee, you can fill the case again and again. or like increase the amought in existing showcases, because now, you have to delete the showcase and create a new one with the new amought. (and because of that, values over 3024 are not possible.
    This plugin is so epic :D
     
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    Sim121

    I do not find the showcase.cfg but, in the folder "ShowCase", there's just a "showcases.csv"... =/
     
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    narrowtux

    It should be generated... If not, you have to create it yourself. make a new file called showcase.cfg there and fill it with this:
    Code:
    priceforbasic=0.0
    showcaseprotection=true
    priceforfinite=0.0
    basicmode=false
    
    I think, but first, I have to make performance tweaks and consider how to implement finite showcase refill.

    I always reload via the built-in bukkit command "/reload". This will reload all your plugins, but it works good.
    And for refilling the showcase:
    Maybe click one time on the showcase and then drop the items you want to refill. After that, simply go away to finish. Wouldn't it be nice?

    Try to deactivate bColoredChat, I guess this is the cause of it.

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    Jan Tojnar

    I dont know if it was reported because i am tired and want to sleep but if you place showcase on sand (or gravel) and you break block bellow that sand (or gravel) it will fall down and item too. Plus when you take fallen item it will reapper and fall again and you can take it again (tested with basicmode=true).
     
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    Enzy

    I Can u please fix the bColoredchat problem
     
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    narrowtux

    What do you mean?
    Okay, so I'm considering sand and gravel as insecure types now...
     
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    bxboy15

    yeeeeeeeeeees at last it is working i love this plugin thank you sooooooooooo much
     
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    belfedia

    Thanks for all fix !!! you're very productive !
    Don't work with blockonglass but if i understand, the problem is with blockonglass ?
     
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    Mawd

    Not working for me, using 766 and a lot of other plugins, help!
     
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    Grimmy777

    Works great man. Now I have a way to sell wool. Love it!
     
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    Mac

    You should be able to change the currency to an actual physical item like Slime balls when buying stuff from the showcase shops. For example, In the plugin called TradeCraft, there are chest shops. But you can change the type of currency to any type of actual item. On my server, we use Slime balls as our currency, and I like using physical items as a currency instead of coins or something from EssentialsEco.
     
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    VietCookie

    Yea
     
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    Missnostalgia

    Yup, Narrow that was the problem thank you, great plugin too. Do you know if any other chat coloring program will work with your plugin or if you can get bcoloredchat compatible?
     
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    Shalobee

    Is anyone else having problems with this duping item? So far the bow DiamondSword DiamondPickaxe and all food items seem to get in my inventory when i walk near these showcases. I cant open this up to my users b/c of this. Am I the only one this is duping items for?

    edit* just tested on diamond armor and it seems to dupe all of it :/
     
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    Kostronor

    For me, it works like expected. Even when refresh/reload, and the item "falls out of the glass block" there is no pickup.
    I have tried this together with about 6 Users of my server and there was no duping on grass stone and obsidian.
    Perhaps it could be with your server, that the server did not cancel the pickupevent fast enough, but i dunno.

    For the refresh-thing:
    The problem is, when typing in /reload, the .csv will be saved before unloading, so i cannot edit the file in a text-editor and change the owner of a showcase etc. (I can get around this when stopping the whole server then editing and then starting again.
    What would be nice, is: one /sc (showcase) save and one /sc reload.
    Than you could save the data, edit it and then reload it. This would be clean and less resource/error-expensive.

    Dropping items would be nice!
    But it could be a bit buggy for laggier servers, well you could do it like: punching and then type +amount /-amount. So you can add/remove any amount you want. That would be nice! :)

    A thing that comes in mind when placing showcases at the spawnpoint as an "initial shop". The most people are asking, if they can get the stuff in the showcase. Or they try to break it and just got this message like "you cannot do that". For the first thing, i think, you cannot do much, but please let us change this breaking-message, like "You cannot break this Showcase, hit it, and you can buy things from it." something like this.

    A very very Thanks from me!
     
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    XXLPaprika

    0.5 doesn't work for me, if I try adding a showcase it keeps telling me "You can't afford this showcase"

    #Edit: It works when I set Basicmode to true in the config, but I want all Features :( :p

    #Edit2: If you implement the light feature, is it possible that you change ot, so I am able to place showcases on Fences to make some cool looking lamps? ^^
     
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    treegis

    Neat idea but I dont like the idea of hundreds of drops animating in my server because of everyone's showcases, or is the animation shut off when they are placed in glass?
     
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    narrowtux

    The animation is being rendered on the client. The server just calculates the position at spawn time.
    Have you got the money it is displaying at the selection screen?

    Btw, you can't build a showcase on a fence, because the item would fall down.
    What plugins do you have got installed?
    Have to look up the source and maybe ask the author if he can fix it.
    Okay, so I will implement both (you can either drop the items, or type the amount with a + before it).

    What you said with the refresh-thing is right, I totally forgot about this.
    I'll add a command for this and also for a workaround of all these bad programed chat-altering plugins

    You will be able to change the messages when I implement localization.
     
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    xDice

    i cant build a shop.
    i sneak, rightclick on glass
    he ask which type i want to. i type: finite
    he ask for the price. i type: 2
    but nothing happens
     
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    narrowtux

    What plugins do you have got installed?
     
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    treegis

    Oh ok, thank you. I'll try it out, I'm sure my shop crazy users will like it lol. Magnetblock is great btw! :)
     
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    xDice

    a few:
    choclatefever,commandbook, cookbook, gastronomic, guestprev, HeroChat, LWC, LogBlock, MagicCarpet, MagicSpell, MyHome, Permissions, Sheepfeed, Showcase, Worldedit, Worldguard, iConomy, mcmmo
     
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    narrowtux

    Wait until I deploy a workaround with a command.
    Will look like this:
    /sc [type-chooses-here]
    So you can simply work this bug around...
     
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