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

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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
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When you have got issues, please read this:

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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

Action	Permission-Node	Without Permissions
Create a basic Showcase.	showcase.basic	Player
Create a infinite shop Showcase.	showcase.infinite	Operator
Create a finite shop Showcase.	showcase.finite	Player
Create an exchange Showcase.	showcase.exchange	Player
Buy from a finite shop showcase.	showcase.buy.finite	Player
Buy from an infinite shop showcase.	showcase.buy.infinite	Player
Removing a showcase of other players.	showcase.admin	Operator

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:

• English by @narrowtux - 0.6.7
• German by @narrowtux - 0.6.7
• Czech by @Jan Tojnar - 0.6.7 is included in jar in the next release

Changelog

Version 0.8.1

• Updated for CraftBukkit 1.1-R5
• Added plugin metrics http://metrics.griefcraft.com/plugin/Showcase

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.

 

IDEAS FOR YOUR IDEAS:

• 1. Sell-Showcases / Rent a showcase for money/day

Configurable Barter Options: When setting this up give people the option of buying/renting access by trading in X amount of a configurable block type.

QUESTION:
Am I able to or do you plan to implement a configurable solution that allows the Showcase Admin to select / grant
how many signs a shop owner has access to?
- Forgive me if this has been covered already.

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

 

this is stupid now guys.... WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?
after repeating myself for over A WEEK i STILL have errors with this crappy register.jar

i DO NOT want register.jar on my server as it does not work, continues to spit errors

"cant send this cant send that", i cant even delete it without it reinstalling.


Our server was in PERFECt working order last week, simple restart one morning and the whole lot is screwed because of this rediculous register.jar


i speak for another 11 servers with same issue, yet the support we get are questions that dont even have an answer.

 

Ignore the error message about register.jar and wait until the problem fixes itself after having updated some plugins and stuff. If you just regularly check for plugin updates the error message will vanish in no-time.
As far as i know it only gives the error message in the console and nothing is different in-game.

 

Dupe bug found:

Place a gold block or a diamond block on top of a shop that is selling the exact same block, then destroy the block you placed. When the block drops, it falls down into the shop, where the hovering item is being shown. When a player walks over it, they can pickup both blocks, including the one IN the shop. The shop doesn't lose inventory, and a new block is placed on top of the shop, like normal.

Not sure how many other block types this works on, but it's bad.

Edit: Apparently you can just throw items onto showcases, and if they are the same item, they allow you to pickup both, its like they stack.

 

That's kinda serious then...

 

Update your server plugins.... if registar.jar isnt working you have a plugin using an outdated version of register.

 

It's not outdated, it's the latest (1.5) version you get on niji's github.
Also, I'm currently switching to have register internally again, however we're having some issues with the build server so you'll have to wait a bit.

 

I mean if he cant get register 1.5 to work then he has another plugin on his server using an outdated version internally. Personally i think the best option is to keep it external and other developers should follow this lead and link into it to make sure it always uses the latest version rather than keeping it internal

 

Ah, I misunderstood, sorry

 

I have to ask Narrowtux...

Why are you switching to internal Register again? Won't that make an already bad mess even worse?

 

It's no mess
I had a mess before because I didn't know that one has to rename package names when using register classes inside your plugin. I now will do that and this won't cause any more problems. The only bad part about it is that it requires a lot more setup if you want to compile with maven (which you should )

 

The dupe bug is cause by NoLagg plugin with formItemStacks: true in it's config.

 

Oh Maybe I should contact the dev.

 

Yup, figured it out just before this post. Such a shame for NoLagg.

Anyways, carry on with the great work Narrowtux.

 

It's not his fault at all, maybe he didn't know about Showcase.

 

Does this mean that the dupe glitch with the conflicting NoLagg plugin is fixed?

 

Is there a way to make a sell shop so people can sell stuff to an infinite shop of lets say string.

 

Nope. And I was about to say NoLagg plugin causes that before I read the posts about it.

 

I just popped in to read up on the dupe glitch, I was a bit concerned when I read the update about the glitch. I currently do not have the Nolagg Plugin.

 

is there a way to make an infinite buy shop? (so i can buy from people by making a shop)

 

Not yet. Showcase 2 will feature that.

 

any information on when showcase 2 will come? and ty for your reply!

 

Have a look here, all available information: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/42508/

 

Awesome Plugin
Thank you very much!

 

The showcase plugin isn't working for me is there a plugin interfering with it? Here's what is said on the console " 19:51:10 [SEVERE] Could not pass event PLAYER_INTERACT to Showcase "

 

The NoLagg dupe bug is repaired by bergerkiller but i still deal with single item drops on server reloads. (Not so serius anymore but still a problem )

 

Hello, I have a bug with Showcase. When I use it, sometimes it clears all signs arround the Showcase.
I have Showcase version 0.7.7.11 (In plugin.yml) and Bukkit 1000 (because my server is in 1.7.3, I'm using mods)

 

It's not a showcase , bug , its Notches. Showcase is not causing it , it just makes it occur more frequently because of reloading chunks.

 

Getting an "odd" error with this and odditem.

Code:

16:24:58 [SEVERE] Error occurred while enabling Showcase v0.7.7.11 (Is it up to date?): info.somethingodd.bukkit.OddItem.OddItemBase cannot be cast to info.somethingodd.bukkit.OddItem.OddItem
java.lang.ClassCastException: info.somethingodd.bukkit.OddItem.OddItemBase cannot be cast to info.somethingodd.bukkit.OddItem.OddItem
    at com.narrowtux.showcase.Showcase.onEnable(Showcase.java:167)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:174)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:957)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:280)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:172)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:155)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:300)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:287)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:155)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:351)
    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:417)

 

So, I place a slab, I crouch, I place a block and get "You can't place any showcases." I'm the server owner. What am I doing wrong here?