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

narrowtux · Feb 28, 2012

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

When you have got issues, please read this:

Please, first check if you have got the most recent version of Showcase and the most recent recommended build of Bukkit.

Then, check if the bug is already listed in the "Known Bugs" section.

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

Start sneaking!

Right-click a half-step block with the item in your hand you want to showcase

An assistant will ask you which type of Showcase you want to add. Type the text before the colon )

Depending on the type you chose, the assistant will ask some extra questions, follow the assistant to finish showcase creation.

Removing a showcase

Sneak

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:

Infinite shop. This one has an infinite amount of items. The money that the players give to buy an item will go to nirvana

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?

Click on the Showcase. The price per item and the available amount will be displayed.

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?

Click on it

Type in the amount of items to refill. Negative values will remove that amount from the showcase.

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.

The PC Tech Guy · May 18, 2011

Awesome! What a great idea rather than sign&chest-based shops!

Michael Zehr · May 18, 2011

I love this plugin. Just a quick note : I'm using DropChest, and if I place a glass block next to a dropchest, usually to display what it's pulling, which contains something the chest is sucking, the chest continuously pulls the displayed item, which them respawns. This appears to happen until the chest is completely filled.

spunkiie · May 18, 2011

Critical bug ?

0.3 Duped ALL my showcased itens upon server restart.
BTW: Players was able to GRAB the duped itens.

bxboy15 · May 18, 2011

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beatcomet · May 18, 2011

narrowtux said: ↑

Okay, so here is my plan for selling items from the showcases:
There would be 2 sell-modes:

Unlimited ressources and money goes to nirvana

Limited resources from the player who created it and the money goes to the player.

Of course, there will be a permissions support for this so a player can't create an unlimited shop for a cheap price.
Also, both the unlimited and limited resources could be given away for free, to provide your players startup-kits or rewards for achieving a labyrinth or something like that.
For setting up, I want a dialog-based system like that:
First, right-click a glass block. The system asks what you want to do:

Simple Showcase

Unlimited shop

limited shop

Of course, the possibilities would be filtered if they haven't got sufficient permissions.
If the user chooses Showcase, the Item in his hand will be put into the glass without that he looses it.
If the user chooses Unlimited, he is being asked for the price-tag, after he entered that, the item he holds will go into the glass (he doesn't loose it also)
If the user chooses Limited, the system asks for the price-tag and after that for the amount of items he want to deposit. Then, the amount of items he is holding will be put into the glass.

Also, I will invert the thing with the sneaking, so you have to sneak to showcase an item and can build when you're not sneaking.

What do you think about that?

EDIT:
Forgot to explain buying items:
The user who wants to buy left-clicks on the glass and the price-tag is shown to him. When he accepts it, he clicks the glass as often as he wants items. That's what I call intuitive

awsome idea

vildaberper · May 18, 2011

Awesome idea for a plugin!
But instead of respawning the item, why not change when its going to be despawned?
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/stop-entities-from-despawning.17343/#post-298660

bxboy15 · May 18, 2011

OrtwinS · May 18, 2011

woooooo!!!!

I'm going to use the showcase mode, first time I actually go and install a plugin without giving it second thought.
I won't use the shop part though, we already have Localshops 3 (finally updated, and instant the best shopping plugin there is).

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Michael Zehr said: ↑

I love this plugin. Just a quick note : I'm using DropChest, and if I place a glass block next to a dropchest, usually to display what it's pulling, which contains something the chest is sucking, the chest continuously pulls the displayed item, which them respawns. This appears to happen until the chest is completely filled.

DropChest support is planned.

spunkiie said: ↑

Critical bug ?

0.3 Duped ALL my showcased itens upon server restart.
BTW: Players was able to GRAB the duped itens.

This happens when you don't shut the server down correctly.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

vildaberper said: ↑

Awesome idea for a plugin!
But instead of respawning the item, why not change when its going to be despawned?
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/stop-entities-from-despawning.17343/#post-298660

Oh, didn't know about that Thank you!

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

moonjokes said: ↑

getting this with the new version

2011-05-17 20:11:32 [SEVERE] Could not pass event PLAYER_INTERACT to Showcase
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.bukkit.inventory.ItemStack.clone()Lorg/bukkit/inventory/ItemStack;
at de.moritzschmale.Showcase.ShowcasePlayerListener.onPlayerInteract(ShowcasePlayerListener.java:32)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$9.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:254)
at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:59)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:257)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.event.CraftEventFactory.callPlayerInteractEvent(CraftEventFactory.java:162)
at net.minecraft.server.ItemInWorldManager.interact(ItemInWorldManager.java:207)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:521)
at net.minecraft.server.Packet15Place.a(SourceFile:57)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.a(NetworkManager.java:195)
at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:74)
at net.minecraft.server.NetworkListenThread.a(SourceFile:100)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.h(MinecraftServer.java:370)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:285)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:394)

ALSO
cant talk because I'm stuck where it wants me to enter a price for the item. I type a price and nothing happens and I cant talk. lol

This seems to happen when you don't hold an item when you rightclick. I will prevent that this happens.
I have to investigate the other thing.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Jutle said: ↑

I just installed your plugin on my server, but it doesnt seem to work. I put a glass and then I right-click on it with the item I want to put in and nothing happen...

You have to sneak in order to use it now.

jeffreylec · May 18, 2011

When I am setting the amount of the item, what exactly are you suppose to say.
let's use the example of my IRON_SWORD.

I also crash.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Release v0.3.1

You can now create infinite shop showcases [FIX]

A warning is displayed when you don't hold an item in your hand when creating a showcase [FIX]

DropChest support (DropChests won't suck any items from showcases. Requires at least DropChest v0.7.6) [FIX]

Players need to have the Permission showcase.buy.finite or showcase.buy.infinite to buy something [FEAT]

Make sure that the items won't spawn on top of a showcase [FIX]

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

jeffreylec said: ↑

When I am setting the amount of the item, what exactly are you suppose to say.
let's use the example of my IRON_SWORD.

I also crash.

Please tell me if this also happens with v0.3.1 . And, which Craftbukkit version have you got?

OrtwinS · May 18, 2011

@narrowtux
Me and my users fell in love with this plugin

Request: split up the plugin, I'm only interested in the showcase part, I already have a widely used shop plugin and my users wont take it well if I remove that (and I don't want the other options to show, and if possible no need to type 'basic' for them).

Edit: This could actually be a configuration option, but that might be over kill since there is no need for a configuration file now... Perhaps ingame mode selection? but it still needs a way to save that info... srry, dont know how Plugins operate.

jeffreylec · May 18, 2011

narrowtux said: ↑

Please tell me if this also happens with v0.3.1 . And, which Craftbukkit version have you got?

okay, great. and I have 766. It also crashes everyone on my server not sure why, it may be a class thing, but i don't know too much > <

jeffreylec · May 18, 2011

Code:

2011-05-18 13:07:37 [SEVERE] Could not load 'plugins/Showcase.jar' in folder 'plugins':
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:164)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:191)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:115)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:100)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:218)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:205)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:145)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:260)
    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:394)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/narrowtux/DropChest/API/DropChestListener
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at de.moritzschmale.Showcase.ShowcaseMain.<init>(ShowcaseMain.java:41)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.narrowtux.DropChest.API.DropChestListener
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    ... 27 more

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

jeffreylec said: ↑

Code:

2011-05-18 13:07:37 [SEVERE] Could not load 'plugins/Showcase.jar' in folder 'plugins':
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.loadPlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:164)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:191)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.loadPlugins(SimplePluginManager.java:115)
    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugins(CraftServer.java:100)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:218)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:205)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:145)
    at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:260)
    at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:394)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/narrowtux/DropChest/API/DropChestListener
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at de.moritzschmale.Showcase.ShowcaseMain.<init>(ShowcaseMain.java:41)
    ... 13 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.narrowtux.DropChest.API.DropChestListener
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:36)
    at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:24)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    ... 27 more

Oops, that's when you don't have DropChest installed. Will fix that.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Release v0.3.2

Prevent crash when no dropchest is installed.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

OrtwinS said: ↑

@narrowtux
Me and my users fell in love with this plugin

Request: split up the plugin, I'm only interested in the showcase part, I already have a widely used shop plugin and my users wont take it well if I remove that (and I don't want the other options to show, and if possible no need to type 'basic' for them).

Edit: This could actually be a configuration option, but that might be over kill since there is no need for a configuration file now... Perhaps ingame mode selection? but it still needs a way to save that info... srry, dont know how Plugins operate.

You can deny your users the permissions showcase.finite and showcase.infinite and the options won't be displayed to them. I will do an auto-selection soon, when there is only one possibility.

Joy · May 18, 2011

Sweet!

Request: configurable limit of showcases players can make, possibly with permission nodes.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Released v0.3.3

Showcasing on non-safe blocks (i.e. air, torch, etc) is now prevented [FEAT]

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Joy said: ↑

Sweet!

Request: configurable limit of showcases players can make, possibly with permission nodes.

Added to todo.

OrtwinS · May 18, 2011

narrowtux said: ↑

... and the options won't be displayed to them.

OK, didn't know that since I have *.

I will do an auto-selection soon, when there is only one possibility.

Yay!

Edit: and the 'limit number of showcases' thing would indeed be great! When I noticed it didn't actually cost an item to make them I immediate thought some ppl would love to create showcases with diamonds all over the map...

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Release 0.3.4

Items won't despawn anymore, so there is no ugly re-alignment after 5 minutes. [FEAT]

Bronski · May 18, 2011

When you say: "Type in the text in (parenthesis)," what do you mean by "the text." I'm feeling very stupid atm and my friend couldn't make heads or tails of it either

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

OrtwinS said: ↑

OK, didn't know that since I have *.

Yay!

Edit: and the 'limit number of showcases' thing would indeed be great! When I noticed it didn't actually cost an item to make them I immediate thought some ppl would love to create showcases with diamonds all over the map...

What about adding a price to it? That would be easier to implement and there would be a "bid" for finite shop chests.

narrowtux · May 18, 2011

Bronski said: ↑

When you say: "Type in the text in (parenthesis)," what do you mean by "the text." I'm feeling very stupid atm and my friend couldn't make heads or tails of it either

parenthesis are -->()<--
The assistant shows something like this:
(basic) blabla
(finite) blabla
(infinite) blabla

You have to type in the text in (), so for example "basic" when you want a basic showcase.

woodzy · May 18, 2011

testing this today see if the guys like it

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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

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