[Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

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    [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    SwiftDiscipline v1.01
    Player Control Addon for GMs on ArcEmu Servers, by Twist3d. Last Updated: 8/24/2008

    Hey RaGEZONE, I released this addon on some of the other emulator websites and I just wanted to share it over here too. The addon is called SwiftDiscipline, but I have recently retired the addon and I'm planning to make a new one with support for nearly every command. The post below is copied and pasted and is about two months old so sorry if there's any inaccuracies.


    What is SwiftDiscipline?
    Basically, SwiftDiscipline is an addon that attempts to make it easier for GMs on ArcEmu servers to, well, discipline their players. Swiftly.


    How do I use SwiftDiscipline?
    SwiftDiscipline is very easy to use, with uncluttered prompt windows and an intuitively laid out UI that leaves little question as to how it functions.
    The main method of working with the addon is via the eight command buttons that you will find on the bottom right of your screen. Clicking on these buttons will open a window that takes the information required for the command you selected, such as Kick Reason, Ban Duration, Port Location, etc. Clicking on a button with a player targeted will prefill the player name box with the target's name.

    An alternate, yet equally convenient method of using SwiftDiscipline is via the dropdown menu buttons that the addon adds to the BlizzardUI UnitPopup dropdowns (these are the menus that appear when you right-click on someone's name in chat or when you right click on your target's portrait). This is especially useful when you're receiving a flood of "OMFG REZZ MY HERO PL0x" whispers, as you can just right click on their name and select Resurrect.

    The addon also has a couple other tricks up its sleeve, check out the feature list and the screenshots following it below.


    SwiftDiscipline's Features

    -Adds a sort of control panel for commonly used functions such as Kick, Account-Ban, IP-Ban, Mute, Teleport, Paralyze, and Revive.

    -Prefills player name with currently selected target.

    -Hooks into the Blizzard UnitPopup dropdown menus to provide a quick way to Kick, Ban, Appear, Summon, Port, or Resurrect a player.

    -Allows for up to 10 "Saved Reasons" for player kicks. These saved reasons are predefined, editable strings of text that you can use to quickly provide a reason for a kick such as Vulgar language, exploiting, use of caps-lock, etc.

    -Counts the number of times a player has been kicked in a session (by any GM) and suggests a temporary ban when the kick count gets high.

    -Completely removes the need for a GM to use .playerinfo to get a player's account name or IP address for a ban, SwiftDiscipline does this automatically, and also warns you if the player you're about to ban has GM permissions.

    -Comes with a basic stat tracking feature, allowing you to see how many kicks, bans, revives, ports etc. you've done since the addon was installed.

    -Sends a server-wide announcement for player bans (can be disabled).

    -Intuitive, easy-to-use prompt GUI system with uncluttered windows and a small, unobtrusive main window that doesn't take up unnecessarily large amounts of screen space.

    -Includes a minimize feature that reduces the main window's size to a very small, thin bar.

    -And more!!!11 :D


    Screenshots
    Some of these screenshots are from version 0.9, and as such there will be minor cosmetic differences between the current release and the release depicted in the screenshots, such as the ban announcement, which will now display durations as Forever (for 0) or 1 year, 4 months, 6 days, 1 hour (for 1y 6d 4m 1h, etc.).

    The main windows.


    The dropdown menus.


    The account ban window in action.


    The IP ban window in action.


    Kick counting example.


    Minimized mode.



    Download
    http://leetsoft.net/downloads/SwiftDiscipline.zip

    Mirrors coming soon, and possibly an SVN repo.


    Changelog
    Changelog.rtf


    Feedback
    If you like the addon, that's great! However, I'd also love to hear from you if there are somethings you don't like about the addon, and especially if you've got suggestions as to how to improve the addon!

    Please post any feature requests, suggestions, bugs, or general comments here, I'll try to respond to all of them and I will try my best to implement your requests. However, try to keep requests around the general area of disciplining players, as SwiftDiscipline is currently for dealing with players.
    Though if enough people ask, I might make a separate addon with a similar system for handling other GM commands :P


    FINAL NOTE
    This addon is designed to work with ArcEmu commands and system messages. It may not work with other emulators or newer revs of ArcEmu if commands or system messages (like pinfo output) are changed. Testing and development for this addon was done on ArcEmu r579, and support for the "new" GM command set in r583 is also included. It MIGHT work with Aspire or other Ascent based emulators but only if the commands and the system GM messages have not changed.

    FINAL FINAL NOTE
    Development on this addon has been suspended. No further updates or fixes will be released. SwiftDiscipline will be merged into my new project, SwiftGM, which will include things like Gameobject manipulation, Ticket handling, Character/NPC handling, Modify/Waypoint/everything else handling. Progress will be posted on the ArcEmu forums or on Mmowned.



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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Nice... Looking forward to see SwiftGM :D. Does this also work with WoLK or not.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    do i have to enable lua scripting for this ?

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Darksideris: No ;D

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Lol - he banned Admin :D
    About that Custom UI... where to get something similar... i'm kinda bored when playing with old UI. i once had MazzleUI, but too bad its for 2.4.2 :(
    Once again nice addon.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Who uses arcemu anyways these days?

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Alot of people... alot of people...

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    arcemu is best ( ascent emu)

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    well, i can't say its best but its good.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    then which is the best ?

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Wow, Ragezone is a lot more active than I had thought o_o

    @Zingmars:
    It SHOULD work but I'm not 100% sure... as far as I can remember I took specific care to avoid using code that I knew would be obsoleted in Lich King (this: instead of self:, for example).
    If you change the Interface number in SwiftDiscipline.toc from 24000 to 30000 it should work fine. If not post and I'll see how to fix it.

    @Darksiders:
    This is a client-side addon, not a Lua script for your server. Your GMs just drop it in their Addons folders and they're good to go.

    @Zingmars again:
    I'm not using a custom ui compilation like mazzle, but if you want to make something similar, in that screenshot I'm using XPerl and Bongos2. That's all really, then you can move around the bars and stuff to get a nice uncluttered UI with a ton of screen space.

    @Justin:
    I know, I know ArcEmu is fail. The server I was working for when I made this addon ran ArcEmu so I made the addon for ArcEmu naturally I'm going to start working on my own server soon and you can bet the core will be Aspire

    @Darksiders again:
    AspireCore is, imo. Read through ArcEmu's changelog, a lot of the non-crap commits are changes and fixes ported over from Aspire or Andy. Many of the rest of the commits are just hacks that contribute to the stability problems ArcEmu experiences.


    Thanks for the posts everyone, I didn't expect this forum to be so active lol. Glad you guys enjoy the addon, I'll post progress reports on SwiftGM here too :P

    PS: If SwiftDiscipline doesn't have the right commands for your emulator, just open up SwiftDiscipline.lua and change them to the right commands. The addon works with any Ascent-based emulator, it's just that the commands provided are for ArcEmu.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    i should use aspire then ??

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    if you wanna...

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Quote Originally Posted by darksideris View Post
    i should use aspire then ??
    You can use whatever emulator you prefer, but I'd appreciate it if you made a new topic instead of asking in this one, as I sense an imminent thread derailing. Remember what the original post in this thread was about, lol.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    ok i wont go off topic srry

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Thank you for the tool[addon] :>.

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Jo thanks!

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    Re: [Addon][ArcEmu] SwiftDiscipline GM Addon by Twist3d

    Does this work for 3.0.3 with quickadd itemset and stuff for GM and T8?



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