NPC Profiles

[Brian]

NecroBite : I left the ability to edit the plugin's source available on the assumption that if someone wanted to edit the source they probably know what they're doing. I have no plans to offer support for any modifications done to the plugin.

Despite that, I did have a look at your edits. I'd say the problem comes down to this line:

if(npcList[npc][i] != "" && (i == "birthday" || i == "gender" || i == "location" || i == "sexuality" || i == "status" || i == "zodiac")) {

You've only listed three extra fields in that if statement, so those are the only three being output by $[user.info].

[NecroBite]

ohhhh. thank you!
I'm still learning. I have a lot more to learn

[Ethelior]

having a slight problem with this plugin. i use the theme Night Rising (by smangii) and i already added some NPCs but the point is that i don't get the dropdown menu to choose which NPC is going to replace me in the posts. I already setup the perms and it is working properly in the Default Theme and not the Night Rising.

my site is : hellenicodyssey.boards.net ->registrations are restricted and boards are hidden to non-registered.

[Brian]

Sept 3, 2016 0:48:50 GMT -8 Ethelior said:

having a slight problem with this plugin. i use the theme Night Rising (by smangii) and i already added some NPCs but the point is that i don't get the dropdown menu to choose which NPC is going to replace me in the posts. I already setup the perms and it is working properly in the Default Theme and not the Night Rising.

my site is : hellenicodyssey.boards.net ->registrations are restricted and boards are hidden to non-registered.

One of its parent elements has relative positioning which is throwing off the part of the script that determines the absolute positioning of the menu.

I've gone in and corrected the section in the plugin responsible for this so your menus should be appearing correctly now. I'll be sure to correct this in the new version I'm creating as well.

[Ethelior]

thank you very much !

[Tiffy-Bean]

Honestly, don't need help or have any complaints. I just wanted to say, this plugin is so great and spiffy and I really appreciate you for building it. I'm using it here on my forum, and It really is just the bees knees. <3 Thank you!

[Brian]

Super update!

I've rewritten the entire plugin from scratch in order to better optimize how it works, along with making it easier for me to add some new features to it. Additions in today's update are as follows:

• Added NPC tagging. This can be performed by tagging a username followed by a colon and the NPC's username (example: @admin:npcusername). This will notify the user you tagged, but their name will be replaced with the NPC's name in your post.
• Added support for expansions. If you reach the NPC limit in your plugin settings the expansion plugin in the first post will allow you to add more NPCs.
• Added option to disable Posted by: User. As explained before, even with this text hidden it's still very much possible to see who made an NPC post, hence why the signature was included to begin with.
• Added option to specify if the board list in the permissions is a blacklist or a whitelist.

Other changes include:

• Moved NPC button next to Post Options button.
• Fixed menu behavior on layouts using relative positioning (should only be relevant to a handful of layouts).
• Removed individual mini-profile HTML for NPCs (this is still available through the other expansion plugin in the first post).

Edit: If you're using the mini-profile HTML section on any of your NPCs please back this section up before upgrading the plugin. This update removes that functionality and moves it to one of the expansion plugins.

[Brian]

Sept 20, 2016 10:06:11 GMT -8 Tiffy-Bean said:

Great update, but can we have one thing back?  I updated without thinking it would delete it, but the individual HTML for each profile was useful, because then I can insert images that were larger then the settings for avatar on my mini-profiles.  It deleted all the ones I had. 

You can add that functionality back in via the expansion plugin, but as mentioned at the end of my post this update will remove any existing ones you had. Unfortunately there's no way to bring them back once they're gone.

The reason I moved it to its own separate plugin is because in most of the forums that have been posted throughout this thread and that I've come across on Support that use this plugin I've entered the plugin settings and not seen the section used at all, and in the cases that it was used they just copied the default HTML that came with the plugin.

Since the plugin has limited space (the catalyst for me rewriting it) I got rid of that section to ensure that users who didn't use it could fit the maximum amount of NPCs possible into just the base plugin alone, while anyone who used that section and needed an expansion plugin created anyways could place their mini-profiles into that expansion plugin if they needed them for specific NPCs.

[Tiffy-Bean]

Sept 20, 2016 10:12:10 GMT -8 Brian said:

Sept 20, 2016 10:06:11 GMT -8 Tiffy-Bean said:

Great update, but can we have one thing back?  I updated without thinking it would delete it, but the individual HTML for each profile was useful, because then I can insert images that were larger then the settings for avatar on my mini-profiles.  It deleted all the ones I had. 

You can add that functionality back in via the expansion plugin, but as mentioned at the end of my post this update will remove any existing ones you had. Unfortunately there's no way to bring them back once they're gone.

The reason I moved it to its own separate plugin is because in most of the forums that have been posted throughout this thread and that I've come across on Support that use this plugin I've entered the plugin settings and not seen the section used at all, and in the cases that it was used they just copied the default HTML that came with the plugin.

Since the plugin has limited space (the catalyst for me rewriting it) I got rid of that section to ensure that users who didn't use it could fit the maximum amount of NPCs possible into just the base plugin alone, while anyone who used that section and needed an expansion plugin created anyways could place their mini-profiles into that expansion plugin if they needed them for specific NPCs.

Makes perfect sense.  I deleted my comment because I realized I could still do this via the html mini-profile section, since I'm not using different layouts for each one.  I am, however, having a little problem with getting it to work with the style tag.  Attempted

<div class="info">

   <div style="width:100%;" src="$[user.avatar]"></div>

</div>

and it's ignoring the style section ..like it let's the src work but won't let me style it so it auto resizes the image.  Do you have any idea why?

[Tiffy-Bean]

Example: Post with the modified html

[Brian]

Sept 20, 2016 10:18:30 GMT -8 Tiffy-Bean said:

Makes perfect sense.  I deleted my comment because I realized I could still do this via the html mini-profile section, since I'm not using different layouts for each one.  I am, however, having a little problem with getting it to work with the style tag.  Attempted

<div class="info">

   <div style="width:100%;" src="$[user.avatar]"></div>

</div>

and it's ignoring the style section ..like it let's the src work but won't let me style it so it auto resizes the image.  Do you have any idea why?

<div> tags don't accept a src attribute. You'll need to use an <img> tag for that. Right now the HTML it's rendering using your example looks like this in the final product:

<div class="info">
    <div style="width:100%;" src="<div class="avatar-wrapper avatar_size_default"><img src="IMAGE URL"></div>"></div>
</div>

If you want just the avatar URL you'll need to use $[user.avatar.src] instead.

[Tiffy-Bean]

Sept 20, 2016 10:24:25 GMT -8 Brian said:

Sept 20, 2016 10:18:30 GMT -8 Tiffy-Bean said:

Makes perfect sense.  I deleted my comment because I realized I could still do this via the html mini-profile section, since I'm not using different layouts for each one.  I am, however, having a little problem with getting it to work with the style tag.  Attempted

<div class="info">

   <div style="width:100%;" src="$[user.avatar]"></div>

</div>

and it's ignoring the style section ..like it let's the src work but won't let me style it so it auto resizes the image.  Do you have any idea why?

<div> tags don't accept a src attribute. You'll need to use an <img> tag for that. Right now the HTML it's rendering using your example looks like this in the final product:

<div class="info">
    <div style="width:100%;" src="<div class="avatar-wrapper avatar_size_default"><img src="IMAGE URL"></div>"></div>
</div>

If you want just the avatar URL you'll need to use $[user.avatar.src] instead.

oh duh..now I feel special.  I *knew* that..my brain just didn't connect it!  Thank you.

[AspieCrow]

Thanks so much! I've installed it on my site and it's working great!

I'm just having a slight problem with the the 16x16 icons. They're still showing up as swords. Is there a way to fix that?

[Dionon]

I added a few custom fields to the Plugin to facilitate the RPG my group's got going on, but I can't figure out how to put them into the miniprofile... I'm using the tag $[user.(Insert variable ID)] but they don't seem to work... am I doing something wrong?

[Brian]

Sept 20, 2016 17:45:06 GMT -8 AspieCrow said:

Thanks so much! I've installed it on my site and it's working great!

I'm just having a slight problem with the the 16x16 icons. They're still showing up as swords. Is there a way to fix that?

Whoops! That's due to a problem with the order of execution in the source code. I seem to have done the check for images after the creation of the object that houses the finalized button HTML. Should be fixed on the library now so feel free to update to 1.1.1.

Sept 21, 2016 3:40:37 GMT -8 Dionon said:

I added a few custom fields to the Plugin to facilitate the RPG my group's got going on, but I can't figure out how to put them into the miniprofile... I'm using the tag $[user.(Insert variable ID)] but they don't seem to work... am I doing something wrong?

You'll need to do a bit more to get that working. Go into the Components tab of the Build page and find this line in the Javascript component (should be line 389 in the current version):

html = html.replace(/\$\[user\.location\]/gm,pbp['v_npc'].list[npc].location);

Add a new line after it that references the variable ID you added to the User Interface section of the plugin, like so:

html = html.replace(/\$\[user\.yourvariablehere\]/gm,pbp['v_npc'].list[npc].yourvariablehere);