LiveSigns

• Summary: Signs and floating text that change contents (e.g. twitter?)
• Dependency Plugins: N/A
• PocketMine-MP version: 1.5 (API:1.12.0)
• DependencyPlugins: -
• OptionalPlugins: N/A
• Categories: Informational
• Plugin Access: Tiles, Internet Services, Commands
• WebSite: https://github.com/alejandroliu/pocketmine-plugins/tree/master/LiveSigns

Overview

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NOTE:

This documentation was last updated for version 1.2.1.

Please go to github for the most up-to-date documentation.

You can also download this plugin from this page.

LiveSigns is a plugin to display texts in signs or as floating text from a number of sources and can change automatically as the sources change.

Currently available sources:

• configuration file
• text file
• web url
• RSS feed
• Twitter feed
• php scripts
• MinecraftQuery
• Server's MOTD displays

Sample configuration files are provided to get you started. Basic usage is that you create a LiveSign source, and assign it an id. Then in the game you place a sign with that id, and it will start displaying it.

Sign Format:

• [livesign]
• id
• line:step
• options

The entry line:step is optional and is used to have multi-sign messages.

Also options can be omitted, but can be one of the following:

• raw or none : Will not do any wrapping of long lines.
• word : Will wrap long lines at word boundaries. (this is the default)
• char or chr: Will wrap long lines (independant of word boundaries).

If omitted, long lines will be wrapped at word boundaries.

You can create floating text signs. To do this use:

• /fs add [x,y,z[:world]|player] <idtxt>

Where:

• x,y,z - are position coordinates
• world - is the target world
• player - is a player where to spawn the text
• idtxt - is the configured LiveSign to span.

Examples:

• /fs add 128,-2,128 basic1
  • creates FloatingText for LiveSign basic1 2 blocks above ground
• /fs add 128,100,128:world basic2
  • creates FloatingText for LiveSign basic1 in world, at that position
• /fs add myname file
  • creates FloatingText at the position of player.

Documentation

Use the /livesign command to access the plugin functionality. The following sub-commands are available:

• cfg [id]
  • show the configured sources
• show [id]
  • show the retrieved texts
• set <id> <type> <content>
  • create a new source with id. See source types for the type.
• rm <id>
  • remove a livesign source
• update <id>
  • retrieve again the text for the specified source.
• reload <id>
  • reload signs configuration.
• status
  • show status of async task
• announce <id>
  • broadcast the livesign on the chat

The command /floatsign is used to manage floating text. The following sub-commands are available:

• ls [world]
  • Show the signs in the given world.
• add [x,y,z[:world]|player] <idtxt>
  • Creates a sign
• rm <x,y,z[:world]|player|[world] idtxt>
  • Remove sign

LiveSign sources

LiveSign sources can be created using the /livesign command or by modifying signs.yml. The following sources are possible:

• text
  • This is text embedded in the signs.yml file. Can be a single line, or if multiple lines are needed, then you can provide them as a list.
• file
  • Points to a file in the plugin directory.
• url
  • points to a URL that will be fetched.
• rss
  • points to an URL to an RSS feed. The content must contain the URL. You can optionally provide additional settings to select an item from a feed or the atom to display
• twitter
  • points to a twitter feed. You can optional provide a number which picks the update.
• php
  • points to a file in the plugin directory that will be executed as a php script.
• query
  • Get the output of a MinecraftQuery. You should configure it with:
  • server-name[,port[,message]]
  • The server-name is the host name to query.
  • The port is optional, defaults to 19132. Set to whatever is the port your server is running on.
  • message is optional, will default to showing the MOTD, Current player count and max players.
• motd
  • Get the MOTD output (from the server selection list). You should configure it with:
  • server-name[,port[,message]]
  • The server-name is the host name to query.
  • The port is optional, defaults to 19132. Set to whatever is the port your server is running on.
  • message is optional, will default to showing the MOTD text.

Entries in signs.yml contain the following keys:

• sign-id:
  • type: type of source
  • content: either a single entry or array entities.
  • Optional settings:
  • no-vars: true, disables variable substitutions
  • max-age: seconds, overrides message cache settings

Floating text

Floating text can be created using /floatsign or by editing floats.yml.

This file contains entries as follows:

• pos: x:y:z
  • position where to place the text
• text: idtxt
  • id as defined in signs.yml.
• opts: options
  • Optional, can be omitted. Contains comma separated options. The following options are possible:
    • width=nn : Sets the word wrap width to nn. Defaults to 75.
    • word : wrap at word boundaries
    • char : wrap per character

Enabling Twitter feeds

First you need to create a twitter app. To do that go to How to register a Twitter App and configure your twitter details in config.yml:

[CODE]
'oauth_access_token' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",
'consumer_key' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
'consumer_secret' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
[/CODE]

Multi sign's messages

Since the space in a sign is quite limited, sometimes is necessary to span a message accross multiple signs. This is accomplished using the line:step setting that is on the third line of a sign. The way it works is that the LiveSign text is split into lines. The first number in line:step is the starting line number (the first line is zero). Then, for the second line in the sign, we would add step and pick the corresponding line of the message. So if you want to make a message made of 2 signs accross, you would have:

0:2	1:2

Whereas if you wanted to have a message of 3 signs accross, 2 signs up you would use:

0:3	1:3	2:3
12:3	13:3	14:3

Variable substitutions

The following variables are available and can be substituted (this applies to all sources except for php).

• {LiveSigns}
• {MOTD}
• {NL}
• {BLACK}
• {DARK_BLUE}
• {DARK_GREEN}
• {DARK_AQUA}
• {DARK_RED}
• {DARK_PURPLE}
• {GOLD}
• {GRAY}
• {DARK_GRAY}
• {BLUE}
• {GREEN}
• {AQUA}
• {RED}
• {LIGHT_PURPLE}
• {YELLOW}
• {WHITE}
• {OBFUSCATED}
• {BOLD}
• {STRIKETHROUGH}
• {UNDERLINE}
• {ITALIC}
• {RESET}
• {tps}
• {players}
• {maxplayers}

Special variables for Query messages:

• {HostName}
• {GameType}
• {GameName}
• {Version}
• {Map}
• {Players}
• {MaxPlayers}
• {HostIp}
• {HostPort}
• {RawPlugins}
• {Software}
• {PlayerList}

Special variables for MOTD queries:

• {latency} in milliseconds
• {serverId}
• {mccpp} type of game (PE)
• {motd}
• {protocol}
• {client-version}
• {players}
• {max-players}

Additional Libraries

• RSS support: lastRSS
• Twitter Support: Twitter-API-PHP
• Query Support: xPaw's Minecraft Query

Configuration files

In addition to the standard config.yml file, the additional files are read:

• signs.yml
  • this file contains definitions of sign sources. And this may refer to additional files containing text or PHP code.
• floats.yml
  • this file contains definitions of floating texts. For the actual floating text contents look in signs.yml.

signs.yml can refer to additional files or URLs to provide live content. Please look at the provided examples on how these need to be set-up. If you deleted your examples, you can always refer to them back going back to github

Configuration

Configuration is through the config.yml file. The following sections are defined:

main

• settings: tunable parameters
  • tile-updates: How often to update signs in game from cache (in-ticks)
    • cache-signs: Default seconds to cache sign data
  • expire-cache: How often to expire caches (ticks)
  • debug: shows additional debug data
  • path: file path for the file fetcher
  • twitter: Used by the twitter feed fetcher
• signs: trigger text

Permission Nodes

• livesigns.cmd : Main livesign command (Defaults to Op)
• livesigns.cmd.addrm : Update livesign (Defaults to Op)
• livesigns.cmd.info : Show status of livesigns
• livesigns.cmd.update : Refresh livesigns (Defaults to Op)
• livesigns.cmd.broadcast : Broadcast livesigns in chat (Defaults to Op)
• floatsigns.cmd.ls : Show floating signs
• floatsigns.cmd.addrm : Show floating signs (Defaults to Op)

Known Issues

• Query and Motd can not query the local server.
• Document and expand API

Changes

• 1.2.1:
  • Added {PlayerList} variable to Query
• 1.2.0: Async stuff
  • moved Query's to AsyncTask
  • caching is more flexible
  • php scripts can now be cached (note that since it runs on an asynctask access to the PocketMine MP API is not possible)
  • MOTD displays in signs. Gets MOTD using RakNet protocol (native Minecraft PE) instead of Query.
• 1.1.0: new features
  • Added query support
  • Added variable substitutions (for colors) (Requested by @iDirtPlayzMC)
  • We default to word wrap now. Wrappings supports color codes.
• 1.0.1 : First update
  • Fixed FloatingTextParticle not updating text properly...
  • Added more info on commands
• 1.0.0 : First submission

Copyright

LiveSigns
Copyright (C) 2015 Alejandro Liu
All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.