Bukkit

BetterBroadcaster - Better Broadcaster

Version: 1.4 [1.4.5-R1.0/1.4.6-R0.1]
Gray=comming soon | Black=implemented

Features

• Very lightweight.
• Use automatic broadcasts to inform your players about your website, voting page, or any other information.
• Broadcast as many messages accross the server as you like
• Broadcast at a interval that you configure
• Broadcast in any minecraft supported color you like (using $<color code>)
• No limit to the length of your broadcasts
• Broadcast in a randomized order if you like.

Download Latest (Version 1.4 [1.4.5-R1.0/1.4.6-R0.1])

Installation

1. Place the 'bb.jar' file in your plugins folder
2. Enable the plugin (or start the server) to generate default config file and config folder
3. Open 'plugins/betterbroadcaster/config.yml' in a text editor
4. Edit the config to your liking (see Configuration for more info)
5. do "/bb reload" in game or "bb reload" in console to reload the config
6. Enjoy

Configuration

# delay between messages broadcast (in minutes)
delay: 2

# broadcast messages in random order? (yes/no)
randomize: no

#==COLOR CODES==#
# $_ - $ sign
# $0 - Black
# $1 - Dark Blue
# $2 - Dark Green
# $3 - Dark Aqua
# $4 - Dark Red
# $5 - Purple
# $6 - Gold
# $7 - Gray
# $8 - Dark gray
# $9 - Indigo
# $a - Bright Green
# $b - Aqua
# $c - Red
# $d - Pink
# $e - Yellow
# $f - White
# $k - Random changing letters

# messages to send
messages:
- $aCongratulations you installed the $6BetterBroadcast$a plugin!
- $aYou should configure $6BetterBroadcast$a by editing the $e'plugins/betterbroadcast/config.yml'$a file.

Permissions

• bb.* - Allows use of all bb permissions (defaults to OP)
• bb.force - Allows use of the "/bb force" command (defaults to OP)
• bb.help - Allows user to see the plugin in /help (defaults to OP)
• bb.list - Allows use of the "/bb list" command (defaults to OP)
• bb.reload - Allows use of the "/bb reload" command (defaults to OP)
• bb.add - Allows use of the "/bb add" command (defaults to OP)
• bb.remove - Allows use of the "/bb remove" command (defaults to OP)

Commands

• /bb - Show help
• /bb force - Force the next message to be broadcasted
• /bb force <messageID> - Force the message with messageID to be broadcasted
• /bb list - List all the messages in the broadcast config and their messageID's
• /bb reload - Reloads the BB config and restarts the timer
• /bb ? - Show help
• /bb add - Add an message to the broadcast config
• /bb help - Show help
• /bb ls - List all the messages in the broadcast config and their messageID's
• /bb remove - Remove an message from the broadcast config
• /bb rl - Reloads the BB config and restarts the timer

Known bugs (v1.4)

• International letters causes crash

Changelog

v1.5 [1.6.4-R2.0]

• Added ability to broadcast to a specific group of players via permission nodes
• Code reorganized
• More user-friendly
• Now published on github with GPL (open source)
• Added "/bb", "/bb ?", "/bb help" commands
• Added "/bb ls" command
• Added "/bb rl" command
• Added server logging for "/bb force" and "/bb reload"
• Added support for international characters
• PM dredge200 any suggestions you have

v1.4 [1.4.5-R1.0/1.4.6-R0.1]

• NOTICE: This update makes changes to the config file!
• Added "randomize" config value
• Added "/bb list" command and "bb.list" permissions
• Added "/bb force <messageID>"
• Changed the default configuration a bit

v1.3 [1.3.2-R3.0]

• Added list of color codes to default config
• Added the "/bb force" command and "bb.force" permission
• Removed troll reload messages

v1.2 [1.1-R4]

• (first release)
• Broadcast as many messages accross the server as you like
• Broadcast at a delay that you configure
• Broadcast in any minecraft supported color you like (using $<color code>)