CCTV Camera
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CCTV Camera
Current Version - Version 2.8
For CraftBukkit - 1.4.7-R1.0
Expected revival starting by July, 2014. A complete recode using a more efficient method will occur, addressing all reported bugs. Expect a much more efficient version with minimal bugs. Expected to be finished August, 2014
Add cameras to monitor your server!
No Client-side add-ons needed!(No Spout)
What is it?
CCTV Cameras is a plugin developed by sayaad as an attempt to fulfil this plugin requests.
How Does it work?
This goes by the workaround that dibujaron taught of. That is, you create a screen and a camera then rightclick the screen to teleport to the respective camera.
There are 2 types of cameras :
- Dispenser Cameras - These use the dispenser block (because they look like cameras to us) as the camera screen. The direction the dispenser is faceing when you teleport to it. If you attempt to look to a diffrent side, you get teleported to the correct side and, for both types of cameras, if you attempt to move/break blocks/interact/hurt players, the action in undone.
- 360 Cameras - Unlike the dispenser cameras, these cameras can be any block type specified in the config and allows for a 360 view of the environment.
When you teleport to a camera you cannot interact with the environment. You will be inside of a glass block which gives a nice black block outline as to a real camera screen.
Features
- No Spout Needed!
- Configurable whether only the player created the camera-screen links can use them. Configurable camera block ids and screen block ids.
- Multi world support (screens can be in different world than cameras)
- Ability for players to see who is in a camera while viewing them.
- Creation wizard to avoid misconfigurations.
Commands and How To's
<> = required [] = optional
- /cctv create camera <camera name> - Enter camera creation mode. USE THIS COMMAND FIRST. After entering the command, left click your eligible camera block (default : dispensers, sponges, obsidian). If you screw up, the plugin will detect it.
- /cctv create screen <screen name> - Enter screen creation mode. USE THIS COMMAND AFTER CREATING CAMERA. Right-click eligible screen block to create a screen (default : Black wool, Grey Wool).
- /cctv link [camera name] [screen name] - Links the two. Use this AFTER you entered the above two commands. ^
After you link the two, you may right click the screen to teleport to the camera. When you are in the camera, you rightclick to exit it.
- /cctv modify [param] [true | false] - modifies the camera not linked yet. Params : public - when true, anyone can use the camera.
- /cctv delete link - Enter Link deletion mode. (You cannot delete a link that is not yours).
Note : You Rightclick to exit the camera.
Config
# Camera Config Options Camera: # Which block IDS can be a camera? Separated by "," # 49 = Obsidian, 19 = Sponge, 23 = Dispenser. Camera Block IDS: 49,19,23 # Allow dispenser cameras or only 360 cameras are created? Camera can be dispenser: true #Screen Config Options Screen: # Which block IDS can be a screen? Separated by ",". # 35:15 = Black Wool , 35:7 = Grey Wool Screen Block IDS: 35:15,35:7 #General Config options CCTV: #Creates either glowstone or glass under a camera Create Glowstone under camera: false #Self explanatory Invisible while viewing camera: true
Permissions
- cctv.create - all CCTV Camera commands.
- cctv.use - Permission to use the camera
- cctv.admin.spy - Allows server admins to view all cameras. Whether public or private.
Video
Thanks a lot to WoopaGaming for the video!
[German]
Filing errors
Please....please do not post errors on the comments on the plugin as they spam the comments and lead to me not being able to read other people's messages and also that the amount of chars per line is too small so that I will not be able to read and decipher the error as fast as I normally would.
I manage the following :
- Private Messages - Feel free to pm me
- Tickets
- The Forum
If you wish, you can put it in the form of a paste.
Live Graph Feed of Usage
Download
- See file for corresponding change log.
Notes
^ The image is a link in case you did not know ^
Delete the CCTV Camera folder in your plugins folder OR delete the Links.txt file located in the Data folder in the CCTV Camera folder before updating if specified.



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Posted Aug 11, 2012@ok12Boss
There are no major API changes to bukkit for 1.3.1 so the plugin should work fine.
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Posted Aug 11, 2012Will the plugin update to bukkit 1.3.1 ?
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Posted Aug 5, 2012In the config I put Only player that created link can use link: false But for some reason no one can use my camera still! I restarted the server, reloaded the plugin still no go
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Posted Aug 1, 2012Bug report: the latest development version messes with the lighting. (e.g dark at some places like when you're close to the void)
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Posted Jul 31, 2012@Anthony133
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Posted Jul 30, 2012plz no glow stones :( and i get a jumping screen as i look at screen and i try turning but it turns back n yes im using the block tat u can do 360.
from another person looking at you? ur not jumping. but u see it jumping without turning the screen
plz fix. :)
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Posted Jul 28, 2012@sayaad
I want to make cutscenes on my server. You enter on some block, so command "turn on camera" is run.
And if You would add ''cammera moving'' for every entry to camera then it would be awesome. Just make able that ops would can set waypoints, speed, and angles of curving camera.
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Posted Jul 28, 2012Please add a permission for admins, that they can use other cameras, but not every user. :)
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Posted Jul 27, 2012@Byamarro
No, but what is wrong with clicking?
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Posted Jul 27, 2012Is there any way to connect to camera by command?
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Posted Jul 21, 2012@harryjamesuk
No problem :3
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Posted Jul 21, 2012Thank You Sooooooooooooooooo Much!
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Posted Jul 18, 2012@Likasy
Try redownloading and re-installing with the newly downloaded file.
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Posted Jul 17, 2012In the config, I didn't get the option to enable invisibility so when I am watching through the camera everyone clearly sees me D: I am sure I downloaded the right version so I don't know what to do.
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Posted Jul 16, 2012Okay, since it seems necessary, I re-added the /cctv exit command in version 1.3.5.
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Posted Jul 16, 2012@sayaad
Honestly I don't remember, it was a strange way of how I ended up getting to it. Also, with the latest dev build more than one person is able to use a camera at the same time but then the first person who used it can't exit or anything until the server is restarted. You also can't use /cctv exit when you're viewing a camera.
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Posted Jul 12, 2012@graywolf336
Can you describe exactly what happened in a ticket and post any errors / false messages you amy have gotten?
It will make fixing the problem much easier if I know what the problem is xD
You are not supposed to break the screens(it cancels the event if its a screen) but you can break a camera (You get a message saying the camera is broken if you try to view a broken camera.)
Edit :
Oh, lol.
Edited the forum. Its no longer member-only for the FAQ and the common errors
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Posted Jul 12, 2012@sayaad
Lol no I meant the page you linked to.
Also, when you're in a camera viewing it you can't type the command '/cctv exit'. Also, it seems for some reason that breaking camera and their screens is broken in the latest build.
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Posted Jul 12, 2012@graywolf336
Permission nodes are here.
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Posted Jul 11, 2012@sayaad
Says I don't have permission to view..