Bukkit

This idea is taken from Stargates by TheDgtl.

An ASCII file that describes the appearance and shape/design of a gate. This would be described in a 2D vertical or horizontal manner.

The file would contain key information such as type of blocks it consists of, what block type the event horizon would consist of (the choices would preferably be water, air or portal blocks) when the gate is active, and what block type should be inside the ring when the gate is inactive.

The plugin would load all .gate files at start-up and would therefore know all existing gate designs if a gate matching a .gate file design was created.

Possibly some odd or even numbered locked limitations to height and width ratio would be required in order to retain the unstable vortex effect.

Example of file "stargate.gate":

block_ID_gate_ring: 49
block_ID_portal_active: 8
block_ID_portal_inactive: 0
gate_orientation: vertical

    xxx
   x...x
  x.....x
  x.....x
  x.....x
   x...x
    xxx

This is planned for 1.2. Not sure if I'll be using the same format as I want to add some more options into the file.

@dale2507: Go

How exciting! The format supplied was a direct example taken from the individual .gate files of the originating plugin. But I do strongly believe this possibility would make your plugin the ultimate portal plugin! :-)

@mdice_: Go

Thanks for the feedback :)