Announcing comprehensive LBP.me integration!

[warlord_evil]

In the end...we all love and appreciate the same game, so why fight?

[Luos_83]

Epic addition CC, Aya!
Lots of kudo's for you guys.

[Antikris•]

I realize this has been in the pipe long before I even joined the site, but I like to think I am all important and stuff. This is exactly what I proposed two weeks ago.

Big thanks.

[javi haguse]

...Similarly, when they see comph has way more hearts than he deserves, they might take one away.

Couldn't agree more! One? make it one thousand!

[Rusty_118]

Very cool guys!

[rtm223]

Not working for me... Anyone know why? (don't) see Examples below.

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wqbvxw

http://lbp.me/v/wqbvxw

http://lbp.me/v/wqbvxw

Doesn't work if I type it manually, use the autopopulate from the showcase template, use the button in the advanced editor....

[Aya042]

Not working for me... Anyone know why?

Seems to work, looking at your thread. The LBP server was fubar'd a few minutes ago, which may have affected the ability to scrape it from lbp.me.

(don't) see Examples below.

It only works for first posts of threads in Level Showcase, Cool Levels, or Object Showcase.

[rtm223]

Right, makes a bit more sense now.... though I can think of many many reasons why it would be useful to have in other places as well, tutorials, blogs, projects....

Though fair enough if you want to limit it to those places, but having it display nothing doesn't make me think it's invalid BBCode for that area of the forum - typically invalid BBCode either tells you it's not permitted for that area or it displays the rawcode... Displaying nothing looks broked. Just saying.


Admittedly, that that info exists in the OP of this thread should have given it away

[Aya042]

Right, makes a bit more sense now.... though I can think of many many reasons why it would be useful to have in other places as well, tutorials, blogs, projects....

Yeah. I forgot what the rationale was for doing it that way. Might just have been technical limitations of vBulletin. Plus we don't want to put too much load on lbp.me, in case they decide to block us.

[Fishrock123]

Yeah. I forgot what the rationale was for doing it that way. Might just have been technical limitations of vBulletin. Plus we don't want to put too much load on lbp.me, in case they decide to block us.

I would like to request you to look into this, as I can see the benefits of extending it to places such as tutorials to be large.

[rtm223]

Yeah. I forgot what the rationale was for doing it that way. Might just have been technical limitations of vBulletin. Plus we don't want to put too much load on lbp.me, in case they decide to block us.

Probably 'cause you didn't want people spamming their level stats everywhere Most of the places I've mentioned it's not advertising that you are doing, just a fancier link - in a tutorial, a text link is functionally as useful really.

[Aya042]

I would like to request you to look into this, as I can see the benefits of extending it to places such as tutorials to be large.

Extending it to cover the OP of threads in other forums is fairly easy.

[ConfusedCartman]

It depends on the direction everyone wants it extended to. Initially, we only wanted a few select areas, so we could limit the number of bugs we'd have to deal with. Depending on where you guys want that info shown, we could potentially put it in many more places. As Aya said, extending it to other forums is very easy, provided you limit it to the OP of a thread. The problem arises when you want two or more displayed on the same page - something we don't support, due to initial limitations in vBulletin itself. It's probably possible to get it working so that you could display as many levels as you wanted on a single page without issues, but we'd have to completely revamp the way certain things are handled. Even then, I'm not 100% sure it can be done. It'd be tough, to say the least.

EDIT: Now that I've thought about it and spoken with Adrian, I think multiple levels per page would be a bad thing. Too easy to abuse. We'll limit it to one level per page (in the OP only) and just provide a BB Code template you can use if you *really* want to mimic the layout. It'll be the same template the Spotlight Crew will be using for their threads.

Also, it's worth mentioning that we now support cinematic levels. All types of levels are fully supported now - including Mm Picked levels that already have a predefined type. So mixtures of Vs & Mm Pick and Cinematic & Mm Pick will work fine as well. And this is all recursive - so if your level is a cinematic level, you'll see this change reflected next time you load the page.

[Shadowcrazy]

glad to hear the FILM creators that will arise from LBP2's release will be well accommodated. can't wait to see what more LBPC will be in the future