Inactive [INFO] MinecraftViewer v1.0d - Generate Server Banners / Sig Images with live player stats [1.2.5+]

MinecraftViewer - Generate Server Banners / Sig Images featuring live stats:
Version: v1.0d

This plugin works with MinecraftViewer.com to create banners & signature images for your Minecraft server featuring live stats graphs for your players, perfect for forum signatures

Example Banners
Small Banner - 350x20

Large Banner - 560x95


Features:

• Adds query protocol support to your Minecraft server
• Works with MinecraftViewer.com to generate banner image featuring player stats graphs
• Multiple Background Images to select from
• Custom Background Images Supported
• Supports Dynamic IP servers via DynDNS
• *New* Native Support in Minecraft v1.0+ (no need for a plugin anymore)

Getting Started - Minecraft Retail v1.0+

1. Enable Query Support by setting enable-query=true in server.properties
2. Visit MinecraftViewer.com to create and configure your server banners

Getting Started - Old Beta Versions of Minecraft Only

1. Download the CraftBukkit plugin
2. Place the MinecraftViewer.jar in you server plugins directory
3. Restart your server or reload the plugins with /reload
4. Visit MinecraftViewer.com to create and configure your server banners

Known Issues

• IKVM 0.46.0.1's DatagramSocket handling functions are broken which prevents MinecraftViewer from working correctly, use a standard JRE instead of IKVM to fix.

Changelog
Version 1.0d

• Added a potential fix for buggy JRE or possibly LINUX kernel not timing out socket receive calls, causing a shutdown hang.

Version 1.0c

• Added potential fix for buggy JRE closing UDP ports when receiving ICMP port unreachable packets

Version 1.0b

• Added debugging option to help support

Version 1.0a

• Added comma separator between world names for multi world servers

Version 1.0

• Initial release

Also Available - Voice Comms Status Blocks

If you like this you might also like CommsViewer.com which generates live status blocks for Teamspeak, Ventrilo & Mumble to embed on you website.


Example Status Block generated by CommsViewer.com

 

Hi im using Hamachi to run a private server for me and my friends. The plugin is installed correctly and says so on load up. I put it in the correct information into http://minecraftviewer.com/banners but the "server times out". Any suggestions?

 

I'm afraid hamachi won't work you need to have a server which is accessible from the internet for the plugin to work with minecraftviewer.com.

 

So I am assuming that I have to make a new server banner everytime my IP changes, because it obviously does not update itself from the DNS name...

 

Small gripe, split up the world names with some sort of separator on the small banner, as they all mash into one long word at the moment

 

Connections with dynamic IP's aren't really suitable for running servers, which is one of the reason we didn't add this feature from the start. I would strongly recommend using a real host for servers instead of a none static home connection which really aren't up for the task, and are generally against your T&C's for you internet connection.

That said we'll be adding dns support in an future update.

I'm currently working on large banner customisation, including custom text colors and background images. DNS will be next.

This is already done, you need to update your plugin

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Oh, my bad!

Thanks

 

Normal connections people use aren't up for the task, this is true. I'm not normal, though.. neither is my connection at home. Thanks for the support, though. I would think that the banner scripting would use the information provided it to assemble the image, not the information that it gleans at the time of processing, but the information that was input to generate the image.

If it did that, then it would be useful for us non-static home connection servers. Just a suggestion. ^_^

 

I'm with ^^

Not everyones home connection is sub ADSL2+ SOHO and with fiber just around the corner hell0 100mb home connections.

@Steve
Are you even going to look at my banners I posted a couple posts up ?
Well I'm not going to make anymore until somone replys about the first lot how can I with out feedback.

 

Still no where near what a server connection has though ;-)

Yes I saw them thanks, something you'll be able to upload as a custom background once I'm done here, hopefully some time today

 

I was actually referring to MC servers but the other guy or gal is referring to WEB hosts and of course not lol if expect to see any kind of traffic other than a personal blog or RDP/ Home maintainance gateway.

But for MC I would say ADSL2+ is fine I run a 20 - 30 player server on that connection just fine with room to spare hosting privates matchs of SCII and other games with friends.

Its all about how you manage what you have and what you do to minimize the bandwidth usage. Web hosting id pressume you would want a near isp level backbone of over 1gb's up and down.

 

No is about latency and stability of latency, EU connections just don't deliver that, you'll be lag city, but this off topic so we'll end it here.

 

Can you add domen support? For example for server.minecraft.com IP in the image?

 

Please read the other posts

Quick update on customisation of the 560x95px banner:-
Basic support is now complete, just need to add the ability to recall / edit your uploaded images (effectively save and edit theme) and we'll be done.

So hopefully just one or two night's work and we'll be ready to release it.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

I added the plugin, edited my server properties but the website can't find my server. I'm playing online right now so I know the server is up.... any suggestions? I host my own server, the NAT is open.

 

If your using NAT (which is always a bad idea for any server) then the problem will be there, you'll likely need to DMZ or port forward the server port for it to work

 

I was wrong, I'm not using NAT. I am using port forwarding to allow port 25565 which is what my server runs on.

 

Server is TCP, make sure its also forwarding UDP (which is what MinecraftViewer uses) or it wont work.

 

If a quick GD/ImageMagick image generator can cause lag on someone's server, they probably shouldn't be using it in the first place, because my God that's crap hardware.

 

As someone who runs game servers for a living; you would be so surprised what will cause lag no matter what the hardware spec.

Don't forget if you serving the images off your game server and they are used on forums like these, you could see many thousands of requests a minute / second.

 

Bukkit 818
All is working fine but after some hours i get this:

The Server is online and working after that (no crash), but the banner say that the Server is offline

 

That's an error for the main server not MinecraftViewer, just looks like a player disconnected tbh.
Just looked up your server and seems to be showing as online, likely just a blip. If it gets offline once it will cache it for 10mins.

 

how can i do it that my other worlds are shown in the banner?
i only see the world and the world_nether, but i have multiverse

sehe gerade an deinem banner du hast nen deutschen server^^
also wenns geht bitte auf deutsch antworten^^

 

The banners include all worlds that bukkit knows about, subject to them fitting the the space of course.

If multiverse doesn't use bukkit's world features they won't show I'm afraid.

 

This would only really happen if you're using a low-low-spec server, or on a host that has a load of other servers on it (aka a game server host) in which case you wouldn't generally host your website on it as well, you're asking for trouble if you do since those servers are getting hit hard already, so the web experience would be pretty poor.

 

That worked!!! I had to create a new forward the same as my Minecraft but used UDP instead of TCP. Thank you for all your help.

 

Glad its working for you

 

nice Plugin im using it now as you can see.

 

Is there a way to hide the other worlds from the view?

 

Not atm

 

does what this does is generate a banner for your server and saves it on your computer if so do i have to sign up for anythink and how do i get the banner to be on craftbukkit or minecraft.net?