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f14flier7's picture

I have recently added a few new features to my site. The right side is a raid tracker that displays downed bosses when you mouse over the banner. I have also added a few new things to our application format and a few minor changes to the center column.

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Realm Status Widget/Module

nixxon's picture

Hey I took a look at your site and was wondering if that is a custom block you made or if it is a module. The Realm Status that is. Just starting to finally polish up our website since I finally got all the big stuff out of the way.

Realm Status

f14flier7's picture

I just copied and pasted a module from my WoWRoster addon for the website. The addon to it has a picture that I just copied and pasted with. It's just a custom block that I made...

I really like your website, are you a graphics guy?!? Anyhow, hope this helps. I want a good way to show my guild's progression...

Here is an addon that I really wanna see for Drupal: http://20gp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=61

It seems that it is Jumla only... Any idea how to make it work with Drupal?!? Thanks :D

Yeah I am a graphics guy

nixxon's picture

Thanks,

Yeah I am a graphics guy first, trying to learn web stuff.

As far as our little progression thing (we have been having attendance issues so dont look at the actual progression numbers LOL), I made a block and added a script from www.guildox.com
<script src='http://www.guildox.com/go/go.asp?&c=b&f=993300&b=1c1c1c&bt=1c1c1c &t=25&n=Severance&r=Boulderfist%2DUS'></script>
Make sure you post it as PhP not filtered HTML. I ended up just making a page for our progression because I couldn't find a good module to track it. I felt the page mixed with the little widget on the front page was good enough, especially sine most serious end game guilds are all on the same content. At least on our server, the top 10-15 guilds have everything on farm.

Also I recently came across http://jotform.com/ for our applications, it is the coolest thing ever. Click on any of the "Apply here" links on our website to check it out.

I have a few code monkeys in our guild, I will see if they know anything about that Joomla module being able to get modified for Drupal.

Progress

f14flier7's picture

Ya, my guild is more of the "casual" type guild that raids 2 nights a week on 25 man content. Pretty much our server is the same way, but all of the guilds that have the current content are more "hardcore" and raid 4-5 nights a week.

The application form looks quite a bit like mine. I have been using Webform: http://drupal.org/project/webform It was a pretty easy module to implement.

Let me know if your code junkies make any progress.

How does your "Live Steam" work? Very interesting feature of your site.

We too have been having attendance issues :'( Our server is an "international" server and only about 20% of the server speaks English... Tough recruiting when your the only raiding English guild on the server lol

Live Stream

nixxon's picture

1. Install VHScrCap:

> http://www.hmelyoff.com/index.php?section=9 - you may need to restart your computer.

Settings:

Start "config" in "Windows-Start" -> "Hmelyoff Lab -> VHScrCap". An empty window will pop up (unless you got a program running using the driver already). Click on "create new" and you will open the settings window.

Capture

You are going to configure which part of the screen should be recorded. You can either record the whole screen (Track Screen) or just a part of it (Track window and select the name of the window out of the list). Or you can define a certain area of your screen (with, height, left, right).

"Track window" - Choose this option to record a certain window. After you activated this option you can choose the name of the window out of a list. Even another window will be in front of this window, it will be recorded. But if you minimize the recorded window, it doesnt work anymore.

"Track screen" - Choose this option if you want to record the whole monitor, whatever is visible.

"Show frame" - Show a red frame of the area that is beeing recorded.

"Region" - After clicking on this button you can define an area which will be recorded. This puts in the values for "Left, Top, Width, Height".

"Window selection tool (aim)" - If you click on it, hold your mousebutton and move it over a window you can choose it. Usefull if you dont know the name or if you just want to select a sub-part of a window.

I am using "Region" to stream World of Warcraft. I only stream a part of my window. That results in a better quality and my chat stays private. I can change the values for the region on the fly. So if there is something of interest out of the viewing area I can change it real quick.

The values I use for my 1680 x 1050 resolution are:

Left: 300; Top: 60; Width: 1050; Height: 790

Settings

Now we are going to configure how to handle the recorded data. My values are in the square brackets [ ].

"Border Color" - Background colors to fill up areas (see Resize to output size). [black]

"Frame Rate" - Frames per seconds to record with. [15]

"Align Video" - Well, yeah, right. Center. [On]

"Show mouse" - Hmmm. [On]

"Show clicks" - Invert mouse when clicked. Why not. [On]

"Capture layered windows" - Record windows that uses a certain layer mode. Some games may need this. [On]

"Optimize screen capture" - Gives a better image quality. BUT costs a lot of performance. [Off].

"Optimize screen deliver" - Same here [Off].

"Resize to output size" - Resize the streaming image to the size the streaming program is working with. Lets say that Flash Media Encoding will stream in 648 x 468 but your defined area (region) is 800 x 600, VHScrCap will resize the image to 648 x 486 and fill the rest of the area (due to aspect ratio if set) with the "Border Color". [On]

"Use linear resize in 32bit mode" [On]

"Keep aspect" [On]

"Specify output size" - Instead of "Resize to output size" you can put in the value for that. Overrides "Resize to output size". [Off]

"Register in ROT" - This is for developers only. [Off]

2. Install Flash Media Encoder (FME). (free, email needed):

> http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/

Settings:

Video:

Size - Most of the time I use 648 x 486. It's possible to set it to higher values, but it will use more bandwith. That depends on your internet connection and it may cause lag in WoW.

fps - Frames per seconds FME tries to stream. I stream 15 fps which seems to be quite alright. Could be more, but uses bandwith. You need to find out whats best for you. I can tell that people prefer to watch a non-laggy stream than to have a laggy stream with good picture quality.

Bit rate - We define how much bandwith FME is allowed to take. I put in 550 - 650 Kbps which seems to be fine. More is still possible, but WoW gets laggy again.

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FMS URL:

Code:
rtmp://fme.mogulus.com/mogulus/YOURCHANNEL/username=YOURUSERNAME/password=YOURPASSWORD/isAutoLive=true

Backup URL: (Nothing, leave it empty).

Stream: Whatever

Our Mogulus rtmp string still works so I haven't changed it. Mogulus is now Livestream, so you will have to see what they need to configure, but this will at least get you setup to stream on your end. After everything is talking to each other, you can just stylize the player to match your site design, and then embed it into a page. We normally only turn on our stream during progression because, according to Google Analytics, we are only getting about 3,000 unique visitors per week. If we see that number jump up to around 10k, we would consider keeping it on more often. Also, before you ask, no it doesn't effect my performance in game at all. = )

Thanks

f14flier7's picture

Great, thanks! I'm trying to see if this is something I could get my guild to start with a stream.

Another wow drupal site

kgribbe's picture

Mine is http://www.protectorate.eu/

some modules I use:
- Phpbbforum integrator (Posting news on site can be posted on forum automaicly with a backwards link + comments, 1 login for both site and forum, etc)
- Wysiwyg + CKEditor for easy posting
- recruitment is a custom made block atm

the phpbbforum module is also able to show recent topics, top posters, users online, forum stats, etc in blocks

As for the recent loot in top right corner, its just an sql query i put in a block that gets last 5 items out of our DKP site