Blockland GlassNot related to Glass the player whatsoeverBlockland Glass is a name I've used on several (rather underutilized) projects that have attempted to work alongside RTB back in it's heyday. It's worked as a reskin, as an underutilized GUI downloading system, and now I've re-branded it as a new Add-On hosting system to fill in the gap of RTB.
Now, Blockland Glass is an add-on hosting and management system. Bringing together Greek2Me's Support_Updater, the old RTB Archives, an modern in-game downloader, and a whole load of new features, Glass covers the add-on system from head to toe.
I'm posting this in General Discussion as I believe the Modification Discussion mainly relates to developing Add-Ons themselves. If the in-game portion of this becomes significant enough, I'll create a separate thread there to detail that process. For now, it's just about the websiteGalleryAdd-ons are, naturally, sorted in to categories based on their functionality.
RTB Add-ons have their own board, with information pulled from their RTB files. Add-on developers are able to recover their old RTB add-ons, importing them in to the Glass system. From there, the in-game mod manager will automatically put them on the right update paths and recover all the lost followings
Again, add-ons can very easily be retrieved from old RTB followings. Unfortunately, RTB didn't log the author's BLID, however Glass attempts to match names.
Glass add-ons can be kept on three different branches: stable, unstable, and development. This allows developers to make public changes and tests to their add-ons without interfering with the live versions. Greek2Me's Support_Updater is implemented throughout the system.
version.txt files are
automatically generated, pointing to the Blockland Glass repository. You don't have to do a single thing.
Conversely, for those that only wish to update their own private Updater repository, but also would like their add-on listed, Glass can check upstream repositories and mirror them, enabling all the functionality of the system without developers losing any control over their updates.
Each add-on that is submitted is automatically scanned for malicious code. After that, add-on reviewers can come by and either validate the security of the add-on, or point out any bad code. Either way,
the add-on will not be removed for having bad code. Unlike RTB, all add-ons (except obvious spam and IP theft) are welcome. However, malicious add-ons will not be available in-game, only online.
Source code is available for easy view. Syntax is marked up, and detected problems are highlighted in red.
Add-ons also will have a rating and comment system in the near future
Planned Features- Private Files
- Peer-review system
- Statistic display and graphs
- Comment/Rating system
Blockland GlassPlease, feel free to leave comments and suggestions