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** Introduction                **
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The Gameroom is a follow up to the Casino product for vBulletin.  It features games that can be played alone, against a computer dealer as well as live multiplayer games.  Cash for the betting games comes can be gained through doing the things that help your board, such as making posts and starting threads. 

Multiplayer games are played live, with chat and in the case of Texas Hold'em can have up to 10-players at one table. 


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** Installation                **
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1) Upload the contents of the "upload" folder into your vBulletin folder.

2) Import the "product-gameroom.xml" file through the Product manager in your adminCP

3) Modify the navbar template as follows:

Find
	<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Add Below it 

	<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="gameroom.php?$session[sessionurl_q]">Gameroom</a></td>


4) Go to the Gameroom and open the "Admin" tab, the user that installed the product is the only user that has permission to do this at this point.  Edit your settings to suit your board.  Ensure the proper users are listed as admins, mods and the proper usertypes are allowed access.

5) This part adds the cash amount to the postbits, if you are using another currency or don't want this, skip this step.

       In the postbit & postbit_legacy Templates

       FIND


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               $vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]

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       BELOW that ADD


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               <br /><a href='gameroom.php'>Gameroom cash</a>: $$post[gameroom_cash]

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This part adds a box below your navbar showing how many players are in the multiplayer games, "callouts" from with in the gameroom and how many open events are in the Betting component.  There are two banners available, a flash one and a html one.  To switch between the two go to the plugin manager and enable the one you want to use, and dissable the other. 


       In navbar Template, at the very bottom or bottom add:


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               $gameroomBanner

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The html banner will not display if it has nothing to show.  If you want it to display a default message edit the "Default_Message" phrase in the "banner" language group.

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** Update from Casino          **
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In order to transfer you statistics, betting events and cash from the Casino application upload the "updateCasino.php" file from the tools folder too your forum folder and navigate to the file.  Once the process is complete, delete the file from your server.

** NOTE:  If you are going to update you should make sure you do so right away, once the gameroom starts to gather its own information this import will throw errors.  If you have used it, and want to transfer data clear the tables by uninstalling and reinstalling the product file.


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** Integrating with other cash systems **
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Integrating with other cash systems

This is fairly simple to do, you just need to change the cash type field in the settings.

* VB Plaza - Change to "vbbux"
* iCash - Change to "Money"
* VB Credits - Change to "Credits"

You should also dissable the bonus plugins if they are not needed.  For any other package you need to find out what field in the user table it uses and change the settings to that field.


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** Language                    **
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Language and help files can be edited to suite your site.  The game language can all be edited from the admin tab within the game by Gameroom Administrators, the help files that come up when you push the Help button are storred in the "rules" folder.  If you change them, make sure you don't overwrite them when updating.


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** Support                     **
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For support issues please use the forums at vbgaming.org



(c)2009 Andrew Green
http://vbgaming.org
