Map-Ads - Ads on maps ✏️ [1.16.5 - 1.21.4]

Map-Ads - Ads on maps ✏️ [1.16.5 - 1.21.4] -----

The best player adverts solution for hubs and economy based servers!

Map-Ads
Map-Ads is an advertising plugin that utilizes maps. Players can rent ad-screens for a specified amount of time and submit their own images which will then be displayed. Staff can review these images before they go live.

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Only works on 1.16.5 - 1.21.4!
v1.2.0 - v1.2.11 requires maps v2
v1.2.12 and up requires maps v3

How it works
Admins can create ad-screens that can be used by players to display their own images to advertise something (their shop for example). Multiple ads can run on one screen (the screen cycles through the ads, each ad will be shown for a minute). Staff has to manually review ads before they go live.

Features

Everything is clientside
- No existing maps will be overwritten
- Won't hurt your servers performance since the heavy lifting can be done in separate threads*
  - Certain animations can cause performance problems depending on your CPU and Minecraft version.
Easy-to-use GUIs for staff and players
Configurable help book that explains the advertising process to players
Discord integration
- Requires free map-ads-discord-bot extension
- Docs
Image dithering
- Currently only supports the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm
- What is image dithering?
Screen groups
(Experimental) Transition recording
Good documentation
Developer API
Open-source
Compatible with Spigot, Paper and Purpur

Compatibility issues

Colorful Tools and ImageOnMap overwrite the /maps command. Use /maps:maps as a workaround.
MapManager and MapReflectionAPI force all maps to use positive ids. This breaks Map-Ads because it uses negative map ids.

Installation / Configuration / Usage
Please check out the wiki! Everything is explained there in detail.

Commands

/mapads
/mapads advertise
/mapads defaultimage set SIZE/SCREEN DITHER IMAGEURL
/mapads help
/mapads premium
/mapads preview DITHER IMAGEURL
/mapads review list
/mapads screen create NAME SCREENID
/mapads screen set transition NAME TRANSITION
/mapads screen set screenid NAME SCREENID
/mapads screen teleport NAME
/mapads advert list
/mapads advert remove ADVERTID
/mapads group create GROUPID GROUPNAME
/mapads group remove GROUPID
/mapads group list
/mapads group screen add GROUPID SCREENID
/mapads group screen remove GROUPID SCREENID

Permissions

mapads.admin - Players with this perm get notifications about broken screens and new ads
mapads.update - Players with this perm receive messages about new updates
mapads.command.advertise - /mapads advertise
mapads.command.defaultimage - /mapads defaultimage
mapads.command.review - /mapads review
mapads.command.preview - /mapads preview
mapads.command.premium - /mapads premium
mapads.command.screen - /mapads screen
mapads.command.advert - /mapads advert
mapads.command.group - /mapads group
mapads.limit.concurrent-ads.NUMBER - Limits the maximum amount of ads a player can rent at the same time (replace NUMBER with the amount)

Dependencies

An economy plugin
- Supported economy plugins: Vault, PlayerPoints, AquaCore (untested)
maps
- For versions 1.1.4 and below use maps v1.0.6
- For versions 1.2.0 - 1.2.11 use maps v2
- For versions 1.2.12 and up use maps v3

Optional dependencies

map-ads-discord-bot (for the Discord integration)

Images

Instant

Gradual Bar
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Shift

Pixelate Big
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Pixelate Small
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Overlay

Alpha (added in 1.2.0)
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Growing (added in 1.2.0)
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Shrinking (added in 1.2.0)
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Snake Big (added in 1.2.0)
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Snake Small (added in 1.2.0)
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Stripes (added in 1.2.0)
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"Create ad" GUI
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Review GUI
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Manage advert GUI
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Help-book

Videos
Spanish showcase by @Ajneb97 (v1.2.1)

Things to keep in mind

The plugin was not designed to sync ads across multiple servers!
This plugin was meant for Hub or SMP servers, but you could use it on basically any type of server.
This plugin uses bStats.

Support, feature requests, bug reports
Please join the Discord server to receive support, request features or report bugs. Please do not use the review section for that.
Please note that I will only give support to purchasers of the plugin. You can still file bug reports / feature requests without purchasing the plugin.

Alternative payment methods
Join my Discord and create a ticket if you are unable to use PayPal.

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Please leave a review if you like this plugin! Feedback is very important to me. Thanks! [IMG]