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- User
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So, though this rule has been applied for a while on Mineplex, however, recently there have been instances where 3 YouTubers got a Sev1 ban for using the ReplayMod and uploading footage with ReplayMod footage, or evidence of them using it, here is one of the three I could find:
There also has been a thread discussing this incident, with direct response by the Rules Committee on Mineplex.
I know that there is a Replay Restriction Plugin being worked on for Networks to solve this exact issue, however, the last updates/progress made to it was since August of last year:
By making this thread, I hope I can get this out to CrushedPixel, so once he comes back from his trip to some convention, he is well aware of the priority of having this thing done, otherwise the ReplayMod will not gain as much success/popularity as it very well could if it can be used on a server holding thousands of players at a time.
Good day!
- User
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I talked a bit with the RC regarding your point of "They might as well just use a world downloader or a real no-clip mod". And whilst I agree with what you have stated, they state otherwise:
"And for this exact reason, we do not approve the use of the World Downloader or a real no-clip modification. Sure they are near impossible to detect, however we still do not condone the use of these utilities despite whether players are caught using them or not. By fully approving a mod, this means we fully approve ever little feature this mod has to offer throughout the network, however it does cause an issue on one of our gamemodes, therefore it will stay unapproved unless a solution is provided.
So @User10, it seems you have typed up a solution to restrict usage of replays on a specific server, however, I did not quite understand the process. Could there be a video or some sort of guide to explain what you have stated, because I am not the wisest when it comes to coding :P
However, it looks like a solution nevertheless, so if I could get some guide on how this is possible, I will try to replicate the process, and then bring it up with the Rules Committee on Mineplex.
Thanks for your time @User26 & @User10 :)
- Developer
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There is nothing you can do about restricting ReplayMod usage on their server. They'll have to do so.
All they have to do is send a single packet (the packet is described in the specs pio linked) once a player joins the Clans server. That's less than 10 lines of code using the Bukkit API or probably even simpler when using BungeeCord.
IIRC (it's been quite some time since I've last used Bukkit) it's somewhere along these lines:
server.registerPluginChannel("Replay|Restrict");
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(bytes);
out.writeByte(21); // Length of "only_recording_player"
out.writeBytes("only_recording_player".getBytes(Charsets.UTF8));
out.writeBoolean(true);
player.sendPluginMessage("Replay|Restrict", bytes.toArray());I know I cannot do anything to insert this restriction on the Mineplex Network, however, I would like to test it for myself to see how to make it work, which I can then later guide the devs in the process of setting up this restriction.
Using my limited knowledge on Java and BukkitAPI, I cannot make out how to use the sampled code you posted to make the server restrict the replaymod much less even send the packet. It would make it alot easier if you could present some plugin/tutorial/guide for this restriction, so if you ever have time to do this, please do.
I still had this thing lying around on my old hard drive. I'm not sure how well it was tested or whether it works at all but it compiles and contains sample code for BungeeCord, Bukkit and Sponge. So I pushed it to GitHub, you can find it here.
- User
- 15 forum posts
There is nothing you can do about restricting ReplayMod usage on their server. They'll have to do so.
All they have to do is send a single packet (the packet is described in the specs pio linked) once a player joins the Clans server. That's less than 10 lines of code using the Bukkit API or probably even simpler when using BungeeCord.
IIRC (it's been quite some time since I've last used Bukkit) it's somewhere along these lines:
server.registerPluginChannel("Replay|Restrict");
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(bytes);
out.writeByte(21); // Length of "only_recording_player"
out.writeBytes("only_recording_player".getBytes(Charsets.UTF8));
out.writeBoolean(true);
player.sendPluginMessage("Replay|Restrict", bytes.toArray());I know I cannot do anything to insert this restriction on the Mineplex Network, however, I would like to test it for myself to see how to make it work, which I can then later guide the devs in the process of setting up this restriction.
Using my limited knowledge on Java and BukkitAPI, I cannot make out how to use the sampled code you posted to make the server restrict the replaymod much less even send the packet. It would make it alot easier if you could present some plugin/tutorial/guide for this restriction, so if you ever have time to do this, please do.
I still had this thing lying around on my old hard drive. I'm not sure how well it was tested or whether it works at all but it compiles and contains sample code for BungeeCord, Bukkit and Sponge. So I pushed it to GitHub, you can find it here.
Actually, I have tried messaging one of the rules committee about this, but without knowing all this, you can send it to the rules committee here http://www.mineplex.com/profile/3243583 and just message her
- User
- 132 forum posts
Hi there @User32545
I appreciate the help, however, I have already direct contact to Toki and have been communicating her about this a few months ago. It will make the process a lot easier if I am capable of making the restrictions possible so I can help the devs with any confusion they have with setting this up. Plus I am curious myself to see if it works lol.
- Developer
- 1883 forum posts
But even then, shouldn't the replay restriction be easy for anyone to setup? My main focus is for Mineplex to implement it, however I also want to be able to know how to setup the replay restriction, since it can be somewhat handy in the near future.
So I messaged a Mineplex Dev with this thread and restriction file, however, for now could you help me understand how to implement this on a server of my own?
Either you build the plugin yourself (
./gradlew build) or you take a prebuilt version from here (for Bukkit, that's replayrestrictions-bukkit-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar). Put the jar in the plugin directory and start the server once to have it generate the default config. Edit the config, then restart (or reload) the server to apply those changes. Done.- User
- 132 forum posts
But even then, shouldn't the replay restriction be easy for anyone to setup? My main focus is for Mineplex to implement it, however I also want to be able to know how to setup the replay restriction, since it can be somewhat handy in the near future.
So I messaged a Mineplex Dev with this thread and restriction file, however, for now could you help me understand how to implement this on a server of my own?
Either you build the plugin yourself (
./gradlew build) or you take a prebuilt version from here (for Bukkit, that's replayrestrictions-bukkit-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar). Put the jar in the plugin directory and start the server once to have it generate the default config. Edit the config, then restart (or reload) the server to apply those changes. Done.Hey there, so I installed the ReplayRestrictions, it seems as if the plugin was implemented properly (by the looks of the console), however after recording a sample on my server, and then going into the ReplayView, none of the restrictions took place. I could still clip, xray, fly around, literally no restrictions took place.
And yes I did update the config:
Sooo, what next? Is there a missing feature, do I need a certain version of the mod, or do I need to go through any other steps to getting this to work?
- Developer
- 1883 forum posts
But even then, shouldn't the replay restriction be easy for anyone to setup? My main focus is for Mineplex to implement it, however I also want to be able to know how to setup the replay restriction, since it can be somewhat handy in the near future.
So I messaged a Mineplex Dev with this thread and restriction file, however, for now could you help me understand how to implement this on a server of my own?
Either you build the plugin yourself (
./gradlew build) or you take a prebuilt version from here (for Bukkit, that's replayrestrictions-bukkit-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar). Put the jar in the plugin directory and start the server once to have it generate the default config. Edit the config, then restart (or reload) the server to apply those changes. Done.Hey there, so I installed the ReplayRestrictions, it seems as if the plugin was implemented properly (by the looks of the console), however after recording a sample on my server, and then going into the ReplayView, none of the restrictions took place. I could still clip, xray, fly around, literally no restrictions took place.
And yes I did update the config:
Sooo, what next? Is there a missing feature, do I need a certain version of the mod, or do I need to go through any other steps to getting this to work?
Upload the replay somewhere, I'll have a look at it.
Edit: Also, what server did you use? IIRC I only tested on Glowstone.
Edit 2: Looks like I left some debug code in the plugin. It should print a stacktrace to the console when restrictions are sent to the client. So when you say that nothing suspicious is in the console that probably means it didn't even try to send it.
Edit 3: So I just retried and I can indeed confirm that the replay works without any problems (latest ReplayMod, Glowstone++)
- User
- 132 forum posts
@User10 The server I used to test it is simply a pre-set server which I use my computer to run it.
The console did mention that the ReplayRestriction plugin was installed, however this is the only thing I sighted about it. When you say it works, do you mean the restrictions are applied to your replays?
EDIT: I used this program called "AutoMCServer" to build my server btw.
- Developer
- 1883 forum posts
Afaik ReplayRestrictions work as described in that gist.
However Bukkit and Sponge only send plugin messages to the client if that client has registered the channel (which kinda makes sense; but why register in the first place? idk, probably has a good reason).
The ReplayMod does not register its channel (probably me to blame for that) so unless that check on the server side is removed, packets aren't sent by the server and therefore never reach the client. I can't remember why it worked when I initially tested it, probably whichever server I used for testing, didn't check for the channel registration.
I don't know about BungeeCord (didn't test that).
Fixing the channel registration would require a ReplayMod update but old versions would still be usable on Mineplex which defeats the point of ReplayRestrictions, so that's not an option for now (maybe later).
Bypassing the server-side check for the channel registration is probably the way to go. Every plugin developer who has worked with NMS/OBC should be able to do that.
Vanilla doesn't care if it receives packets in unknown channels, neither does Forge, so that should be relatively safe (some larger scale test should be done nevertheless).
I will not be creating plugins which bypass the check as they have to be programmed separately for every single server software and I just don't have the time and/or other priorities (university, ReplayMod 2.0) right now.
I don't know about @User1, he seems to be bored at times, maybe he'll do it.
I don't use Skype, only IRC and Mumble. Again, ask @User1.
- User
- 10 forum posts
So, I created a CraftBukkit/Spigot restriction plugin that ignores the client channel registration.
https://github.com/joserobjr/ReplayModRestriction-Bukkit
I also released a compiled jar at:
https://github.com/joserobjr/ReplayModRestriction-Bukkit/releases
It can apply restrictions by config file:
https://github.com/joserobjr/ReplayModRestriction-Bukkit/blob/master/src/main/resources/config.yml
Or by API:
ReplayModRestriction.sendRestrictions(playerVariableHere, true, ReplayModRestriction.ONLY_FIRST_PERSON, ReplayModRestriction.NO_XRAY)
This is what happens when we try to view a replay that was recorded on a restricted server:
