Doors/Chests

[ryans1230]

Is there a way that will allow vanished players to pass through/open doors and chests that won't show what they are really doing? When follow griefers, they often close the doors behind them, forcing vanished staff to reopen them. The player can then see that the door open and closed again but nobody passed through. And while small servers who frequently lag can pass it off as lag, larger servers cannot. The same happens for chests.

Can this be changed, or is it one of Minecrafts issues?

[asofold]

For doors you will need a teleportation tool like the WorldEdit pass-through feature using a compass.
It is possible that i build something like that in, that respects vanish-related permissions, to allow use only when vanished, or always, or not at all.

The chest question is another one. There exists the plugin OpenInv by lishid (bukkitdev) that has a silent chest feature, i.e. opening chests without the opening animation. OpenInv also features opeining players and offline players inventories, as well as opening blocked chests.

Very simple to add for SimplyVanish would be a "peek" feature, i.e. when clicking a chest without being able to open it the contents will be sent by chat. Same for onine player inventories.

The best solution might depend on the level of trust concerning staff...

[ryans1230]

Our staff members are very trustworthy.

Another issue, is the /near command. Is there a way you can make it so vanished players do not show up on /near. Right now, vanished players don't show up when "Tab" is pressed, and i think it would be better if it were switched. So that, players would not show up on the near command but when tab is pressed or players use /list/online, vanished players names show up.

[asofold]

With Bukkit i don't have control over the tab list , unfortunately. I am in touch with the DisguiseCraft developers, if they can control it.

Concerning /near and maybe /list that is an issue of the plugins that you are using for those commands.

My own server core plugin does remove vanished players from the player list. I could a /vanlist command that you can map /list to by configuraiton which then will respect who can see whom.

[asofold]

You can check at https://github.com/asofold/SimplyVanish/downloads

I added a dev version which adds a /vanpeek command (you can add a shorter alias in the configuration).

You can use /vanpeek to see the inventory, you can disable the "seemingly real" inventory opening in the configuration in the section "inventories:" [subject to change]. You can not modify the inventory though it seems like it.

If disabled in the configuration or if the players dont have the permission, it will show the contents in chat (also for chests) sorted by item name.

Permissions:
vantell: simplyvanish.cmd.vantell
vangod: simplyvanish.god.self nad simplyvaniosh.ungod.self
vanpeek: simplyvanisch.inventories.peek.at-all and simplyvanish.inventories.peek.real for real gui peek [subject to change!]

If you trust your mods very much (also to manipulate inventories) then use OpenInv for that!

I will integrate into SimplyVanish to automatically set the silent and blocked chest features if permissions are there, later.