[Community Development] Dail Version 6 Emulator

[spikensbror]

Dail Server Emulator

About
Here's my contribution at getting this section on the right path again.
Dail is a version 6 FlyFF emulator.

I expect people to actually help and if that ain't happening, I'll put the development private and Ragezone will loose another open source project.
So I expect the actual developers of this community to help.

Repositories
Codeplex

Required Software
To compile Dail you will need the following software:
Visual C# 2010 Express
MySQL Connector .NET

Progress
Login Server - 100%
Cluster Server - 100%
World Server - 0%

Credits
TheAJ and Futwurk for their JoltEnvironment MySQL Wrapper.
Divine and the other creators of Morpheus/osA for packet code and other code.
Duotone for RuneFlyFF version 6 data.
Kiki for Nerugiland version 6 data.
Everyone else who diserves it.

Thanks
Thank you Duotone for helping me on general problems with the cluster server.
Thank you Divine and Glaphan for the support.

[MentaL]

[GlaphanKing]

You have my support. I'll have to dig out my old emulator and see if I have anything I can port over that hasn't been put in already.

Gratz to Spikensbror for having the coconuts to bestow an open source project.

I hope this encourages more open source projects around here. Like it should be.

One more thing I want to add. Since this is an open source project and since the source is out, perhaps calling it an emulator would be inaccurate due to the fact we have a 95% assurance of what direction to go into. Just a thought.

[bryle000]

I'll try to learn some with c#, im stuck here with the old stuff c and c++ :), i hope i can help :D

[Sezrma]

Good luck with the project, looks promosing.

[Invitation]

Good Luck I hope the project has a future.

[spikensbror]

Thanks guise. ;)

[404]

Sounds like a challenge.

You should also add it to sourceforge (;

[spikensbror]

I don't see the point in doing that though.

[MentaL]

good luck.

[Detox]

Good luck spikensbror <3

[Henry]

Could someone upload already installed version 6 client somewhere because the installer isn't working for some reason for me? I'll sure try to help with development as soon as I get the client so I can test if stuff works.

[Masius]

Best of luck, community ;)

[spikensbror]

I have yet to see any contributions though.
Give me some information about anything really.
General v6 info, packets, etc.
Remember that I haven't even started on the WorldServer yet, so I need all packets I can get before I begin.

[GlaphanKing]

Here's my solution to the packets. Most if not all are in the world server source. The others we can find either by trial and error OR code them ourselves. I'm going to spend some time looking for packets and such.

For those of you looking for a v6 client, I suggest looking up Nerugiland, the c++ source. Along with it you will find a link to the client.[COLOR="Silver"]

[KrYpT0n]

There is a lot of pointless code, and libraries are used for code that could be coded in a matter of minutes. What's the point of using strings instead of defines such as

case "Link":
                        {
                            Program.InitializeLink();
                        }
                        break;
        private static void InitializeLink()
        {
            LogHandler.Write(LogType.Notice, "Initializing LinkServer...");

vs

#define LINK 1
case LINK:
LogHandler.Write(LogType.Notice, "Initializing LinkServer...");
break;

Another thing that bothers me is the lack of comments. I think that community projects should be well commented, so others can easily understand what's going on.

[spikensbror]

I'll probably re-code the core since I know most stuff are uneccessary.
AND comment everything.

[GlaphanKing]

I strongly recommend against using #define. While OK in small does, using it like the C++ source will have you run into MAJOR issues later on down the road.

I see why KrYpT0n posted that but this project is going to be on a large scale scope, not a simple one. Were it the case I would say go for it.

[RckyCls]

Cool :thumbsup:

[Reimniess]

hmmmmmmm, the irony

I was taking a quick scroll through the forums and deciding if I should put in an archive request for if the section has no development happening none was likely to happen

and to my surprise, something is happening, best of luck spikensbror hopefully you can get this one finished

[Cyre]

You've my support. Good luck!

[KrYpT0n]

I strongly recommend against using #define. While OK in small does, using it like the C++ source will have you run into MAJOR issues later on down the road.

I see why KrYpT0n posted that but this project is going to be on a large scale scope, not a simple one. Were it the case I would say go for it.

I see what you're getting at, but if you name the constants well, you should be okay. Also a separate file for constants, such as VersionCommon, so you can see, and make sure there are no re-definitions. Could you imagine a C++ win32 app w/out defines? :P

[spikensbror]

This isn't C++ however, actually, C# doesn't even have proper "pre-processor" commands. It's actually an emulated pre-processor wrapper as the code is ran in realtime.

[spikensbror]

Here's my ultimatum. 1 day, if I don't get any contributions by tomorrow at 6PM GMT+1, I'll close this project down.

People whine and moan about how development is not happening, but the truth is, when development comes, they just ignore it or don't contribute to it at all.

[GlaphanKing]

Were I you, I would leave it open indefinitely regardless if people contribute or not.

If you close it down and people are working on it, then you are hindering development. A lot of people are seeing promise on this one.

But that's just my two cents.

[Blackbox]

Here's my ultimatum. 1 day, if I don't get any contributions by tomorrow at 6PM GMT+1, I'll close this project down.

People whine and moan about how development is not happening, but the truth is, when development comes, they just ignore it or don't contribute to it at all.

Give it some time for people to actually see it. Not everyone checks every hour/day, or even every week. Some people only check back here once every couple weeks or so.

Be patient. You have to give it time.