Awesome. I played around with it yesterday, too but only got as far as "GateServer discovered network abnormality" when trying to log in.Originally Posted by zukota
Btw. if you write your guide and I can get the server running on my machine, I'll probably spend a few hours coding a nice registration-page for new accounts in PHP. Should be easy - as far as I have seen, user-passwords seem to be md5-hashs.
Hm... I can't set up both gates servers, because there is a collision bewteen them, they both try to bind to port 1973, so what value should I use for the other?
And something to make account would be nice, even if I set up the server, I can't login in because I don't have an account! :')
BTW, Zukota, did you use Chinese client or english? OR are both possible?
Zukota using Chinese client.
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Some theory first
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The server communication structure is shown on the picture. Digits are the port numbers servers are listening on, and arrows show the direction of connections.
Servers and their functions:
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GroupServer: this baby plays the central role for the server operation. Disassembling of it revealed that it is responsible for authorizing the client, creating characters, map handling, etc. Think of it as the dispatcher and syncronizer between the Game and Gate Servers.
GameServer: it runs one or more maps. What is a map? A map is the part of the game world where your char can move without teleporting. If you are teleporting to another continent, you're changing maps. Maps are stored under the 'resource' directory of the server. See directory names there like 'garner', 'magicsea' and so on? Those are maps. Well, running even one map requires TONS of memory. Typically, running 'garner' map which in fact is Ascaron continent takes about 1GB of RAM on my machine. So, running all the continents and locations would require some serious hardware, I guess :) Or, maybe there exists some tweak for amount of RAM used, I don't know yet, since all the config files are in bloody chinese.
GateServer: this is some proxy between the client, GroupServer and GameServer. This is the only piece of software the client is communicating with. There can be more than one GateServer, but in this example we'll use only one.
AccountServer: pretty straightforward. Simply checks if a certain user can be authorized to login or not.
Databases:
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AccountServer: contains all the users allowed to login. Passwords are plain md5 hashes.
GameDB: main game DB. Contains all the chars, their stats, items, friends, guilds etc.
How to get this all to work:
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In this example I'll show how to run just one map, 'garner', which is Ascaron. If you try to teleport to magicsea, it won't take you there, because this map is not running on the server. Well, you can try to run magicsea and deepblue maps on the same GameServer, but it will be a memory hog. You've been warned.
First of all, unpack the archive somewhere on your hardisk.
IMPORTAT NOTE: this archive doesn't contain some files under 'resource' folder that were present in the original archive because the filenames of them are in chinese and I wasn't able to extract those files from the original archive. But those files are necessary scripts for server operation and you should get them from the original archive somehow.
Restore the database backups to your MSSQL server. The backups are in DB folder of the archive. I won't go into the details, since operating MSSQL is beyond of the scope of this guide.
Having both databases restored, you should edit some config files. I'll show them here entirely, with the appropriate comments. You don't have to copy them from here. The archive already contains all the config files edited.
AccountServer.cfg
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GateServer.cfgCode:[net] listen_port = 1978 // the port AccountServer should listen on for GroupServer connection listen_ip = 127.0.0.1 // the inerface AccountServer should listen on for GroupServer connection [db] dbserver = (local) // ip address of the MSSQL server running the AccountServer DB. // // can be (local) which means 127.0.0.1 I suppose db = AccountServer // DB name userid = passwd = //userid = account //passwd = uCcnL+k0BUrE40Wr8VHg9A== //passwd = cathy_way [bill] enable_bill = 0 // some kind of billing, not used for now bill_server1 = 10.10.1.107 bill_server2 = 10.10.1.108 [tom] enable_tom = 0 // not used now either [gs] GroupServerAndor = GroupServerAndor // looks like GroupServers are enumerated here // // we'll use only one for now enable_ping = 0 // dunno
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[code]
[Main]
Name = knight_gate01 // the name of the GateServer. not really important
Version = 133 // the version of the server it should report to the client
// // 133 means 1.33, 102 means 1.02 and so on
[GroupServer]
IP = 127.0.0.1 // ip address where GroupServer is running, in our case it's our local address
Port = 1975 // port on which GroupServer is running
EnablePing = 180 // time interval to send KeepAlive packets to GroupServr
[ToClient]
IP = 0.0.0.0 // interface GateServer should listen on for the client connection
Port = 1973 // port number GateServer should listen on for the client connection
CommEncrypt = 1 //
EnablePing = 60 // time interval to send KeepAlive packets to the client
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Hm can you create a SQL file from the DB? The backups try to make a database with a size of multiple gigabytes, which might be a bit overkill ;)
some corrections:
1. replace 'deepblue' with the 'darkblue' in the above guide :)
2. i figured out what exactly that
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Sjikke could not find how to dump the DB to SQL in this stupid MSSQL 2K. Try to restore the database to a NTFS compressed folder.
Thanks, anyway. I'll connect my external HD, it has about 1,3 TB of free space :)
When I'm ready, I'll make an SQL of it, so other ppl don't have to waste their HD space.
About translating it, with that you mean the client right? That's gonna take some time yes.. But I can only start once I have it, my download times out from that FTP.
EDIT: SQL added in attachments.
Thanks for the Guide, i'm at work, in my house i update first page with ur nice guide.
Thanks for ur help :)
A little trick regarding all that bloody chinese in the config-files ;-)
What I did: I installed the East Asian Languages for windows. After that I loaded the cfg-Files into Word. When you load those files, an import-dialog is shown. there you can select "Simplified Chinese" and the config-file is shown in chinese. You simply copy everything into the online-translator from google and you'll end up with something like:
which still has some strange stuff in it but most of the time it gives you an idea what the settings are all about...Code:/ / Game Server configuration file / / Please fill in all the necessary information to connect the Gate and the server is responsible for the operation of the map name [Folder ether] Name = GameServer01 / / server name, and not the other map server Chongming Equment = shouhushen [The important thinking has called Xian Min Rex ] Gate = 127.0.0.1, 1971 / / connect Naiyisi Gate server format for the ip address, port Gate = 127.0.0.1, 1972 / / connect Naiyisi Gate server format for the ip address, port [ melon ] / / from one or more map Map = garner Map = eastgoaf Map = lonetower [Village Board of Juzhang Fu] / / designated data connectivity information Db_ip = 192.168.16.102 / / database server ip address Db_usr = game / / access to the database Account Db_pass EZCpyYOZVofugqDFBZrLKw == = / / access to the database password, the password is encrypted specialized tools after the results [Socket] Keep_alive = 120 [ID of bladder] / / server distribution ID for the role of the base, each map server are different BaseID = 0x50000000 [Turtles bang ofヘ] / / effects memory footprint Max_ply = 3000 / / number of players Max_cha = 15000 / / monster numbers Max_item = 30000 / / number of props Max_tnpc = 300 / / number of NPC dialogue / / Max_cha = 5000 [And Pin- Θ dollars] Guild_num = 80 [And Pin- у Θ dollars] Guild_try_num = 80 [Fan ㄣ] Item_show_time = 60 / / props exist Time (sec) Item_prot_time = 30 / / props protection time (seconds) [Ding Ting Chi Advisory] Say_interval = 1 / / sec. [Qi melon] Db_mapmask = 1 / / preservation of the large map [LOG Min Zuo] Log_cha = 0 Log_cal = 0 Log_ai = 0 Log_mission = 0 [Stover just Min Zuo] / / debugging, non-GM orders Supercmd = 1 [Ge sideヘ]] Res_dir = resource [Logヘ]] Log_dir = log \ log1
And if you look at the translated stuff, you'll see that this settings:
seem to influence the amount of memory used... so playing with them could probably reduce the amount of memory needed...Code:max_ply = 3000 // 玩家数目 max_cha = 15000 // 怪物数目 max_item = 30000 // 道具数目 max_tnpc = 300 // 对话NPC数目
Btw. I think I found the GM-commands in the gameserver.exe - look at it with a hex-editor and jump to the offset 1722676. You'll see a bunch of readable (english! :-)) commands like "attr", "setcesslevel", "addcess", "addsailexp", "addexp", "addmoney" and stuff like that. attr is 100% a GM command (I've seen that on a chinese page - syntax is something like: attr 1,2 - but i don't know if it just alters your own stats or that of someone else) - so i guess that the other stuff is GM-related, too (at least it sounds plausible). I'll look into this when I have a running server...
And btw. at least all *.bin files can easily be translated to english. All you have to do is taking the current versions from PKO or TOP, extract them and overwrite the chinese descriptions/itemnames with the english ones. I already wrote a parser for the bin-files (they are really simple - all records have a fixed size - so translating items/chars is just a matter of taking some bytes from file A and copy them to file B) - so I could provide a little PHP-script that copies the english strings to the chinese files. I don't think that we'll break anything because I doubt that any Item-IDs were changed (so I guess a Short Sword in V1.33 has the same ID as the short-sword in V1.35)
Why changing versions? I still got the english 1.33 client. I can't get to the Chinese one though.
SnowCrash, cool to see you are working on this :)
Yes, but I believe there are also text ID strings also, and they are all in chinese. The clear example of this are birth points IDs, just look at resource\script\birth\birth_conf.lua. Great care must be taken when translating all these, and what is worse, things like that should be translated both for the client and the server.And btw. at least all *.bin files can easily be translated to english. All you have to do is taking the current versions from PKO or TOP, extract them and overwrite the chinese descriptions/itemnames with the english ones. I already wrote a parser for the bin-files (they are really simple - all records have a fixed size - so translating items/chars is just a matter of taking some bytes from file A and copy them to file B) - so I could provide a little PHP-script that copies the english strings to the chinese files. I don't think that we'll break anything because I doubt that any Item-IDs were changed (so I guess a Short Sword in V1.33 has the same ID as the short-sword in V1.35)
So anyone got the server to work?
Feel free to contact me for any help.
And if someone already got the chinese client 1.33, could you upload it somewhere, because others seem to have trouble getting it?
please!! someone can upload in sharefile (for example) or other site the cliente V1.33 , I can`t download from ftp site. Thank you very much! ..:: Yolaus ::..
