Working SEQ alternative

[cavemanbob]

The updates and missing line from the player to mob are already fixed, I'm just doing a couple more bugs and i'll post a little patch.

The Paint exception is annoying it has something to do with the con colors I think, but I haven't tracked it down as of yet unfortunately.

[cavemanbob]

Bug fix release, got it working better (and had a chance to test it this time). Only the client has changed.

http://alteria.sf.net/myseq-1.4a.zip
http://alteria.sf.net/myseqserverc-1.3.zip
http://alteria.sf.net/seq-maps.zip

[sauron]

*deleted*

EDIT: Hmm.. maybe the client link is posted twice here? See message below mine for broken link....

[Elyon]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cavemanbob
[B]Bug fix release, got it working better (and had a chance to test it this time). Only the client has changed.

http://alteria.sf.net/myseqclientc-1.4a.zip


The above URL is not working...

[Hannibal]

http://alteria.sf.net/myseq-1.4a.zip <---- this IS the client.

[cavemanbob]

Stupid typos lol, fixed the link

[Elyon]

Link may be correct now, but file is missing.. Your working too hard CavemanBob....

OK, now you edited the Server file, but changed it to 1.1. There was a 1.3 before. Don't mean to be a pain, but is 1.1 the correct Server file?

[cavemanbob]

It's right now... Gotta think more when I'm puting those links in hehe

[Elyon]

All is well now... All files and Links are working.

Thanks for your time spent on this Cavemanbob... We ALL appreciate it greatly.

[Catt]

Question/Suggestion:

Is there any posibility that the client could use the LoY map format? There seems to be more of them available than SEQ maps, even considering that I did some of the SEQ format ones.

Comment:

When I tried to compile the server with VC++6 I had some errors relating to the winsock libs, after a little research I found the answer, add the middle line below the others are for reference:

 
#include <winsock2.h> 
#pragma comment(lib, "ws2_32.lib") 
#include <windows.h>

It compiles & runs with this, however, I am at work and can't test it to be sure it works, so I offer this info as a "for what it's worth", which could be useless if it doesn't work.

SEQ Suggestion:

I (and others) would really like to see the server part of this project feed info to the Linux SEQ client. Seems it shouldn't take too much to make this work, but I don't think I'm up to the challenge at the moment.

Cavemanbob:

Bravo! Thanks for breathing some life back into EQ.

[cavemanbob]

I'll say probably on the LoY maps, anyone have an actual spec for the LoY map format?

EDIT: I knew I missed something, stupid test code was keeping targetting from working right. Uploaded now.

http://alteria.sf.net/myseq-1.4a.zip


ANOTHER EDIT: I've been getting those paint exceptions like crazy on my win2k test machine, but not on my devel machine... I'll try and toss the remote debugging package on there tomorrow because this is a REALLY annoying bug and I can't find the cause on the devel machine...

[Catt]

I do not believe SOE has/will ever release a definitive spec for it, however:

L 582, -534, -71,  585, -530, -71,  153, 153, 153
P 141, 918, 0, 255, 255, 0, 2, East_Karana

above from Beholder_1.txt

File name seems to be short zone followed by _ and which of the 3 map 'levels' to display it as (using 1 for simplicity) .txt

The file lines are:

L = line (did I need to say that? )
next 3 numbers are start x,y,z of the line
next 3 end x,y,z of the line
last 3 colour of line r,g,b

P = point (location label)
first 3 numbers location x,y,z
next 3 colour r,g,b
next 1 label size
and finally label itself, no spaces, use _ for spaces

One thing to note is that z seem to differ between SEQ and LoY it's common belief that SEQ z's are x10 of LoY, which does seem to work.

[Riser]

About the LOY maps, I believe there was an online converter link on the old map forum. I cant find the link but maybe that could help some?

EDIT :: Converter from SHOWEQ maps to LOY maps

[sauron]

Point #1 --> I too get the crash "paint" bugs ALL the time. So often that I really cant use the program (client crashes like every 5-20 secs ususally). Im running two WinXP machines.

While I'm here, Point #2--> And one wierd thing -- rarely I get a "Unhandled Exception" on the CLIENT. I close it, and restart, and get no map or spawns... Then I close the Server, restart server, then hit GO on client, and it works again. So it looks like when this "Unhandled exception" happens, a server restart is necessary. Maybe the crash (or the 30 other paint crashes) messes up the winsock connection... /shrug.

Anyways, I'm really looking foward to a version that doesn't crash so often on my machine! Thanks for all the effort!

[Riser]

Servers just went down for an "emergency patch"..... are you thinking what im thinking? WinSEQ war v 2.0