SWGEmu Goes Open Source!

[Ramsey]

The Starwars Galaxies Pre-Combat Upgrade Server Emulator has gone open source! The project hopes to attract fresh new programmers with a drive to contribute. This will mean the project will accelerate at a much faster pace than before and soon, everyone will be able to enjoy the game SOE destroyed.

If you are new to SWGEmu, please read the FAQ here (http://swgemu.com/forums/faq.php).

What does open source mean for Users?
If you are not gifted with the ability to write code in C++, fear not. You can still help the project by logging onto the Test Center (TC) whenever we put up a new test build and testing out new features. High volumes of players are important when new builds are tested out because of the connection limit imposed on all public builds of engine3 up until the v1.0 release.

What does open source mean for programmers?
The SWGEmu development team has written an ample amount of documentation on the public wiki to get new programmers up to date. Articles range from the Environment Setup to the SWG network protocol. The documentation is always a work in progress and it will continue to improve as the project progresses.

What is not included in the open source release?
Engine3 is not included. Engine3 is what powers Core3, the server, and handles all the disgusting low-level operations you would not want to touch anyway.

Is there a connection limit on public builds of engine3?
Yes. We have set the connection limit to 5 on all engine3 builds until the v1.0 release. To test higher volumes of players, we will actively be looking for stable patches submitted by the community and add them to the public test center for high volumes of players to test. See the "Limitations" page in the public wiki linked below.


Well, happy contributing! The #opendev channel on our irc is dedicated to talk about the Core3 source. Have fun, and we look forward to your contributions.

We have also opened up a new Open Source Discussion forum that you should see about now. This forum is dedicated to discussing the source for those that can't get on IRC at active times.

http://public.swgemu.com -SWGEmu Open Source development site. Wiki, SVN, Bug Tracking, and code submissions.


Developers who contribute alot of their time and code will be welcomed onto the team and given the ability to commit code directly to the svn themselves.
(After passing certain quality/control tests from our current team of course)

We are currently accepting resumes from prospective developers who wish to join the team right away. Please forum PM them to Me, Oru, TheAnswer, Ramsey and Seaseme.


Also in order to attract more developers, please Digg our story!
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[Serifin]

First! This is amazing guys!

[Rocoicoa]

nice

[Andewa]

Exciting times indeed!

[Saromus]

2nd, lol right as i clicked refresh haha nice timing congratulations this is a day to remember, hopefully this speeds up or at least get some helping hands for the project

[Seaseme]

Dig in. Thanks everyone for your patience.

[DavinFelth]

Whooooooooo! :D

[Sti1garWormrider]

Hopefully this helps speed up things, and brings in new and interesting ideas/solutions.

[David]

finally :]

[rambow]

<3 you guys

[Max]

this development in the direction of EMU will help re-gather the community and also get results faster,

kudos for your wisdom gentlemen.

[Zar]

Great job guys

[Inkanta12-lolz]

HORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Love you guys, thanks fer stickin it to SOE

[Volte]

Awesome!!

[Kateb Ibliss]

Nice guys! Awesome Job!

[Chanson1]

Woopie! Let's hammer down and crank this bad boy out!

[shastadude15]

Yaysauce!!!

[zetlaux]

Very nice to hear! Thanks for the update!

[Bloodfin182]

Sounds good!!

[Gulkia]

woot

[Instigator11283]

Very good news to hear! I will be sure to be on the TS testing out all the new builds and such.

[Emerzon]

Dig in. Thanks everyone for your patience.

You heard the man..dig in!

[Fedaykin]

Remember to dig it people :o

[samruggieri]

Gentlemen, I am truly impressed with and pleased by your decision. I applaud your actions, and it shows your dedication to the completion of this project.

Two thumbs way up.

[Enflorence]

Very Nice

[Vastor]

Yo i dug that ****. time for me to get my hands dirty with some pre-cu code!

[Applecorc]

/cheer Going to start working tonight ;)

[daxxvacine]

Happy am I!

Good job guys!

[Ekaika]

Cheers and here's to hoping everyone keeps a level head and egos in check.

[MrBlonde]

Awesome stuff

[Malitixus]

Must....learn...C++...GARG PAIN! Noooo! Must...not...give in.

*brain implodes*

Thank you so much|This is very nice|I'll go die now|
*does so*

[ThEgg]

Good to hear, good luck guys and lets try not to scare off anymore programmers (Ultyma).

[POPE]

eclipse for c++ development.. eww.. it isn't even my first choice (on the lastest kernel) for java development outside sun1.6.. stupid gcj..

anyways.. I have some free time over the next couple weeks.. I'll hopefully get a chance to go over the source, look into optimizing and/or the "to-do" list.

[Cazmu]

a milestone

[Theoderean]

Sweet, looking forward to fast progression :)
digged.

[toilet_duck]

QUACK @ Dev Crew!

I sure hope some of the folks from the community are able to make some contributions to the source and help move things along. Congrats on the move to quasi-open-source!

[Kastev]

OMGZ WHUR I DLZ EMUZ NWZ?

Wow, I'm actually surprised no-one has said that yet.

Haha.

Anyways, grats on open source! Can't wait to see how much help this will bring in!

[badfish]

Great stuff :) Shame its been so long since I did any C++ cant remember much of it :(

[Jason2444]

*Sniff sniff*
Smells like a big fat batch of awesome.

[Chanson1]

no doubt this will be a huge help

[Legoklas]

cool

[NickNak]

Just wanna say thank you for all that you are doing! Releasing this code will make everything god much faster!

Thanks again from all of us who are patiently waiting for the release. :)

[nobleboloc]

AWESOME, nice work guys :D

[Pake]

Super excited to hear how well you will be monitoring the quality of the code submitted. I think this may be a great assest for the project. :D

[Maxkaos]

Thanks!!! :lightsaber:

[apowerr]

A good new direction for the emulator. Great job ;)

[edycal]

nice work guys!!, and now a riddle for you ...

guess wat other modding groups are gonna steal this code for themselves?

[Ramsey]

nice work guys!!, and now a riddle for you ...

guess wat other modding groups are gonna steal this code for themselves?

What has two amazing pieces of code on SVN right now and doesnt give a crap? SWGEmu. How ya doin?

mm <3 scrubs.

[toilet_duck]

What has two amazing pieces of code on SVN right now and doesnt give a crap? SWGEmu. How ya doin?

mm <3 scrubs.

+10 Respect

Me and Mrs. Duck love us some Scrubs.

[Pake]

What has two amazing pieces of code on SVN right now and doesnt give a crap? SWGEmu. How ya doin?

mm <3 scrubs.

Well said.

[Xiox]

nice work guys!!, and now a riddle for you ...

guess wat other modding groups are gonna steal this code for themselves?

In the end it doesn't matter. Emu is an emu. We much rather have a team that knows their own code updating it for us, than some other team still trying to figure out how to use it and give us half-assed updates, and possible f**k ups.


Man you guys were smart to force this thing to be compiled by the user themselves. Still a pain in the butt though, need all these emulated layers just to compile and run the damn thing just to see what needs to be look at in a physical point of view lol.. oh well it's well worth it.

[Ramsey]

We will eventually offer binaries on stable releases. But until 1.0, its just the source with the connection limit.

[Gulkia]

We will eventually offer binaries on stable releases. But until 1.0, its just the source with the connection limit.

Will there be a beta stage or will you go right into 1.0 release?

[zemik]

thanks guys, good job.

[shorax]

Awesome. I've had some at least decent ideas that I've been playing around with since launch that I can finally get around to making. Thx.

[solarflare]

This is non-profit...right
is there away to get some collages to help ..let the students do it for a collage project...to help the commutity
there are 1000's of people wanting this ...make it a
Just an Idea

[Chanson1]

This is non-profit...right
is there away to get some collages to help ..let the students do it for a collage project...to help the commutity
there are 1000's of people wanting this ...make it a
Just an Idea

I wouldn't turn it over to a college :D But, they can write code and submit it to the DEV's for review.

[Smusatto]

This is non-profit...right
is there away to get some collages to help ..let the students do it for a collage project...to help the commutity
there are 1000's of people wanting this ...make it a
Just an Idea

Yes, it's nonprofit. College students are just as welcome to help with coding as anyone else. As for it being some sort of an official project for credit, that would be up to their teacher(s).

[Nanaki]

Keep up the good work! :]

[Deltus]

geegee

[Ekowraith]

Oo, Euro Chimaera. :]

What does opensource progress look like so far?

[zetlaux]

Yes, it's nonprofit. College students are just as welcome to help with coding as anyone else. As for it being some sort of an official project for credit, that would be up to their teacher(s).

lmao I bet that is a first.

[Chanson1]

It is an interesting thought.

[Ekaika]

nice work guys!!, and now a riddle for you ...

guess wat other modding groups are gonna steal this code for themselves?


There's really only 1 other project left, and they're pretty far along. Code isn't plug and play, you know.

Also, it would be obvious by looking at later who's it was, so who really gives a ****.

[Chanson1]

I agree totally with Ekaika Forge

[Legoklas]

Vanilla Paste...

[Xar]

Cant wait you guys, Ill seriously take a year off work to get back to it!

[Maximus- Antony]

Nice;)

[Cormin]

good to hear! hopefully this will jump start the progress with this project

post number 69!

[lei]

The Starwars Galaxies Pre-Combat Upgrade Server Emulator has gone open source! The project hopes to attract fresh new programmers with a drive to contribute. This will mean the project will accelerate at a much faster pace than before and soon, everyone will be able to enjoy the game SOE destroyed.



Good idea to let the community participate. I rly hope it works out well this time.

As so far there was little to see - what is with space? Will the open source server be space enabled or will it be pre JTL?

[Galinaros]

Good idea to let the community participate. I rly hope it works out well this time.

As so far there was little to see - what is with space? Will the open source server be space enabled or will it be pre JTL?

From what I know, it will be full JTL. ;)

[Cragily]

Nice ^^ Good job:)

[Bandar]

To be honest.. i dont think people would mind if the Emu released with only ground content and then JTL added in later.. yea i agree it would be nice. but most people are looking for the original content of the game.. if JTL was mainly what they were focusing on they could still play SWG because its still the same in space now as it was in pre-cu.. hasnt changed much in that aspect, little if none at all.. but i think it will be released with JTL though.:lightsaber::emperor:

[sid_lowca]

nice

[Zafsk]

Open source again? Awesome guys, love to see you make progress.

[Icide]

Very nice

[Goose]

niiice

[Relentless]

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[Maswill]

It has been Dug!

[Durka Durka]

It has been open source before. Thanks for taking away CH and giving us Beast Master SWGEmu!

[baisch]

Sweet sounds promising.....

[Srate]

It has been open source before. Thanks for taking away CH and giving us Beast Master SWGEmu!

Did they seriously but BM in instead of CH???

[Serifin]

It has been open source before. Thanks for taking away CH and giving us Beast Master SWGEmu!

Wtf are you talking about, get your facts straight

And what you mean by that is they gave it to us, took it away, and rehashed it as something "new"

No, Core 1 open source was a train wreck, this system is going to actually work, and it already is working

[Ramsey]

Core1 was open source, and it was a disaster. We scrapped it and rewrote a lot of the components for core3.

[Xiox]

It has been open source before. Thanks for taking away CH and giving us Beast Master SWGEmu!

lol... what an idiot.

[WafflesFTW]

The guys name is "DurkaDurka" how the F*** would anyone expect a racist sob to have any kind of intelligence or braincell about them?

::Wishes Eternal Bannings Upon *****es like DurkaDurk:: :emperor:


(SWGEmu team has gained faction standings with the Sith +72)

[Backwardsman9902]

sooo I'm confused about what that guy was talking about with beastmaster replacing CH, can anyone help explain plz thanks :)... Ooh and yea I realize I haven't posted in a really long time, just kinda spectating for the time being

[Seaseme]

it was a joke. We are leaving CH as it was.

[Backwardsman9902]

it was a joke. We are leaving CH as it was.

oo ok goood thanx :D

[Kaski]

WOOT!!!! great job :D