Update 12/23/07

[Smusatto]

First of all, Happy Holidays everyone! I hope you're having a good break.

I bring to you good news from a few of our new developers. Since the project went open source, we've had some guys making some great progress. None of this stuff is on the public TC yet, but it should get there soon(TM).

Today, Ritter got surveying working. Here's a short video demonstration.

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This was done in conjunction with Kyle, who has been doing a lot of work on the resource manager. The resource manager spawns resources to the database following the spawning rules observed in live. It automatically creates them, removes them when they expire, and replaces them with another. The stats it generates for the resources are based on resource gates from pre CU.

The resource manager is also tied to sampling. Ritter is working on that as well.

PanchJr has been working on buffs. He's got them working and added an @buff command that works for doc buffs. He's also made it so they clear on disconnect.

Voltrox has been working on loot. He has the loot process working. If you missed it, here's a video he posted last week demonstrating it.

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Since then, he has cleaned it up some. Here are a few pics of his progress.

As you can see, he spawned quite a bit of NPCs on Dathomir. Here's an SMC sentry.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8643/screenshot0081si3.jpg

Here's looting with the correct system messages.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/6862/screenshot0101lq7.jpg

Here's some db admin commands. Note that he has wounds from a bull rancor that diseased him.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1444/screenshot0105dd8.jpg

Finally, here's some testing opening a corpse.

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/9264/screenshot0099pq7.jpg

That's all for now. I'd like to thank all the new developers for all the hard work they've put in over the past few weeks. You guys are great.

[booman587]

first. AWESOME!

[Serifin]

Second, freaking awesome guys!

[Dreads]

Third, nice :D

[SBHawk]

that is so cool... felt like i was actually in pre-cu live for a second when i saw all of those spawns in dath

[Sunahamaru]

5th but not worth much lol like how you give credit to the ones who did it

[Zar]

Impressive as usual devs! :D

[Profit]

Eleventeenth? nice, very nice; thanks for the hardwork and the update y'all.

[uenako]

First my BEARS win.. now this !!

Great work guys !!

[Xarathion]

Glad to finally see the foundations of crafting being visible. I missed that surveying sound. :p

[vintxrgr]

11th WOOHOO

very nice job cant wait to see this in test (possibly on dath like in the pics? :D :D :D)

[westbury28]

wow really nice job guys. Keep up the good work!:D

[Timbab]

Very very nice guys, good to see how well Open Source is going!

[rhyeal]

Gratz to Ritter and all his hard work. That was a fast turnaround from getting the packets to getting surveying working. Great job devs!

And by devs, I feel it is safe to say that the open source coders are included in this group.

[DeCastro]

Great stuff.

[Sti1garWormrider]

great job guys i would like to say thanks for all your hardwork.

[voltrox]

Thanks guys. Lately I've been playing more than working. Dath + creatures + loot is the closest thing to pre-cu I've experienced in years.

The looting code is not ready for TC yet I think. There is one bug where my weapon poofs after I clone, and until I get /loot working, I can't consider /lootall to be written "the right way".

The database stuff is solid. All item and weapon stats are written to the sql db, and I've pushed 2000+ items through it already. Deletes need to be handled differently, but I don't totally get how Oru was describing to do it, so I'll let somebody else work on that. IMO this is ready for TC but without loot there is no need. Only real caveat right now is that if you loot an item and delete it before you log out, the "deleted" item is not saved in the database.

My loot generator is very primitave. It needs to be scrapped and written "the right way" but it serves its purpose to test the database and acquisition of loot. And it doesn't make sense to rewrite it until we have defined coding relationships between loot items, creature "social groups" and the creatures themselves (which is something I may dig into next week if nobody else does).

I've also been laying the groundwork for DOT weapons and have started moving weapon base stats into LUA scripts. That will also give us the correct damage types and armor piercing on weapons, not to mention the correct base stats. And now that I think about it weapon/armor slicing would be very easy to implement at this point...

There are a lot of easy wins in the core3 source code. The real devs laid an awesome foundation and it is easy to add new features and functionality with only moderate C++ knowledge.

[foreverzero]

Ive seen some great work done in opensource before, but this is seriously some of the fastest development Ive ever seen.

[Emerzon]

Wow this is all such great news..great job guys.

[Gulkia]

Nice guys! keep up the good work :)

[Ekaika]

WORD. I have faith in mankind once again. You guys ****ing rock.

[Endless/Arnic]

Hell ya, nice job.

[StormZ]

wow, thats great progress. Partial open source is paying off.

Good job devs and all who contribute!

[gtyron]

not 1st
pretty progress

[nostyleguy]

amazing. glad open source is contributing so much.

[Jongo]

As always, you guys are doing a tremendous job. Thanks so much for the regular updates!

[Raghy]

awsome, the more, the better for the emu

[Sunahamaru]

whats the website name for the opensource again

[Seaseme]

public.swgemu.com

[OldMaster]

Finally some real progress! :eek:Ok, you deserved my first donation!

[Cruciamentum]

And, I'll add some more thanks. You guys can't get enough. We're so close, I can almost taste it. I have a faint smell for a few miles away, but we'll get there. Thanks devs. And Happy yule!!

[wpgwiggum]

good work everyone, keep the good stuff coming!

[toilet_duck]

Excellent work, guys! Keep going!

[Vastor]

Ive seen some great work done in opensource before, but this is seriously some of the fastest development Ive ever seen.

I absolutely agree. Its like as soon as we go Open Source the development shoots WAAY up! Great job to ALL of the Devs (too many to name now). Keep it up but enjoy the Holidays.

[Ethereal]

Very very nice guys, good to see how well Open Source is going!

Ditto

[Sunahamaru]

public.swgemu.com

thanks lol i cant code or anything im just curious

[Andewa]

FANTASTIC!!! These are exciting times indeed!

[phauran]

great news !

this thread also shows the decline in interest the swgemu project is getting, most of the old update threads had 100 + responces in a day.

[komandk47]

Fantastic way to go guys keep up the good work :)

[Sunahamaru]

nah its just not on the front page

[Cyron]

great news !

this thread also shows the decline in interest the swgemu project is getting, most of the old update threads had 100 + responces in a day.

look at the number of views

[David]

i love swgemu

[Ramsey]

Updated front page.

Uploading ritters video to our Media Page :D

[Sti1garWormrider]

I think the idea is, is that more people have come to understand that the EMU is a marathon not a race, and because of that check back in occasionally, but not daily or every other day as in the past. I know this is the case with quite a few people whom ive talked to from my old server (kettemoor). Ton's of people are still interested in the EMU, they just realized checking back everyday was like watching paint dry, and have found other things to entertain themselves.

[ReavY]

you guys made my christmass better... cause milan lost yesterday

[goldcrud]

wow very nice can't wait to see all this in live :).

[Odih]

Wow... guys,I really love you... I am one of the people who just read the news and watched the videos but did not register... but now I had to ;). My girlfriend just left me 3 days before christmas and this is the first news in those days that made me smile :) really thank you alot! Good work!

[famoussasx14]

wow is all i can say, and also great work! :) :) :)

[Baron_Primus]

And, I'll add some more thanks. You guys can't get enough. We're so close, I can almost taste it. I have a faint smell for a few miles away, but we'll get there. Thanks devs. And Happy yule!!
Seconded.

[Tolbat]

Great Job everyone!!!!!!

[firingblind]

Merry effing xmas eh? :)

That is awesome news, great work everyone!!!



I knew you guys would deliver some sweet nuggets of SWG gold :) Here's to you all having a great holidays and thank you again for all the great work!

EDIT_ Oh and omg so nice to see the delicious DE-10 again... such a sexy gun, can't wait to fire it at unruley Jedi again :D

[Ohmek]

awesome

great

sweet

amazing

love it

keep on doing a fantastic job guys!

[Matthew]

Great job guys! It brings back memories:(

[metin]

very nice.

Thank you very much guys

[daxxvacine]

Thanks for the Christmas present!! You did better than my wife!

[baisch]

Looking good!

[Brin 'Dira]

I almost cried when I saw the surveying video. I am SUCH a girl! The looting video sent happy chills along my spine and made me grin like an idiot. Anyway fantastic job on all the hard work that everyone is doing to bring us back our beloved SWG. I just cant wait. With all the progress on this and Conan coming out in March(Crom willing it will rock) I am just tickled beyond belief.
Thank you all so much!

[vincentpol]

you guys got me in jail for shouting out in public that 'IT' will soon arrive :P

No just kiddin, but great stuff love it love it love it

[agentoo8]

OMFGF FIRST!?!?!1111
Nice job guys ;)

[Nomisdk]

Very nice work guys.

Keep it up.

[roach7676]

Woohoo, I think this is my first post, and seeing surveying in action again was all it took! Gawd did I miss that! BTW, made a donation last week, hope all is going well with keeping the server up. Now all we need is some content to keep us content on TC! Thanks to all the devs, and open source devs now included! Keep up the great work all!

[JDM4000]

Nice progress.

Best wishes

[Roidrage667]

Fantastic job, keep it up!

[Erro]

W00t!

[pyropwnsu]

about the video, does this mean ranged will be fixed? and will we get uber lewtz? :P i think the TC should be changed into a live server once there is nothing left to be tested and all the people who played since now when this all first started should get some uber lewt!! that would rock.

[Andewa]

about the video, does this mean ranged will be fixed? and will we get uber lewtz? :P i think the TC should be changed into a live server once there is nothing left to be tested and all the people who played since now when this all first started should get some uber lewt!! that would rock.

The Devs have said that there MAY be a SWGEmu server IF there is enough support. Nothing concrete.

[voltrox]

What is broken with ranged?


I didn't realize that Oru had asked me to resubmit the loot patch via a different method, so I only resubmitted it last night.

Today I did some work on weapons and gave smuggler a little bit of love.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2674/screenshot0152uw1.th.jpg (http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2674/screenshot0152uw1.jpg)

The dots don't work yet but they are in the db, the loot generator, and all the backend work is done.

:emperor:

[Xar]

Once again, masterpiece

You guys will change the world - SWG FOR LIFE.

Cannot wait guys!

:) its crafting time...

[nostyleguy]

that DOT weapon is exciting to see. i had no idea DOTs were even under development. :)

[voltrox]

DOTs were already coded, but were only used for bleeds and fire in certain weapon attacks.

I have DOT weapons working on my TC now. Only thing that needs work is duration (which is still hardcoded somewhere).

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8614/screenshot0166hv8.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8614/screenshot0166hv8.jpg)

[Xenomorph]

Nice :o

[Wilzon]

These news are just so... HOT!! :D

Fantastic work guys!

[jiveturkey124]

To the ones continuing there hard work, I give my continued thanks!

To those new to the program, who are making progress congrats on being able to help with such a project, and thank you for dedicating your time. Its good to see that everyone can help out now, to make our old memories come alive.

-Jive

[Niad]

O!!! M!!!!! G!!!! IM 74th POST~!!!!!! IM AWESOME!!! WAHHH!!!!

Sorry, Anyways awesome guys:}

[DeathPlayr]

More is getting done, Good Work.

[Skyfire]

Rarely do I post anything on the boards. I've been quietly lurking for the past couple of years, since before SWGEmu had gone "underground" for several months before resurfacing. I've lost track of how many times I had to make an account name, the forums have changed a few times.

But, I most say, I'm very well impressed with how things are moving forward and getting accomplished. Major props to those who stepped up to the challenge and are contributing to this project. Your help is appreciated, not only by the general community, but by the original devs as well (at least, I think they are).

I've seen alot of members bash the devs for the lack of updates or progress. Trust me, I've seen it all in the past couple years. If the world had nothing but the whinners, this project never would have made it to insertion. Those of you that jumped right in and are contributing to the open source aspect of the project should pat yourselves on the back and realise your doing more than the average joe shmoe.

Again, major props to y'all! And to the original Devs, thanks for not giving up!

[Andewa]

Rarely do I post anything on the boards. I've been quietly lurking for the past couple of years, since before SWGEmu had gone "underground" for several months before resurfacing. I've lost track of how many times I had to make an account name, the forums have changed a few times.

But, I most say, I'm very well impressed with how things are moving forward and getting accomplished. Major props to those who stepped up to the challenge and are contributing to this project. Your help is appreciated, not only by the general community, but by the original devs as well (at least, I think they are).

I've seen alot of members bash the devs for the lack of updates or progress. Trust me, I've seen it all in the past couple years. If the world had nothing but the whinners, this project never would have made it to insertion. Those of you that jumped right in and are contributing to the open source aspect of the project should pat yourselves on the back and realise your doing more than the average joe shmoe.

Again, major props to y'all! And to the original Devs, thanks for not giving up!

Well said sir.

[Herb'zta]

whoohoooooooooo

[Magus Schneider]

tons of thx!

[dnifan]

Ohhh nice, progress is really accelerating now :D

[Tsubasa]

This is great
thanks guys, and happy holidays to everyone

[TankGun]

Man with all the help, things have reall started to speed up.

[shoto]

Who would win...

Chuck Norris or SWGemu?

[Seaseme]

me.

[lakewoodjoe112]

me.

marry me.

kthx.

[Andewa]

There you have it. We should have Chuck Norris beat up Smedley for knocking the Emu!

[Jodah-DancingStormtrooper]

first. AWESOME!

Second, freaking awesome guys!

Third...? Uber Freaking Awsome!

[yayomikey]

Sony wishes they was us... lol awsome work we will conquer the planets once agian

[NmK-Killa]

wow great job guys..VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!! i havent posted in forever but i do come thru EVERY DAY to check on yas...i dunno why i dont post...i know why but yall will slap me...GOOD Holiday gift to recieve from you guys :)

[Tolbat]

I hope we beat KOTOR MMO to a live launch that would undermine our effort.

:(

Who am I kidding it would be a WoW Clone anyway


SWGEmu all the way!!

[cable-odinson]

awesome work all!

[TankGun]

I hope we beat KOTOR MMO to a live launch that would undermine our effort.

:(

Who am I kidding it would be a WoW Clone anyway


SWGEmu all the way!!

Ya.

[ZerohourUK]

this. Is. Awesooooooooooome!

[Ultyma]

Great job to all the new developers. You guys deserve a pat on the back for all the recent developments. You have brought new life to this project.

[Oru]

Great job to all the new developers. You guys deserve a pat on the back for all the recent developments. You have brought new life to this project.

i second that

[Icide]

Very nice

[komandk47]

Fantastic feels like homecomming SWG was my first MMORPG keep up the good work everyone.

[LostMan56]

Help IM CANT LOGON IT SAYS OUT OF DATE