Eq Browser : Allakhazam Clone

[Muuss]

I've just finished to rework all the spell part of eqbrowser. Spell description matches now Lucy's (word for word, or almost).

This is a major improvement, spells are now fully described and understandable. I've also included a new allspells.sql file that contains the 9/13/2006 spells.

http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.4.1.tar.gz

If you encounter some spells with incorrect or incomplete descriptions, please report them here so i can't fix the source code. Be aware that lucy's AC calculation bonuses from spells doesn't match the result from the browser, I know that, it ll remain that way unless someones explains me exactly how they make their calculation (took mine from eqemu's source code).

Muuss

[cavedude]

Well the way I see it, the spell calculations in the browser should resemble EQEmu, and not Lucy. While the end goal is a total Live clone, we aren't there yet and so all of the killer 3rd party apps like yours should reflect that.

[Muuss]

Not wrong

[Muuss]

For those of you who like updates...

http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.4.2.tar.gz

I've added a chart of the zones levels, that looks like allakhazam's zones level. Zones arent sorted cause that page is dynamic and sorting all that stuff is an heavy CPU work. I ll perhaps add the sort with an option to unvalidate it.

Also added haste in items search.

[Muuss]

Updated again : (0.4.3)

http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.4.3.tar.gz

Be aware that you need to update 'spells' table. This may be done by running includes/sql/update-0.4_0.4.3.sql, then running import_spells.pl (edit it before).
You can also remove the table then source allspells.sql (which is uptodate to 9/13).

- Added a pet description page.
- Added special attacks to pets and npcs pages.
- Sorted zones by level in the zone levels list (can be unvalidated from config file if it eats to much CPU on your server).
- Fixed a bug with items with small prices (less than 1 plat).
- Fixed a display bug in zone levels page that was showing the first zone from the DB after each level row.
- Added a new variable in config file that allows to configure the max number of items/recipes returned by the search engines.

TODO:
Complete races, spell descriptions.
Improve tradeskills
Add quests (big job)
Follow suggestions...

[cavedude]

The changes are sweet! Excellent work!

[Muuss]

Guess what... New release.

Today, I ve added support for perl quests. This is a bit hard to configure and requires a little bit of Linux knowledge (should be easier under windows).

For each NPC that has a quest in a zone, you now have a link that points to that quest and allows the visitors to read it. It makes use of a perl parser that is ran when the page for the quest is displayed. The parser is able to do all the EVENT_SAY and EVENT_ITEM part if it's written without the use of plugin:: methods. It's limited to a simple syntax, but is able to understand a good amount of possibilities. Hard to be exhaustive. The parser runs the EVENT_SAY and EVENT_ITEM methods and puts the result in html files. They are displayed by eqbrowser right after.

To be more clear, the parser emulates what the player could do with the NPC and displays the results.

Technically, the result displayed may be surprising. For example, if in the quest perl file you test the second step of the quest before the first one, it will appear in that order in the web page...

There will be improvements soon, like the possibility to display a quest after choosing your class, race and level. Probably some fixes too in the parser...

http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.5.tar.gz


You must give your webserver the rights to read the directory where your quests stand. This may be hard to fix under certain cases, make a copy of your quests somewhere else if it's easier. You can ask for help here or on my private forums (see sig).

Please report bugs and possible improvements.