Eq Browser : Allakhazam Clone

[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.

[aza77]

one of the best tools imo
thanks for your work muuss

[Muuss]

It's only a browser that uses existing data, nothing to compare in front of the skills and work needed to re-create a full emulator. Thanks anyway

[Muuss]

Version 0.5.1 is done. If you plan to use quests in eqbrowser, this is an important update.

http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.5.1.tar.gz

*** Quests ***

- Support added for client->GetCharacterFactionLevel. It returns an average value depending of the faction choosen for the quest, if no faction, it returns 99 which is a high indifferent faction.

- I ve added a choice at the top of the quest page that allows people to choose a class, a faction lvl with the npc and the lvl of the character when they display the quest. Try any of the velious quest armor npcs for the faction. Try Cain Darkmoore in West Freeport for the class.
snapshots :
http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/lhranc1.jpg
http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/lhranc2.jpg
http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/cain_darkmoore.jpg

- Spell casted by the npcs are displayed now, like bind affinity for the soulbinders.

- I took a long time to emulate the behaviour of the 2 plugins present in the PEQ quest pack. soulbinder_say and check_handin. Both work.

*** Other ***
- Fixed an issue with bags in zones items list. They were appearing as 1HS instead of bags.
- Inverted x and y in each loc, they match now the locs given by the ingame /loc command.
- Fixed a few spell effects and added duration and full results for dam and healings over time. Fixed attack and movement speeds


That's all for today even for the week. If some stuff is missing or needs to be tweaked, please report it.

Muuss

[Muuss]

0.5.2 is out.

A few fixes, and several improvements :

- You can now export a spell list to a csv file, compatible with excel. This is a fast and easy way to create and print spell's list. Spells can be filtered by class, level, or even their name.

- I ve added a Strategy menu, for now, it only contains a script that allows a player to compare his weapons. Calculations are based on Emu's source code and Monkley Business's way of calculating weapon's efficiency. More script will be written later.

- Items that are used or rewarded in quests are added to a table when the quest is parsed. When the item is displayed later, information about the quest are given. (think to source includes/sql/quests.sql to create the table).

Download :
http://eqemu.vilvert.fr/eqbrowser-0.5.2.tar.gz


---- 0.5.2 ----
- Added the possibility to dump spells into a CSV file (txt file, with comma separated columns, can be imported directly into Excel).
- Added a comparator for 2H and dual weilded 1H weapons efficiency.
- Added a link to the zone in the quest page, and added info that specifies that the NPC will return extra items if the player gave him some.
- Fixed the quests for NPCs whose names begin with a sharp (#).
- Added a variable in config.php that permits to hide Invisible Men in bestiaries.
- Added a table that contains a list of items handed or rewarded in the quests (populated when people browse the quests).
- Added quest::ChooseRandom, plugin::try_tome_handins & quest::unique_spawn to quests methods.
- Added spawned NPCs to parsed quests.
- Fixed recognition for (($itemcount{..} && $itemcount{..})==1) syntax.
- Added the chances to have the items droped by NPCs in item's page. (see config.php)
- Added lore name to item's page.
- Added the possibility to search for items thru their focus/worn/proc/clicky effects & mana/hp regeneration & weapon delay.
- Added sort order by class or race in zone bestiaries.
- Added a maximum level for mob droped items in item's search page.
- Fixed Cazic Thule in the Antonica's zones list.
- Item prices are now in points instead of money for the LDON merchants.

[cavedude]

Sweet! This has to be my favorite tool that's available! Keep up the awesome work.