Update

[Andrew80k]

Spent most of the night looking at packet dumps of spawns. Still not ready yet but I think I've figured out how to get there. Ugh.

[cavedude]

I could have sworn you had access to the collector's SVN, Andrew80k but it looks like not. I've added you so you can make changes as you have them. http://code.google.com/p/eqemutool/

[gaeorn]

Originally Posted by cavedude

I could have sworn you had access to the collector's SVN, Andrew80k but it looks like not. I've added you so you can make changes as you have them. http://code.google.com/p/eqemutool/

Yeah Andrew80k, it'd be awesome if you upload the code so we can get a group effort going on this. And there's nothing in this repo to harm so you don't have to worry about anything you changed in common.

[Andrew80k]

Thanks, CD.

So far there's not really anything to upload. I've spent a LOT of time in the extractor trying figure out the spawn structs. It's not far off but the coords are not right and I've been painfully adjusting the structure one character at a time over the last week or so. The collector seems to be pretty good but no way really to validate it without fixing the extractor first. Doors in both the collector and extractor seem pretty good. I haven't validated the zone points yet. I've noticed that Derision seems to be working a bit on the live stucts and that will definitely help.

[trevius]

They just patched Live again today, and at least a few things (like the PP) have changed for sure. Since the next patch isn't scheduled until June 9th (I believe), I am hoping to get most of the rest of the opcodes updated for Live pretty soon. Derision and I have been working on it a bit here and there. Once we have it pretty filled out, you may even be able to have the tools use the Live.conf and struct files directly from the EQEmuServer/Utils and EQEmuServer/common/patches/ folders. That way, as long as we somewhat keep up with each patch or so, the Live client and the Collector/Extractor tools should both remain functional without duplicate efforts (or at least not much).

As far as the SVN goes, what is on there currently isn't functional at all yet from what I have heard. So, any improvement is better than none. Since you have them both so they can at least compile, it wouldn't hurt to get what you have on the SVN. If you prefer to wait until you have it more functional, that is no problem. But, one of the nice things about using an SVN is that it lets others work together to finish things off so it doesn't all get put on a single person.

BTW, what compiler are you currently using to compile it? Last I heard, it was made for VS Pro or something.

[Andrew80k]

I'm using VS 2008. Not Express. As far as I know it will not compile with express though I haven't tried it since erde got it going. Straight out of the SVN it pretty much compiles and runs for me. I had to tweak the solution just a bit to point to the correct lib locations, but I think that was all.

The collector "works". It will collect packet information and some of it is solid. Some not so much. I do keep getting an unknown stream type in the collector and I haven't figured it out yet. I have put a bunch of debug info into the collector and have started doing more collects with it to help me figure it out. Mostly I'm just learning how it works.

What's working:

Zone info.
Doors
Player data
Some spawn info but some of it isn't right. I think that's more of an adjustment to the extractor. The collector just picks up packets and lays them down with OP_code "tags".

The extractor "works" for some things as well.

What is working:
Doors -- seems good
Zone info -- same here. seems good.
Partial spawn data

What's not working:

AA's -- not seeing this at all
Tasks -- all commented out in the extractor, but the data is there.
Spawn updates This seems to have 2 sized structures on live. One 40 bytes, the other 41. If I adjust the struct one way I get some, if I adjust it the other way I get more. I also consider this critical to being useful.
Objects -- ground spawns etc.

It's slow going but I'm working on it.