Steam RoF Development Tracking

[trevius]

Since the PP has been giving me trouble, I started doing cleanup on some of the other main packets sent on zoning in. So far, I got the object, doors, spawnpoints, newzone, weather, and time structs/encodes all corrected or verified to be correct. I also wrote an encode for sending the membership info when getting to character select which should let us start work on the character creation stuff.

I still have to test the work I did tonight, but at least it is progress. Once I test what I have so far, I will try to get it committed to the SVN so others can help to work through it if they want.

The player profile is still giving me trouble, but I have made a bit more progress on it. I am hoping that if I get the rest of the packets in order, it will make it easier to verify that the issues I am seeing are related to the Player Profile or not.

Hopefully I can make it in zone in the next day or so. I am off work all next week, so I should have a good amount of time to knock out more RoF stuff.

[Derision]

I'm sitting here waiting for you to commit what you've done so I can have a go

[trevius]

Originally Posted by Derision

I'm sitting here waiting for you to commit what you've done so I can have a go

/drool

I was hoping you might chime in! I had a pretty big grin on my face when I saw your post

Didn't want to directly bug you about it or make you feel obligated. There is only a small handful of people that could really help with this part of the process, and you are at the top of that list along with KLS and Secrets.

I haven't had this much trouble getting in game since SoF. That variable sized PP is really rough at the end of it. I am sure we can get it, but it is definitely a challenge at this point where the last few clients were trivial.

Once in game, I already have a few hurdles in mind from the work we did on VoA a few months back. Here is the list off the top of my head:

1. Spawn Struct - Looks like Derision may already have this figured out based on the EQExtractor update.
2. Position Updates - Looks like Derision may have this one figured out as well.
3. Tasks - From the last time I checked VoA task packets, it looked like they had changed a good amount, so it will probably take a bit to get those working and I haven't ever messed with those packets before.
4. Merchant Lists - I think I had merchant lists mostly functional for the VoA client, but there was definitely something wrong with it still that I am sure will need to be resolved. It was probably with the new preview feature and with the "show items I can use" feature.
5. Items - I am sure there will be some item struct changes, but hopefully they won't be too bad. I can start going through those once we are able to get in-game. The new slot schema already has a conversion function for it and I believe Uleat has plans to work on implementing the new slot schema across the board and have all other clients convert to/from the new system so we aren't trying to retro-fit and hack stuff into the old slot system.

Once most of the basics are working, I will populate the rest of the opcodes and put together a more complete list in the top post of this thread.