frankpetrov

@Gianni: > 1 word. Hero Engine. 1 word. No. Lol, sorry dude, no offense, but I have already looked into them and they require you to go through them for all financial transactions. this game will run off of money out of my pocket and once the server is up, donations as well. If I used HeroEngine, they would take 30% of the donations. I have no issue paying for an engine and having it for life with out having to pay the company.

@crzy: > Xjocent/XFalcon usually takes like 2-3 days to respond. He is a member of my site and I know he can't always get online. Give hime time and im sure he will get back to you. I'm gunna say it's been about 2 weeks now.

As many of you have noted, I haven't posted shit lately. Well that's cause i had a lapse of giving up. :( As for XJocent, he volunteered to help do some modeling but after sending about 3 pm's, he dropped communication and can no longer be reached so I can only assume he doesn't wish to help. Anyway, of course, I am looking for help still. I really do want to do this. It may not be very big or anything but it doesn't need to be. I plan to have it start small. Maybe only have a level cap of 15, 3 wilderness areas, and 2 towns for the alpha. I will be *attempting* to make some zones for the towns, wildernesses and such. will hopefully have some screens soon of progress again.

Sent you a private message.

Story line updated

Screen shots added

So after some time of actually partially thinking some things through, I have decided to stop working on my game in PHP and move on. I will try to keep some updates here on progress of what's happening, plans, and possibly even betas for some people, if things are going good like I hope. Below is what I have so far. None of this is final quite yet, just possibilities. Storyline: >! Days after a brutal attack on the small village of Midland, much evil was released upon the lands of Escana. Monsters everywhere were appearing from unknown sources and causing meyhem across the lands. However, one small child had grown to become a hero. A small farmer's boy that no one had ever suspected of being so triumphant in his deeds. After the assassination of the most recent king, there was no heir. Anarchy had reigned the lands with the wealthiest controlling every piece of dust they could grow profit from. However, this small child Edmond Selwyn, now a full grown adult and hero, once a child of peasant farmers, now rules the lands. With his powers, he rose up first removing all those who had only looked to benefit themselves rather than the people. Everything began to be normal once again. The mysterious monsters have either vanished or been killed. Trading, producing, manufacturing, and the general life of a person has once again been restored to normal. However, there was one unknown man who greatly dispised the new King Edmond. A mage who has been alive for over 300 years studying the dark arts has unleashed hell upon Escana. Using this magic, he was able to bring new monsters to the lands that were much worse than ever before. Terrorizing and destroying towns, the full power of this mage was unleashed quickly claiming rule over the peaceful area. With everything happening so quickly and surprising, the king had no idea as to what to do. His army was quickly diminishing and and scattered out through out everywhere defending cities with all of their strength. Now, in need of an army, the King has opened the doors to people around Escana to become their own mercenary and begin taking back the lands. >! *May be edited or completely remade* Classes: >! Pretty original ones i think –--------------------------------- Warrior - Axes, Mauls, double axes, etc | Heavy armor Priest - Staff, knives healing magic, some hurting magic | Light armor Necromancer - Staff, daggers, undead powers, dark magic | Light armor Baron - Swords, bows, throwing knives | Medium armor Factions?: >! POSSIBLY WoW style factions where you can be good or bad side, quite doubtful on this but who knows. team requirements!: >! First off, there are many requirements as it is a big deal to me and any others who join in on this. AT LEAST 16(sixteen) years of age Be able to dedicate at least 2 hours a day/4 days a week (fri-sun is given off unless something big comes up) Be able to be contacted by others at all times by others in the project more to be added Still wish to join up and able to? >! * Modeler (Milkshape, 3Ds Max, or Blender) * Web designer * Texture artist Towns: >! Gilead Sadon Terrowin Forthwind Althalos Fendrel Hadrian Cedany Gloriana here's some screen shots of progress so far. >!  Create your character here. Of course, I'm not good at all when it comes to modeling hence the huge head and smaller body. >!  Here's the character select screen after you login. I'll be trying to come up with a better area for this. I'm not a fan of the room. >!  Here's the actual game world. just my first map. Had to cut off the bottom cause it went through my task bar. Anyway, as you can see, gui, compass, health and most of it is quite basic and needs redone. Texture quality is not too great yet. >!  This is the login screen. Hope to spice it up a little later. More will be added eventually. If anyone is truly interested at all, please send me a PM and we will be in contact.

if you had more RAM and a better cpu such as an AMD x64 6core @ 3.30ghz processor… then I'd think about it. but unfortuantely, your server doesn't seem good enough for more than 2 or 3 game servers.

1st edit is to keep other people from using your client for their own game or from players using your client for other servers. Step 1: Open up the Client in VB6 Step 2: search for "frmMain.Socket.RemoteHost = "Options.IP" without the quotes, in the modClientTCP. Step 2: change Options.IP to whatever your IP will be. Step 3: Delete the IP line in the config file for the client. Done. 2nd edit is actually quite easy. this is a server edit though. it logs and shows in the console everytime someone spawns an item so you can catch any abusing admins/mods. it gives the item number and how many. Step 1: Open up the server in VB6 Step 2: Search for "SpawnItem tmpItem, tmpAmount, GetPlayerMap(index), GetPlayerX(index), GetPlayerY(index)" without the quotes, in modHandleData. right below it, copy and paste this code: ``` Call AddLog(GetPlayerLogin(index) & " has spawned item number " & tmpItem & " to the amount of " & tmpAmount & " On map " & GetPlayerMap(index) & ".", PLAYER_LOG) Call TextAdd(GetPlayerLogin(index) & " has spawned item number " & tmpItem & " to the amount of " & tmpAmount & " On map " & GetPlayerMap(index) & ".") ```Done! Don't forget to compile them afterwards of course. These may have already been released but i could not find it. I hope these help someone.

I suppose they are good if you want to make a really basic graphics game. but you need to fix this. the "side" view makes it look to big. skinny that dude down.

@Chief: > No such thing. Completely flawed concept. How may I ask?

@Yami: > Well, in EO it's: > ``` > Public Const ADMIN_MONITOR As Byte = 1 > Public Const ADMIN_MAPPER As Byte = 2 > Public Const ADMIN_DEVELOPER As Byte = 3 > Public Const ADMIN_CREATOR As Byte = 4 > ```I'd imagine it to be about the same in EE. That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

@iSkweek: > Then get EO so we can help or post your question in the scripting sub-forum. Yeah. I'm not generally a prick about things and I don't mean to come across as one, but if you check the FAQs, only EO is in dev and so you shouldn't expect support from any other version.

winsock is winsock. EO uses winsock, but i believe it uses it's own way of encryption.

awesome. thanks. as for one for question related though, can someone tell me as to what each access level is equal to or described as? like access lvl 5 is owner

without making a player an admin, is there any way to make a way so that a player could have their own "map" and build whatever they want on it without an admin having to do it for them? I am looking for eithere an already made script to do this or an answer saying no its not possible, or a tip as to how do it would be nice. sorry for any confusion and thanks for the help.

not sure exactly…. but I think you have to use this Item(GetPlayerInvItemNum(MyIndex, InvNum))

I was wondering h ow to do this as well. I did as you said to do on here, but rather than increasing the stats, it decreased them.

If anyone wants to advertise on my website, I will soon have a page for ads. All that is required is for you to make the banner. PM me with your requests.

I'm sure many of you are tired of hearing about crappy free website hosting. Well I'm here to give a few project leaders, REAL FREE HOSTING. now of course, your site will be a subdomain, but it can have php, html, mysql, etc. literally free unlimited, space, bandwith, whatever. You might be wondering why and my answer is simply… because I know what it's like to want a free site hoster but not be limited and I just have a bunch of free space and bandwith. If you would like a spot, let me know and we can talk about it.

Why don't you go try to make a good, working game server and client that works from lua coding and you tell us of your results. :)

try looking at this post. http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,26907.0.html

All i can say is that this whole topic made me LOL for a long time. xD

pretty much. look at the original character files that come with the client. and you will know how you need to rearrange all the tiles of the characters.

I ask because of the fact that Eclipse origins is coded using DirectDraw7\. this limits the graphics only to .bmp files. by recoding or whatever needs done to make it Direct2D, it will allow the use of better images such as .png and allow better visual quality