Ryzom

Hello,

I'm just someone trying to learn Ryzom Core like you, however, I do have a little bit of experience with building it now.

The open client you can download is an early release of the code. What you will mainly be using is the art assets that are with it. You should re-compile ryzom core and drop an .exe and a few .dll's from your compiled client into the open client directory. Once that is done the client will be able to connect to your own server instead of the open.ryzom.com shard.

The files you copy over from your compiled source are: client_ryzom_r.exe nel_drv_opengl_win_r.dll nel_drv_openal_win_r.dll if you are just using the defaults.

sm3

open.ryzom.com is hard coded in the ryzom core client binary.
You will need to build your own client and replace the binary and dll as sm3 said.
Then editing the client config files will be enough.

Thanks for your quick responses - my only other question is: is there a tutorial or walkthrough on how one would do this? I'm more of a quest/content guy, not a tech person. That being said, if someone can lay out how in step by step directions, I can follow those.

I would say this link is mostly accurate if you are building on Windows:

http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/BuildForWindowsCmake

sm3

Ah, thanks!

Yes I'm on windows - sounds like we're ahead of the game in that we got the client to actually compile on the server :)

For the quest, you can use the world editor, create or edit primitives:
http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/Adding_Quests
http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/UseWorldEditor

A lead for the action (spell, etc) and armors:
http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/AddingGameEntities

For the creatures:
http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/AddingMobs

Most of the data are xml files you can edit with georges editor or any text editor.

I suggest you to search through the wiki list.

You should know that things are still in flux at the moment. They are working towards release 0.8.0 currently so there are some issues here and there. But you should be able to compile, setup and login to a default newbieland just like the open.ryzom.com shard.

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Ah ok... we have our map pre-generated, so once we can get our map placed in the game world, we'll be working from that.

One final question I had on this was using CMake to compile our client. As I'm trying to compile I'm getting the following error:

CMake Error at CMakeModules/FindExternal.cmake:57 (MESSAGE):
Unable to find external with STLport!
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:100 (FIND_PACKAGE)

I followed the instructions in http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/BuildForWindowsCmake step by step.

I'm running Windows Vista 64 bit Home Premium, using Visual C++ 2008 Express version, did the stlport extract into the c:/ryzom folder... not sure what I missed.

FOADev,

The externals 7z file should be extracted to the Ryzom code folder and should be named 3rdParty. For example:

• C:\
  • C:\Ryzom
  • C:\Ryzom\code
    • C:\Ryzom\code\3rdParty
    • C:\Ryzom\code\nel
    • etc...

Thanks,
sfb
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Yeah, FOADev, that part is confusing in the guide.

What I do is just uncompress the folder and drag it into my c:\ryzom directory

should be external_stlport by default I believe. Just make sure it's not double like external_stlport\external_stlport

cmake will automatically find it at that location. The directories below external_stlport will be:

bin
bin64
include
lib
lib64

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It will work with external, external_stlport or 3rdparty folder.

If you download external.7z, you mustn't check WITH_STLPORT.
If you download external_stlport.7z, you must check WITH_STLPORT.
You may be obliged to clear cmake cache, if you change the some libs.

Stlport is optional, it improves speed on windows.

Hi Molator,

Right but none of those other files are listed on the CMake for Windows article, only external_stlport.7z so I didn't want to confuse anyone.

I see someone updated the instructions as well, good job!

sm3