Peregrinatio

The DBMan, The Models and the Mail server

Last night I set up a mail server so we can send out e-mails for registration and password recovery, among other things. I'm still fiddling with the DNS settings trying to get e-mails coming from us not to appear as spam but that's a trial and

Wings, Tails, Connections.

All that's left for the slime animator is to set up the wings and tails layers. I originally planned to generate a sprite-sheet but I may want to do things with individual layers(like apply shaders) so I'll keep things separate. Today's music: After

Markings; how do they work?

So now that I have an easy and reliable way to import my aseprite animations I can more quickly add the marking layers, to do that I will need to make 3 markings for my current slime base which I made for the template. I will also need a set

Continuing on the Slime Template

I'm going to try and finish the template today. Before I got started I made a containerized version of EOServ for my own messing around purposes. It was a continuation of something I was doing last night. Just something to do in the evenings when I don'

Back to Designing the Slime Template

Had some forced time off. That tends to happen to me around the holidays, anyway I am back to work now hopefully in alright shape, but I suppose we'll be finding out as the day goes on. Took the time to enjoy my yearly whiskey and some Dwarf

Planning the Slime Server - Part Deux

Now that I have some idea how the data will save and how to operate on active slimes I will need to figure out a few things client-side as well. I did some sketches after I posted yesterday to get some idea of what the UI flow will be but

Planning the Slime Server - Part One

This week will be a little weird and slow, I think. But I need to have a solid plan or at least a good scaffold in place for the Slime Server before I start on implementation. When considering how the slime data will be handled I have to think about

Finishing up the Apartment Server for now

Today I need to do a few things and then I am out of the office early if it all goes well. Monday I have to start planning and building the Slime Server, rather start that fresh and rested so I don't make so many stenanks in the

Placing and Removing Tank Decor

Rent's due. I may need to work on it a bit tomorrow but today I hope to finish up the main functions of the tanks with decor placement as well as managing temp/humidity and lighting. [Future Me: So close.] Today's music: I'll have

More tanks: Decoration

I kinda wish I had designed the furniture model the same way I did the tank model. I think I will start out refactoring the decoration items to work how the tanks do as far as inventory and placement. It will lighten the load on the DB server and the

Tank work continues

The arm is feeling pretty good today, so that bodes well. We'll see if I am back to a full day or if I need to cut it short again. Gonna play it by ear. It's looking like I just pulled a muscle at this point

No tank puns.

Probably going to be another half day, fell on my hand weird on Friday and had a dull ache in my forearm since. Gets worse if I spend too much time typing I found out, so naturally programming will be a bit hampered until it heals. If it starts to

The Tanks and Thanks

Need a safe place to keep the baby geru. Tanks make sense to me. I have geckos in tanks, right? I have gone back and forth on this one, mostly because it's a good chunk of work and the geru will eventually outgrow the tanks. They are in

Verifying furniture with the Apartment Server

Today the server side of furniture placement begins. I need to make sure of a few things... * The player has the item in question * The item is NOT placed * The item does not get placed on the client until confirmed by the server. * The item is saved to the database

Placing Furniture

So I need to write the actual furniture placement code in the client, making the object follow the mouse pointer, flipping it and sending it to the server, where we check if the player has said item and it is available and make sure they don't have too

Furniture Inventory on the Client

Not feeling so great today, not gonna set any crazy goals. Just gonna try and get the furniture inventory wired up on the client. I need to do an OS install on my machine here some time this weekend and I am probably going to do it today if I

Retrieving Apartment Data and Creating an inventory for furniture

Today I will (hopefully) be getting the apartments loading on the client and populating with furniture. It's been a rough couple of weeks and it'll be nice to be able to see some progress visually in the client. I expect many pitfalls and bugs as that

Generating Apartments

So today I pick up where I left off yesterday. I will figure out my UUID conversion bug and go from there. TL;DR: It was foreign key ID type mismatch. I'm a fucking idiot sometimes. I have no idea what could be causing the bug but maybe

The Apartment.

After I get done with a little UI for a character panel I will make the first apartment and figure out how it will be represented on the server. I need to limit the amount of furniture items to some degree depending on the apartment size. I don't

Loading Characters in the Client

So, as the observant may be aware I was gone for a week. I had a feeling that might happen. Let's just say I was indisposed and leave it at that, don't need anyone worrying or feeling sorry for me. I'm back to work

Apartment Server Character CRU

Now that I have the client and apartment server talking I can send some data between them. This will require me to create the DBMan so we can talk to the DB. To start out I will get a terminal into the PostgreSQL server and make sure I can look

Connecting the Client to the Apartment Server

Fixed that connection issue. I should have remembered to use the hostname resolution of docker but I was tired by that point I guess. Only so much brain in a day. So now that I have the foundation in place it's time to bash my head on the

The Road to Aeven

A long time ago I decided I wanted to make my own Endless Online, I even wrote Vult-R asking for old versions of the source code (I was a kid and not particularly well adjusted... not like that changed much.) so I could understand how it worked. I remember looking

Modelling Data for the Apartment Server

Today I need to start modelling the player characters, Geru, tanks and apartments. This means modelling things like equipment, furniture, an experience table and a whole bunch of other things in a big old spider web of interdependence. Starting out with the Characters. I am just going to model them

Containerizing the Login Server

It came at great personal cost, but I did manage to get it done last night. Though you can't see all the work up to now as the database for this log was part of that cost. With that done I can start planning the Apartment server and