I know we have XML parsing tools now in 099, but I was wondering if anyone had already written code to export pol data files (pcs.txt, items.txt, etc) to XML?

I really would like this ability, but don't want to write it from scratch myself.

no errors on shutdown. i found the offending item, but still don't know what about it caused the segfault:


Item
{
Name a noble's shield
Serial 0x4700c7ca
ObjType 0x1bc4
Graphic 0x1bc5
X 0
Y 0
Z 0
Revision 4
Realm britannia_alt
CProp ItemMod a1:a4:S3:dexi2i0S5:item,
CProp PublicDescription a4:S49 ...

bump, i had the exact same problem once again

I get the following while it's trying to load pcequip.txt:

=== CUT ===
Build: POL097-2008-02-26 Coregina (gentoo)
Last Script: pkg/sys/hooks/regen.ecl PC: 1697
Stack Backtrace:
[0x8220ea0]
[0xffffe420]
[0x850f687]
[0x8194907]
[0x81ef772]
[0x81edc84]
[0x812e650]
[0x812eb65]
[0x80bdc4a]
[0x80be2aa ...

You speak against yourself. The devs, myself included, work on what we want to work on. Same as everyone else. If, as a dev, you wanted to work on SQL integration, guess what... you'd work on it! and your statement of "devs have no desire to put this stuff in" becomes invalid because, again, you'd ...

Finally if the objective is to contribute to the community, I do not know why they are obstinate in saying they are only going to help to programme the core and not the distro. Community means, core and distro and if we want to help to that the community grows, we should start by making a good ...

It wouldn't make much sense for us to help with the distro, because our shard doesn't use any distro scripts.


If pol was made open source, I would gladly help out by posting any new developments, like the ones I posted above (multithreading, etc), available to the community.


The shut-up or go to ...

I too would like to see pol open-sourced. I have several reasons:

I would like to add in some things that I've mentioned to core devs before that they had no interest in adding to the core:
XML/mysql support for data files
Fixing UOG/connectUO packet support
Multithreading support
Better ...

I've noticed that it is impossible to set the hatch, tillerman and plank items in boats.cfg to anything but the default 0Z.

You can see here where I try to set them to +9Z:

Boat
{
ObjType 0x404C
TillerMan 0x3e4e 1 9 +9
PortGangplankExtended 0x3ed5 -2 -1 +9
PortGangplankRetracted 0x3eb1 -2 -1 ...

Should I move it to Feature Suggestions then?

Yes, if you leave out the Z like the default it will just be at 0Z. I don't want it to be at 0Z. I want it to be higher up.

I don't know whether to post this in Bugs or Suggestions, but I've noticed that it is impossible to set the hatch, tillerman and plank items in boats.cfg to anything but the default 0Z.

You can see here where I try to set them to +9Z:

Boat
{
ObjType 0x404C
TillerMan 0x3e4e 1 9 +9 ...

I think this would be a fairly easy update for the dev team. If we had the data files in XML, it would be soooo much easier to analyze them with 3rd party software.

For example, I often want to look at various things in our shard's data files, like who has the highest of skill X or who has the most ...

I'm trying to run 097 on linux, and I can't seem to get the combat hook to work properly. The same code runs fine on Windows, but it never seems to run on linux. I figured it was something to do with case-sensitivity, but the cases seem to match up okay. Here's the syshook.cfg:

SystemHookScript ...

i figured it out - i just had to delete all House entries from multis.cfg

I left it running for 8 hours - it never does anything else

It just gets this far:

POL097-2007-01-04 RC2 Coregina (VS.NET 2003)
compiled on Jan 3 2007 20:04:24
Copyright (C) 1993-2007 Eric N. Swanson

Reading Configuration.
Loading Realm britannia.
Validating statics files: Completed in 15 ms.
hostname is elenaran
address: 192.168.1.100
LAN IP address is ...