guialtran wrote:If I can finish this, I'll give this file to everyone.

I'd use it gladly! Improved quality of life, that's for sure.

Yes good post, I've too many things that I could post from our experience on ZHI I personally don't agree with number 2 Include files should not contain "use ..." or "include ..." lines (since they are not compiled) they should contain a comment that mentions all the uses and in...

[*]Make sure to use Notepad++ as your software development tool it's free and it has tons of potential: - When you add NPP Exec extension you can use the following snippet to compile the script you're working on and get feedback inside Notepad++, thus gaining a lot of time. SET compiler = C:\POL\sc...

Hi there! I'm blckfire and I've been developing code under a POL96 shard version. I also work as software developer/engineer. These are just a collection of random tips and tricks I've gathered during these 2 years and how to improve testing and development time in POL. "If you need more than 3...

Hi there! I'm blckfire and I've been developing code under a POL96 shard version. I also work as software developer/engineer. Motivation Looking at code from several people I understood that there is no standard set on how to write better code using POL. Because of that and because I think it's impo...

Going to try and use events on this one.

The problem is as follows: Instead of having Guards all over the place and being spawn 1 by 1 I decide to create an Item that controls guard's. For this I create a Guard Spawn Rune. The problem is, that now, I'm trying to make it possible for this runes to go inactive and active. When I set the rune...

Figure out the problem... I'm using a versioning system to keep track of the changes on the live and test servers and although I made it ignore changes on ecompile.cfg it still updated those changes. So I was trying to compile the scripts on test server with the scripts on the live version. I think ...

I tried it and the first time it worked. Can this be because I have a control script running on this item? Edit: I modified the .src file compiled and I got a sendsysmessage. Problem is that my Gump drawing Information is inside and include file and when I update this file and compile the .src nothi...

Everything compiled without errors... I unloaded everything first and since that didn't work I also restarted. I'm on POL96. Can this be related? I'm using a test server. So I don't have to affect my community until everyhing is ready to be launched. I use the same pc to run the live and test server...

So, I've redone the way a menu works for some items in the game.

Problem is that these items are not updating to the new gump. Even, when I destroy the item and create a new one. Do I need to delete all of those items before creating a new one to have the update on it?

Nope. Just created a custom function to send the package out to the client and it works like a charm. It basically allows you to emulate the CloseGump() function from later cores. Eventually I'm going to upgrade the whole server to POL99 but for now I'll have to use this workaround. As a side note: ...

It is now solved. I was making some mistakes with the offsetts. use uo; use os; use polsys; function CloseGump(mobile, pid, retval := 0) var packet := CreatePacket(0xBF, -1); packet.SetInt16(3, 0x4); packet.SetInt32(5, pid); packet.SetInt32(9, retval); var result := packet.SendPacket(mobile); if(!re...

I'm using POL96 so I don't have the CloseGump function. I'm trying to build this packet to send it to the client so that it closes a gump before opening another one. So, I am able to send the packet, but the client then stops after a few steps function CloseGump(mobile, pid, retval := 0) var packet ...

In ip put --lan--, it should work after that.

I would search for the object you are trying to create in an itemdesc.cfg file, and then in the scripts associated with that item in particular.

Maybe the graphic for that object is "null" so, you can't interact with it.

I had some problems like that a while ago.

If I'm not mistaken the problem should be now somewhere in the Logon scripts or in the Accounts file, since, you were already able to establish a connection.

It transforms the statics into something POL can read, if I'm not mistaken...

I won't promise I'll write this tool, but I'll look into it.

Write an converter based on the uoconvert sources with a language of your choice. This was what I was thinking. I even took a peak into uoconvert source code, but I think my knowledge of UO and C++ are kinda basic. Or you use escript functionalities: via getmapinfo and liststaticsatlocation you get...

Is there any tool that can do this? Re-convert the .dat files into static files?

We want to rollback our map to previous point, but we are facing the problem of having lost the statics... Anyone has any ideas?

I guess that's the only solution left ...

The thing is that I'm using POL96 which doesn't have that function...

I created a small script to delete all the extra variables, but I would still like to check if there are more temporary variables that exist and that I'm not aware of, since the code has changed a lot in several years...

The problem I have is that I'm trying to figure out where and why the world always has temporary global properties and although I can see and delete the permanent global properties I can't seem to find a way to get my hands on those temporary ones, although they persist after server shutdown and res...