SpawnView is a quick proof-of-concept to see if other people would find it useful. I've done more programming than I have actual server administration so I tend to think of weird ideas that might not be useful and I didn't want to spend time working on something no one would want to use.
As of now, all it does is load spawn regions from a local config file, draw them on a map and shows their labels. You can also draw in regions, but they are not saved, and you can hold control and scroll around the map with arrow keys. In the future I planned for SpawnView to be able to communicate with POL to get live data, and to be able to edit/create/add regions on the fly while POL was running.
There are two other tools I made like this called WebView and PlayerView that I planned to expand upon and combine with SpawnView and give it a cool edgy name like "Insight" or "Mantis".
WebView was a package for POL's webserver where players could see other players/regions drawn on a map, like with PlayerView or SpawnView but it was all done via a website.
PlayerView is like SpawnView but it actually communicates with the POL server and displays the location of all players online. I invisioned something that would allow me to view and modify objects and realms in game. It's a lot easier to draw spawn regions on map then it is to actually teleport around and get the cordinates, and even then it doesn't give you a clear understanding of where the region is in relation with everything else. I wanted to be able to see all PCs online and click each one and view their account/character information and possibly modifiy it or start a script on POL with their character as a paramater. Or give it to my GMs so they can setup spawn regions and groups easily. Or find the physical location of every item with a specific CProp, and then delete some or all of them with a click or two. The possibilities are many, which is why I'm posting this on the forums. So people can give feedback, people that actually Admin/GM servers long enough to know what would be useful and what would just be neat.
PlayerView also required a valid login, and kept track of what data actually changed and only sent the changed data. This kept POL from sending the same data over and over again, wasting resources.
Please post feedback on this so I know if it's a waste of time or not.
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Shinigami
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it's a good idea, but we've transformed the idea into php and we're flooding it by an automated process using the spawnnet (latest step is coded, but not activated, because this needs a server restart first):
http://www.welt-pergon.de/index.php?modus=main&id=140
to show an example of some sample runes, just choose mapid=019 (it's on the right hand side of the desert).
Shinigami
http://www.welt-pergon.de/index.php?modus=main&id=140
to show an example of some sample runes, just choose mapid=019 (it's on the right hand side of the desert).
Shinigami
I like how you have split up the map into separate sections. How did you do that?
I wrote some PHP scripts that showed spawn regions, though not as cool. It was all 1 big image. I wanted to turn SpawnView into a tool for GMs so they could add/delete spawn regions, modify spawn groups, delete items, etc... I figured the over-head perspective would be easier than doing it all in game.
I wrote some PHP scripts that showed spawn regions, though not as cool. It was all 1 big image. I wanted to turn SpawnView into a tool for GMs so they could add/delete spawn regions, modify spawn groups, delete items, etc... I figured the over-head perspective would be easier than doing it all in game.
I think teks work is the only thing that you can really call "work" or tool. My thing is pretty easy nothing that everyone could do. One small escript function with a loop through all the 500x500 blocks saving the rune information in a logfile every x hours. Then a simple phpfunction that reads the xmllogfile and creates the layout, nothing special imagemaps for the tipwindows absolute coords for the pins. This was the first time ever I did something with php and I finished it in a few hours.MuadDib wrote:and you are looking at the top 2 "tools" on the board for web/information
So I think everbody can do it and even better. Just give yourself a little push
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Shinigami
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for performance reasons we use aux here only for sync. an external application asks pol via aux to generate the ready-to-use xml file. pol creates it and than the external app moves it via scp to the webserver where the php-script is just waiting for. that's all.
we use this method to auto-generate forum-accounts, transfer player-data, house-data, online-data, etc... online-data will be transfered every minute, all other stuff every 12 hours
Shinigami
we use this method to auto-generate forum-accounts, transfer player-data, house-data, online-data, etc... online-data will be transfered every minute, all other stuff every 12 hours
Shinigami