DikuMUD III using HTML and websockets.
D-Day June 21, 2020
Get in touch if you'd like to contribute. Check out the issues on Git. There are a few broader issues at the bottom of this file. Everything from non-programming to HTML to C(++). Drop a mail to seifert at dikumud.com. Look at the end of this file for a few items.
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Documentation goes here:
https://wiki.dikumud.net/wiki/DikuMUD
The Wiki docs are sync'ed into this GitHUB repo daily. Many thanks to @Damien Davison.
Pre-requisites:
- gcc/g++
- flex/bison (sudo apt-get install bison flex)
- boost devel (sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev)
- OpenSSL devel (sudo apt-get install libssl-dev)
- Rapidjson devel (sudo apt-get install rapidjson-dev)
- Debian users look here for flex: https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3/issues?q=70
How to build & launch (using the new cmake)
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First build the binaries:
See [CMake](README_cmake.md)* for more details. cd DikuMUD3/ cmake . make all -j8 # -j8 to compile on 8 threads in parallel make test # optionally run the unit tests -
Now you're ready to launch, open four tabs in shell:
cd ../bin/ ./vme # tab1 tail -f vme.log # tab2 ./mplex -w -p 4280 # tab3 tail -f mplex.log #tab4
You can also launch a telnet mplex using e.g. mplex -p 4242
And then telnet localhost 4242. You can run several mplex'ers
to the server, some supporting telnet some support web sockets.
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To open the client
cd ../www/client/ firefox index.html
Set the host to your fqdn or localhost and set the port to match mplex (4280 if you used that) And you'll see the welcome screen in Firefox
I would appreciate help with:
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I would appreciate any world builder wanting to create quests to be completed in order to join the various guilds. Right now there are four base teachers and they'll help you out for the first 10-20 levels. So some low level quest that e.g. gives access to the thieves guild, the paladin's guild, etc. It is OK if one player can complete several quests and join several guilds (the profession still dictates what is easy / hard to learn). Write me to discuss.
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DOT files & Mapping:
In the zone directory after compiling the zones, there's a valid DOT file for each zone. The DOT file is the graph description language that describes how the rooms are connected in the zone. And also how the zone connects to other zones. There is an example online tool here https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline which can visualize a zone (just paste each .dot file into the digraph {}. Would be fantastic if this could be used to maintain maps of the world, and even more so if these maps could be associated with coordinates so they can be visualized in the client. It's rather cumbersome to do them by hand - I've done three so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language)
If anyone is interested in helping out mapping coordinates or generating maps let me know. I've been using cMUD to do some test mapping. I think I have two young helpers that can assist me with the actual mapping and turning a boring map into a hand-drawn piece of art :)
Prerequisites:
- Install Docker Desktop
- Increase the memory available to docker if the build cannot complete (docker Preferences->Resources->Advanced->Memory)
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . -t dikumud3docker run -d -p 4280:4280 dikumud3If the above gives an error like below, it may be because your distro sets DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST. This stops docker from executing images that have not been digitally signed by the creator. You can disable the check by setting the env to zero.
[user@localhost]$ docker run -d -p 4280:4280 dikumud3
docker: you are not authorized to perform this operation: server returned 401.
See 'docker run --help'.
[user@localhost]$ env | grep DOCKER
32:DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1
[user@localhost]$ DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=0 docker run -d -p 4280:4280 dikumud3