First Glimpse of the VGOEmulator World

[John Adams]

This may look like "no big deal" to some, but let me tell you - getting the Live client to land in the game world is no small feat. Scatman has coded his fingers to the bone building us a stable LoginServer over the past few months, then starting on a WorldServer in Feb 2014. This week, he has added the ChunkServer - which will act as the actual game play servers - and we have taken our first steps onto the surface of "New Telon". I almost shed a tear.

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There is no movement, you can't even look around, but the fact you are looking at the Unreal Engine terrain data from the game is a monumental step towards realizing this dream of creating a Vanguard Emulator. Almost everything up until now has just been basic networking and I/O code... now, we start building our world.


Thanks to all the hard work of Xen and Xinux on taking apart the bits, packets and understanding the math, and working with Scatman to get us this far. Your efforts are appreciated beyond words.


btw, the code is having a little trouble letting WAN players in, so give us another week or so to resolve the issue before you can connect fully.
Also keep in mind when you do get in, at least for now, your created characters appearance may not match - we're just getting started!

[Xinux]

Thanks to Scatman & Xen we are moving around in the world now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhxoePUU8lw

[Swampdog]

Awesome work gang! woohoo!

[John Adams]

Another quick glimpse inside, because I guess I am happy to be in our fake world. After Xen got movement sorted out, we end up dropping into the game somewhere near Khal. After a short, but very slow run (0% speed bonus? C'mon Xen!) I toured the ghostly city of Khal. So weird to see nothing but discarded tables and items around.

I knew lots of things would be part of the terrain, but there's lots more built-in than i expected. Quite detailed.


The bind stones/riftway objects are there, minus their glowing clicky thingies

Paid a visit to an old friend's shop just outside Khal - someone stole his door, but the items inside were still there. Whew!

All in all, it was a fun stroll through our empty world. Not sure if anyone else finds this entertaining, but I sure do... considering I've been dreaming of building this emulator since 2008.

What a beautiful sunset it will be.

[XionnaeVG]

I love you guys! I am so proud of you all! Wonderful work!

[Zewtastic]

It is very cool.

[Sacred]

Huge step forwards, but the real trick will be populating the world in general. I assume as much of that will be automated as possible using the packet data that is grabbed. Nonetheless, you can color me impressed. Hopefully the WAN connection issue is a simple one. As for the connection, I assume it is a simple ini or cfg file switch to change the login server?

Best of all, no "BECOME A MEMBER" button at the top of the screen and Station Cash Store button. =P

[John Adams]

[quote="Sacred"]I assume as much of that will be automated as possible using the packet data that is grabbed.[/quote]
You are correct. Same way we do the EQ2Emulator content; 90% collected data, 10% anything we missed to fill in the blanks.

[quote="Sacred"]As for the connection, I assume it is a simple ini or cfg file switch to change the login server?[/quote]
Just use the VGClientLauncher to connect to the public login/world.

[quote="Sacred"]Best of all, no "BECOME A MEMBER" button at the top of the screen and Station Cash Store button. =P[/quote]
Hell to the yeah on this one!

[Nicodemus]

Well done guys. This is very exciting!

[Faux]

Excellent work guys! This is so awesome to see Telon living on.