kisuka

Athena has been passed along from team to team through the ages: from Athena, to AthenaMods, to eAthena, to 3CeAM, to rAthena, and now Hercules. With each new development team that acquires the project, a little bit more is done to improve the overall project that is Athena.
 
There have been countless people involved with this project through many years. Many of them have put in countless hours, and contributed thousands of lines of code (some of which still exists to this day).
 
Athena would not be where it is today without the help of these amazing developers. Because of this, I'm adding in this AUTHORS file to give tribute and credit to the amazing people which have made this project possible.
 
Thank you to everyone who has helped in the development of Athena. You are amazing, skilled, and your work will live on through the years to come. This project is yours, and has lasted over 10 years thanks to the dedication and support you have put in.
 
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If you know any past developers which have contributed to Athena and aren't on the list, please submit a pull request
 
To any development teams that are maintaining their own forks of Athena, please include this AUTHORS file in your own repos, give credit to all these amazing people.

Athena has been passed along from team to team through the ages: from Athena, to AthenaMods, to eAthena, to 3CeAM, to rAthena, and now Hercules. With each new development team that acquires the project, a little bit more is done to improve the overall project that is Athena.
 
There have been countless people involved with this project through many years. Many of them have put in countless hours, and contributed thousands of lines of code (some of which still exists to this day).
 
Athena would not be where it is today without the help of these amazing developers. Because of this, I'm adding in this AUTHORS file to give tribute and credit to the amazing people which have made this project possible.
 
Thank you to everyone who has helped in the development of Athena. You are amazing, skilled, and your work will live on through the years to come. This project is yours, and has lasted over 10 years thanks to the dedication and support you have put in.
 
View AUTHORS List
 
If you know any past developers which have contributed to Athena and aren't on the list, please submit a pull request
 
To any development teams that are maintaining their own forks of Athena, please include this AUTHORS file in your own repos, give credit to all these amazing people.

consts.txt currently has NPC sprite file constants. These do not work at all, due to the fact that most of them start with a number, an error is thrown when trying to reference them in a script.
 
They are also never used...
 
My suggestion is to redo the npc class to allow for NPC constants to be used in place of sprite ids. Would require a new db called npc_db.txt which has the view id + sprite name.
 
When parsing the npcs, it would check if the view id is a number or a string. If number and checks out with the ids then just use it, if it's a string then check the db to see if the view id is assigned to that constant.
 
This will also help make the scripts more readable and easier to script. Instead of having to look what what ID a sprite is, you could just throw in the sprite name. This would also future proof our scripts if Gravity ever decides to do some kind of crazy re-factoring that changes all the sprite IDs.
 
AEGIS uses sprite names over IDs as well.
 
Example of what a script would look like:
 
izlude,100,100,4 script Test#test 1_F_ORIENT_04,{} npc_db.txt

consts.txt currently has NPC sprite file constants. These do not work at all, due to the fact that most of them start with a number, an error is thrown when trying to reference them in a script.
 
They are also never used...
 
My suggestion is to redo the npc class to allow for NPC constants to be used in place of sprite ids. Would require a new db called npc_db.txt which has the view id + sprite name.
 
When parsing the npcs, it would check if the view id is a number or a string. If number and checks out with the ids then just use it, if it's a string then check the db to see if the view id is assigned to that constant.
 
This will also help make the scripts more readable and easier to script. Instead of having to look what what ID a sprite is, you could just throw in the sprite name. This would also future proof our scripts if Gravity ever decides to do some kind of crazy re-factoring that changes all the sprite IDs.
 
AEGIS uses sprite names over IDs as well.
 
Example of what a script would look like:
 
izlude,100,100,4 script Test#test 1_F_ORIENT_04,{} npc_db.txt

ream and 3ceam happened because of a serious lack of organization in eA. devs all had different opinions on when / how we should've done 3rd jobs so nothing was done. another team had to do it. same thing with renewal/preRE. I don't want to make Paradox look bad or anything but I wish he hadn't stonewalled some of those decisions especially when i threw the idea of just merging with 3ceam on the table. he didn't like the quality of the 3ceam code and he was adamant on adding in all this new content on his own (or at least getting the rest of the team rallied behind it, but historically things like this rarely happen) even though at the time eA's development was at a crawl since most of the team was either burned out or just too busy to devote much time to eA.
 
by the time any kind of action was taken, it was too late. the community had already fragmented and eA was being passed up in overall progress.

Rough translation from a friend:
 
In the secondary version taming any monster doesn't count as defeating them
in any abnormal situation where you defeats monster, you can't advance to the next level
Broadcast mode

It does not require any server modification
just make an npc show the text, like
 
mes "go to <NAVI>[Hat Maker]<INFO>izlude,131,148,</INFO></NAVI> to make hats";
 
the [Hat Maker] will be clickable in the client and make a navigation to the npc.
 
also it works with the browser too
 
mes "You can <URL>Google<INFO>http://www.google.com/</INFO></URL> anything";
clicking Google will open the browser
 
 
###
A quick scan shows this <URL> and <NAVI> first appeared in 2011-10-10aRagexe.exe.
so any clients after that should work

<3 <3 <3
 
 
Projects? Hm... not at the moment. Just working on a plugin for RSU at the moment which I'll throw up on my github. Than working on getting my server back online. Once that's done then I'll get back in the groove of AEGIS -> script converting, packet sniffing, etc. :3 I'll throw some things on the repo for talks and such once I get back in the groove.

A plugin for RagnarokOnline Patcher Lite (RSU). Allows for patching multiple GRF files (kRO, RE, Custom) using just one patch client.
 
https://github.com/kisuka/RSU-Multi-Plugin
 
Basically this is similar to what the ragray plugin did, now you can use it for your own servers and what not
 
Enjoy.
 
Feel free to contribute to the repo if you want, my C / C++ sucks ^^;

A plugin for RagnarokOnline Patcher Lite (RSU). Allows for patching multiple GRF files (kRO, RE, Custom) using just one patch client.
 
https://github.com/kisuka/RSU-Multi-Plugin
 
Basically this is similar to what the ragray plugin did, now you can use it for your own servers and what not
 
Enjoy.
 
Feel free to contribute to the repo if you want, my C / C++ sucks ^^;

A plugin for RagnarokOnline Patcher Lite (RSU). Allows for patching multiple GRF files (kRO, RE, Custom) using just one patch client.
 
https://github.com/kisuka/RSU-Multi-Plugin
 
Basically this is similar to what the ragray plugin did, now you can use it for your own servers and what not
 
Enjoy.
 
Feel free to contribute to the repo if you want, my C / C++ sucks ^^;

<3 <3 <3
 
 
Projects? Hm... not at the moment. Just working on a plugin for RSU at the moment which I'll throw up on my github. Than working on getting my server back online. Once that's done then I'll get back in the groove of AEGIS -> script converting, packet sniffing, etc. :3 I'll throw some things on the repo for talks and such once I get back in the groove.

Hey everyone, Sirius sent me over here after a short discussion :3 Needless to say I'm impressed. Finally, after YEARS of development with athena, an ACTUAL open source community for it :3
 
I are excited.