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Necromancy - Server

Server Emulator for the Online Game Wizardry Online.

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Disclaimer

The project is intended for educational purpose only.

Wiki

Please check the wiki for additional information.

Setup

1) Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/necromancyonline/necromancy-server.git

2) Install .Net Core 3.0 SDK or later

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

3) Use your IDE of choice:

3.1) Visual Studio

Notice:

Minimum version of "Visual Studio 2019 v16.3" or later.

Open Project:

Open the necromancy.sln-file

3.2) VS Code

Download IDE: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
C# Plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.csharp

Open Project:

Open the Project Folder:
\necromancy-server

3.3) IntelliJ Rider

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

Open Project:

Open the necromancy.sln-file

4) Debug the Project

Run the Necromancy.Cli-Project

Project

The following section will explain some concepts and systems that have been designed and explain the intentions. This should help developers to gain high level overview of existing components and how to make best use of them.

Id Types

Name Type Uniqueness Constant Description
InstanceId ObjectId Globally No Identifies a object uniquely globally (No duplicate Ids are possible, can distinguish between anything)
Id DatabaseId per Domain Yes Identifies a object uniquely among its domain. (Can distinguish between two npcs with the same NpcId)
NpcId SerialId None Yes Identifies a type of npc (Multiple npc can exist with same NpcId)
MonsterId SerialId None Yes Identifies a type of monster (Multiple monster can exist with same MonsterId)
ModelId SerialId None Yes Identifies a type of model (Multiple model can exist with same ModelId)

Instance

Inside the game world various kinds of objects exist. The game uses ids to identify a specific object inside the game world. This brings the requirement that every id needs to be globally unique, to identify a specific object. For example there could be two monsters, who look identically but to differentiate them we need to give them different ids. These ids are called InstanceId because they point to a specific instance of an object inside the game world. Every object that exists inside the game world needs to be assigned an unique InstanceId so we can identify the object that is being interacted with.

In general and during development you should not concern yourself about these InstanceIds they are supposed to be randomly and on demand assigned. That means after a server restart, every object inside the game world could have a different InstanceId.

We are using concrete objects to represent an object inside the game world, for example a Item.cs or Monster.cs class. These classes when instantiated will be assigned an InstanceId. While the InstanceId is assigned, the server will keep a journal of object instance reference to InstanceId. When a monster spawn packet is send, the InstanceId of the instantiated Monster.cs class will be added to the packet. The moment a player will attack this monster, we will receive the InstanceId in our handling method, then the journal can be used to find the original Monster.cs class instance by the provided InstanceId.

To summarize the Instance-System is used to create journal entries / lookups for InstanceId to object instance. Additionally it provides the ability to retrieve the object instance by InstanceId.

This is why the InstanceId should never be used in any comparison (InstanceId != 0) or stored anywhere. It should exclusively be used when sending packet data (by appending it) and when handling packet data (by looking the object up).

uint instanceId = packet.ReadUInt32();
IInstance instance = Server.Instances.GetInstance(instanceId);
if(instance == null)
{
  // the instanceId is invalid
} else if (instance is Character character)
{
  // the instanceId is a valid Character class object
  // access character properties
  Logger.Info($"CharacterName: {character.Name}")
} else if (instance is Monster monster)
{
  // the instanceId is a valid Monster class object
  // access monster properties
  Logger.Info($"MonsterName: {monster.Name}")
}

Looking up a InstanceId will return a IInstance object. If the object is null, it means the instance is invalid or does not exist anymore. Usually IInstance is expected to be of a certain type, for example in a monster attack handler check if it is a valid monster instance (if (instance is Monster monster)) and continue handling by utilizing the monster instance. If the check failed it just means the instance is not valid anymore and it can be logged or dealt with in an appropriate way.

In a case where it is expected that an InstanceId can be multiple types of an object, the above if-else construct can be used to test for multiple types of object instances and handle them accordingly.

If dealing with an InstanceId only use it to retrieve the expected object, and then use that object. Do not use InstanceId for anything else other than (writing to packet, reading from packet, looking object up).

Items

Item

It holds basic static default values of an item.

InventoryItem

Represents an actual Item that belongs to a Character The InventoryItem will hold values that are unique to the item.

Guidelines

Git

Workflow

The work on this project should happen via feature-branches

Feature branches (or sometimes called topic branches) are used to develop new features for the upcoming or a distant future release. When starting development of a feature, the target release in which this feature will be incorporated may well be unknown at that point. The essence of a feature branch is that it exists as long as the feature is in development, but will eventually be merged back into develop (to definitely add the new feature to the upcoming release) or discarded (in case of a disappointing experiment).

  1. Create a new feature/feature-name or fix/bug-fix-name branch from master
  2. Push all your changes to that branch
  3. Create a Pull Request to merge that branch into master

Best Practise

C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions

Object Name Notation Char Mask Underscores
Class name PascalCase [A-z][0-9] No
Constructor name PascalCase [A-z][0-9] No
Method name PascalCase [A-z][0-9] No
Method arguments camelCase [A-z][0-9] No
Local variables camelCase [A-z][0-9] No
Constants name PascalCase [A-z][0-9] No
Field name _camelCase [A-z][0-9] Yes
Properties name PascalCase [A-z][0-9] No
Delegate name PascalCase [A-z] No
Enum type name PascalCase [A-z] No

SQL Style

  • Table, Column, and Indices names are all lower case with underscore ( _ ) separating the names

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