Some new plugins.

[Zunath]

I couldn't get what you posted to work so I googled backtrace for Ubuntu and followed their steps. Hopefully this helps, but if not I can try something else.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/273755/gdb-nwserver.txt

[leo_x]

Thanks, that works!

Looks like the error is occuring in the nwnx_levels.so plugin.

You can try removing that and seeing if things work, however it looks like it's missing a function pointer isn't getting defined, so it would be likely that the same issue will crop up elsewhere.

unfortunately the way i did things, it looks like it created some dependencies on the actual core nwnx.so, so you would need to use the one compiled by. i will try to refactor those out.

once nwnx2.8 comes out i will switch stuff to Virusman's new nwn api so the plugins are contained.

[Zunath]

Glad to hear I could help out for a change

I tried running the server with just nwnx_haks like you said but had the same result - segfault.

[leo_x]

oops left a few words out.

what i meant was if you compile (or download) nwnx2.so from the main trunk and then compile nwnx_haks.so from my branch, then copy and paste both of those into your nwn it will crash because some function pointers that i stuck in the main library won't get initialized. this is the mistake i made. i can rectify it pretty easily.

so in short, you should be able to test but you'd have to copy nwnx2.so along with whatever plugins you wanted from my branch into your nwn folder for it to work.

[Zunath]

Ah ok I'm with you now!

I'll try that out, thanks a lot.

EDIT: Tried your version of haks, but got a segfault there too. I'll just hold off until you release an updated version.

[Nob]

Any chance we can get a bit of documentation for specattacks?

[Zunath]

Hey, was just wondering if you had an ETA on when those fixes will be done? Looking forward to using this!

[leo_x]

apologies for the horribly late reply. life, a couple other projects, etc. i just pushed an update to nwnx_haks, I cleaned it up a lot. I also tested it against nwnx2.so built from the main trunk and it worked fine for me, so you shouldn't see any of the segfaults you were seeing. I haven't tried it in production yet. the others still need more work before they work with a nwnx2.so built from the trunk.

you can try this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32687721/nwnx_haks.7z

https://github.com/jd28/nwnx

tc,
leo

[Baaleos]

is there any hope of a similar plugin to nwnx_haks making its way to win32?

[Zunath]

Excellent - thanks! I'll give it a shot and let you know if I find any issues.

[Zunath]

I was able to connect to my test server without one of the hidden haks on my client, so that much seems to be working.


How do I check to see if a player has a specific hak? Basically my idea is to make everyone enter a vanilla-NWN area and if they have all of the hidden haks they get sent to the real entry area.

I'm just a little fuzzy on how to use this SetPlayerEnhanced function, I guess.


Great work, once again!

[leo_x]

Cool.

It's highly dependent on your world really.

Say someone logs into your world in the starting area for the first time. There would need to be something there that allowed them to indicate to you that they have the haks on their computer. Could be a conversation, chat command, or whatever. If they indicate that they do then you need to store that information in a database for future logins. The player will have to relog at this point or you could ActivatePortal on them to make them reconnect, since the hak list can only be sent at login.

if you want to port them to a real starting area once they have the haks, i'd do it on mod enter. I'm not sure if it's safe to do it from the pl_load_enhanced script. i forget if the character is fully initialized at that point.

[Zunath]

Yeah it does, thanks. I think I misunderstood how this plugin worked but I'm following you now. It's sort of a way for players to "elect" to access the areas that require haks.


But basically you're saying the PC has to tell me (via script/whatever) which haks he has? There's not a way to get those via this script?


Thanks for the quick response, once again.

[Baaleos]

I investigated a similar question a while back.

But the answer from virusman and co, was that it isnt possible without some client modification.
Eg -With nwnCX it would be possible to make a communication protocol to communicate directly with nwnx, and perform even more complex checks.

eg- nwnx asks what haks are available
nwncx sends the list back to the server
nwnx does X depending on the answer.

However, you have to be aware, that some people would be hessitant to put a nwncs plugin on their client machines that basically sends the server a list of files in a folder (hak folder)

Receiving a File-List from the server doesnt impact any confidentiality rules or guidelines. Which is why Bioware probably elected to use that approach. Eg - Not spying on players hdd's

That being said, if you receive a file list from the clients, then that increases bandwidth usage a little, and opens up the possibilities for exploitation.
Imagine someone copies 5000 hak files into their hak directory.
Would 5000 hak names be sent to the server?

Anyway - just a little bit of speculation into a what if scenario... if such a thing were possible.

[Zunath]

That makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.