BlackTek-Server Development Thread

[Codinablack]

I changed my mind about not breaking backwards compatibility with 1.4x. The reason is due to constraints being exactly what I am trying to get away from, and in this case they would keep me from adding my augments system unless I left in the old stuff for absorb and field absorb, and doing that is not an option.

This is going to be the only thing planned that would affect backwards compat in the first release though, so its a simple enough sacrifice to make for what will be gained being far better anyways.

 

[Codinablack]

Today I have the great pleasure of announcing another big step in the BlackTek project, an official Test server has been established! This server is setup to update daily at server shutdown by pulling the latest commits from the main repo. So it should always contain up to the day prior's commits.

I have a dream to one day turn this project into something that draws in more people to the community, so many that perhaps it becomes it's own community some day, but to do that, I must go that extra mile that other similar projects have never went, and today that includes a test server which allows anyone, especially those who have never heard of tibia, to have a chance to experience the game-play to determine if it's something that interests them.

Also in the works is a website for the BlackTek organization as a whole. It shall include documentation for all things included under the BlackTek name, including the BlackTek Mapeditor. Granted, that is a lot of documentation so please maintain a reasonable expectation on its progress. The website will also feature images (gifs) showing what it looks like doing basic interactions and such in the game; The github too shall contain such images embedded into the readme, so that when a user visits the repo, they can clearly see and understand whats hosted at that repository. The idea again being that this can increase potential userbase for BlackTek.

There is also a discord that will open with the first release. The expected official release is set for September 26th. That's right! Next month.

Special thanks goes to @forgee & @Don Daniello, for without them, we would not be at this point today. In fact, the scripts running the entire thing (and one soon to ship as the bootstrap with the repo), including one that allowed me to create a database through the bash, and a god account, were all written by forgee. He has really gone above and beyond getting this thing ready, running and available to the public!

Website for creating an account: black-tek.ots.ovh
IP address for logging in : 5.161.46.252

If you change the layout to the website on your visit, its more pleasant IMO. Here is what it looks like :

 

[OTcreator]

Hello!
Change map, rate and items start on test server

 

[Codinablack]

@_M4G0_

Announcement

Black Tek now has a Boss Loot / Reward Container system in place!

Big thanks to @ohman for all his hard work in bringing this system to Black Tek for all you to enjoy. He has even added configuration for tweaking and customizing the "participation" score of everyone involved in the kill.

Hope you all enjoy, and don't forget to thank ohman for his hard work!

 

[OTcreator]

Create a separate SRC for Ubuntu compilation , without all the nifty pre-make etc.

 

[Codinablack]

Create a separate SRC for Ubuntu compilation , without all the nifty pre-make etc.

What is an SRC?

What is the problem with pre-make? It's literally just as easy as cmake to build with, and even easier to write the script part.
With premake and vcpkg we were able to successfully, and very easily, build BlackTek Server on MANY linux distro's, even built it on a phone.

I understand people are intimidated by it, and that some are having issues with linux compilation... I know that he wiki is a horrible mess and copying those commands onto ubuntu won't work out of box... Keeping all this in mind, its already being worked on. There is a script that has been under development for a little while now that has been tested on virtually every linux distro one might want to run a server on, that literally handles everything for the build from installing vcpkg and premake, to installing the libraries, and even handling the compilation for you as well. This script is being polished off before being submitted to the main repo, but if you wanna have a look at an already out-dated version (perhaps it works without error for you) I will attach it. It belongs inside the project's (BlackTek-Server) folder.

Give it some time, the script will be fully ready and complete soon, at which time it will become included with the project and all you will have to do to build is to

git clone https://github.com/Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server.git
cd BlackTek-Server
./bootstrap.sh

and respond to the prompt asking if you wanna do debug or release, and that's it!

Here is that out-dated version, I don't have the up to date version, its being developed by Forgee. He has gone above and beyond to make a full proof bootstrap that works with almost any linux configuration. Otland wouldn't allow an upload of a shell script, so you will either have overwrite the file extension from txt to sh or copy the text into a new file and save it as bootstrap.sh, add the script into the black tek server repository folder, and run it.

Oh, and please don't join the premake hating bandwagon just yet. This script should make compiling on linux 10x easier than any of the other servers, and its already super easy on windows. I could make it as easy as TFS on windows by creating .sln file, but that could lead to un-expected or weird errors that would be hard to isolate, and honestly its not that hard to run one command on the cmd prompt to generate your own solution file that would be error free. I am however considering creating a bootstrap.bat to make it easier for windows users too, but for now, if they can't handle running a single command from the command line, they have no business trying to compile the project anyways.


PS. I am also working on learning and building workflows for BlackTek-Server, which I can use to build binaries nightly, avoiding the need to compile all together for those who are not writting their own C++ code or doing source edits.

 

[OTcreator]

Imbuements not working.
Big bug.

 

[Codinablack]

Imbuements not working.
Big bug.

View attachment 86808

View attachment 86809

Yes, already fixed
Check latest commit

 

[Codinablack]

I'm sorry to announce that the release date for Black Tek has been pushed back until the beginning of Next year sometime. The reason being that I don't want to rush things, I wish to provide the most stable release I can for the first one, and there is a few more things I would like to add before releasing as well, and there just isn't enough time to do all those things, and thoroughly test them.

 

[Codinablack]

Hey everyone, I know you guys have been waiting for awhile to see some action on the github repo... well I'm finally at the end of the Augments commit I have been working on for months now, sorry it took so long. It still needs tested, and also still needs the saving to and from players to be handled properly, otherwise it should all work as expected!



There are examples in the augments folder (you can have as many toml files as you want there), you can use to help figure out how the interface works. I also have this script for making it easy to create an item with an augment for testing purposes. Later on, once its completely finished all around and completely tested, I will make some demonstration videos and some tutorial's on how to use this new system. For now, here is the talkaction script to make it easier to create augmented items, be warned, this script has no safeguards in place so make sure you don't use on server that is live with players.

local aug_test = TalkAction("/augment", "!augment")

local invalidIds = {
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, 26, 27, 28, 35, 43
}

function aug_test.onSay(player, words, param)

    local split = param:splitTrimmed(",")

    local itemType = ItemType(split[1])
    if itemType:getId() == 0 then
        itemType = ItemType(tonumber(split[1]))
        if not tonumber(split[1]) or itemType:getId() == 0 then
            player:sendCancelMessage("There is no item with that id or name.")
            return false
        end
    end

    if table.contains(invalidIds, itemType:getId()) then
        return false
    end

    local augment = Augment(split[2])

    if not augment then
        player:sendCancelMessage("There is augment with that name.")
        return false
    end

    local augmentedItem = player:addItem(itemType:getId(), 1)
    augmentedItem:addAugment(augment)
end

aug_test:separator(" ")
aug_test:register()

to use the talkaction would be like so "/augment 2469, Guardian's Shield" as an example, first param is item ID, second is augment's name, must match exactly, its case sensitive. Anyways, have fun, enjoy, and please report here or to my DM or to me directly in discord if you find any bugs with this system.

The branch containing augments is here

GitHub - Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server at Augments

Contribute to Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Bee King]

I would appreciate using this distribution if the compilation were standard TFS. I don't understand and couldn't find easy ways like the original to compile it on Ubuntu 22.04

 

[Mateus Robeerto]

I would appreciate using this distribution if the compilation were standard TFS. I don't understand and couldn't find easy ways like the original to compile it on Ubuntu 22.04

Post in thread '[Tutorial][BlackTek] From nothing to fully installed Server with AAC on Windows.'

Jul 24, 2024

For those looking to setup BlackTek on Ubuntu, I highly recommend the use of the Dockerfile, and even following the instructions from the pull request from gesior that included the dockerfile.

Docker compilation + ARM64 configuration for premake5 by gesior · Pull Request #5 · Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server

Dockerfile to run server inside container + ARM64 configuration for premake5. docker-compose.yaml is configured to work with MySQL hosted outside container (ex. XAMPP on Windows) and server running...

github.com

The above is the pull request where gesior explains the issues you might run into if you are trying to setup on an ARM architecture.

Here is our only wiki page for compiling on Ubuntu right now.

Compiling on Ubuntu 22.04

Contribute to Black-Tek/BlackTek-Server development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Between those two links, and the dockerfile possibility, I am...

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[Codinablack]

I would appreciate using this distribution if the compilation were standard TFS. I don't understand and couldn't find easy ways like the original to compile it on Ubuntu 22.04

It's NEVER going back to TFS way of building. TFS is actually even more complex than Black Tek when it comes to the configuration for the build system.

I have a friend @forgee who has written a script that will automate pretty much the entire install and works on pretty much any modern linux distro, including on ARM and ARM64 based platforms. Forget about those old instructions, just git clone (or download the zip) of Black Tek from the site, and run bootstrap.sh and follow/respond to any prompts or questions it might pose to you. It's as simple as that, the script will handle every thing else for linux users.

You can find it on the main repo. Here

 

[wgwwm34]

Question- if I wanted to merge a 10.98 RL Map datapack (which was compatible with TFS 1.3), what's the easiest way to go about that?

 

[wgwwm34]

Question- if I wanted to merge a 10.98 RL Map datapack (which was compatible with TFS 1.3), what's the easiest way to go about that?

Disregard this, got it mostly working Thanks for the easy to install server!

 

[leo18dff]

@Codinablack What about add a appveyor/autobuilder on git?

 

[Codinablack]

@Codinablack What about add a appveyor/autobuilder on git?

I have nothing against someone adding support for Appveyor. I don't plan to personally write the support specifically for Appveyor though, at least not now or anytime soon.

Hear me out. I have docker support. I have CI actions that build my executables automatically (which I will later configure as nightly releases), and I also have a script (shared in this thread somewhere, but not yet on the repo) that will literally handle all installation for you if you are trying to setup on linux, and then to add to that, my build system (premake + vcpgk) is vastly more flexible and easier to use than the old cmake build system that TFS used to use (they recently switched to relying on manifest mode too I believe).

So you see, there is plenty of support to help anyone get a Black Tek server up and running on any platform they wish.

@manawa has actually setup Black Tek to be working on a sophisticated kubernates cluster and with AMD64 architecture.
@forgee has successfully installed Black Tek to his phone, yes that is right, his phone.
@Silba just did a reformat of his PC last night, and told me how he didn't need a guide or anything at all because he remembered how to do it by how simple it was to do.

So yes, by all means, if you wish to add another system supported like appveyor, jenkins, or any other CI software/product/environment then by all means, make it and put in the PR and I will accept it, but as for right now, in this moment, it is not a concern for me.

 

[Codinablack]

Augments have finally been moved from a Work-In-Progress branch and merged into the main branch. That means they are past the developmental and testing stages. These things have been tested pretty thoroughly, through and through and for weeks now. Thanks to a major help from @Silba we were able to get these tested on everything from saving and loading the augments, to all the different types and with various filters and such. Please keep in mind, this system is quite massive, the amount of possibilities is only limited by how many monsters you have, and so it was not possible try every single possible combination every single round of every single test... so please don't hesitate to report anything you suspect could be a bug.

I will be providing some sort of documentation or tutorial or both on how to use the augments soon. I just wanted to Let you guys know its finally ready to be used! Have fun and enjoy!

 

[Codinablack]

All reported bugs have been fixed!
Above you can see we only have one issue left, which I did mark as an enhancement as its mostly just a visual issue (as far as I can tell it doesn't break anything), which came as a side-effect of dropping Luajit in favor of Lua. Not to worry tho, it is planned to fix that last issue before releasing first official release.

What I need from you guys is to get out there and test the hell out of this thing and find and report all bugs to the github so that we can proudly say that this server is bug free when it's finally released.

I will also be working on providing you guys with an actual guide/tutorial on the usage of Augments, but in the meantime I have a video prepared that should serve to help get you guys started using them (please be warned, the volume is quite low on this video sorry).

Please check out that video for the time being and don't be afraid to ask if you guys have any questions about the system, I would be glad to help you figure it out. Let me know what you think about augments and remember I will be posting that video again later with some documentation and some text giving a bit more information on how to use them.

I'm happy to say, we are on track for the projected release being at the beginning of next year. Right now, we are basically just really needing people to try to find bugs in the server that need to be fixed, the more stable we can make it, the more stable the release will be!

 

[Codinablack]

Hey guys, just back with another small update. Basically the official release is ready! I only need to change the readme and update the version and its ready for release. I have officially knocked out all reported bugs, not just the ones on the repo, but also the bugs that were reported directly to me in discord.



Since we are Issue Free right now, and all the goals I wanted to achieve for the first release are actually achieved (minus the full documentation, its still WIP, its a LOT of work), this code is pretty much what its going to be when I do finally release the first official version.

With all that being said, instead of just rushing directly into release, I am going to let it sit for a bit, waiting for people to test it and report any other bugs they might find, while I work on documentation and preparation of the social media platform I have already built up for it. I would say what social media platform I am using, but that would just lead to a warning as its against the rules, instead I just encourage you all to keep an eye on my signature for that.

In the meantime, if you find any bugs, please report to the github repo, so I can continue to log the issues being reported and completed.

Otherwise, enjoy the optimized, updated, and more stable version of 1.4.2, that is known as BlackTek (soon to be 1.0), with its exclusive additional features provided only at BlackTek.