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LiF:YO - Life is feudal : Your Own - live map - PROTOTYPE

1. Life Is Feudal Server List On Map
2. Life Is Feudal Mmo Server Status

!!! W A R N I N G !!!!!!!!! Please read this carefully before you install to your server !!!!!!!!! W A R N I N G !!!

Because of the many requests i decided to publish a tutorial on how to design a custom map. Enjoy I know the video is turned slightly, but im to lazy to render it again, so just accept that leaves.

!!! Still work in progress here !!!!!! Still work in progress here !!!!!! Still work in progress here !!!

Because this is my first repository on github I say sorry for my mistakes!If somebody has tips for me... shoot.

I think I only used free stuff, published on git and so on...My stuff can be used, copied, changed without any limitation.What licence fits best for this scenario?But I would be happy if you give me short notice that I see it live on your server ;)Cheers & Thanks!

!!! Still work in progress here !!!!!! Still work in progress here !!!!!! Still work in progress here !!!

Introduction

Life Is Feudal Server List On Map

My previous blog (with screenshots and video) about the map : http://lif-tools.blogspot.de/

LiF:YO - Life is feudal : Your Own is a medieval sandbox game: http://lifeisfeudal.com/

I played this game with some friends and we came up with the idea to make a nice map of our server.Because I wanted to learn about node.js and some html5 client programming including map technologies I accepted this task.

Currently it is in a very early state. I am no web expert so the code is very very ugly in this prototype.Unfortunately I have no time to continue the work on this... working on some other stuff ;)

But: Many server administrators asked for this map. So I decided to provide you with what I got so far.Please be not too hard on me... it is really a prototype which you can take and improve for your needs.

I am sorry that I cannot give a detailled description about the installation (lack of time) but if you try to install and run into problem... just ask here and we will figure it out.

I will also list the further ideas which we had and which we could not finish due to lack of time.

Features

• Zoomable tile-map of the game Life is Feudal : Your own
• Shows active players and there movement LIVE (with sound and animation)
• Several flexible data layers like terrain, buildings, castles, roads, every single tree if you want ...
• Several heat maps like historical player movement or building activity
• Gives map information like GeoDataId on mouse-click

Architecture

• mysql-db (game database, we added a lot of objects, all in the 'lt' (lif-tools) namespace)
• node.js map server (data fetch and push functionality)
• map client (inside node subdir public; using html5, leaflet, heatmaps, moving marker, sounds, speech, ...)

Thanks to / credits

• BITBOX Ltd. for the game 'Life is Feudal : Your Own', the graphics and the data. Visit the official page or the game forum
• Time paradox allicance for providing a base map of the game
• Maps Icons Collection for their icons and the possibility to customize them
• Ritterspielgaming.de for the partnership, providing example data and being my alpha testers :-)
• Mike Gleason jr. for his tutorial about creating tile maps and his tool to generate the tiles for my first alpha map
• Stefano Cudini for his plugin Leaflet Panel Layers
• Vladimir Agafonkin for his plugin Leaflet.heat
• Ewoken for his plugin Leaflet.MovingMarker

Installation

1. mysql objects

First of all you need to install the database objects into your mysql game database.

• backup your database !!
• check that your backup was successful ;)
• if you are unsure what you do... don´t... you will break your game database
• a rough sequence to install:-- first of all the tables ($lt_t_), then-- procedures (first helpers $lt_p_ then batch-processes $lt_pb_), then-- functions ($lt_f_), then-- views ($lt_v_, some views are based on other views... keep an eye on the from-clause of the view to install in right order; easy way = install all views twice ;)), then-- triggers ($lt_tr_), and after all-- the two events ($lt_e_*)look at our file names... think... or ask if you are unsure!

1b) mysql objects (optional, deactivated by default)

Life Is Feudal Mmo Server Status

• some stuff you will not need for the map : forest thinner and durabilty loss repair (please refer to my blog for more information)
• dont install/activate/run unless you are sure what you do
• event and batch-procedure (file names forest_thinner) for forest thinner (better performance)
• triggers for durability loss repair ($lt_tr_movable_objects_BU.sql, $lt_tr_unmovable_objects_BU.sql and $lt_pB_repairCraftingStations.sql)

2. node.js server

• you will find the node.js installation basics on the web
• install all necessary node modules (npm, express, http, nodemon, socket.io, mysql) -> using npm will make it easier for you
• copy server.js and subdirectories and try to start server
• open the ports for node.js (listening port for web server) and port to connect to mysql database if it is remote

3. client

• no installation needed, because node.js server should provide all files needed
• we all used Chrome or iexplorer and I am not sure if the map runs on other browsers

4. additional map grafics

• because of the big size my upload of the map tiles to github always broke
• if you want to see the colored game map, you will need this additional files
• download here : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bxx7uYuWxpcLaGdtSHpiTEE3TG8&usp=sharing
• unpack to public folder from node.js server

Further Ideas

• one map-server handles several game-servers / roles
• enable server to handle multiple mysql pools
• New Heat-Layer Building (hm_b)
• New Heat-Layer Deaths (hm_d)
• New Heat-Layer Fight (hm_f)
• New Data-Layer Trails (cp)
• New fun-layer (fun+event)
• New flexible Datalayer (flex)
• New Server-Datalayer (predefined landmarks)
• Map-server prerendering
• map-server statistics /layer / performance
• player layer should only show players of own guild
• checkbox in map client to disable sounds

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