[HELP] How to start?

[Crixus]

Hello guys, a few days - maybe weeks - i'm reading this forum and other one's to find enough material to start my own project (learn how to dev and all the thinks, just to learn, nothing big). But i stuck on the beginning.

L2jserver, L2jFrozen, L2JBrasil and so many other...

I found a lot tuto on foruns, but all they are from 2009 or less '-'

So i'm here to ask, what i should use? Yes, maybe i will start a server, if i feel good enough for that. And maybe its gonna be stucksub interlude. So, what i should do? Get source and compile? What Source is better?

 

Sorry for my bad english and also thanks for who try to help me  :alone:

[Tryskell]

Read the whole topic to get an overview of IL projects.

 

L2J IL projects look numerous (notably checking back around 2008-2009), but only few (2 imho) worth being mentioned nowadays. You can find my comparison between my pack and L2JFrozen here.

 

Speaking of aCis, since the time I posted (nov 2011), we raised from 120q to 342q atm, got L2OFF templates rework, retail Sailren (no pack got it, not even L2J - until UnAfraid commited it), reworked all GBs, and made hundreds if not thousands fixes (I should compile all changes in one post to see, one day, lol). I never lied to anyone, and project never stopped (biggest "waiting time" was one month).

 

About how to get sources and compile, check L2J wiki, which got all required infos and work in 90% of cases for any type of server.

[Crixus]

Read the whole topic to get an overview of IL projects.

 

L2J IL projects look numerous (notably checking back around 2008-2009), but only few (2 imho) worth being mentioned nowadays. You can find my comparison between my pack and L2JFrozen here.

 

Speaking of aCis, since the time I posted (nov 2011), we raised from 120q to 342q atm, got L2OFF templates rework, retail Sailren (no pack got it, not even L2J - until UnAfraid commited it), reworked all GBs, and made hundreds if not thousands fixes (I should compile all changes in one post to see, one day, lol). I never lied to anyone, and project never stopped (biggest "waiting time" was one month).

 

About how to get sources and compile, check L2J wiki, which got all required infos and work in 90% of cases for any type of server.

 

Hi Tryskell thank u for your time.

I get the free source on aCis forum, now i need compile that right?

I'm very lost on this stuffs, all tuto's i see on internet are very old and full of broken links.

With aCis i can make a substuck server? If i found NPC to do it ofc.

U talk about L2jfrozen be more custom, substuck is considered a custom right? Well , i dont know right what i gonna do, just need a small help to start. I see on source dont have the serverlogin starter or something like that , like i see on tuto's . Can u explain to me, or send me a link where i can found a good tutorial how to compile and start a server based on aCis project?

Sorry, i'm really noob on this stuffs, but trust me, already see a huge amountant of forum and doc's about this, just to try alone, but it seen a lill impossible without a small help. Not to code or something, just to apoint a right direction.

 

Really thanks again, and really sorry for my bad english.

[Tryskell]

Sources are used to be edited. A project is a group of files, L2J one is around 1200 files (speaking of core).

 

Eclipse is an IDE, you could edit your sources with notepad, but an IDE gives you mnay useful tools, and integrated some others (notably SVN based).

 

You dl sources, edit them as you want, compile them. Everytime you want to add something, you have to regenerate the build folder via the build.xml (compiling crush current build, and regenerate fresh JAR libraries).

 

As I said, L2J wiki got a lot of infos. As steps, you have to :

 

- setup Eclipse

- checkout a project / in case of aCis, you only have to dl and import them

- compile project

- install the pack (via new folders named build).

 

http://www.l2jserver.com/wiki/L2j_Wiki:Community_Portal

 

For aCis you need JDK 7 (NOT JRE), latest eclipse, subclipse plugin. Try to learn how to create a SVN aswell for your personal uses (assembla.com or xp-dev.com). A SVN allows to save your project according revisions, it is really useful for many reasons.

 

Read L2JWiki for more infos.

 

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I moved 2 tutorials from customers section to public section. You still have to register on forums to see them.

 

[Tutorial] aCis installation, from A to Z

Installing aCis in Linux OS (Ubuntu server)

 

PS : on Setup Eclipse & SVN, forget points 5 and 6. You obviously can't use the SVN link on the tutorial. It is an old tutorial, SVN isn't reachable for public now. Add sources using Import.

[Crixus]

Really really thanks Tryskell, time to read more now and try a few stuffs.

Really thanks for your help  ;)

 

1º JDK7

2º Eclipse + plugins

3º Setup all

4º Import and Compile

5º Install

 

That the steps... But after that some steps, read more, try to learn a few things and start  :happyforever:

 

Again really thanks  ;)