InitialStepsWithMarauroa: Difference between revisions

Basicly, if you have built a Marauroa server it must be because you either want to play with the server a bit yourself or because you want to run your own game server or because you are a developer who wishes to develop your own game.

If you are none of the above it is possible you are looking for http://arianne.sourceforge.net instead.

mysql> grant all on marauroa.* to testuser@localhost identified by 'testpass';

== Create Marauroa.ini file ==

To create the marauroa.ini file you need to can write it by hand, copy from another place or use our application to generate it.<br>

To launch the application that will generate the marauroa.ini file write:

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java -cp marauroa-XXX.jar marauroa.server.generateini

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It is a text application that will ask you for values. Let's see it.

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Marauroa - arianne's open source multiplayer online framework for game development -

(C) 1999-2005 Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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Now write the name of the file where you will store the configuration.<br>

Usually pressing <b>ENTER</b> will do the work, as marauroa.ini is a fine name.

Write name of the .ini file (marauroa.ini):

Using "marauroa.ini" as .ini file

We need to give a name for database.<br>

Use the one you have written above on database creation.

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Write name of the database (marauroa): marauroa

Using "marauroa" as database name

Write name of the database host (localhost):

Using "localhost" as database host

Write name of the database user (marauroa_user): stendhal_user

Using "stendhal_user" as database user

Write value of the database user password (marauroa_pass): stendhal_passwd

Using "stendhal_passwd" as database user password

In order to make efective these options please run:

# mysql

create database stendhal;

grant all on stendhal.* to stendhal_user@localhost identified by 'stendhal_passwd';

exit

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Marauroa acts as a server. So it needs a valid UDP port where it will listen to incoming packets.

Write UDP port used by Marauroa (>1024): 32160

Using "32160" as database user password

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This is perhaps the most complex part of Arianne: Choosing the game.<br>

If you are using one of the Arianne supported games, just write the name and the params will be filled using a template automatically, but if you are using your own game, you must provide the complete class name for RPWorld and RPRuleProcessor of your game.

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Marauroa is a server middleware to run multiplayer games. You need toadd a game

to the system so that server can work. Actually Arianne has implemented several

games:

- stendhal

- mapacman

- the1001

If you write your own game, just write it name here.

You will be asked for more info.

Write name of the game server will run: stendhal

Using "stendhal" as game

Setting RPWorld and RPRuleProcessor for Stendhal

Make sure Marauroa can find in CLASSPATH the folder games/stendhal/*

NOTE: Copy games generated in stendhal inside folder that contains marauroa.jar file

You also have to choose the turn time.<br>

Any range is valid, but the best value is around mean ping time for players, that is around 200-300 ms.

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Write turn time duration in milliseconds (200<time<1000)): 300

Using turn of 300 milliseconds

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Finally decide where to store logs and statistics.<br>

Logs will be stored at ''path''/logs.

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Write path for logs generation (./)):

Using path "./" for log generation

Write path for statistics generation (./)):

Using path "./" for statistics generation

COMPLETE---

Generating "marauroa.ini" file

Generated.

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Congrats!. You configured your Marauroa server.

=Running=

Once you have it configured, just run the server by executing:

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java -classpath marauroa.jar;mysql-connector-java-3.0.7-stable-bin.jar marauroa.server.marauroad -c <game.ini> -l

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''NOTE'': On Linux use : instead of ; to define the classpath.

Make sure that you have the MySQL running too. Marauroa will build all the needed table structure for itself.

This will start Marauroa

=Creating accounts=

Before anything else, you MUST create accounts for your players. The idea is simple enough, you can even wrap it in to a webpage interface, much like we did with http://gladiators.game-server.cc

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<game>.<game>createaccount -i marauroa.ini -u <user> -p <password> -c <character> -e <email>

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For example in mapacman:

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mapacman.mapacmancreateaccount -i marauroa.ini -u root -p pazzw0rd -c MaSSive -e root@localhost.com

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Each game has a different number of parameters, check them out with the -h parameter.

=Testing=

To test that your connection is working use nullClient. It is a simple client that connects to the server, chooses a character and receives perceptions. If it works it means that everything else is also working.

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java -classpath marauroa.jar marauroa.nullClient root pazzw0rd MaSSive

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=Playing with clients=

Please read the client pages at http://arianne.sourceforge.net