Plugins help please

[pharone1]

Would someone explain to me what plugins are, how to use them, etc please?

Think of it as if you are writing the "EQemu Plugins for Dummies" book because I don't know the first thing about them :)

I have so many questions...
Are they just perl scripts, or do they require modifying and compiling the server code?

Are there existing plugins already installed that I can experiment with?

I appreciate any help I can get on this topic.

Thanks!

[Shin Noir]

plugins are essentially shared snippets that extend functionality of quests.
https://github.com/ProjectEQ/projecteqquests/tree/master/plugins

I would recommend installing via Akka's installer, it will configure an environment to run eqemu with. Once that's done, it will pull down the latest plugins.

Documentation on the two languages used for quest scripting is found: https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Perl-API and https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Lua-API

Your questions more can be boiled down to learning lua or perl, once you understand them, all plugins do is give generic extensions that other quest files will refer to. Akka has released some additional plugins at times, mainly administrator tools, but it's not like plugins are magic black boxes. They're just existing code to help streamline some processes commonly used

[pharone1]

I'm not sure I completely followed that. I already have my EQemu server installed. I used the installer for Windows as mentioned in the wiki. Is Akka's installer for EQemu or specifically to add plugins to EQemu?

I've been messing with Perl some to modify some quests, so I kind of have a handle on that much. I'm just trying to understand how to apply these plugins basically.

I'll likely take a shot at messing with it some tonight after work, so I'll be the idiot in Discord asking questions tonight most likely lol.