Beginners Guide to Contributing
 

Hi

Just found P1999 and am loving playing with a friend re-living old times etc....

I happen to be a programmer, sql expert and all round code ninja but I am having trouble getting my head around the vastness of the EQemu project.

I'd like to *try* and contribute if possible but I can't find a "Beginners Guide" or even something that points to how to get started.

I use Visual Studio on Windows for my dev platform and although I am not a C++ expert I do know some and can read the code etc...

Anyway can someone point me in the right direction of how to get started in contributing?

Most of the dev's suffer from ptsd and night-horrors... (What?)


The complexity of the emulator probably rivals that of a modern cpu.

That said, a good place to start exploring the code would probably be here:
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/blob...ent_packet.cpp

This is where post-protocol handling is performed for incoming client (zone) packets. It should give you a decent idea of what's going on
and what to look for next.


You can always pop in irc (link provided in Akkadius's post) if you have any questions.

I would recommend setting up your own test server, if you haven't already.

Some general guidelines on code: use tabs not spaces. Avoid tricky expressions. Code for C++11, target compilers are VS2012+ and GCC 4.6+ so the allowed features must be present with these minimum compilers.

You mentioned p99, which is a private fork. (They don't distribute executables so GPL dosnt kick in)