Yep, I've been using minilogin to rule out latency issues between the client and zoneproxy.
Here is my sequence of activities leading up to discovering it doesn't work for me (it's a bit long):
1) Go to my everquest directory, double click ZoneProxy 1.2 and start it up.
2) Go get coffee
3) Load Miniglogin.exe
Output:
LoginServer.ini read.
MiniLoginAccounts.ini read.
Server mode: Standalone
Login server listening on port:5997
4) Load World.exe
5) Load Boot2zones.bat, wait for them to complete loading into sleep mode.
6) Load eqw.exe (I've also used eqgame patchme method), click on Connect, enter my usn/psw and select my server on the list.
7) Select my character, and when I click on 'enter world', it takes a while and sort of freezes up (I assume this is when zoneproxy is copying the zone over) and I load into the zone.
Output:
Logged in: Local: eqemu
Attempting autobootup of zone1 (99
for Krekk
Zoneserver SetZone: localhost:7995 zone1 (99
Outgoing connection made to ZoneProxy
Alias zone name: tutorial
Got SettingZone from ZoneProxy
Got DoneSettingZone from ZoneProxy
Enter world: Krekk: zone1 (99
Broadcasting a world time update
Zoneserver SetZone: localhost:7995 zone1 (99
Immediately upon zoning in I notice the textures are off... strangely off. The geometry is correct but the textures are all borked up - I have a faded (sloped) elevation on my background "mountains" which should only be different hues of the same texture based on the degrees of sloping.. instead the highest point (past the mountains) is grassy, and everything else is a rocky pattern. Without saying much more, check out this screenshot (I won't take a shot of all 3, the results are the same even using your updated sample zones released yesterday).
http://h37.bounceme.net/eqemu/zone1_textures.jpg
http://h37.bounceme.net/eqemu/infernal1_textures.jpg
(I of course tested all sample zones)
Zone.exe (zone1) output:
Connected to worldserver: localhost:9000
[Status] Weather should change in 6828 seconds
Init: Loading zone lists, zone state or spawn list, player corpses
WARNING: No Zonepoints for this zone in database found
, timezone data - Done. ZoneID = 998; Time Offset = 0
Couldn't find/read ./cfg/zone1.cfg. (returning -1)
Couldn't find/read ./cfg/zone1.cfg. (returning -1)
Corrupt (or nonexistant) zhdr file ./cfg/zone1.cfg -- fread count = -1 (should b
e 58
Using default zone header data...
[Status] Loading Objects from DB...
[Status] Loading Ground Spawns from DB...
[Status] Loading doors for zone1 ...
[Status] Done loading doors for zone1 ...
Petition 0 pettime = 1072501719
[Status] Zone Bootup: zone1 (99
Got ServerOP_SetAliasZone
Got SetAliasZone_Struct
Third-party zone: setting alias zone name to tutorial
I'm getting into the zones just fine, and as you can see the light sources are working fine as well (at the druid circle picture at the link above --zone1) .. geometry seems pretty good. Everything is set exactly as you stated to set up. I've tried using eqw and eqgame patchme, neither make a difference.
Hybrid Mode
