#emmorpg

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Entity Systems

So I've been looking into implementing a different style of entity system based on an entity ID and entity components.  This is being implemented in another branch of my respository at https://github.com/Equinox-/Equinox-MMORPG-Maker/tree/entity-sys.

http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are-the-future-of-mmog-development-part-1/

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EMMORPG Combat Features and Item System

I just added more combat features and finished up the item system of EMMORPG.  In this first picture, you can see an entity chasing the player, which has just attacked it.  You can also see a beta version of the game menu and inventory GUI.   In addition there is an item entity above and to the left of the tree, that is an item that is dropped on the ground.

In this picture the player has died and re-spawned with full health.  Also, the wolf is no longer attacking, or chasing the player.

These code changes can be found at the this GitHub commit.

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EMMORPG Timed Combat and Attacker Disposal

Today I patched up a few bugs in the entity combat system, most notably adding a timer to entities attacking, stopping the server's AI for attacking the client every loop.  Also fixed a bug in the entity face packet, and added entity attack speed constants to the entity definition object.  Also fixed the bug that causes the last attacker entity identification number to persist even when an entity dies.  Updated some of the javadoc comments and demonstration files.  The issue that this fixes can be found here.

In other news I finally got Mark, alias Dlom working on the item system of EMMORPG.

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EMMORPG NPC Retaliation

Added support for retaliation by the server's AI to clients attacking server entities.  There are still a few bugs with this, most notably the fact that the server attacks the client once every loop, which will be fixed by the implementation of combat timers.  For more information on this update, check the commit on GitHub.

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EMMORPG Combat Framework

Finished up the basic combat framework today.  It's coming along quite nicely, and I'll probably have some screen shots for people soon.  Considering I got this done in one day it would appear that I will be done with EMMORPG's alpha version by the end of the summer.  The commit this update uses can be found on EMMORPG's GitHub Repository.

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Also, I've updated the javadoc of EMMORPG to include the server project. New Javadoc