Character planner and item database for the Perpetuum MMORPG.
Author: Nikita Nemkin <nikita@nemkin.ru>
Homepage: http://nemkin.ru/planner
PerpetuumPlanner is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license.
Libraries used are under the GNU LGPL v2.1.
Game data is used without any specific license.
Game data is provided separately: http://nemkin.ru/planner/planner_data_2014_01_11.zip. It is a set of text files in JSON-like format native to Perpetuum client. Parser and converters for this format can be found in data/perpetuum.py and data/tools.py.
Data is split into fragments, translations and icons. Fragments are pieces of data with uniform structure (much like SQL tables), translations and icons are self-explanatory.
Note 1: Included icons are the recompressed (for smaller size) low-quality versions used in the Planner. Originals can be extracted from Perpetuum.gbf.
Note 2: At any given time there is only one translation dictionary in Perpetuum.gbf. To extract another language version you need to change the language and restart Perpetuum (notice how it downloads a new dictionary).
The GBF unpacker script is data/tools.py. It requires Python 2.7 to run. To unpack the whole Perpetuum.gbf use:
python tools.py data -i path\to\perpetuum.gbf -o output\dir --sort
(Install numpy beforehead if you don't want to wait 15 minutes).
You need:
- Python 2.7, Qt 4.7 binaries, Qt Creator.
- Some experience with C++, Pyhton and Qt.
Official builds of PerpetuumPlanner are created with VisualStudio 2008.
Qt version used is the latest 4.7 from git (http://qt.gitorious.org/) configured and built according to meta/config_skin.cache
with the /MT flag patched into win32-msvc2008 mkspec (QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE = -O2 -MT).
(The goal is relatively small and portable binary without external dependencies).
Steps:
Fetch the project from git.
Download planner_data_YYYY_MM_DD.zip from the downloads section and unpack it into the project's data directory.
Get the MyriadPro-BoldCond.otf (Myriad Pro Cond font) somewhere and put it in the res directory. It's a commercial font from Adobe with draconian license. I'm not sure it's legal to embed it even if you buy it. Therefore it's not included. To build without it, remove corresponding line from res/resources.qrc.
In the data directory run:
python compile.py
This command parses data fragments and converts them into serialized QVariant blobs which are written as data/compiled/*.dat files. Apart from throwing out some unused definitions, no changes are made during conversion. Later these *.dat filed (and also icons from the data/icons) are compiled into the Planner executable.
If you have PyYAML installed this command also creates game.yaml file which us handy for debugging data errors.
Download QtCreator, open perpetuumplanner.pro, set up your Qt paths in the settings and build.
The coding style used is more or less the Qt coding style.