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== EQ2Emulator 0.0 - A New Beginning ==
The Everquest II Emulator project was re-launched on July 26, 2007 by LethalEncounter. Since the relaunch of this project, the sole developer has made amazing progress with the help of a few community members along the way. These listings are the breakdown of the changelog.txt included with each release.

Note that these "builds" you see here are post-release of the given version, until the next version is released. Ie., changes in branch 0.0 are those changes between 0.0 and 0.1 release.

Pre-Release additional developers: Cadimiom, ferthala, and Ritojo.

The following is the pre-release changelog

'''10/13/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Updated world to allow multiple clients to zone in and see each other (as well as chat). 
LethalEncounter: Fixed the basics of movement updates for clients. It will appear a bit wierd and choppy right now. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed a few things that were broken in the last patch. 

'''10/08/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Updated to live. 

'''10/07/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Created basic combat system. It is rather simple right now, but will be built upon in the future to develop a more robust system. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed camping. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed a crash few bugs relating to spawns. 
LethalEncounter: Combined spawn updates/char sheet updates to reduce bandwidth. 
LethalEncounter: Reworked some of the Spawn and zone functions to be easier to use. 
LethalEncounter: Added disable exp command. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed several opcodes associated with camping. 

'''09/23/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Revamped spawns to be more consistent with the rest of the code. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed spawn struct problems and discovered the purpose of much of the unknowns. 
LethalEncounter: Added equipment appearance table for mobs that will allow people to customize mobs without giving them actual weapons and armor. 
LethalEncounter: Removed all World SQL tables from svn to prevent people from trying to source them. Just connect to login and it will create/update your db. 

'''09/19/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Fixed VisualStates in Release Build, bogus characters were being passed. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed some character colors on character select screen. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed some minor issues with logging into World that could crash server. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed opcodes and structs that allows us to run with the latest client. Be sure to update to live. 

'''09/17/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Fixed a buffer overrun exploit in TCPConnection with inflated packets. 
Cadimiom: Clients no longer make a server list packet on login unless an update has occured to a world. 
Cadimiom: The LS now receives updates of /race,/class and /level. 
Cadimiom: The LS and World use the character id retrieved from the world on creation (opposed to name). 

'''09/16/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: You can now summon items with the /summon command. 
LethalEncounter: Implemented item movement from bags to inventory and vice versa. 
LethalEncounter: Implemented equipping items. 
LethalEncounter: Implemented unequipping items. 
LethalEncounter: Add limited support for item stat calculations when equipping. 
LethalEncounter: Add /reloaditems command. 
LethalEncounter: Completely redesigned items and their associated tables. 
LethalEncounter: Made some bug fixes to max hp/regen code. 
LethalEncounter: Imported over 12,000 items into db. 
LethalEncounter: Made some bug fixes to item loading, reducing the loading time considerably. 

'''08/29/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Fixed an exploit with packets sent to the LS without authentication. 

'''08/28/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Got spell requirements working. Now it will check to verify that an effect should be fired. 

'''08/27/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Added player and mob Regen. Formula still needs to be tweeked, but they will regen correctly every 6 seconds. 
LethalEncounter: Added some stuff for spell requirements. 

'''08/26/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Made a few bug fixes to the spell code. 
LethalEncounter: Update character profile struct with regens. 
LethalEncounter: Changed Login to display a world as down if a world isnt connected. 
LethalEncounter: Updated spell tables with some additional fields. 
LethalEncounter: Made some improvements to PacketStructs. 
LethalEncounter: Implemented spell casting system. It was designed to be flexible enough for NPC spell casting in the future. 
LethalEncounter: Added functions for interrupting spells. 
LethalEncounter: Got first working spell in emu created.(Sprint) 
LethalEncounter: Cleaned up alot of the code in regards to Player. 
LethalEncounter: Added functions for Spawn updates. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed spawn updates. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed player updates. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed /race, /class, /level commands. 
LethalEncounter: /spawn command should work correctly again. 
LethalEncounter: Discovered several more of the unknowns in character profile. 

'''08/22/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Eliminated hash collissions in the VisualStates, plus additional memory reduction. 

'''08/21/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: /animtest can now use the name column in visual_states (ex.'/animtest cast_dustpuff' works just like '/animtest 145') 
Cadimiom: The majority of gestures are now available through a visual_states hash table. 
:::Not all gestures seem to be in visual_states yet (/laugh for example) and every gesture needs a message applied to it. 
DBUpdate: alter table visual_states add column message varchar(128) not null default '';

'''08/19/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Added character_skillbar table. 
LethalEncounter: The character_skillbar table is used to specify which spells are added to the skillbar when logging in. 
LethalEncounter: Added packet to allow world to read spell information from db and send it to client for above. 

'''08/18/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Created an /animtest command to test the variety of gestures/spell effects on a player. 
Ritojo: Updated most zones with their descriptions and safe coordinates. 
LethalEncounter: Added spells, spell_effects, spell_effect_types, spell_effect_values, and spell_visual_effects tables to database. 
LethalEncounter: World now loads spells from database and will display the spells correctly when viewed in game. 

'''08/15/2007:''' 
ferthala: Updated position struct and got it working correctly.Also added new opcode for it. 
LethalEncounter: Added Spell class for future spell functions. 
LethalEncounter: Updated the new spell struct. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed a small bug in automatic updates. 

'''08/13/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Removed two packets (GhostControlClose and OP_UpdateClientPredFlagsMsg) from zoning they were not needed. 
Cadimiom: Cleaned up ClientPacketFunctions of un-used packets. 
Cadimiom: ZoneServers have been threaded for their process to make sure one zone cannot consume the entire process. 

'''08/11/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Cleaned up some of the code related to sending packets to client. 
LethalEncounter: Added /move command to transport people around the zone. 
:::Usage: /move x y z 
LethalEncounter: Added structs for UpdateSpellBook and UpdateInventory and created the methods for them to be sent when logging in. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed annoying crash loop on login that occured if the client crashed.(Previously required player to remove all logs files from eq2 directory). 
Cadimiom: Fixed a crash in the World Server ClientList Process (NULL ref crashes). 
Cadimiom: Updated ZoneAuthRequest and Client to support firstLogin, used to specify packets or other messages that need to be only sent on world login (ex. MOTD). 
Cadimiom: There is now a database-driven Variables external class. 
:::It's first use is for handling the world MOTD in the database. 
:::Hard-coded MOTD will be used otherwise. 
:::The new table is available in the SQL Files, World Directory "variables.sql" 

'''08/10/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Fixed a few login bugs. 

'''08/09/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Created skill packet necessary to update client with their available skills. 
LethalEncounter: Updated database tables for skills. 
Cadimiom: The /zone command is now functional again, this required a few changes: 
::#Save character now saves the zone name to current_zone instead of zone. 
::#Following opcodes need to be sourced into the database: 
:::update opcodes set opcode=76 where name='OP_ReadyToZoneMsg'; 
:::update opcodes set opcode=70 where name='OP_ChangeZoneMsg'; 
:::update opcodes set opcode=74 where name='OP_AddGroupToGroupMsg'; 
::#I have noticed some zones do not work properly 
:::(befallen and boat_freeport for examples) and may get stuck in there. 

'''08/07/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Improvements to PacketStruct to make it faster/more efficient. 
LethalEncounter: Overhauled the character stats table (now called character_details) and made quite a few changes. 
:::Character Sheet packet will use the values from this table. 
Cadimiom: After a character is created, the Login Server now reloads the login character list. 
:::This solves the problem with crashing after creating a new character. 

'''08/06/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Added wing and hair types to spawn struct. 
LethalEncounter: Updated character sheet packet for latest client. 

'''08/05/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Updated Spawn Struct.Now loading and sending character information from database. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed several errors in PacketStructs that were causing corrupted data. 
LethalEncounter: Added Print function to PacketStruct to print out debug information. 
LethalEncounter: Update make file to compile on linux. 
LethalEncounter: World will now load characters by name instead of ID so that the ids between world and login dont have to stay synced. 
LethalEncounter: Updated to work with latest client. 
LethalEncounter: Converted SetPOVGhostCmd and SetControlGhostCmd to use dynamic structs. 

'''08/03/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Rewrote a lot of the xml packet struct code. 
:::Streamlined it a little, but mainly to add in the ability to have packet arrays built into the structs. 
LethalEncounter: Updated ZoneInfo struct. 

'''07/30/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Found the last packet needed to login to World! :) 
Cadimiom: Command serialization updated for live (packet size is now sent as 4 bytes) 
Cadimiom: Chat structure updated for live ( OP_EqHearChatCmd is now Opcode 474 ) 

'''07/29/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: Hardcoded an ability and quick bar initialization packets for world login. 
Cadimiom: Dynamic structures added for CommandName and CommandMOTD. 

'''07/28/2007:''' 
Cadimiom: WorldStructs.xml added to Config Files/World Structs, must be added to the build folder. 
Cadimiom: Cleaned up code in LoginServer.cpp cases: ServerOP_CharacterCreate, ServerOP_CharTimeStamp, ServerOP_UsertoWorldReq. 
Cadimiom: Added LS_LoginReply to WorldStructs.xml, Dynamic structures through configReader can now be used in ClientPacketFunctions. 
LethalEncounter: Fixed character deletion on character select screen. 
LethalEncounter: New Character creation checks with world before it creates any new characters. 
LethalEncounter: Character selection works like live. New characters will display just as you made them. 
LethalEncounter: Converted LoginByNumRequest packet to use xml structs. 

'''07/26/2007:''' 
LethalEncounter: Restarted project :)

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-== Other Releases ==
+== Previous Releases ==
-[[EQ2Emulator Current (Trunk)]]<br>
+[[Developer:Current | Current Development]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.6 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.6 | EQ2Emulator 0.6]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.5 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.5 | EQ2Emulator 0.5]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.4 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.4 | EQ2Emulator 0.4]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.3 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.3 | EQ2Emulator 0.3]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.2 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.2 | EQ2Emulator 0.2]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.1 Release]]<br>
+[[Developer:Release_0.1 | EQ2Emulator 0.1]]<br>
-[[EQ2Emulator 0.0]] - A New Beginning<br>
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 [[EQ2Emulator 0.5 Release]]<br>
 [[EQ2Emulator 0.4 Release]]<br>

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		+	== Previous Branches ==
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		+	[[EQ2Emulator 0.4 Release]]<br>
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 == EQ2Emulator 0.0 - A New Beginning ==
 The Everquest II Emulator project was re-launched on July 26, 2007 by LethalEncounter. Since the relaunch of this project, the sole developer has made amazing progress with the help of a few community members along the way. These listings are the breakdown of the changelog.txt included with each release.
 Note that these "builds" you see here are post-release of the given version, until the next version is released. Ie., changes in branch 0.0 are those changes between 0.0 and 0.1 release.
 Pre-Release additional developers: Cadimiom, ferthala, and Ritojo.
 The following is the pre-release changelog
 '''10/13/2007:'''<br>