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The NeL FAQ tries to answer the most pertinent questions that come across +the NeL mailing list.

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What is NeL exactly?

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What does the acronym NeL means?

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NeL stands for Nevrax Library. It is a set of routines aimed at the +development of multi-user virtual environments in an IP network. It is used as +the core for client and server software to create various forms of Internet +entertainment.

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Is this for a game?

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Yes and no. NeL is technically available for all forms of Internet +virtual environments, but is clearly aimed toward making a +Massively MultiPlayer Online Role Playing Game (or MMORPG) as its +first commercial application. The associated client and server software, +which are distributed along NeL are for that type of game.

Details on the game itself are not available right now, for commercial +strategy reasons. However, a sample game will be available along with the +code base.

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NeL and Free Software

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Have you checked WorldForge/Crystalspace/QuakeForge/others...?

+ +

We have looked carefully at the other Free Software projects available, +before reinventing the wheel. They're all more or less compatible with ours, +on a purely license level, thanks to the GPL, but +that does not mean they can fit in our development. We (the NeL maintainers) +are a commercial entity with a specific product to be delivered on time.

We want to keep a tight focus on the game we are doing right now, and +thus did not want to get involved in political struggles to get the code +we would need in, and did not want to create resentment by "taking over" +and steering other projects toward our goals, or creating a code fork +for our own purpose. Our timetable requires us to be more or less in control +of things.

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How can you make money if you're writing Free Software?

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That's the catch. Free Software doesn't mean free content, or free +service. While the software will be free, we retain property of our game +data and game servers. Free Software and OnLine games are a perfect match, +as these games are not really just code, but rather a service provided +to subscribers which will pay a monthly fee to access our servers to play +our game.

We believe that we have everything to gain, and nothing to lose by +opening the source code.

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Is this for a game?

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Details on the game itself are not available right now, for commercial -strategy reasons. However, a sample game will be available along with the -code base.

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Any other games?

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Nevrax, as a commercial entity, does not have other games scheduled -right now. However, nothing stops anybody else from using the NeL platform -and making a strategy wargame, or a virtual city, or anything else.

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NeL and Free Software

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We have looked carefully at the other Free Software projects available, -before reinventing the wheel. They're all more or less compatible with ours, -on a purely license level, thanks to the GPL, but -that does not mean they can fit in our development. We (the NeL maintainers) -are a commercial entity with a specific product to be delivered on time.

We want to keep a tight focus on the game we are doing right now, and -thus did not want to get involved in political struggles to get the code -we would need in, and did not want to create resentment by "taking over" -and steering other projects toward our goals, or creating a code fork -for our own purpose. Our timetable requires us to be more or less in control -of things.

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How can you make money if you're writing Free Software?

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That's the catch. Free Software doesn't mean free content, or free -service. While the software will be free, we retain property of our game -data and game servers. Free Software and OnLine games are a perfect match, -as these games are not really just code, but rather a service provided -to subscribers which will pay a monthly fee to access our servers to play -our game.

We believe that we have everything to gain, and nothing to lose by -opening the source code.

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What kind of APIs do you support?

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To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.

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In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License.

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Is this for a game?

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Any other games?

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Have you checked WorldForge/Crystalspace/QuakeForge/others...?

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How can you make money if you're writing Free Software?

We believe that we have everything to gain, and nothing to lose by +opening the source code.

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I have found this bug...

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I have a question on NeL architecture...

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What kind of APIs do you support?

Other divers can be added, including a software mode for those who really +want one. But performance without a 3D accelerated card will probably be +abysmal.

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NeL General Documentation : Introduction

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What is NeL

NeL is a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code. + +

Development philosophy

NeL is not a complete black box solution for absolutely any game that can be imagined.

Nevrax believe that any cutting edge interactive entertainment product needs a technology platform that is tuned to its specific requirements. NeL is intended to be considered as a library of components that can be added to, adapted or extended to meet the specific requirements of the products that are based on it.

It is clear that 'look alike' products that use the complete set or a sub-set of the features for an existing NeL product may get away with no extra technology development work at all.

Any technology developed for new NeL-based products should be fed back into NeL to allow the library to evolve and to stay at the leading edge.

The NeL development teams at Nevrax work closely with the internal product development teams to ensure that the solutions provided by NeL are perfectly adapted to the requirements of the product. In a nutshell this product contains animated characters walking around and interacting with each other in indoor and outdoor environments. The feature list below corresponds to the requirements of this type of product.

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NeL MMORPG architecture

The NeL solution is designed around a typical client/ server setup with the following physical machines:

+Admin site +

Login server
+ Manages user login and password authentication and negotiates with shards for connection points for clients. +
Shard administration servers
+ Server that communicate, by secure means, with the different servers of the different shards that are up. +

+Client site +

Client PC
+ Has client software & data installed +

+Server site +

The servers at each site are organised into sets that each manage simulate a single complete instance of a virtual univers. These groups arerefered to as shards. Each shard has the following servers on its own dedicated LAN :

Front end servers
+ A number of servers that manage player connections +
Back end servers
+ One or more servers that manage the game world and AI.
+ The back end software comprises a set of executables called 'services'. The list of services required to run a shard back end is product dependent. Any number of services can run on each back end server. +

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Development philosophy

NeL is not a complete black box solution for absolutely any game that can be imagined.

It is clear that 'look alike' products that use the complete set or a sub-set of the features for an existing NeL product may get away with no extra technology development work at all.

Any technology developed for new NeL-based products should be fed back into NeL to allow the library to evolve and to stay at the leading edge.

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NeL MMORPG architecture

The NeL solution is designed around a typical client/ server setup with the following physical machines:

-Admin site -

Login server
- Manages user login and password authentication and negotiates with shards for connection points for clients. -
Shard administration servers
- Server that communicate, by secure means, with the different servers of the different shards that are up. -

-Client site -

Client PC
- Has client software & data installed -

-Server site -

Front end servers
- A number of servers that manage player connections -
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- One or more servers that manage the game world and AI.
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NeL 3D Library : Features

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Introduction

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The NeL 3D library includes 3D audio and video rendering modules.

The objective of the 3D library is to provide an architecture framework for housing the code modules required for representing a virtual universe, and its contents, in 3D.

Nevrax are developing the code modules required to represent the universe that their product is based around. This universe includes animated characters, objects and special effects in a variety of environments including undulating terrain, towns and the insides of buildings.

+ +

Portability

NeL's 3D library is structured in layers built on top of a common driver layer. The Nevrax team are working with an OpenGL implementation of the driver layer, though there will certainly be further implementations for other graphics systems such as DirectX.

NeL is currently tested on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms.

+ +

Target Platforms

There are background loading and dynamic level of detail systems that apply to all components of the 3D library, allowing the software to be addapted to run efficiently on different specifications of hardware. +

The target test machine spec is as follows:

Intel Pentium3 1GHz +
Graphics card comprising Nvidia NV20 chipset +
128MBytes RAM +
4GBytes free space on hard disk +
DVD-ROM +
Sound card - minimum spec to be defined +

Nevrax expect their product to run at 30fps at 1024x768 resolution on a machine of this spec

+ +

Features

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Undulating Landscapes

Bezier patch landscape modeling gives NeL enormously more flexibilty than traditional height fields. NeL supports vertical faces, overhangs, and so on. +
The ROAM algorithm is used to provide adaptive subdivision of the landscape based on distance from the camera, steepness, etc. +
Geomorphing is used between LODs (levels of detail) to eliminate popping. +
Landscape colouring effects include vertex colouring and application of pre-calculated shadow maps. Pre-calculated shadows can have soft edges while real-time shadows obviously can not. Shadows can be coloured and faded at run time +
Lightmaps are used for landscape lighting to avoid lighting changing with LOD transitions +
Landscape texture mapping at a constant 1.5cm/ texel, with the possibility of a second complete additive texture layer. Texture continuity breaks due to bilinear filtering have been eliminated. +
Landscape is dynamicaly streamed into memory with background loading +
'Snap To Ground' functionality allows objects that are on the ground to remain attached to the surface as it geomorphs +

+To be developed : +

Displacement maps (also known as geometric noise) - these are taken into account during lightmap generation which means that they can still be 'seen' at low levels of detail +
Dynamic lighting +
Support for scrolling shadow maps on the ground (to represent moving clouds) +

+ +

Portal based Streets and interiors

Static light maps: up to 3 layers of light map simultaneously - each layer can be enabled, dissabled, faded or coloured in real time +
Tools: ligh map generation: max plugin: support for different lamp types, ray tracing for shadows, projected images (like a slide projector), support for coloured translucent objects influencing light colour (eg coloured glass), support for saturation (with lighting at > 100%), mixing of vertex colours into light map calculation +

+To be developed +

Use of portal algorithm for view determination +
Support for portals for view casting from interiors into the landscape mesh +

+ +

Characters and objects

Component based object construction, which allows the assembly of multiple "parts" of objects into a single mesh around a single skeleton +

+In development +

Multi-Resolution Meshes, to provide a smooth reduction in polygon count as objects retreat into the distance. Full implementaion of the technicque presented by Hope, in a recent paper, with geomorphing. This implementation provides superior results for low detail LODs and smooth transitions between LODs. +
Optimised management of extremely low detail 'billboard' versions ofobjects +
The LOD system is capable of working with a subset of the LODs. This means that the high detail LODs don't have to be loaded if there is insuffricient memory or if the client machine is not sufficiently powerful to make use of them. +

+ +

Animation

Skinning: support for skinning with up to 4 matrices per vertex +
Smooth transitions between animations +
Controlable blending of multiple animations (eg 70% walk + 30% limp) +
Application of different animations to different parts of skeleton (eg run + punch) +
Animation types (so far): bones, material & light parameters +
Animation export plugins for 3DStudio Max: feature more or less complete set of 3DStudio animation controlers (bezier, tcb, linear, etc) and support for biped (Character Studio) skeleton +
Skinning export plugins for 3DStudio Max: support both physique (character studio) & com_skin2 skinning data +

+To be developed : +

Blended Shape animation, to provide morphing and lip-sync style animations +
Inverse kinematics - a very simple and restrictive solver intended only for slight animation adjustments such as snapping feet to ground. +
Animation types: blend shape blend sliders, logical data such as audio triggers, etc. +

+ +

Materials

Support for environment mapping, multi-texturing, texture-colouration. +
Tools: more or less complete support for 3ds max materials +

+To be developed : +

Support for bump mapping +
Vertex and pixel shader implementations for GeForce3 and above +

+ +

Particle system

Support for various particles representations, including dot, line, triangles fans, bitmaps, shockwave, ripples, meshes. +
A variety of emitters are available : mesh, cone, plane, points and sphere emitters. +
Forces can be applied to particles +
Support for simple collision shapes for particles +
Support for LOD with distance +
Tools: custom WYSIWYG editor +

+To be developed : +

Particle systems can cast light into the scene and be lit by scene lights +
Integration of tools with Max and with animation exporters +

+ +

Other Special Effects

+To be developed : +

Screen distortion effects +
Real time shadow casting +
Water rendering effects +

+ +

Audio

+In development : +

2D and 3D audio engine +
Management of localised environment sounds (migration between 3d and 2d effcts) +
Management of audio environment (effect of environment on sound, etc) +
Scripted composite sounds for environments including cross fades between randomly selected loops with an additional layer of randomly triggered spot sounds +
Open AL/ Direct Sound implementations +

+ +

Technical Features

Exploitation of 3D graphic accelerator cards' TNL, pixel shader and vertex shader capabilities. +
Adaptive memory management with background hard disk data streaming. +
Adaptive texture and polygon detail to manage CPU load, GPU load and video memory constraints. +

+To be developed : +

GeForce 3 optimisation +

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The NeL 3D library includes 3D audio and video rendering modules.

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Portability

NeL is currently tested on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows platforms.

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The target test machine spec is as follows:

Intel Pentium3 1GHz -
Graphics card comprising Nvidia NV20 chipset -
128MBytes RAM -
4GBytes free space on hard disk -
DVD-ROM -
Sound card - minimum spec to be defined -

Nevrax expect their product to run at 30fps at 1024x768 resolution on a machine of this spec

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Undulating Landscapes

Bezier patch landscape modeling gives NeL enormously more flexibilty than traditional height fields. NeL supports vertical faces, overhangs, and so on. -
The ROAM algorithm is used to provide adaptive subdivision of the landscape based on distance from the camera, steepness, etc. -
Geomorphing is used between LODs (levels of detail) to eliminate popping. -
Landscape colouring effects include vertex colouring and application of pre-calculated shadow maps. Pre-calculated shadows can have soft edges while real-time shadows obviously can not. Shadows can be coloured and faded at run time -
Lightmaps are used for landscape lighting to avoid lighting changing with LOD transitions -
Landscape texture mapping at a constant 1.5cm/ texel, with the possibility of a second complete additive texture layer. Texture continuity breaks due to bilinear filtering have been eliminated. -
Landscape is dynamicaly streamed into memory with background loading -
'Snap To Ground' functionality allows objects that are on the ground to remain attached to the surface as it geomorphs -

-To be developed : -

Displacement maps (also known as geometric noise) - these are taken into account during lightmap generation which means that they can still be 'seen' at low levels of detail -
Dynamic lighting -
Support for scrolling shadow maps on the ground (to represent moving clouds) -

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Portal based Streets and interiors

Static light maps: up to 3 layers of light map simultaneously - each layer can be enabled, dissabled, faded or coloured in real time -
Tools: ligh map generation: max plugin: support for different lamp types, ray tracing for shadows, projected images (like a slide projector), support for coloured translucent objects influencing light colour (eg coloured glass), support for saturation (with lighting at > 100%), mixing of vertex colours into light map calculation -

-To be developed -

Use of portal algorithm for view determination -
Support for portals for view casting from interiors into the landscape mesh -

- -

Characters and objects

Component based object construction, which allows the assembly of multiple "parts" of objects into a single mesh around a single skeleton -

-In development -

Multi-Resolution Meshes, to provide a smooth reduction in polygon count as objects retreat into the distance. Full implementaion of the technicque presented by Hope, in a recent paper, with geomorphing. This implementation provides superior results for low detail LODs and smooth transitions between LODs. -
Optimised management of extremely low detail 'billboard' versions ofobjects -
The LOD system is capable of working with a subset of the LODs. This means that the high detail LODs don't have to be loaded if there is insuffricient memory or if the client machine is not sufficiently powerful to make use of them. -

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Animation

Skinning: support for skinning with up to 4 matrices per vertex -
Smooth transitions between animations -
Controlable blending of multiple animations (eg 70% walk + 30% limp) -
Application of different animations to different parts of skeleton (eg run + punch) -
Animation types (so far): bones, material & light parameters -
Animation export plugins for 3DStudio Max: feature more or less complete set of 3DStudio animation controlers (bezier, tcb, linear, etc) and support for biped (Character Studio) skeleton -
Skinning export plugins for 3DStudio Max: support both physique (character studio) & com_skin2 skinning data -

-To be developed : -

Blended Shape animation, to provide morphing and lip-sync style animations -
Inverse kinematics - a very simple and restrictive solver intended only for slight animation adjustments such as snapping feet to ground. -
Animation types: blend shape blend sliders, logical data such as audio triggers, etc. -

- -

Materials

Support for environment mapping, multi-texturing, texture-colouration. -
Tools: more or less complete support for 3ds max materials -

-To be developed : -

Support for bump mapping -
Vertex and pixel shader implementations for GeForce3 and above -

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Particle system

Support for various particles representations, including dot, line, triangles fans, bitmaps, shockwave, ripples, meshes. -
A variety of emitters are available : mesh, cone, plane, points and sphere emitters. -
Forces can be applied to particles -
Support for simple collision shapes for particles -
Support for LOD with distance -
Tools: custom WYSIWYG editor -

-To be developed : -

Particle systems can cast light into the scene and be lit by scene lights -
Integration of tools with Max and with animation exporters -

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Other Special Effects

-To be developed : -

Screen distortion effects -
Real time shadow casting -
Water rendering effects -

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Audio

-In development : -

2D and 3D audio engine -
Management of localised environment sounds (migration between 3d and 2d effcts) -
Management of audio environment (effect of environment on sound, etc) -
Scripted composite sounds for environments including cross fades between randomly selected loops with an additional layer of randomly triggered spot sounds -
Open AL/ Direct Sound implementations -

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Technical Features

Exploitation of 3D graphic accelerator cards' TNL, pixel shader and vertex shader capabilities. -
Adaptive memory management with background hard disk data streaming. -
Adaptive texture and polygon detail to manage CPU load, GPU load and video memory constraints. -

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GeForce 3 optimisation -

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Introduction

The objective of the AI library is to provide a complete toolbox of logic components for the implementation of 'believable' computer controlled characters in a massively multi-user universe simulation.

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Features

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Autonomous agents

Distributed autonomous agent framework infrastructure +
Run time agent definition scripting system (see below) +
Tool set for creation of hard-coded agents +
Agents are constructed as hierachical agregations of sub-elements +
Messaging system allows transparent routing of messages between agents within a single application or between aplications on a single shard. +

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A dedicated scripting language

Based on a virtual machine approach (similar to Java) +
Object oriented, with a strong agent flavor +
Declarative rather than procedural - which makes it well adapted to the definition of agregatins +

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Basic components for use in Agent design

Finite state automaton plugin for agent framework +
'Operator' based action planning plugin for the agent framework +
'Classifier' based learning plugin for the agent framework +
Agent memory plugin for the agent framework +
Fuzzy logic library with fuzzy logic controler plugin for the agent framework +

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Messaging system allows transparent routing of messages between agents within a single application or between aplications on a single shard. -

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Based on a virtual machine approach (similar to Java) -
Object oriented, with a strong agent flavor -
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Finite state automaton plugin for agent framework -
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Introduction

The Misc library contains all the core types and functionality and utilities necessary to use the Net, AI, 3D or PACS libraries.

It also includes a handful of handy utilities that don't belong in any of the other libraries.

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Features

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Core functionality

base data types +
platform independent data type definitions such as sint32, uint32, etc +
exception base class +
debugging macros +
debugging macros (assertions, debugging information, warnings,...) w/ link to displayers +
A fistfull of handy common routines and classes - maths, string manipulation, etc +
Reference counting system with smart pointers +
Smart pointers free the data they point to when it is no longer referenced +
unicode string management +
displayer system which abstracts the displayer (may be stdout, a file, a console window, etc.) +
A log message management system based on displayers. Provides message filtering functionality and support for multiple simultaneous displayers. +
The Class registry which allows instantiation of polymorphic classes by name. +

+ +

Portability

System information retrieval (retrieves info on the system OS, processor, RAM) +
Generalised event management system (c/f windows) used for input (keyboard, mouse, etc) +
OS independent thread & mutex management with Posix and Windows implementations +
System for management of internationaly localised text +
OS independent time retrieval (retrieves time from local machine's clock) +

+ +

Miscelaneous 3d primitives & utilities

Bounding box and bounding sphere implementations with 1001 associated utility routines +
complete implementation of different formats of RGBA colour representations +

+ +

Maths

Quaternion classes for quaternion maths +
Matrix classes for 3d maths +
2D and 3D vector classes in integer, single precision and double precision float implementations +
Plane class with associated functionality - projection of vector onto plane, polygon or line segment clipping against plane, etc. +

+ +

Memory management

Block and pool based memory managers for minimisation of memory fragmentation +
A Fifo manager that houses arbitrary non-uniform sized data blocks. The fifo size is dynamic but memory allocation and liberation is minimal. +

+ +

Serialisation & streams

"Based on Java's SERIALISE" +
Includes a file version support mechanism that allows backward compatibility (with old data files) +
Supports serialisation of: base types, classes composed of serialisable types, STL containers of serialisable types, pointers to serialisable data (including a reference counting system which serialises the data that the pointer points to unless it has already been serialsed by another pointer to the same data - At re-load time the pointers are fixed back up to point to the same data). +
Support for Polymorphism (serialisation of classes repherenced by a pinter of their base class type) +
Binary memory stream, ASCII memory stream, binary file stream implementations. +

+ +

Utilities

Functionality for loading and treating bitmaps of different formats +
A Search path management system for locating data files +
A string/ integer association system (handy for compacting message types) +
A configuration file loading and management system - capable of detecting changes to configuration files and reloading their contents without stopping and relaunching the program. +
Manages variables of type string, integer, float, or an array of any of these. +
A system for managing lists of functions refernced by a string and calling the appropriate command when passed a string. This system is handy for managing a command line at run time. +
A system for queuing tasks for threads to process. This system is handy for things like background loading. +
Complete implementation of arbitrary sized bit arrays +

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A Search path management system for locating data files -
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A system for managing lists of functions refernced by a string and calling the appropriate command when passed a string. This system is handy for managing a command line at run time. -
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A layer based architecture with API access to every layer +
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Login authentication +
Mechanisms for monitoring growth of output data packets to the application program +
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API for connection of client application to Login Manager, for login and password authentication and for valid shard list retrieval by the client. +
API for selection of a shard (for an authenticated user), selection of least loaded front end server on the shard for client connection and secure system for establishing the client connection. +

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Service API for backing up data +

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build_gamedata : automatic fully incremental batch process that produce final compiled data from top most working data.

WK : WORKING DATA : This data is a file edited by the artists. It will not be in client final data. This data is an input data for the build_gamedata process.

RT : RUNTIME DATA : This data is generated by build_gamedata. It is not edited by the artists. It will be included in client final data.

WR : WORKING and RUNTIME DATA : This data is a file edited by the artists but it will be included in final data. Build_gamedata will only copy it.

TP : TEMPORARY DATA : This data is produce by build_gamedata to build another kind of data. This data is not edited by the artists and not included in final data.

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.anim RT +NeL 3d animations. Contains several named animation tracks. Generated from .max files by build_gamedata. +It is readable by NeL. Viewable in object_viewer. +
.bank WK +NeL tile bank. Bank of bitmap tiles used by the landscape. Edited by the artists with tile_edit.exe. +build_gamedata generates .smallbank with it. Only one bank file per landscape. Readable by NeL. +
.cfg RT +Configuration file used by NLMISC::CConfigFile class. Used to set user parameters for NeL applications. +
.clodbank RT +Character LOD bank using 3d sprit objects (quake 1 like) to be quickly draw and animated when far away. +Generated from .max files by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. +
.cmb TP +Simple geometry dump used by build_gamedata to compute surfaces for interior collision meshes. Exported from .max files. +Not readable by NeL. +
.dds RT +Microsoft DirectDraw Surface (DDS) format is used to store textures and cubic environment maps with mipmaps. It compress textures +in a hardware friendly format. Generated from .tga files by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. +More information here +
.farbank RT +NeL far bank. Bank of bitmap used by the landscape to map patches when far away. Generated by build_gamedata from .tga tiles and the +bank file. +Only one farbank file per landscape. Readable by NeL. +
.gr RT +Instances of local retrievers. Used for NeL 3d collisions. Readable by NeL. +
.ig RT +NeL 3d Instance Group. Contains a list of instanced stuffs in a landscape (a shape reference with a matrix) (optinal), a list of +lights (optinal) and +a cluster system description (optinal). It is generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. +
.lr TP +Temporary landscape zone surface file produced during by build_gamedata from a .tessel file. Used to build .gr and .rbank files. Not +readable by NeL. +
.max WK +3dsmax file format. Used to produce .anim, .clodbank, .cmb, .ig, .pacs_prim, .shape, .skel, .swt, .zone files. NeL can't direclty +read it. +build_gamedata exports those files using 3dsmax scripts and plugins. +
.pacs_prim RT +Set of PACS primitive (Box or cylinder description with size, radius, height, position and PACS properties). Generated from .max +file by build_gamedata. +Readable by NeL. +
.ps WK +NeL 3d particule system. This file is edited with object_viewer.exe. +Readable by NeL. In fact, .ps are .shape files. +
.rbank RT +Retrievers Bank. It is the bank of collision zones used by NEL::PACS. +Generated by build_gamedata from .lr files. Readable by NeL. +
.shape RT +NeL 3d object used to store a 3d mesh. It can be a simple mesh, skinned mesh, a multilod mesh, a lensflare, a remanence mesh, +a water mesh, a particul system. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. +
.skel RT +NeL 3d skeleton description used to deform skinned shapes using .anim. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. +
.smallbank RT +Same file than .bank but some informations have been removed to get a smaller runtime file. Generated by build_gamedata. Readable by +NeL. + +
.swt RT +NeL 3d file that contains weight for skeleton animation. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. +
.tessel TP +Temporary landscape zone tesselation file produced during the build_gamedata process with a .zone and its neighbors. +Used to generate .lr files. Very Hugh zone tesselation dump. (at 0.5 meter). Not used in final data. Not readable by NeL. +
.tga WK/RT +Targa Truevision Graphics bitmap file format. Edited by artists. Format RGBA 16 and 32 bits uncompressed, RGB 24 bits uncompressed +readable by NeL. This file format is used by build_gamedata to generate .dds files. It is used to as runtime data for +bitmap that doesn't need to be 'dds' compressed. (Like displacement tiles). +
.veget RT +Vegetable file. This file is a simple mesh with only few polygons used like a blade of grass by a vegetset. +Generated from .max files by build_gamedata. +
.vegetset WK +Vegetable set file. This file describe a micro-vegetation material. It can be edited with object_viewer.exe. +It can be assigned to a lanscape tileset (in bank file) using tile_edit.exe. + +
.zone TP +NeL landscape zone made of patches of 160 x 160 meters generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Used by build_gamedata to +produce .zonew files. Readable by NeL. +
.zonew TP +Same file than .zone but welding informations with neighbors has been computed by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. +
.zonel RT +Same file than zonel but lighing informations have been computed by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. +
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.bank WK -NeL tile bank. Bank of bitmap tiles used by the landscape. Edited by the artists with tile_edit.exe. -build_gamedata generates .smallbank with it. Only one bank file per landscape. Readable by NeL. -
.cfg RT -Configuration file used by NLMISC::CConfigFile class. Used to set user parameters for NeL applications. -
.clodbank RT -Character LOD bank using 3d sprit objects (quake 1 like) to be quickly draw and animated when far away. -Generated from .max files by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. -
.cmb TP -Simple geometry dump used by build_gamedata to compute surfaces for interior collision meshes. Exported from .max files. -Not readable by NeL. -
.dds RT -Microsoft DirectDraw Surface (DDS) format is used to store textures and cubic environment maps with mipmaps. It compress textures -in a hardware friendly format. Generated from .tga files by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. -More information here -
.farbank RT -NeL far bank. Bank of bitmap used by the landscape to map patches when far away. Generated by build_gamedata from .tga tiles and the -bank file. -Only one farbank file per landscape. Readable by NeL. -
.gr RT -Instances of local retrievers. Used for NeL 3d collisions. Readable by NeL. -
.ig RT -NeL 3d Instance Group. Contains a list of instanced stuffs in a landscape (a shape reference with a matrix) (optinal), a list of -lights (optinal) and -a cluster system description (optinal). It is generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. -
.lr TP -Temporary landscape zone surface file produced during by build_gamedata from a .tessel file. Used to build .gr and .rbank files. Not -readable by NeL. -
.max WK -3dsmax file format. Used to produce .anim, .clodbank, .cmb, .ig, .pacs_prim, .shape, .skel, .swt, .zone files. NeL can't direclty -read it. -build_gamedata exports those files using 3dsmax scripts and plugins. -
.pacs_prim RT -Set of PACS primitive (Box or cylinder description with size, radius, height, position and PACS properties). Generated from .max -file by build_gamedata. -Readable by NeL. -
.ps WK -NeL 3d particule system. This file is edited with object_viewer.exe. -Readable by NeL. In fact, .ps are .shape files. -
.rbank RT -Retrievers Bank. It is the bank of collision zones used by NEL::PACS. -Generated by build_gamedata from .lr files. Readable by NeL. -
.shape RT -NeL 3d object used to store a 3d mesh. It can be a simple mesh, skinned mesh, a multilod mesh, a lensflare, a remanence mesh, -a water mesh, a particul system. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. -
.skel RT -NeL 3d skeleton description used to deform skinned shapes using .anim. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. -
.smallbank RT -Same file than .bank but some informations have been removed to get a smaller runtime file. Generated by build_gamedata. Readable by -NeL. - -
.swt RT -NeL 3d file that contains weight for skeleton animation. Generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Readable by NeL. -
.tessel TP -Temporary landscape zone tesselation file produced during the build_gamedata process with a .zone and its neighbors. -Used to generate .lr files. Very Hugh zone tesselation dump. (at 0.5 meter). Not used in final data. Not readable by NeL. -
.tga WK/RT -Targa Truevision Graphics bitmap file format. Edited by artists. Format RGBA 16 and 32 bits uncompressed, RGB 24 bits uncompressed -readable by NeL. This file format is used by build_gamedata to generate .dds files. It is used to as runtime data for -bitmap that doesn't need to be 'dds' compressed. (Like displacement tiles). -
.veget RT -Vegetable file. This file is a simple mesh with only few polygons used like a blade of grass by a vegetset. -Generated from .max files by build_gamedata. -
.vegetset WK -Vegetable set file. This file describe a micro-vegetation material. It can be edited with object_viewer.exe. -It can be assigned to a lanscape tileset (in bank file) using tile_edit.exe. - -
.zone TP -NeL landscape zone made of patches of 160 x 160 meters generated by build_gamedata from .max files. Used by build_gamedata to -produce .zonew files. Readable by NeL. -
.zonew TP -Same file than .zone but welding informations with neighbors has been computed by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. -
.zonel RT -Same file than zonel but lighing informations have been computed by build_gamedata. Readable by NeL. -
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Nel Network Library

Introduction

This documents +presents 'NeL Net', the NeL network library.

NeL is a toolkit +for the development of massively online universes. It provides the +base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the +development of both client and server code.

The NeL Net +comprises code libraries for inter-server communication and +server-client communication. It also provides implementations of the +service executables required by the higher level layers of the code +libraries.

Mission Statement

The first objective +of NeL Net is to provide a complete data transfer system that +abstracts system specific code and provides mechanisms for complete +control of bandwidth usage by the application code.

NeL Net has a +further objective of providing a complete toolkit, comprising further +layers of library code and core service implementations, for the +development of performance critical distributed program systems for +massively multi user universe servers. +

The current feature +requirement list for NeL Net corresponds to the application +architecture for Nevrax' first product. This notably includes the +requirement for a centralised login validation system at a separate +geographical location from the universe servers.

Nevrax is currently +developing a TCP/IP implementation of the low level network layers. A +UDP implementation may be developed at a later date.

Target Platforms

The Nevrax team +expect to run GNU/Linux servers for their first product. As such, GNU/Linux +is the primary target operating system.

NeL Net is +currently tested on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows NT platforms.

Statement of requirements

The Network library +addresses the following problems:

Client -> Server communication

The product + code (also referred to as app code) on the Client needs to be able + to pass blocks of information to the network layer for communication + to the server. The network code is responsible for ensuring that + the blocks of data arrive complete server-side. In the majority of + cases the blocks of data from the client will be significantly + smaller than the maximum packet size, which means that the network + code should not need to split data blocks across network packets.
+
In order for + the app code to control the flow of data to the server, the network + code should buffer sends until either an app-definable time has + elapsed or an app-definable packet size has been reached.
+
Note: The + information sent from the client to the server will generally be + small in size, typically representing player actions such as + movement. +
+

Server -> Client communication

The app code + on the Server needs to be able to pass blocks of information to the + network layer for communication to the client. This problem is + exactly the same as the Client -> Server problem, described + above.
+
The app code + is responsible for limiting the amount of data sent to each player + each second by prioritising the information to be dispatched. In + order to achieve this, the network code should buffer sends until + the app code explicitly requests a buffer flush. The network API + should provide the app code with the means of tracking the growth of + the output buffer. +
+
Note: The + information sent from the server to the client will often be large + in size, as the server must inform the player of changes of state + and position of all other characters and objects in the player's + vicinity. +
+

Inter-Process communication across servers

The different + processes that make up the game need to be able to send messages to + each other to request or exchange information.
+
There needs to + be a transparent routing mechanism that locates the services to + which messages are addressed and dispatches them.
+
There needs to + be a standard framework that handles the queue of incoming messages + and manages the dispatch of messages to different modules within a + process. (e.g. A process that manages a set of AI controlled + characters may have one module that handles incoming environment + information, another that treats other processes' information + requests, and so on).
+

On the fly backup management

There needs to + be a reliable centralised system for backing up and retrieving world + data.
+
The system + must be capable of treating large volumes of data as 'transactions'. + This means that if a server goes down - when it comes back up + transactions will never be 'half complete'. Any transactions that + had been begun but not finished must be automatically undone.
+
The backup + system must be capable of managing a 'backup schedule' under which + it sends backup requests to scheduled processes and treats the + return data.
+
The backup + system must be capable of handling spontaneous backups from + different processes (particularly the player management processes + who are capable of backing up players at any time).
+
The backup + system will be called upon to retrieve player data whenever a player + logs in. This operation must be reasonably fast.
+
The backup + system will be called upon to supply data to each system at system + initialisation time. The backup system should supply such systems + with their complete data sets.
+

General requirements

The app code + is responsible for network traffic and must be capable of much lower + level access to the Network library than the above requirements + suggest.
+

Login/ logout management

The product + that Nevrax is developing handles multiple instances of the game + world running on different server sets (known as 'Shards') with a + single centralised login manager.
+
The login + manager must:
+
- Receive login + requests from client machines
  +
- Validate + login requests with the account management system
  +
- Provide the + client with the active shard list
  +
- Negotiate a + connection with the shard of the client's choice
  +
- Dispatch the + shard's IP address and a unique login key to the client
  +
+
The login + manager must refuse attempts to login multiple times under the same + user account. This implies that the login manager must be warned + when players log out.
+
The login + system should include client and shard modules that provide a high + level interface to the login manager, encapsulating communication.
+

Account management

No choice has + been made as to what solution to take to account management at NeL.
+
It is + sufficient to know that we need a standard API for the account + management system capable of validating logins.
+

Technical design details

Design outline

The NeL network +library provides a single solution which caters for all of the Server +-> Client, Client -> Server and Inter-Process communication +requirements.

This solution is +structured as a number of layers that are stacked on top of each +other. The API gives the app programmers direct access to all of the +layers.

There is a program +skeleton for the programs within a shard who are capable of +communicating with each other via layer 5 messages. Programs of this +form are referred to as 'Services'.

The backup system +is a standalone service (a service being a process which exposes a +standard message interface) which will encapsulate a 3rd party +database.

The login manager +and account manager are standalone programs at an isolated site.

In a nutshell the +network support layers include:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

+ Layer 4 + (Top Layer) +	+ Inter-Service + message addressing layer + Handles routing of messages to + services, encapsulating connection to naming service and handling + of lost connections. +
+ Layer 3 +	+ Message management layer (Handling + of asynchronous message passing, and callbacks) +
+ Layer 2 +	+ Serialised data + management layer + Supports the standard serial() + mechanism provided by NeL for handling data streams. +
+ Layer 1 +	+ Data block + management layer (buffering and structuring of data with + generic serialization system) + Also provides multi-threading + listening system for services +
+ Layer 0 + (Bottom Layer) +	+ Data transfer layer Abstraction + of the network API and links (PC may be across a network, or local + messaging) +

Layer 0

Layer 0 includes +the following classes:

CSock : + Base interface and behavior definition for hierarchical descendents
+
CTcpSock : + Implementation of a socket class for the TCP/IP protocol
+
CUdpSock : + Implementation of a socket class for the UDP protocol
+

**** +Document under construction

Layer 1

Layer 1 includes +the following classes:

CBufNetBase : + Buffer functionality common to client and server
+
CBufClient : + Implements client-specific buffer functionality +
+
CBufServer : + Implements server-specific buffer functionality
+

**** +Document under construction

Layer 2

Layer 2 includes +the following classes:

CStreamNetBase : + Stream functionality common to client and server
+
CStreamClient : + Client-specific stream functionality
+
CStreamServer : + Server-specific stream functionality
+

**** +Document under construction

Layer 3

Layer 3 includes +the following classes:

CCallbackNetBase : + Functionality common to client and server
+
CCallbackClient : + Client-specific functionality
+
CCallbackServer : + Server-specific functionality
+

**** +Document under construction

Layer 4

**** +Document under construction

System Services

The following +system services are provided as part of NeL. For each of these +services there exists an API class that may be instantiated in any +app-specific service in order to encapsulate the system service's +functionality.

The Naming Service

A standalone +program used by all services to reference each other.

All services + connect to the naming service when they are initialised. They + inform the naming service of their name and whereabouts.
+
The naming + service is capable of informing any service of the whereabouts of + any other service.
+
When more than + one instance of the same service connect to the naming service we + anticipate the possibility of the naming service managing simple + load balancing by distributing connection requests to the given + service across the available instances.
+

API class: +CNamingClient

Generates + dynamic port numbers
+
Registers the + application service's name with the naming service.
+

Retrieves the + IP address and port number for a named service.
+
See + technical documentation for details
+

The Time Service

Provides standard +universal time (in milliseconds) for the services within a shard and +also for remote clients across the internet.

API class: +CUniTime - See technical documentation for details

Synchronises + the local machine time with the universal time
+
Provides + access to the universal time
+

See + technical documentation for details
+

The Log Service

Provides a +centralised information logging system.

API class: +CNetDisplayer

Allows any log + message to be directed to the log service (instead of or as well as + the screen, a disk log file, etc)
+
This is a + displayer in the logging system (see misc library for details)
+
See + technical documentation for more details
+

The Service Skeleton

The network library +presents a generic service skeleton, which includes the base +functions of a distributed service. At initialisation time it +performs the following:

Reads and + interprets configuration file and command line parameters
+
Redirects the + system signals to NeL handler routines
+
Connects to + the Log Service
+
Connects to + the Time Service and synchronises clock with universal time
+
Creates and + registers callbacks for network layer 3
+
Sets up the + service's 'listen' socket
+
Registers + itself with the Naming Service
+

The skeleton also +handles exceptions and housekeeping when the program exits (whether +cleanly or not)

Login system

**** +Document under construction

Login manager(stand alone)

**** +Document under construction

Login client API

**** +Document under construction

Login shard API

**** +Document under construction

Account manager (stand alone)

Stand alone program +that handles the list of users permitted to connect to shards managed +by a given Login Manager. +

NeL provides a +skeleton program that includes the communication protocols for the +Login manager.

Backup Service

**** +Document under construction

Administration

NeL provides the +base mechanisms for administering a NeL shard. Two basic services +are provided:

The Admin +Service (1 per shard)

Provides an entry point for + cluster administration.
+
Provides access to logging + information and mechanisms for starting or restarting services
+

The Admin +Executor (1 per server)

This is the relay for the Admin + Service.
+
Fetches statistics on the local + machine and relays them to the Admin Service
+
Launches and controls the services + running on the local machine.
+

Future plans

The purely network +library is typically self-contained, and not much subject to +modification, unless one wants to change the entire paradigm around +which the platform runs. Addition of a specific and non-standard +network or network API would be the only reason one would change +layer 1. +

**** +Document under construction

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Nel Network Library

Introduction

This documents -presents 'NeL Net', the NeL network library.

NeL is a toolkit -for the development of massively online universes. It provides the -base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the -development of both client and server code.

The NeL Net -comprises code libraries for inter-server communication and -server-client communication. It also provides implementations of the -service executables required by the higher level layers of the code -libraries.

Mission Statement

The first objective -of NeL Net is to provide a complete data transfer system that -abstracts system specific code and provides mechanisms for complete -control of bandwidth usage by the application code.

NeL Net has a -further objective of providing a complete toolkit, comprising further -layers of library code and core service implementations, for the -development of performance critical distributed program systems for -massively multi user universe servers. -

The current feature -requirement list for NeL Net corresponds to the application -architecture for Nevrax' first product. This notably includes the -requirement for a centralised login validation system at a separate -geographical location from the universe servers.

Nevrax is currently -developing a TCP/IP implementation of the low level network layers. A -UDP implementation may be developed at a later date.

Target Platforms

The Nevrax team -expect to run GNU/Linux servers for their first product. As such, GNU/Linux -is the primary target operating system.

NeL Net is -currently tested on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows NT platforms.

Statement of requirements

The Network library -addresses the following problems:

Client -> Server communication

The product - code (also referred to as app code) on the Client needs to be able - to pass blocks of information to the network layer for communication - to the server. The network code is responsible for ensuring that - the blocks of data arrive complete server-side. In the majority of - cases the blocks of data from the client will be significantly - smaller than the maximum packet size, which means that the network - code should not need to split data blocks across network packets.
-
In order for - the app code to control the flow of data to the server, the network - code should buffer sends until either an app-definable time has - elapsed or an app-definable packet size has been reached.
-
Note: The - information sent from the client to the server will generally be - small in size, typically representing player actions such as - movement. -
-

Server -> Client communication

The app code - on the Server needs to be able to pass blocks of information to the - network layer for communication to the client. This problem is - exactly the same as the Client -> Server problem, described - above.
-
The app code - is responsible for limiting the amount of data sent to each player - each second by prioritising the information to be dispatched. In - order to achieve this, the network code should buffer sends until - the app code explicitly requests a buffer flush. The network API - should provide the app code with the means of tracking the growth of - the output buffer. -
-
Note: The - information sent from the server to the client will often be large - in size, as the server must inform the player of changes of state - and position of all other characters and objects in the player's - vicinity. -
-

Inter-Process communication across servers

The different - processes that make up the game need to be able to send messages to - each other to request or exchange information.
-
There needs to - be a transparent routing mechanism that locates the services to - which messages are addressed and dispatches them.
-
There needs to - be a standard framework that handles the queue of incoming messages - and manages the dispatch of messages to different modules within a - process. (e.g. A process that manages a set of AI controlled - characters may have one module that handles incoming environment - information, another that treats other processes' information - requests, and so on).
-

On the fly backup management

There needs to - be a reliable centralised system for backing up and retrieving world - data.
-
The system - must be capable of treating large volumes of data as 'transactions'. - This means that if a server goes down - when it comes back up - transactions will never be 'half complete'. Any transactions that - had been begun but not finished must be automatically undone.
-
The backup - system must be capable of managing a 'backup schedule' under which - it sends backup requests to scheduled processes and treats the - return data.
-
The backup - system must be capable of handling spontaneous backups from - different processes (particularly the player management processes - who are capable of backing up players at any time).
-
The backup - system will be called upon to retrieve player data whenever a player - logs in. This operation must be reasonably fast.
-
The backup - system will be called upon to supply data to each system at system - initialisation time. The backup system should supply such systems - with their complete data sets.
-

General requirements

The app code - is responsible for network traffic and must be capable of much lower - level access to the Network library than the above requirements - suggest.
-

Login/ logout management

The product - that Nevrax is developing handles multiple instances of the game - world running on different server sets (known as 'Shards') with a - single centralised login manager.
-
The login - manager must:
-
- Receive login - requests from client machines
  -
- Validate - login requests with the account management system
  -
- Provide the - client with the active shard list
  -
- Negotiate a - connection with the shard of the client's choice
  -
- Dispatch the - shard's IP address and a unique login key to the client
  -
-
The login - manager must refuse attempts to login multiple times under the same - user account. This implies that the login manager must be warned - when players log out.
-
The login - system should include client and shard modules that provide a high - level interface to the login manager, encapsulating communication.
-

Account management

No choice has - been made as to what solution to take to account management at NeL.
-
It is - sufficient to know that we need a standard API for the account - management system capable of validating logins.
-

Technical design details

Design outline

The NeL network -library provides a single solution which caters for all of the Server --> Client, Client -> Server and Inter-Process communication -requirements.

This solution is -structured as a number of layers that are stacked on top of each -other. The API gives the app programmers direct access to all of the -layers.

There is a program -skeleton for the programs within a shard who are capable of -communicating with each other via layer 5 messages. Programs of this -form are referred to as 'Services'.

The backup system -is a standalone service (a service being a process which exposes a -standard message interface) which will encapsulate a 3rd party -database.

The login manager -and account manager are standalone programs at an isolated site.

In a nutshell the -network support layers include:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

- Layer 4 - (Top Layer) -	- Inter-Service - message addressing layer - Handles routing of messages to - services, encapsulating connection to naming service and handling - of lost connections. -
- Layer 3 -	- Message management layer (Handling - of asynchronous message passing, and callbacks) -
- Layer 2 -	- Serialised data - management layer - Supports the standard serial() - mechanism provided by NeL for handling data streams. -
- Layer 1 -	- Data block - management layer (buffering and structuring of data with - generic serialization system) - Also provides multi-threading - listening system for services -
- Layer 0 - (Bottom Layer) -	- Data transfer layer Abstraction - of the network API and links (PC may be across a network, or local - messaging) -

Layer 0

Layer 0 includes -the following classes:

CSock : - Base interface and behavior definition for hierarchical descendents
-
CTcpSock : - Implementation of a socket class for the TCP/IP protocol
-
CUdpSock : - Implementation of a socket class for the UDP protocol
-

**** -Document under construction

Layer 1

Layer 1 includes -the following classes:

CBufNetBase : - Buffer functionality common to client and server
-
CBufClient : - Implements client-specific buffer functionality -
-
CBufServer : - Implements server-specific buffer functionality
-

**** -Document under construction

Layer 2

Layer 2 includes -the following classes:

CStreamNetBase : - Stream functionality common to client and server
-
CStreamClient : - Client-specific stream functionality
-
CStreamServer : - Server-specific stream functionality
-

**** -Document under construction

Layer 3

Layer 3 includes -the following classes:

CCallbackNetBase : - Functionality common to client and server
-
CCallbackClient : - Client-specific functionality
-
CCallbackServer : - Server-specific functionality
-

**** -Document under construction

Layer 4

**** -Document under construction

System Services

The following -system services are provided as part of NeL. For each of these -services there exists an API class that may be instantiated in any -app-specific service in order to encapsulate the system service's -functionality.

The Naming Service

A standalone -program used by all services to reference each other.

All services - connect to the naming service when they are initialised. They - inform the naming service of their name and whereabouts.
-
The naming - service is capable of informing any service of the whereabouts of - any other service.
-
When more than - one instance of the same service connect to the naming service we - anticipate the possibility of the naming service managing simple - load balancing by distributing connection requests to the given - service across the available instances.
-

API class: -CNamingClient

Generates - dynamic port numbers
-
Registers the - application service's name with the naming service.
-

Retrieves the - IP address and port number for a named service.
-
See - technical documentation for details
-

The Time Service

Provides standard -universal time (in milliseconds) for the services within a shard and -also for remote clients across the internet.

API class: -CUniTime - See technical documentation for details

Synchronises - the local machine time with the universal time
-
Provides - access to the universal time
-

See - technical documentation for details
-

The Log Service

Provides a -centralised information logging system.

API class: -CNetDisplayer

Allows any log - message to be directed to the log service (instead of or as well as - the screen, a disk log file, etc)
-
This is a - displayer in the logging system (see misc library for details)
-
See - technical documentation for more details
-

The Service Skeleton

The network library -presents a generic service skeleton, which includes the base -functions of a distributed service. At initialisation time it -performs the following:

Reads and - interprets configuration file and command line parameters
-
Redirects the - system signals to NeL handler routines
-
Connects to - the Log Service
-
Connects to - the Time Service and synchronises clock with universal time
-
Creates and - registers callbacks for network layer 3
-
Sets up the - service's 'listen' socket
-
Registers - itself with the Naming Service
-

The skeleton also -handles exceptions and housekeeping when the program exits (whether -cleanly or not)

Login system

**** -Document under construction

Login manager(stand alone)

**** -Document under construction

Login client API

**** -Document under construction

Login shard API

**** -Document under construction

Account manager (stand alone)

Stand alone program -that handles the list of users permitted to connect to shards managed -by a given Login Manager. -

NeL provides a -skeleton program that includes the communication protocols for the -Login manager.

Backup Service

**** -Document under construction

Administration

NeL provides the -base mechanisms for administering a NeL shard. Two basic services -are provided:

The Admin -Service (1 per shard)

Provides an entry point for - cluster administration.
-
Provides access to logging - information and mechanisms for starting or restarting services
-

The Admin -Executor (1 per server)

This is the relay for the Admin - Service.
-
Fetches statistics on the local - machine and relays them to the Admin Service
-
Launches and controls the services - running on the local machine.
-

Future plans

The purely network -library is typically self-contained, and not much subject to -modification, unless one wants to change the entire paradigm around -which the platform runs. Addition of a specific and non-standard -network or network API would be the only reason one would change -layer 1. -

**** -Document under construction

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Roughly speaking, NeL is a platform for the creation of multiplayer +entertainment on the Internet.

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NeL is released as a Free Software project, under the GNU General Public License. +If you are not familiar with it, check the GPL text +here, or go +directly to the Free Software Foundation +site.

NeL uses the GNU GPL to provide as many guarantees as possible for +everyone involved. Meaning the original authors, the casual user, and +all possible contributors. The GPL makes NeL an open platform +and ensures that will stay so.

+ + + + + + + + +

What's in it for me?

There are many potential benefits for you. As it is free software, you +have full control over what it does for you. You are not dependent on anyone +for support or adaptation. You may port NeL to any obscure environment +that no one but you knows about. You may fix the nagging bug that affects +only your computer. You +may add the latest technology you've stumbled upon, without having to +wait for anybody to be convinced that it is an important +project. You may customize NeL to do exactly what you want.

The fact that everyone can read the NeL source also offers a guarantee +of quality. A source that anyone can read will have to be readable by +anyone, and a source that is easy to read is a source that is hard to bug.

+ + + + + + + + +

What's in it for Nevrax?

First and foremost, at Nevrax, we believe software should be Free.

In practice, we gain exactly the same things you do. Nevrax does not and cannot have the +level of manpower that a free software community built around a project +has; no one can. So, while Nevrax will work on its own priorities, it will +maintain the NeL reference platform to the best interest of the community.

As people add, enhance and debug NeL, the code will grow, in terms of +quality and functionality, faster than any single organisation could do on its own. Nevrax +is commited to integrate the best of the enhancements, ports and other +useful modifications into the reference platform.

+ + + + + + + + +

How can I participate?

There are many tools used to make easier the whole process. This site +is dedicated to fostering the kind of community NeL needs, and has all +levels of activity.

A community needs communication, and thus, the first step is to subscribe +to the NeL mailing List. Download +the source tree (preferably using CVS to stay in sync +with the current version later). Eventually, register +for bug tracking.

The mailing list is the place to discuss the way NeL is structured, the +way its contents are written, and what to add or modify in it. If you have +modifications to contribute, the mailing list is where you may post +your patches, and the place where they can be reviewed by the public.

Larger patches that would be too long to post may be sent directly to +the code@nevrax.org submission address +for internal review.

As in all such communities, your contributions will be judged on their +merit and the reputation you will build for youself. The best way to have a significant and +positive input is not a magic recipe. Be courteous, be pertinent, be +critical - in positive as much as negative manner - and be accurate. +The quality of your contribution will ensure your rightful place in the NeL development.

Oh, and by the way, we do credit all contributors, even if they have +only two lines of code in the whole source tree...

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NeL is released as a Free Software project, under the GNU General Public License. -If you are not familiar with it, check the GPL text -here, or go -directly to the Free Software Foundation -site.

NeL uses the GNU GPL to provide as many guarantees as possible for -everyone involved. Meaning the original authors, the casual user, and -all possible contributors. The GPL makes NeL an open platform -and ensures that will stay so.

- - - - - - - - -

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There are many potential benefits for you. As it is free software, you -have full control over what it does for you. You are not dependent on anyone -for support or adaptation. You may port NeL to any obscure environment -that no one but you knows about. You may fix the nagging bug that affects -only your computer. You -may add the latest technology you've stumbled upon, without having to -wait for anybody to be convinced that it is an important -project. You may customize NeL to do exactly what you want.

The fact that everyone can read the NeL source also offers a guarantee -of quality. A source that anyone can read will have to be readable by -anyone, and a source that is easy to read is a source that is hard to bug.

- - - - - - - - -

What's in it for Nevrax?

First and foremost, at Nevrax, we believe software should be Free.

In practice, we gain exactly the same things you do. Nevrax does not and cannot have the -level of manpower that a free software community built around a project -has; no one can. So, while Nevrax will work on its own priorities, it will -maintain the NeL reference platform to the best interest of the community.

As people add, enhance and debug NeL, the code will grow, in terms of -quality and functionality, faster than any single organisation could do on its own. Nevrax -is commited to integrate the best of the enhancements, ports and other -useful modifications into the reference platform.

- - - - - - - - -

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There are many tools used to make easier the whole process. This site -is dedicated to fostering the kind of community NeL needs, and has all -levels of activity.

A community needs communication, and thus, the first step is to subscribe -to the NeL mailing List. Download -the source tree (preferably using CVS to stay in sync -with the current version later). Eventually, register -for bug tracking.

The mailing list is the place to discuss the way NeL is structured, the -way its contents are written, and what to add or modify in it. If you have -modifications to contribute, the mailing list is where you may post -your patches, and the place where they can be reviewed by the public.

Larger patches that would be too long to post may be sent directly to -the code@nevrax.org submission address -for internal review.

As in all such communities, your contributions will be judged on their -merit and the reputation you will build for youself. The best way to have a significant and -positive input is not a magic recipe. Be courteous, be pertinent, be -critical - in positive as much as negative manner - and be accurate. -The quality of your contribution will ensure your rightful place in the NeL development.

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As a majority of the sites out there on the WWW, we use +Apache to run +our web servers, both internally and externally.

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Perl

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Some parts of the WWW sites run using Perl +scripts. Perl is a wildly +succesful scripting language, and typically runs as a module to Apache.

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PHP

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Another scripting language used to generate our WWW pages, +PHP makes up +the majority of the pages you access on our site.

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Python

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The Python language is used in two +different places within Nevrax. As +a major component of Mailman (see below), it runs our publicly accessible +mailing list. It is also the glue to tie our platform together.

+ + + + + + + + + +

Mailman

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The typical GNU +mailing list manager (under a slightly different +presentation) also runs our mailing lists.

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The Fenris +bug reporting system, itself a derivative of the +Bugzilla +system, is used for internal and public bug tracking.

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CVS

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CVS is one of the easiest to use software management tools available. +CVS +is where all our sources are stored, and will also be used internally +to keep track of all our in-game static data as it is generated.

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We use the Doxygen +documentation tool for our internal documentation. Some +of the files you may browse are hand-written, but most are generated directly +from the source code itself, making it very easy to make a reference manual +for the NeL.

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Another tool used to quickly access the source and see what's been done +and when, +cvsweb is +used both internally and on the www.nevrax.org web site.

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+That was the general reaction when I arrived at the office this morning. I guess we knew it was coming but still, we weren't prepared : the network adaptor on our web server gave up almost instantly. +Anyway, it was interesting to read the reactions of the Slashdot crowd but there seems to be a lot of misconceptions. So if you'd allow me, I'd like to sum up the most frequent questions and try to clear things up before everybody gets it wrong. +

+ + + + + + + + + +

Is Nevrax for real ?

+ +

+Yes, we are a real company with close to 40 real professional game developers. We are not a hobby project and we are not doing this on our spare time. +The company's headquarters are in London (UK), the production branch is in Paris (France) and we are on the verge of opening a US subsidiary that will be in charge of running the game. We are backed by some major European venture capital funds. +

+ + + + + + + + +

So what is it you guys do exactly ?

+ +

+We are making a Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game and releasing the source code as Free Software. We've been working on this for a year now, and you can check the code and download a sample game called 'Snowballs'. +

+ + + + + + + + +

Why Free Software ?

+ +

+Well, it's the Right Thing to do. Plus, it makes a lot of business sense.
+If the source code is Free, then everybody gets to look at it, fix it, improve it, port it to new platforms etc... You guys know the drill!
+In the end, we all get a better game and a better gaming experience: everybody wins.
+

+ + + + + + + + + +

Ha ! If it's free software, you'll never make any money !

+ + +

+Err... Ever heard "Free as in speech, not as in beer"?
+We are selling a service.
+Although the code is Free, all the data/artwork for our game is proprietary. This data/artwork cannot be commercially used by anybody but Nevrax. Sure if you want, you can make your own and use it in a commercial game. +But this takes a lot of talent, time, money and effort (that is if you want to make a nice world). +And even once you've done that, it costs even more to host and maintain these Persistent Worlds (that is if you want more than a few simultaneous players).
+So basically, we will be charging a monthly fee for the gaming experience we provide. +

+ + + + + + + + + +

If anybody can get the code, you won't ever be able to prevent cheating !

+ +

+ +Gee, we've never thought about that. I think we're going to close down and cry now. ;)
+Seriously, there are a number of things to take into account when considering the cheating issue: +

Our game design and technology are specifically conceived with this problem in mind +
We place very little trust in the client software +
We are doing a RPG, not a FPS +
Security Through Obscurity does not work anyway +

+ + + + + + + + + +

Why don't you sell the CD ?

+ + +

+Well we will, but you won't necessarily have to buy it to play. It's like a GNU/Linux distribution : you will be able to buy the CD in a nice box, with a nice manual, but you will also be able to get it for free in magazines, or from your friends. +

+So I hope this straighten things up a bit.
+In any case, you'll be hearing a lot more from us this year: we are going to show that Free Software is the way to go for massively multiplayer online entertainment, and we have lots of great stuff coming. In the meantime, join us on the snowfields! +

+Olivier Lejade
+CEO and co-founder
+Nevrax +

+ + +
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- - - - - - - - - -

Is Nevrax for real ?

- -

-Yes, we are a real company with close to 40 real professional game developers. We are not a hobby project and we are not doing this on our spare time. -The company's headquarters are in London (UK), the production branch is in Paris (France) and we are on the verge of opening a US subsidiary that will be in charge of running the game. We are backed by some major European venture capital funds. -

- - - - - - - - -

So what is it you guys do exactly ?

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-We are making a Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game and releasing the source code as Free Software. We've been working on this for a year now, and you can check the code and download a sample game called 'Snowballs'. -

- - - - - - - - -

Why Free Software ?

- -

-Well, it's the Right Thing to do. Plus, it makes a lot of business sense.
-If the source code is Free, then everybody gets to look at it, fix it, improve it, port it to new platforms etc... You guys know the drill!
-In the end, we all get a better game and a better gaming experience: everybody wins.
-

- - - - - - - - - -

Ha ! If it's free software, you'll never make any money !

- - -

-Err... Ever heard "Free as in speech, not as in beer"?
-We are selling a service.
-Although the code is Free, all the data/artwork for our game is proprietary. This data/artwork cannot be commercially used by anybody but Nevrax. Sure if you want, you can make your own and use it in a commercial game. -But this takes a lot of talent, time, money and effort (that is if you want to make a nice world). -And even once you've done that, it costs even more to host and maintain these Persistent Worlds (that is if you want more than a few simultaneous players).
-So basically, we will be charging a monthly fee for the gaming experience we provide. -

- - - - - - - - - -

If anybody can get the code, you won't ever be able to prevent cheating !

- -

- -Gee, we've never thought about that. I think we're going to close down and cry now. ;)
-Seriously, there are a number of things to take into account when considering the cheating issue: -

Our game design and technology are specifically conceived with this problem in mind -
We place very little trust in the client software -
We are doing a RPG, not a FPS -
Security Through Obscurity does not work anyway -

- - - - - - - - - -

Why don't you sell the CD ?

- - -

-Well we will, but you won't necessarily have to buy it to play. It's like a GNU/Linux distribution : you will be able to buy the CD in a nice box, with a nice manual, but you will also be able to get it for free in magazines, or from your friends. -

-So I hope this straighten things up a bit.
-In any case, you'll be hearing a lot more from us this year: we are going to show that Free Software is the way to go for massively multiplayer online entertainment, and we have lots of great stuff coming. In the meantime, join us on the snowfields! -

-Olivier Lejade
-CEO and co-founder
-Nevrax -

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