Every game message still written or read by hand is now a NetGameMsg with
Serialize and Deserialize, in per-domain files:
- MovementMessages: teleport, platforms (resync and its request), orient to
angle, node rotation lock, gravity scale, jetpack mode, control scheme,
respawn checkpoint, rails (set/start, ready, cancel, arrived), mount
inventory ID, dismount complete, possession ack, ghost reference override
and position, camera cycling (eCameraTargetCyclingMode moves here).
- ZoneMessages: player loaded (the old PLAYER_LOADED case), ready for
updates, player ready, restore to post load stats, server done loading,
invalid zone transfer list, zone summary display/dismissed, level
processing complete, object world state, and the localized announcement
WorldMigration wrote by hand.
- PlayerMessages: chat mode, GM level, LEGO score, currency, reputation,
GM invis, pickup currency, zone and player statistics, chat commands, bug
reports, verify ack.
- ObjectMessages: fire event client/server side, notify client
(zone) object, notify object, script network vars, failed preconditions,
terminate interaction, set name, request use, request server object info.
- QuickBuildMessages: notify state, enable, cancel.
- ActivityMessages gains match response/update/request, leaderboard request
and data, shooting gallery score/rotation/fire, activity state change.
- MissionMessages gains MissionDialogueCancelled (a no-op, as before).
The wire structs left in GameMessages.h move to their domains (tooltip and
emote to Effects, loot and item use to Inventory, model build to Building,
behavior sound to Property, skill sets to Skill) and gain the missing
direction. The dismount logic moves to PossessorComponent::OnDismountComplete.
Every inbound message is registered in the GameMessageHandler map; the
switch is gone, and GameMessages.cpp only holds the GameMsg/NetGameMsg base
code. Call sites build the structs (NotifyClientObject, TerminateInteraction,
Teleport, PlatformResync, FireEventClientSide, NotifyObject and
NotifyClientZoneObject get convenience constructors like PlayFXEffect).
Dead senders are dropped: SendSetShootingGalleryParams (no callers, field
order was a guess), SendTeamPickupItem (the struct already existed),
SendRequestActivitySummaryLeaderboardData (the struct covers it).
Verified with RemainingMessagesTests: every old Send* function is frozen
verbatim in Legacy/RemainingMessagesLegacy.h and compared byte for byte
(same bits, destination and broadcast flag) over grids of inputs; every old
Handle* read sequence is frozen as a Read* oracle and compared with the
struct's Deserialize; round trips, truncation and a golden packet.
PlayerLoaded (0x00dc36f0), SetGMLevel (0x00dd6230), MissionDialogueCancelled
(0x00d9cc10) and LocalizedAnnouncementServerToSingleClient (0x00f23c50)
were checked against the client. Behaviour notes: an inbound message that
fails to deserialize is dropped, so ParseChatMessage over MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH
is dropped instead of truncated, and PLAYER_LOADED / READY_FOR_UPDATES /
MISSION_DIALOGUE_CANCELLED now read their (unused) client fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Converts PlayAnimation, PlayNDAudioEmitter, PlayEmbeddedEffectOnAllClientsNearObject,
PlayFXEffect, StopFXEffect, BroadcastTextToChatbox, Play2DAmbientSound,
Stop2DAmbientSound, UIMessageServerToSingleClient, UIMessageServerToAllClients,
StartCelebrationEffect, DisplayMessageBox, DisplayChatBubble, ChangeIdleFlags,
SetNameBillboardState, ShowBillboardInteractIcon, PlayCinematic, EndCinematic,
SlashCommandTextFeedback, PlayEmote and SetEmoteLockState (21 old Send
functions, 23 with overloads) and the received MessageBoxRespond,
ChoiceBoxRespond, CinematicUpdate and PlayEmote to NetGameMsgs in
EffectsMessages.{h,cpp}. The high traffic messages get a constructor for their
required fields. UI messages own their AMF arguments. Every caller is switched,
the received messages are registered in GameMessageHandler's map, and the old
functions and switch cases are deleted. Handlers are copied verbatim.
No wire change and no change in recipients: functions that always broadcast
whatever address they were given are sent with Send(UNASSIGNED_SYSTEM_ADDRESS),
functions that only did SEND_PACKET use SendToClient. Quirks are kept and
documented on the structs (PlayAnimation's UTF-8 sized name, the always written
null terminator in BroadcastTextToChatbox, StartCelebrationEffect always
writing celebrationID, SetNameBillboardState having no payload).
Verified byte for byte against a frozen verbatim copy of the old functions over
an input grid, to one client and broadcast; received messages compared with the
old handlers' read sequences and every truncated payload rejected; hand
computed golden bytes; round trips; a deliberate width mutation made the tests
fail. The byte-equality helper gains a Broadcast mode for functions that
ignored their address.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every packet of the chat service is now an LUBitStream struct in dNet/ChatPackets.h
(docs/PacketArchitecture.md, PR 13), and nothing in the chat server or the chat side of
the world server reads or writes a packet by hand any more.
- World <-> chat: LoginSessionNotify, UnexpectedDisconnect, GMLevelUpdate, GMMute,
Announcement (GM announce), CreateTeam, TeamUpdate (TEAM_GET_STATUS to worlds),
AchievementNotify, ShowAllRequest, FindPlayerRequest.
- Client -> world -> chat (friends, ignore list, teams, general and private chat):
GetFriendsList, AddFriendRequest, AddFriendResponse, RemoveFriend, GetIgnoreList,
AddIgnore, RemoveIgnore, GeneralChatMessage, PrivateChatMessage, TeamInvite,
TeamInviteResponse, TeamLeave, TeamKick, TeamSetLeader, TeamSetLoot, TeamGetStatus.
The 77 bytes the handlers skipped are named fields now (the sender block the client
fills in); the 4 unused bytes after the player ID are kept as `unknown`.
- What the client receives. Chat service (ChatPackets::Client): GeneralChatMessage
(replaces SendChatMessage; SendSystemMessage stays as a helper built on it),
PrivateChatMessage. Client service (ClientPackets, as structs go in the file of the
ServiceType in their header): SendCannedText (replaces SendMessageFail), GetFriendsListResponse, AddFriendRequest,
AddFriendResponse, RemoveFriendResponse, UpdateFriendNotify, WhoResponse,
ShowAllResponse, Get/Add/RemoveIgnoreResponse, TeamInvite, TeamInviteInitialResponse,
and the team game messages chat writes (TeamInviteConfirm, TeamGetStatusResponse,
TeamSetLeader, TeamAddPlayer, TeamRemovePlayer, TeamSetOffWorldFlag) as TeamGameMsg
structs, since chat doesn't link dGame's NetGameMsg.
- WORLD_ROUTE_PACKET is ChatPackets::WorldRoutePacket (its own file, dNet/WorldRoutePacket.h,
since it carries packets of other services): the target and the inner packet.
ChatPacketHandler::SendRouted replaces the per-function route headers and
SendRoutedMsg.
Dispatch: dNet/PacketDispatcher.h is a dispatch map from packet ID to (struct, handler
function); packets that fail to Deserialize are logged and dropped. The chat server's
switch and the world's HandlePacketChat switch are now maps. The handlers take the
structs; their logic is unchanged. World code sends to chat with ChatServerLink::Send
(dGame) instead of writing to Game::chatServer by hand. eChatChannel,
eChatMessageResponseCode and eAddIgnoreResponse moved to dCommon/dEnums so the structs
can use them.
Verified: tests/dGameTests/dNetTests/Legacy/ChatPacketsLegacy.h is a verbatim copy of
the old senders and readers; ChatPacketsTests (25 tests) sends a grid of inputs through
both and requires identical bits, bytes and destination, checks the old readers read
what the structs write, round trips every struct, checks truncated packets are refused,
and has hand written golden packets for general chat, canned text, GM mute and a routed
team game message. Breaking one field width (UpdateFriendNotify) and the TeamAddPlayer
zone flag made the tests fail. No wire bytes changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The NexusDashboard-parity dashboard (dDashboardServer) and everything built on it on the experimental branch:
accounts, characters, properties and moderation tools, permissions shared with in-game slash commands, economy
reports, World 3D and property 3D views with client scenery, scheduled events (features, vanity changes, live
events, announcements, restarts), vanity files and events, the CDClient browser, the message inspector with saved
captures, chat filter tools, community challenges, live ops, the AI moderator helper, and the server-side changes
they need.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of moving hand written bitstream code to struct based
messages (see docs/PacketArchitecture.md). No wire changes.
- GameMsg is now only a server-internal event (delivered to handlers
registered with RegisterMsg); NetGameMsg is a wire message with
Send(sysAddr) (UNASSIGNED broadcasts), SendToClient(sysAddr) (one
client, never broadcasts), WritePacket, Serialize, Deserialize and
Handle. Mixing them up is now a compile error. NetGameMsgEvent<T> /
DeliverLocally carry a wire message to local handlers; loot drops,
pickup, the object debugger, GM invisibility and model RequestUse
use them. The GM invisibility message keeps its target, so its bytes
are unchanged.
- Behaviour change: GameMessageHandler logs and drops messages whose
Deserialize fails instead of handling them with default fields (the
4 messages already registered: RequestUse, RequestServerObjectInfo,
ShootingGalleryFire, PickupItem).
- LUBitStream (kept as on main) gets a virtual destructor (Mail deleted
derived packets through the base) and WritePacket, also used by
ChatPackets::SendRoutedMsg with identical bytes.
- BitStreamUtils::WriteOptional/ReadOptional for default-flag fields
and WriteLengthPrefixed/ReadLengthPrefixed for length prefixed
strings.
- Every message ID enumerator (MessageType::*, ServiceType, Mail's
wire enums) is pinned with static_asserts, so renumbering or removing
one fails to compile.
- Tests: dServerMock copies each sent packet (it kept a pointer to the
caller's destroyed BitStream); PacketTestUtils.h compares packets bit
for bit; helper tests use hand computed golden bytes and equality
with the hand written patterns they replace; compile-time checks
keep the wire/internal split in place.
- docs/PacketArchitecture.md: survey, target architecture,
conventions, verification method and migration plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: convert character ids to 64 bits
remove all usages of the PERSISTENT bit with regards to storing of playerIDs on the server. the bit does not exist and was a phantom in the first place.
Tested that a full playthrough of ag, ns and gf was still doable. slash commands work, ugc works, friends works, ignore list works, properties work and have names, teaming works.
migrating an old mysql database works . need to test an old sqlite database
* fix sqlite migration
* remove nd specific column migration
* merge ServerType and ServiceID enums
* rename eConnectionType to ServiceType in preparation for enum unification
* unify ServiceID and ServiceType enums
* shrink ServiceType to an 8-bit integer
* fix linux compilation error and update gamemsg test
* return to uint16_t
* Update dNet/AuthPackets.cpp
Use cast instead of padding
Co-authored-by: David Markowitz <39972741+EmosewaMC@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add default case to MasterServer.cpp
* move ref back to type
* Another formatting fix
* Fix comment to be more accurate
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Co-authored-by: jadebenn <9892985+jadebenn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: David Markowitz <39972741+EmosewaMC@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: showall, findplayer, get/openhttpmoninfo
http monitor info is planned to be used later, just putting in info that i've since reverse engineered and don't want lost
Additionally add debug world packet for duture dev use
Tested all new commands and variation of command arguments
* fix missing newline at eofs
* address most feedback
* Compormise and use struct with (de)serialize
* remove httpmoninfo commands
