simonnitzsche / paradox

Lego Universe Development Tool

Paradox

This software is inteded as a toolkit for the development of a server emulator for the game LEGO Universe. It provides a set of commands that can be used to read, analyse and possibly write different file formats that the game used, as well as generating documentation and source code snippets (mainly c++). These may be used within server software wherever datastructures are commonly known, and just very tedious to implement.

Operating System

This software was written for use on a Linux distribution, and as such may not work on other operating systems. The intention is for it to be platform independent, but it may require some changes to get it to work. I am open to contributions that allow this software to be built on other systems, provided that it does not break existing setups (too much).

Building & Installation

Currently the repository is optimized to be built by the GNU autotools. I'm happy to include other mechanisms like CMake, if someone gets it working properly with all dependencies.

For building with the autotools, I recommend the following procedure:

# autoreconf --install
# mkdir build
# cd build
# ../configure
# make
# sudo make install

Dependencies

This software requires (at least for building with gcc on linux) the following libraries to be installed on your system:

• zlib (https://www.zlib.net/)
• Magick++ (http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/)
• JSON for Modern C++ (https://github.com/nlohmann/json)
• assembly (https://github.com/xiphoseer/assembly/)
• tinyxml2 (https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2)

At the moment, all three of the are required, altough I may add some configure options later down the line to make some feature that require these dependencies optional.

License

Currently, I have not decided on a license for this project, though as this is available publicly on github, I plan on choosing a fairly standard open source one. This means that for the meantime I tolerate other people using this software, but I still own the IP rights to all the code I wrote.

Notes

This codebase may contain some code snippets from stackoverflow or similar sites. I try to mark all occurences appropriately within the codebase. If you feel like I missed the attribution somewhere, feel free to contact me and I will sort that out.

In case you found this, having never heard of any LU restoration projects before, but are curious as to what has happend in the past years, check out Darkflame Universe or lcdr Universe.