Summoning Wars 0.5.5 released

Finally: release day for version 0.5.5. Hurray! Get it here.
This is the first one I have contributed to. Hopefully, many more to come!
In case you missed my previous post and you did not check the game out, Summoning Wars is an open source diablo-like RPG (role playing game).

Summoning Wars

Wow, it sure has been a long time since my last posting...
More than 1 year down the road, I finally got back in the mood for coding. And it seems that Serpents will be left somewhat behind... I've tried so many times to start it anew, each time discovering new stuff to add. But I've always managed to lose interest in it halfway through. I hope things will change now, as I've started contributing to an open-source project: Summoning Wars.

PVSS as service (automated scripts) - part 3

This is part 3 of a tutorial.
(...for the first part of the tutorial, go here)

(...for the second part of the tutorial, go here)

    No UI from the console
    Okay, so you have your project running as a service. While it may be a service, so it will provide some background functionality, it doesn't always mean that you won't need to do some engineering on it. And in order to do some engineering, you will need a UI. And for that, you may get off with connecting from a workstation directly to the server you automated. But some servers will only be seen by other servers, not workstation. So you will need other tools to access the internal data of PVSS. The most often used tool would be (of course) the PARA tool (para being short for parametrization... or para-metering... whichever you fancy more). However, if you are used to starting the para or the gedi tools from the PVSS console, you may notice that it's not possible to start them in the classic way anymore if the PMON is started as a network service. When starting a UI manager, it will run, the console will show it in green (working status), but you won't see any window with the actual UI.

PVSS as service (automated scripts) - part 2

    (...for the first part of the tutorial, go here)
(Note: this is an improved and simplified version of the tutorial. The first version was also Vb-script to update the Windows Registry. If you run into any issues running the new one, please let me know.)

    Automate it
    Now that you have come to the conclusion that scripting is the way to go, you may want to download these files and start using them directly if you are in a hurry, and read on if you are interested in what's happening in the background. After you download the files, place them in the "bin" folder of your project:

    You can get them from Google Docs:

• uninstall_svcSolo.bat
• uninstall_svc.bat
• install_svcSolo.bat
• install_svc.bat

PVSS as service (automated scripts) - part 1

    PVSS is a system and framework meant to handle a lot of things in the business of energy and industry. One of the most often used scenarios is having several interconnected machines running PVSS projects in a redundancy mode (think of it as RAID for software instead of hardware), each of them doing... well... something. During a PVSS training you may learn how to build a project, how to set up a redundant and/or a distributed system, but all of these using the same log in credentials: your own. In order for any project to start, you would need to log in first, not just into PVSS but your OS too.