It's alive!

*Update* I need to look into hiding the key. I started worrying, it is visible on the page source. Once I'm confident the game will be back up.

Play here:

https://dusk.comet-richter.ts.net/client.html

Or Click the link to the right "Play Dusk with Cheerpj (it's working!)"

There's a bug causing client to freeze after 1-5 minutes while walking around. The error has to do with "remove entity from buffer".

How to host your own Dusk Server with Cheerpj and Tailscale.

*Update 6-19* It's working! I've updated these instructions. I'll try and keep my server up for you to play. So go ahead and playtest. There are still errors to fix, probably for Cheerpj but native too. The world is still under construction. I plan on finishing it up this year at least by winter. I believe I set this up properly and I'm safe from hackers. This is awesome! Tailscale hides your IP address from me too so your safe but that prevents the "bannedIP" feature from working. 

I thought I'd do a write up on how to setup your own server.

1. Download https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG go to (code) click "Download ZIP".

2. Install Tailscale https://tailscale.com/ Go into "machines" and click "..." change the machine name to something like "dusk". Then go into "DNS" tab and use the random name generator to get a better Tailnet name. Generate a authentication key like this. Go to "settings" tab, then "keys", then "generate auth key...", then click button for "use this key to authenticate more than one device", and then finally "generate key". Put the key in "client.html" in the /DuskCheerpj/wwwClient directory.

3. Edit the "prefs" file inside /DuskCheerpj/conf. Change 'dusk.comet-richter.ts.net" to "yourmachine.yourTailnet.ts.net". 

4. Install Java 8 (I'm using 17 and it works) and start the server like this. Command prompt: 

cd C:\Users\drago\Documents\DuskCheerpj

java -jar Duskserver.jar

5. Put the client on a http server: Command prompt: 

cd C:\Users\drago\Documents\DuskCheerpj\wwwClient

http-server -p 8080

6. Now funnel the client to the internet and serve the Dusk server port to your Tailnet. Administrator command prompt: 

tailscale funnel --bg 8080 

tailscale serve --tcp=2222 tcp://localhost:7474

7. Go to your new website and click "client.html" to start the game. Connect to server using your Tailnet IPv4 address and port 2222.

That's it! Pretty easy. Here's couple pics from my Android phone. I will have to fix the GUI layout for mobile a little but that's easy. I tried playing on the phone and couldn't barely walk. This can be fixed with some arrow buttons.

Dusk and Cheerpj test?

I got the server and client working with Cheerpj and Tailscale enough to create a player and almost load the map but it disconnects from error loading player. So not working yet but is pretty cool to see that much happening on my android phone.

I don't know if Cheerpj can handle the Dusk script.java which generates these ".dsko" compiled files. That could be causing these errors. Here's link to the java for running DuskServerCheerpj. 

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/DuskServerSource

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/blob/master/DuskFiles/DuskServerSource/Script.java 

**Update** It's in read only mode. The fix is "library mode" which will copy the files into the virtual IndexedDB directory, which is read/write. This takes some JavaScript combined with Java libraries.

Dusk + Cheerpj = revived?

Hey again, :)

I've almost finished the demo world! Pixel art is all sourced from OpenGameArt, craftpix.net, and Jetrel gets huge thanks for his tree. I felt motivated to work on Dusk again when I saw this new tech to convert Java to JavaScript called Cheerpj. Dusk can possibly be revived! I think the performance may be fine.

I need help with this Cheerpj conversion. I'll post in their discord and maybe somebody can help or give advice what I need to do. 

I believe both client and server need to run through Cheerpj but I'm not 100% sure how to proceed. I'm like a 2/10 in Java, 0/10 in JavaScript, and 9/10 in coding DuskScript. Here's the links to my Cheerpj tests.

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/DuskServerClientCheerpj

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/DuskServerClientCheerpj/wwwClient

Here's source code.

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/ClientSource

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/DuskServerSource

Please forgive my nearly 200MB Dusk collection. There are a couple old game worlds in there. I will clean it up and finish licensing art.

I think I need a little JavaScript help, make changes in Java to find the file locations and maybe even a native call to Java_Bridge_Websocket for the server? To avoid using TailScale. I'm guessing here, I read all the docs and there's not enough examples for me, but this is fancy new tech still in development. Here's a pic of Dusk client in browser using Cheerpj.

If you have noticed I redone the GUI with swing components. I managed to do this by digging through the wayback machine. I found the sources https://web.archive.org/web/20010617163439/http://dusk.wesowin.org/ and merged them with the fork I had. This fixed some bugs, and I also merged some code from NotZed's fork to improve the walking animation. I've added buttons for potions, spells, and settings. I'm still improving the GUI and will probably change size to better fit into browser if Cheerpj can do it.

If you have Java installed u can play offline.

https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/tree/master/DuskFiles/Dusk47

Run server with java -cp . DuskServer or java -jar Duskserver.jar

Double click the client in (www)

Click connect: 127.0.0.1 port 7474. Connect and create a player.

Walkthrough: https://github.com/ZabinX/DuskRPG/blob/master/DuskFiles/Dusk47%20walkthrough.txt

Take care, bye -Zach