DevIL, ILU SDK & Unicows PDB

[Metin2 Dev 4666]

Hi devs,
I just discovered many clients are using old versions of Unicows.dll, DevIL.dll and ILU.dll.
It's not as hard to update them and if you are deeply into a client development you appreciate those SDK or PDB.

DevIL & ILU (?)
Default client is using 16 years old version. Come clean, looks horrible, right?
These libraries are open source so you can modify them. Here you can download latest SDK.
During those 16 years of development there have been a lot of changes, here is excerpt of them.

Changes:

• DirectX 9 & 10 support
• New bilinear scaling routine
• Support for alpha-only formats
• Better support for ICO, GIF and DDS format
• Fixed minor bugs with BMP and PNG formats
• Fixed a lot of issues about DDS format
• A lot of bug fixes

Unicows (?)
Well, actually you can delete this library from your client and it won't have any effect on client proper working (Windows Vista and newer).
However, you have to keep this library if you want to support compatibility with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millenium Edition.
Here is available package which contains library, it's PDB and license.

Sources:

• http://openil.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us

[scrabbyyy 20]

Thanks frienddddd

[Kori 167]

@Chyu ^^ when I implement the New files, then I need Source modifications or not?

 

 

[Metin2 Dev 4666]

On 7/18/2018 at 11:39 PM, Kori said:

@Chyu ^^ when I implement the New files, then I need Source modifications or not?

Yes, I recommend to update your files in Extern folder.

[xP3NG3Rx 19065]

Only 1 modification is neccessary in the GuildMarkUploader.cpp file in this funcition: CGuildMarkUploader::__Load:

	ilCopyPixels(0, 0, 0, SGuildMark::WIDTH, SGuildMark::HEIGHT, 1, IL_BGRA, IL_BYTE, (ILvoid*)m_kMark.m_apxBuf);

The ILvoid isn't defined anymore in the il.h, so or you define it by yourself like the following way bellow or just change it to void.

typedef void           ILvoid;

 

[alondark 58]

is this have any visual change in game ?

[Galet 496]

il y a 58 minutes, alondark a dit :

is this have any visual change in game ?

No, unless you made the changes by yourself through other libraries, nothing has changed there.

[ridetpro 114]

La 07.05.2018 la 13:08, Chyu ^^ a spus:

Hi devs,
I just discovered many clients are using old versions of Unicows.dll, DevIL.dll and ILU.dll.
It's not as hard to update them and if you are deeply into a client development you appreciate those SDK or PDB.

DevIL & ILU (?)
Default client is using 16 years old version. Come clean, looks horrible, right?
These libraries are open source so you can modify them. Here you can download latest SDK.
During those 16 years of development there have been a lot of changes, here is excerpt of them.

Changes:

• DirectX 9 & 10 support
• New bilinear scaling routine
• Support for alpha-only formats
• Better support for ICO, GIF and DDS format
• Fixed minor bugs with BMP and PNG formats
• Fixed a lot of issues about DDS format
• A lot of bug fixes

Unicows (?)
Well, actually you can delete this library from your client and it won't have any effect on client proper working (Windows Vista and newer).
However, you have to keep this library if you want to support compatibility with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Millenium Edition.
Here is available package which contains library, it's PDB and license.

Sources:

• http://openil.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us

 

Why people click like to such pointless how-to ?

[Metin2 Dev 4666]

On 8/6/2018 at 1:05 PM, ridetpro said:

Why people click like to such pointless how-to ?

Stay in 2004.

[Mind Rapist 178]

Excuse me for bringing up this old topic but how do I add support for Unicows in a source that has nothing about this lib?

[Karbust 4715]

So, I just compiled DevIL 1.8.0 and I noticed a bug, and somehow stumbled across this topic.

Every time I try to set a guild mark on the backend is always 0: 

SaveMark: mark id found 0

I can see the icons on the select window, but whatever icon I choose, it always goes as 0 to the server...

If I use the default DevIL and set an icon it works correctly, and when I switch to the new version I can see the old icon, but if I change, it sets as white...

Any idea?

Edited August 17, 2022 by Metin2 Dev
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[Helia01 2053]

1 hour ago, Karbust said:

So, I just compiled DevIL 1.8.0 and I noticed a bug, and somehow stumbled across this topic.

Every time I try to set a guild mark on the backend is always 0: 

SaveMark: mark id found 0

I can see the icons on the select window, but whatever icon I choose, it always goes as 0 to the server...

If I use the default DevIL and set an icon it works correctly, and when I switch to the new version I can see the old icon, but if I change, it sets as white...

Any idea?

This can happen if you update only the client version DevIL and forget to update the library on the server side.

Edited August 17, 2022 by Metin2 Dev
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[Karbust 4715]

5 minutes ago, Helia01 said:

This can happen if you update only the client version DevIL and forget to update the library on the server side.

The client is sending 0 for every icon, the problem is on the client...

But anyway, my server is running 1.7.8, I installed it directly from pkg.