Just going to point out to anyone still reading here:

There has been some steady activity lately on the public server.  At least one person is logged in various times of the day.

In case anyone is interested in some nostalgia with a new buddy or two.

https://www.siederer.eu/files/mythruna/

I'm not sure I understand the point of this post.

These links are already available here: http://mythruna.com/download-now/

When you run the game you get a menu like this:


Then click "Multiplayer"

Then with the default server in the box, click connect:



Then you get a screen like this:


Then if you already have a user and password on my server, you can login.  If you don't then you can create a new account.

To help more, I will need to know which part of this process didn't work for you.

I saw you in and hopped on... then you left.   I don't know if you saw my chat messages.

I can copy a password from one account to another without decrypting it... so I could make your regular account match the new one you created.

Since these passwords are just MD5 hashed, I could probably also recover it and PM it to you.  I updated the system to sha256 ad some point but that may have been in the unreleased engine.

I uh... tried logging in to find it in world and, well, apparently i forgot my password lol

I suspect you will not be the only one.  Even I got lucky.  I will need to figure out how to deal with this.

When I read those threads over and over looking for the location, I saw indications that you may have PM'ed the location to some folks in which case it might be in your outbox on here.

Edit: it was nice to see confirmation that the external ports are still mapped... because I do see your login attempts in the log.

Whats the current server IP or Hostname? 

It's built into the game.  It's the default address when you try to connect.

I try to keep it off of the internet because in the past when my IP gets posted to the internet it increases the frequency of hack attempts on my firewall.

THE STATURE HAS BEEN COMPLETED! I'll post pictures of it after Paul sees it.

Note: I went to look for this but I cannot find the coordinates anywhere.  I must be blind.

So... a sequence of events.

Today I go to start continuing development and my dev box had rebooted itself.  I usually have around 40+ windows open at any time so a system crash like that means 10-15 minutes to get "back to working".

So... since the machine was bare desktop anyway, I decided to power it off and finish the memory upgrade.  This old machine now has 16 gig of RAM (don't laugh).

This meant that I could shuffle the RAM over to the Mythruna server (which won't use it because it's still running a 32 bit OS) and close the case up (finally!).

The last step was hunting down a network cable... and the harder part: finding an open port on the network.  Which I have done.

Bottom line: the Mythruna server is running again at the moment.  I do not know if it is properly accessible from the internet because that was two routers ago and I no longer have a way to test that sort of thing locally.

Happy Thanksgiving.

The only real bright spot of 2020 so far is that I've had more time to work on Mythruna.

Now it also needs a network connection.

The thing is it always seems to be one more thing.  Those who have been following my twitter activity lately can see I've been putting a lot of time into development.  Realistically it will take me a couple hours to get the server functional and connected to the network again... and so far I've been spending that time on development instead.

Nice to see some activity here that isn't spam.

...for folks who follow my @simsilica twitter... lots of stuff going on recently.

There have been some game related posts on twitter.  https://twitter.com/Simsilica

...but nothing concrete enough to post here yet.  Something soon, I hope.

My day job is a telecommuting job... so no special time off for me.

The kids are home from school, though... until mid-April... which means I don't have to get up at 5:30 AM every day.  So that's a bonus.

I had planned to take the week of spring break off from work, do some stuff with the kids, and then get some hardcore game-coding work done.  It remains to be seen if I will still take that time or not now.  (At work, it was a bad week to take it because of scheduling and now with the kids home for a month anyway... and our options for 'stuff to do' are kind of limited anyway.)

I have been pushing some things along a little every weekend.  Lately trying to finalize plans for what the 'far terrain' system will look like and if it's even feasible.  I know I shoe-horned something into the old engine that looked ok but some parts were never done and might have been impossible.  I'm trying to figure all of those things out now.

https://imgur.com/a/Mahv8v7  (without context, these images may not mean much but I'm trying to be more "doing" and less "talking" these days.)

This is a pretty big issue because with 192 clip and slow paging, flying with any sort of fun speed was really stupid.  I'm also hoping to raise the build ceiling a bit (those pics go up to 512 meters) but it remains to be seen if I can actually make that work in the block engine or not.  Lighting is the most problematic area for tall build ceilings.  Currently hoping that treating the world as 256 meter tall layers may have some benefits.

After I have this large scale terrain fully prototyped, with proper write-back, etc... I need to reimplement/port non-cube block shapes from old code and start building the real engine again.

Never seem to have enough time to do things quickly on the calendar, though.

Not sure what the image was supposed to be because apparently we don't have permission to see it (at least when I clicked on it).

Here is the blog post that goes with that video, I think: http://mythruna.com/forum/index.php?topic=2505.msg21096#new

I spent the winter holidays playing with water strategies.  While I didn't finalize anything yet, the experiments were encouraging.  I'm experimenting with doing water in a completely different way than any other block engine that I've seen... essentially by not treating it as blocks anymore.  Parts of my approach still feel wrong and counterintuitive but the math and experiments always seem to work out.  So it could just be that we are all too used to blocks of water.  The real test will be optimizing it for "whole oceans".

...so in the near term, I'm focusing on revisiting terrain generation to build some more varied worlds than Mythruna has traditionally had.  But we're getting closer to "new engine"... so close I can almost taste it.

No, sorry... not yet.

I lack a network cable and a port to stick it into... I'm thinking of moving the server to another location nearer a different switch/router.  I just haven't done it yet.

any new news about the server? 

Not yet but now that I know there is someone still waiting, I will put it higher in my priorities.  Thanks for bugging me about it... seriously.