The Horizon Project

Horizon is a free software project (authored by @sagunkho aka @Smokexyz) revolving around the creation of a robust Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) server package. Written in C++ and Lua, the program is very versatile and provides NPCs, playable jobs and easily modifiable gameplay via its Lua extension. The project aims to provide a high quality and performant codebase that accurately emulates mechanics of the official servers.

Some static database files and client packet information were converted from HerculesWS into a suitable format for our project.

Table of Contents

1. What is Horizon?
2. Prerequisites
3. Installation
4. Troubleshooting

Prerequisites

Before installing Horizon, you will need to install certain tools and applications.

Supported Operating Systems

• Linux
• Unix / MacOS
• Windows (Installable but not entirely supported)

Pre-requisites

• git
• g++ or clang (version 4.5 or newer, recommended 5.0 or newer)
• CMake 3.7+
• Boost v1.60+
• Readline
• Sol2
• Argon2
• SQLPP11
• SQLPP11-MYSQL

Optional, useful tools

• MySQL GUI clients
  • MySQL Workbench (cross-platform)
  • HeidiSQL (Windows)
  • Sequel Pro (Mac OS X)
• GUI Git clients
  • Atlassian SourceTree (Windows, Mac OS X)
  • TortoiseGit (Windows)