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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

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Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds

Overview of this book

Flash virtual worlds are some of the most exciting—and profitable—online business being built today. Using Flash, developers can build interactive environments where users can interact with the virtual world and one another, compete, and have fun. Creating a playful environment on an electronic network presents unique challenges as you combine a fun, upbeat frontend with some serious and complex server logic. This handy book assists you in building amazing virtual worlds in no time by implementing ActionScripts in a Flash IDE. With this book in hand, you will build virtual worlds that have avatars walking around and interacting with non playing characters, completing challenging quests, and allowing users to link with real-world friends. The fun begins with first exploring existing virtual world games such as Club Penguin, Mole, Dofus, and World of Warcraft. We will then design our virtual environment. Then we will create avatars and move the avatars in the virtual world. We will add some triggers to add amusement and life to the virtual world. We will allow the avatars to interact with other players and create a buddy list for each user. Then we will integrate buildings and other environment to the virtual world. We will also let the players interact with non-player characters to complete some tasks. Finally, we move on to add interesting quests to the virtual world, which need to be accomplished by the player to gear up to the next level of the game. This example-rich, hands-on guide sequentially develops a multiplayer virtual world—the platform, the environment, quests, avatars, non-playing characters, and interaction between them.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Flash Multiplayer Virtual Worlds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Using embedded web server and database


We are going to play with the embedded web server and database. The embedded web server and database are well-configured and run on startup by default. This lets developers rapidly develop the prototype of the virtual world without worrying about setting up different servers.

Running the embedded web server

By default, the web server is running on port 8080 with same SmartFoxServer location.

After starting up the SmartFoxServer, go to http://localhost:8080 in the web browser. If a webpage shows up with a message "SmartFoxServer Pro 1.6.6 is installed successfully", it means the server is working with default settings.

The HTTP documents directory of the embedded server is located in Installation folder | Server | webserver | webapps | root. You can modify and store static web pages within this folder to host the virtual world website.

Running the embedded database server

The embedded H2 database server is well-configured upon SmartFoxServer installation...