First, let we say loudly together: Fuck Valve Gns.
A simple protocol converter. It mainly served for the protocol convertion of Swung0x48/BallanceMMO. Because my project yyc12345/BallanceStalker couldn't use any Valve Gns code due to the shitty C# support of Godot. I need convert all Valve Gns message into plain message over a normal TCP connection. This is what this peoject do. There is an important thing you should be knowing. TCP is a reliable protocol, but its performance is pretty bad, especially in a bad network. So usually, WhispersAbyss should be run together with the client which want to use WhispersAbyss. Then, all connections are over local loop back, and you will get the best performance. Due to this feature, if you run WhispersAbyss on a server then connect it from other place, it will cause huge performance loss.
This project consist of 2 parts. WhispersAbyss is the main converter written in C++, and ShadowWalker is a tiny BMMO client written in Python. ShadowWalker only implement some basic functions of BMMO protocol, such as login, logout and etc. It is used as a tester for WhispersAbyss and check whether WhispersAbyss can work normally.
Syntax: WhispersAbyss [accept_port]
accept_port is the port which will accept TCP connections, for example, 6172.
WhispersAbyss is a console application. You can see some real-time output after starting this application.
You can press p on keyboard directly to show all profiles of running connections.
Press q to exit application.
Syntax: python3 ShadowWalker.py -p [local_port] -u [remote_url] -n [username] -i [uuid]
local_port is pointed to the acceptor port of WhispersAbyss.
remote_url is the combination of host and port which you want to connect, for example, bmmmo.server.net:26675.
username is in-game name.
uuid is an unique identifier for each user. Its ususally have the format like xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.
Press q to exit program.
Press p for show user list.
Press Tab to open a chat prompt and you can input your chat content.
Linux and CMake support is on the way. We only introduce Windows build now.
Open WhispersAbyss/WhispersAbyss.props and point macro define to correct folder.
- ASIO_PATH: Root of asio library.
- VALVE_GNS_PATH: Root of ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets.
- FUCK_VALVE_GNS_PATH: The folder containing Valve Gns link file
GameNetworkingSockets.lib.
Tips: If you have Swung0x48/BallanceMMO, you can point ASIO_PATH to BallanceMMO/submodule/asio and point VALVE_GNS_PATH as BallanceMMO/submodule/GameNetworkingSockets as a alternative.
Considering the diffuculty of compiling Valve Gns on Windows, I suggest you use alternative to get the .lib file of Valve Gns. First, open released BMMO mod and decompress it to get GameNetworkingSockets.dll. Then, use Visual Studio dev tools dumpbin to get its export table, use some tools to format it and get legal GameNetworkingSockets.def. At last, use Visual Studio dev environment and execute LIB /DEF:GameNetworkingSockets.def /machine:IX86 to get a workable GameNetworkingSockets.lib for linker.
Then, open Visual Studio solution, choose proper configuration, such as Debug and Release. Then, compile it.