User guide for Ark, short for Ryzom Arkitect.

For historical reasons, those manuals refers very often, almost always, to A.R.C.C.. This is due to the fact that the full documentation has been started with the initial name, ARCC, meaning Advanced Ryzom Content Creator.

For the v4 (to write):

• Volume I : Quick Start Guide
• Volume II : User guide
• Volume III: Advanced user guide

Backup:

• Volume I : Quick Start Guide - Volume II : quick Archives
• Volume II : User guide - Volume II : User guide Archives
• Volume III: Advanced user guide - Volume II : expert Archives

Ark

This guide aims at explaining how to use Ark, the Ryzom Arkitect tool that allows the creation of scripts interpreted by a web server and interacting with Ryzom's server.

Access

Folders and events

Open

((~This is going to have to be changed because of the selection panel that Ulukyn has made which is divided into different areas of the basic tree structure~)) As soon as login on, the user finds a page offering access to various areas of the ARK.

• Zone 1 and Zone 3 allow you to navigate in this tree view.

	The root directory appears as a small «house» icon. The «house» is the first folder, the one that contains all other elements, events and folders.
	Generally, folders are represented with classical icons for folders (the last two ones in the example shown here above). Some important folders are given a specific icon.
	Events are represented with the icon shown on the left.

• Zone 2 allows you to create a new folder or a new event in the displayed portion of Zone 1.
  • The first field will contain the name of the object, preferably in English for common data, and preferably without accented or specific characters (â, ñ, ß...)
  • The second field is a pulldown selection of options:
    • Default value is Folder.
    • Second choice, when reading down the list, is Event.
  • The third and last field, add, is actually a button. Click on it to start the creation of the object. Notice that hitting the <Enter> key is equivalent to clicking the add button.

• Zone 3 contains the objects, folders or events, which have already been created in a particular level in Zone 1 (here «house»). By selecting one of these you will see the contents of that folder or event. You can back up in the directory tree by selection of a level in Zone 1.

Navigation

Event

Navigation bar (Zone 1)

Zone 1 shows the place of the event in the folders tree. Each clickable link allows you to go to the specified folder (but remember to save your progress first).

Creation field (Zone 2)

Zone 2 allows you to create a new script or a new database.

• The first field will contain the name of the object, preferably in English for common data, and preferably without accented or special characters (â, ñ, ß...).
• The second field is a pulldown list of values:
  • Default value is Script.
  • Second choice is Database.
• The third and last field, add, is actually a button. Click on it to start the creation of the object. Notice that hitting the <Enter> key is equivalent to clicking the add button.

Tools (Zone 3)

Zone 3 contains two tools:

Parameters of the event

((This link does not yet point to anything substantial - Ceru 25 Sept 2014.))

Set-up

Automated translations

How to do automated translations

Scripts (Zone 4)

Zone 4 contains the scripts created in the event shown in zone 1 (here «New Event»).

The bottom part contains the meaning of the colored bullets appended to the scripts.

The middle part contains the list of the scripts associated to the event.

To each script is associated a set of indicators and actions, listed here bellow as they appear from left to right. (to be checked with the English version of the screenshots)

• Script type:

	A simple script
	A linked script, meaning assigned to a NPC

• Script status, shown as a colored bullet, which meaning appears in the bottom part of the window.

• Name of the script. Clicking on the name of the script allows one to see and edit the content, depending on the user's rights.
• Name of the author who created the script.
• Possible actions on the scripts.

Databases (Zone 5)

Zone 5 shows the list of the databases of the event.

Script

• Zone 1 shows the place of the event in the folders tree view down to the event which contains the current scripts.

Eack clickable link allows to go to the intended folder.

• Zone 2 allows to test the script.
• Zone 3 allows to manage the source code and the history of updates.
• Zone 4 shows additional information about the running of the script.
• Zone 5 manages the actual creation of the script.

The quickest and least wearying method to create a script is to copy it from another one ressembling to what we want to produce. This method is very useful to create quickly a script that looks like another one, but you'll have to learn how to modify it sooner or later... otherwise, of which use would it be to have two script identical except for their names? That will be explaned in part II of the this user guide for ARK.

Fill the new script.

Replay sequences 6 to 8 with «Script1»

• 6) open the script
• 7) show the source
• 8) show the source in Base64

Then, click in the already existing text (to place the focus) and select it all (for example: by hitting <Ctrl>+A on Windows and Unices) to replace it with the text saved in the clipboard (for example, by hitting <Ctrl>+V). Once the text has been replaced, save it:

Databases

• • Player
  • Global
  • Civ
  • Cult
  • Organization (Faction)
  • Other
• 3) Number of Rows
• 4) Content (emply when creating it)

Once this function has been activated, the database shows a content like this one.

Here you have a filling of databases with different context.

Running

Running set-up

• 9) Hide during launch (Yes/no)

• 10) Require validation (Yes/No)

• 11) {singleInstance} (Yes/No)

• 12) {resetAtStart} (Yes/No)

• 13) {updateStagesInDb} (Yes/No)

• 14) {missionTimeout} (Units)

• 15) {replayTimer} (Units)

Testing in browser

You can start by testing the script in the browser by clicking on (1) in the browser.

It allows to test most or the script proceedings, especially the part about algorithms and displays. Be aware nonetheless to the display which doesn't necessarily appear exactly the same way in the Web and in the WebIG. Indeed some html tags doesn't pass through the last one. For example the <hr/> tag (horizontal rule) doesn't appear in the WebIg, and neither does <br/> (line break). That's why it's better to use bbcode.

To conclude, launching a script in a browser shouldn't be used to check the appearance of a display.

Step by step

If a problem appears during the execution, it may be useful to test the proceedings. In this case, click on (2). The following image shows the result for the current example:

• 18) Each step is moved forward manually

	either simply by clicking on the progess icon,
	or by selecting the proposed choice when there is a multiple connection.

• 19) Columns on the right side show the status of each function in the script.

Yubo

To test the script life-size, it has to be lauchned on the test server known under the name of «Yubo». For this, connect on the «Yubo» with an authorized account, choose preferabily a static NPC (so that you don't have to run behind him for the tests) and, of course, a free one (don't re-use a mission NPC so that you don't get unexpected complications).

Update and removal

	Using the source code has been seen (5) in chapter 4, when copying/pasting the content of a script into another one.
	When update fails, it is always possible to come back to a former version by clicking on (6).

	then by adding,
	removing,
	moving functions,
	and of course, by modifiant the content of the functions themselves (here: « weVMessage_v3_True ») which will be seen in Part II.

Other tools for the Event

Status

	Being edited.
	Undergoing testing
	Active on Atys and Yubo
	Working and locked
	Deactivated (to be removed)

Related rights and shortcuts

	Run the script.
	See and edit the script both in human and machine language.
	See and edit the access and running rights.
	Show who is using the script.
	Ask for the script deletion.
	Deletion of the script.

There are currently 34 elements in the category ARK.