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Thank you for all answers.

I have however one more question

I had AC down for a blink but enough to kill my server.

Why all chars dissapeared from /save/athena.txt? Accounts still there.

I presume i need an UPS ?

What you need is not an UPS, what you need is an automatic backup. When possible on a different machine or at least a different hard drive than the original files. A friend of mine had a quite successful browser game he made as a hobby. But then he lost everything to a hard drive crash because he didn't do any backups.

A backup isn't hard to set up. Just create a little script which copies all content files from the tmwAthena directory to another location with the current date prefixed to the filename. Then create a cronjob which executes this script daily. Voila, you have a poor mans backup solution.

When you want to solve the backup problem more elegantly, you can of course use a more sophisticated pre-made solution which allows incremental backups and automatic deletion of older backups. There is a vast array of software which can do that and only needs minimal configuration to do so. Many operating systems even have such a solution built-in which just needs to be switched on.

I wish to thank you for your patience, believe me if i ask so many questions its just because i have gone trough about 15 years of absolutely indescribable chaos, a low quality and ugly commercial OS experience, in which editing a file sometimes means nothing, sometimes produces random effect or a complete loss of all data, and running executable is a real adventure - you never know what will happen.

After that i have still difficulties to not be afraid of modifying the files or running the scripts.

Finally i decided to run build-magic.sh again, then i checked magic.conf, and i understood all i was asking about

Where i can find sfx procedure?

I need to see existing spell animation structure, sprites and stuff, to be able to do my own effects.

Are you asking about the server side or the client side?

The server side is simple, just put in a sfx(target, id, delay) call into your script. Such API calls are documented in doc/spell-language.

The client side is a bit trickier. effects.xml maps effect ids to particle effects and/or audio. For the format of the former I'd recommend looking at both the existing particle effects used in client data and the particle system documentation, found [here].


---Freeyorp

I remember when magic was only in the testing server , when we was able to enter to both servers from the same client (sorry for my corupted english xD )
The wasnt any spells like #itenplz , #parum boo/lurk etc
the spells was like #G01 , #G02 etc

Yes, the testing server used the default spell invocations.

---Freeyorp