EQ Nexus

EQ Nexus is an EQEmu custom server file, configuration and patch manager that runs inside of EQ. It allows for streamlined patch updates to servers and custom files per server with one installation of RoF2 EQ rather than 1 installation per server.

EQ Players

To use EQ Nexus, go to the Releases section and download the latest release zip. Extract this in your base RoF2 directory (only RoF2 is supported!) and you're good to go!

Server Operators

To have your server with custom content (or configuration) added, take a look at the server_manifest.json and submit a merge request with your server's metadata. There are several ways to host your custom content. The easiest would be forking this repo (https://github.com/knervous/requiemfiles) and replacing all the content under rof with whatever you'd like, and changing the data in the manifest.json to match your server's information. Please reach out to temp0 in the EQEmu discord under #project-requiem for help. Onboarding should be a simple process and updating files after the fact should be streamlined.

Local Development

If you are a server operator and want to test out a local manifest.json, simply put a local.json in the eqnexus folder with all the pertinent metadata and you will be able to simulate developing against a deployed version of a manifest.json

You can start with this as a template and fill in areas as needed

eq/nexuslocal.json

{
    "shortName": "local",
    "longName": "Local Server [DEV]",
    "customFilesUrl": "",
    "filesUrlPrefix": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knervous/requiemfiles/refs/heads/master/rof",
    "version": "0.1",
    "website": "https://www.eqrequiem.com",
    "description": "My local server",
    "hosts": [
        // Maybe your local network IP or any IP you want to develop against
    ],
    "required": [
        // Good candidate for testing required files. Those will be synchronously checked before trying to log in
        // to your server so the user can't bypass that check. Otherwise all other files are "optional"
    ],
    "ignored": [
       
    ],
    "files": {
        // This will be difficult to provide locally, don't worry about it.
    }
}

This is a work in progress. Will be replacing vcpkg packages while finding the best balance of homegrown vs. third party.

1. Clone the repository with git clone --recurse-submodules
2. Run external/vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
3. Run external/vcpkg/vcpkg install --triplet x86-windows-static in the project root to install dependencies.
4. Build the project with VS2022
5. Create a folder eqnexus in your rof2 folder
6. HotReload.ps1 has a copy command that copies build output into your rof2 folder, replace the file in the line $coreDllDestination = "$PSScriptRoot\..\everquest_rof2\eqnexus\core.dll" to your rof2 directory and each build will copy files over automatically