VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin

This is a plugin for VBS3 for publishing a player's position data via Google Buffer Protocol and ZeroMq.

Currently builds for Visual Studio 2008 (x86 and x64).

Installation

1. Determine which DLL to use (x86 or x64).

2. Download pre-built dll.

3. Place in plugins directory

   1. C:\Bohemia Interactive\VBS3\plugins for x86
   2. C:\Bohemia Interactive\VBS3\plugins64 for x64

4. Download the appropariate ZeroMQ DLL for the target platform (x86 or x64).

5. Download the appropariate pthreads DLL for the target platform (x86 or x64).

6. These 2 DLLs must be placed in the Windows System PATH.

7. Start VBS3

8. Under Extensions, check that vbs3zeromqposplugin is loaded.

By default, the plugin is hard-coded to publish on port 5551. If a different value is desired, the plugin must be recompiled with a different value hard-coded in.

vbs3-pos-subscriber

This is a demo application for acting as a sink for listening to multiple VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin instances and then publishing to multiple web-based clients.

Requirements:

Utilizing libjzmq.so under Ubuntu 14.04/14.10/15.04

1. sudo apt-get install libzmq3 libzmq3-dev

2. Install libjzmq - Java Binding for Ubuntu 14.04/14.10

   1. git clone https://github.com/zeromq/jzmq.git
   2. cd jzmq
   3. git checkout v3.1.0
   4. ./autogen.sh
   5. ./configure
   6. make
   7. sudo make install
   8. sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjzmq.so /usr/lib/libjzmq.so

3. Install libjzmq - Java Binding for Ubuntu 15.04

   1. sudo apt-get install libzmq-java
   2. If using Oracle Java, the libjzmq library must be able to be found in /usr/lib
   3. [REQUIRED] sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jni/libjzmq.so /usr/lib/libjzmq.so
   4. [OPTIONAL] sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jni/libjzmq.so.0 /usr/lib/libjzmq.so.0
   5. [OPTIONAL] sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jni/libjzmq.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libjzmq.s o.0.0.0

Windows and OS X

The default for OS X and Winows is to use jeromq intead of jzmq for ZeroMQ.

Compile

1. git clone https://github.com/artistech-inc/VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin.git
2. cd VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin
3. git checkout v1.0
4. cd vbs3-pos-subscriber
5. mvn clean package

Run

By default, the JETTY_PORT_VALUE is 8888 unless otherwise specified on the command line. At least one VBS3 ZeroMQ publisher must be specified.

java -jar target/vbs3-pos-subscriber-1.0.jar -z VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin_SERVER_1:5551 -z VBS3ZeroMqPosPlugin_SERVER_2:5551 [-j JETTY_PORT_VALUE]

Viewing

1. Using the latest versions of Firefox and Google Chrome, view: http://vbs3-pos-subscriber_IP:JETTY_PORT_VALUE/vbs3_map.jsp
2. Click "Start Receiving Data"