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Welcome to the WCell wiki!

The goal of this wiki is to coalesce all the knowledge we have attained into a single reference source that is not only technically reliable, but also up-to-date and easily understandable.
Most articles are still under construction.

If you are interested in running the WCell server package, check out the Basic Setup page.

Latest milestone is Release 0.5.

Contents 1 WCell 1.1 The Packet Analyzer Project 1.2 Join the community 1.3 The WCell Team 1.4 Download via SVN 1.5 Basic Setup 1.6 Configuration 1.7 Administration 1.8 Customization 1.9 Development 1.10 Addons 1.11 Supporters 2 Modules 3 World of Warcraft: Behind the scenes

WCell

The Packet Analyzer Project

The Packet Analyzer defines the structure of all known packets and enables anyone to make a WoW packet stream human-readable.

Join the community

Ask the WCell community, contact the developer team, get involved, stay around.

The WCell Team

The team, its members and how everyone is invited to play a part

Download via SVN

Learn where and how to checkout WCell

Basic Setup

Learn how to setup WCell

Configuration

Learn how to do configure WCell

• Roles and Privileges explain how the different privileges and Roles of Users work

Administration

Learn how to administrate and control WCell

• See AuthServer Commands on how to administer the AuthServer while running
• Learn about Ingame Commands and other ways of controlling the game from within the game

Customization

Learn how to further customize the ingame world

Development

Learn more about the WCell code-structure and applied coding conventions.

• The Developer Guide gives new (and old) developers an overview of the features and applied coding conventions during WCell development
• The Coding Guide helps developers understand how to write clean code (not only for WCell)
• Advantages of a Clean Codebase explains why clean code is so very important
• Understanding WCell's Threading Strategy is a must for every WCell-developer
• Write WCell Addons in C# or write functional object-oriented code, using F#
• Check Nobby's progress on Collision Detection
• WCell utilizes Unit Tests to prevents bugs and allow a high level of Quality Assurance
• Learn how to hook to WCell's Initialization-Routine during startup

Addons

Learn how to create and/or use addons

Supporters

Supporters aid the development through financial and/or material means. Find out how to become a supporter and how a supporter is of advantage to everyone who is benefitting from this project.

Modules

Have a look at what different Modules the WCell RealmServer consists of and how they are implemented.

World of Warcraft: Behind the scenes

World of Warcraft, an amazing mmorpg was created by Blizzard Entertainment. We help you to understand it better.