Post: #1

Hi!

It's been a few years since I've tooled around with Sphere and UO, and was trying to get it all set up on my new Windows 7 machine when I noticed the start up tutorial/walkthrough was gone!

I searched "beginner", "set up", "start up", "first run", "basic", "walkthrough", "sphere tutorial", etc., basically everything I could think of, no dice.

I found the start up for sphere.ini and installing Sphere itself over on the Spherewiki page, but IIRC, there was something in the client login files that needed to be edited to point to one's own server after patching, or something. As is, everything is ready to go, but my client won't "connect" without doing whatever it was I needed to add to the login file.

Thanks for any help!


edit1: (I should add that I'm running an older UO Renaissance client, nothing recent.)

edit2: I found the login file and put LoginServer=127.0.0.1,2593 instead of LoginServer=login.owo.com,7775 but still no dice. Even after saving it and re-running everything, it converts back to the original login file. WTF.

Post: #2

Quick Overview:

In sphere.ini:

Under [SPHERE]

// Name of your Sphere shard
ServName=my shard
// The IP of your server, this will be 127.0.0.1 almost always
ServIP=127.0.0.1
// The port of your server, this is 2593 by default
ServPort=2593 // <-- this can also be 7775 or 7776 depending on the client
AGREE=1 // you must add this line if using the nightly 56b server build

Next:
Create the folder save
Inside this folder create 5 files:
sphereworld.scp
spheredata.scp
spherechars.scp
spheremultis.scp
spherestatics.scp

Each file should be empty except for [eof]
Ensure when you create these files that they are not saved as .txt they MUST be .scp in order to work.

Create folder accounts (this folder might already exist I don't recall)
Inside this folder create and save a file named:
sphereaccu.scp

In UO, either edit the login.cfg file as you mentioned above OR you can use Razor or another launcher, which negates the need to change this file and will store multiple IPs for you.

Start the server, start UO you should be good to go

Post: #3

(12-22-2012 01:55 AM)Mordaunt Wrote:  Quick Overview:

In sphere.ini:

Under [SPHERE]

// Name of your Sphere shard
ServName=my shard
// The IP of your server, this will be 127.0.0.1 almost always
ServIP=127.0.0.1
// The port of your server, this is 2593 by default
ServPort=2593 // <-- this can also be 7775 or 7776 depending on the client
AGREE=1 // you must add this line if using the nightly 56b server build

Thanks! I've already done all of this, though. What I mean was that, back in the day, we had to also edit the login file of the actual client installation to point to our server, or else it would try to connect to the actual Origin servers when playing. What am I supposed to be changing there? Was I right to change the login file from:

;Loginservers for Ultima Online
;Do not edit this file or patching will fail! Always save a backup.
LoginServer=login.owo.com,7775
LoginServer=login.owo.com,7776


to:

;Loginservers for Ultima Online
;Do not edit this file or patching will fail! Always save a backup.
LoginServer=127.0.0.1,2593

in order to test play it on my own machine? Or do we no longer need to do that? (I'm using client version 7.0.10.xxxx currently, so no worries over the hardcoded login file, I think?)

Also, if I just leave the login file as is, won't it just ignore sphere and try to connect to Origin?

Thanks!

Post: #4

You still need to change that file yes, unless you are using Razor or another loader to start UO in which case you don't need to.
And yes it needs to be changed to the 127.0.0.1,2593 address

Post: #5

Excellent. Thanks!

Post: #6

Np, I actually just put up a new start up tutorial, been thinking about doing it for a while, you just jogged my memory