PixelPlanet.fun

Official repository of pixelplanet.fun.

Just to the 2nd anniversary of r/space, pixelplanet takes pixelgames to a new level. Place pixels, create pixelart and fight faction wars on pixelplanet.fun. Pixelplanet is a 65k x 65k large canvas that is a map of the world and can also be seen as 3d globe, you can place pixels where ever you want, build an island, take over another country with a flag or just create pixelart. 30 well chosen colors (decided by polls within the community) are available and you can place a pixel every 3s on an empty space, and 5s on an already set pixel. But pixels can be stacked up to a minute, so you don't have to wait every time.

Pixelplanet receives regular updates and launches events, like a zero second cooldown day on r/place anniversary. We are driven by our community, because placing pixels is more fun together.

Controls: W, A, S, D, click and drag or pan: Move Q, E or scroll or pinch: Zoom Click or tab: Place Pixel

Build

Requirements

• nodejs environment

Building

Checkout repository

git clone https://github.com/pixelplanetdev/pixelplanet.git
cd pixelplanet

Install packages and build

npm install
npm run build

All needed files to run it got created in ./build

Notes:

• If you run into problems, make sure that you have rights to g++ (if not, run as root and then chown username:username -R . after build)

• If npm install fails with "unable to connect to github.com" set:

git config --global url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/

Run

Requirements

• nodejs environment with npm
• pm2 (npm install -g pm2) as process manager and for logging
• redis as database for storìng the canvas
• mysql or mariadb (setup own user and create database for pixelplanet) for storing additional data like IP blacklist

Configuration

Configuration takes place in the environment variables that are defined in ecosystem.yml

Neccessary Configuration

Variable	Description	Example
PORT	Port	80
REDIS_URL	URL:PORT of redis server	"redis://localhost:6379"
MYSQL_HOST	MySql Host	"localhost"
MYSQL_USER	MySql User	"user"
MYSQL_PW	MySql Password	"password"
MYSQL_DATABASE	MySql Database	"pixelpladb"

Optional Configuration

Variable	Description	Example
ASSET_SERVER	URL for assets	"http://localhost"
USE_PROXYCHECK	Check users for Proxies	0
APISOCKET_KEY	Key for API Socket for SpecialAccess™	"SDfasife3"
ADMIN_IDS	Ids of users with Admin rights	"1,12,3"
CAPTCHA_METHOD	0: none, 1: reCaptcha, 2: hCaptcha	2
CAPTCHA_SECRET	re/hCaptcha secret key	"asdieewff"
CAPTCHA_SITEKEY	re/hCaptcha site key	"23ksdfssd"
CAPTCHA_TIME	time in minutes between captchas	30
SESSION_SECRET	random sting for express sessions	"ayylmao"
LOG_MYSQL	if sql queries should get logged	0
USE_XREALIP	see cloudflare section	1
BACKUP_URL	url of backup server (see Backup)	"http://localhost"
BACKUP_DIR	mounted directory of backup server	"/mnt/backup/"
GMAIL_USER	gmail username if used for mails	"ppfun@gmail.com"
GMAIL_PW	gmail password if used for mails	"lolrofls"
HOURLY_EVENT	run hourly void event on main canvas	1

Notes:

• to be able to use USE_PROXYCHECK, you have to have an account on proxycheck.io or getipintel or another checker setup and you might set some proxies inproxies.json that get used for making proxycheck requests. Look into src/isProxy.js` to see how things work, but keep in mind that this isn't neccessarily how pixelplanet.fun uses it.
• Admins are users with 0cd and access to ./admintools for image-upload and whatever
• You can find out the id of a user by looking into the logs (i.e. info: {ip} / {id} wants to place 2 in (1701, -8315)) when he places a pixel or by checking the MySql Users database
• If you use gmail as mail transport, make sure that less-secure apps are allowed to access it in your settings here

Social Media

Variable	Description
DISCORD_INVITE	Invite to discord server
DISCORD_CLIENT_ID	All
DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET	those
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID	values
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET	are
FACEBOOK_APP_ID	for
FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET	login
VK_CLIENT_ID	with
VK_CLIENT_SECRET	Social
REDDIT_CLIENT_ID	Media
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET	Accounts

Notes:

• The HTML for SocialMedia logins is in src/componets/UserAreaModal.js , delete stuff from there if you don't need it
• The HTML for the Help Screen is in src/components/HelpModal.js

Canvas specific configuartion like colors and cooldown is in canvases.json for all canvases. Meaning of some values:

Key	Description
ident	Unique character used in the url
title	Title
size	canvas size, power of 4 and between 256 and 65536
bcd	Base cooldown for unset pixels
pcd	Cooldown for placing on set pixels
cds	Stack time of Cooldown
cli	Number of colors on the palette to ignore
ranked	If pixels on canvas count on player statistic
req	requieremt to place on the canvas
sd	Start-date of the canvas for historical view
desc	Small desctiption text
v	If 3D voxel canvas (boolean)
hid	Hidden canvases, can be just seen by pressing P

The canvas size limit can be surpassed by changing the websocket packages in src/socket/packages/ to send chunk coordinates in 16bit. req is an integer and if >0 is the amount of total pixels placed before being allowed to play there, if -1 it has no requirement and if 0 it is limited to registered users. The colors that are ignored via cli are used for making the canvas (blue ocean and white continents) and to know if the pixel is already set by a user or not. If you want to add a new canvas, be sure that you additionally create public/loading${canvasId}.png, public/assets3d/normal${canvasId}.jpg, public/preview${canvasId}.png and public/assets3d/specular${canvasId}.jpg, check out the existing ones to see what those files are for.

The default configuration values can be seen in src/core/config.js and for the canvases in src/core/constats.js

Styles

To add more css styles, create a new css file in src/styles based on src/styles/default.css and add it to the FILES array in tools/minifyCss.js

Running

1. Make sure that mysql and redis are running
2. Start with

pm2 start ecosystem.yml

Notes:

• pixelplanet uses the unix command sendmail for sending verification and password reset mails if no GMAIL account is given. If you are on windows, this might not work.

Logging

General logs are in ~/pm2/log/, you can view them with

pm2 log web 

you can flush the logs with

pm2 log flush

Pixel placing logs are in ./log/pixels.logand proxycheck logs in ./log/proxies.log in the directory where you start pixelplaent. They get rotated daily and deleted if >14d old.

Stopping

pm2 stop web

If using Cloudflare / Reverse Proxy

In order to get the real IP and not use the cloudflare Proxy IP for placing pixels, we filter those out. The cloudflare IPs are in src/utils/cloudflareip.js and used in src/utils/ip.js. If for some reason cloudflare ads more IPs to it, you can see them at https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ and add them. If you use any other Reverse Proxy, you can define it's IPs there too.

If USE_XREALIP is set, we take the IP from the X-Real-Ip header without checking for cloudflare IPs. Use this if you have pixelplanet running behind nginx use the nginx set_realip module to give us the client ip on the X-Real-Ip header. And be sure to also forward X-Forwarded-Port and set X-Forwarded-Proto.

Auto-Start

To have the canvas with all it's components autostart at systemstart, enable mysql, redis (and probably nginx if you use it) according to your system (systemctl enable ...) And then setup pm2 startup with:

pm2 startup

(execute as the user that is running pixelplanet) And follow the printed steps if needed. This will generate a systemctl service file /etc/systemd/system/pm2-pixelplanet.service and enable it. You will have to run pm2 save while the canvas is running to let pm2 know what to start. To make sure that mysql and redis are up when pixelplanet starts, edit this service file and modify the lines:

Wants=network-online.target
After=network.target mysql.service redis.service

Development

Run npm run lint:src to check for code errors and warnings or npm run lint -- ./your/file.js to check a single file. Please do not produce too many additional warnings.

You can use npm run babel-node ./your/script.js to execute a script with local babel.

npm run upgrade can be use for interactively upgrading npm packages.

Backups and Historical View

PixelPlanet includes a backup script that creates full canvas backups daily in the form of PNG tile files and incremential backups all 15min (or whatever you define) that saves PNG tiles with just the differences since the last full daily backup.

It requires a second running redis instance.

The backup script gets built when building pixelplanet and also gets copied to build/ directory. You can run it with:

node backup.js REDIS_URL_CANVAS REDIS_URL_BACKUP BACKUP_DIRECTORY [INTERVAL] [COMMAND]

Make sure to get the order right, because the backup redis instance will be overwritten every hour. Interval is the time in minutes between incremential backups. If interval is undefined, it will just make one backup and then exit. If command is defined, it will be executed after every backup (just one command, with no arguments, like "dosomething.sh"), this is useful for synchronisation with a storage server i.e..

Alternatively you can run it with pm2, just like pixelplanet. An example ecosystem-backup.example.yml file will be located in the build directory.

Note:

• You do not have to run backups or historical view, it's optional.

Hourly Event

Hourly event is an MMORPG style event that launches once in two hours where users have to fight against a growing void that starts at a random position at the main canvas. If they complete it successfully, the whole canvas will have half cooldown for a few minutes.

Historical view

Pixelplanet is able to let the user browse through the past with those backups. For this you need to define BACKUP_URL and BACKUP_DIR in your ecosystem.yml for pixelplanet. BACKUP_URL is the URL where the backup folder is available. It's best to let another server serve those files or at least use nginx. BACKUP_DIR is the full path of the local directory where the backup is located (whats set as BACKUP_DIRECTORY in the command of the backup.js).

3D canvas

If v is set and true for a canvas in the canvas.json, it will be a 3D voxel canvas. 3D Canvases can not be seen in Historical View.