WorldForge Developers Journal

The Wombat team is happy to release Wombat 0.5.0

Compared to the 0.4.0 release, Wombat 0.5.0 sports a lot of new features.

Notable differences are:

• Now based on Pylons 0.9.7 and SQLAlchemy 0.5
• No support for Python 2.4 anymore due to Pylons requirements
• Users can now upload artwork
• Uploaded artwork will be committed to the media repository after moderation by an administrator or lead artist
• Tag-based browsing and other new UI features
• A new subversion backend uses pysvn instead of executing the svn shell commands
• Automated database cleanups

Read the full announcement for the list of changes since the last development snapshot.

As always, the current release can be tested on the Wombat demo site. As a new service, current progress can be seen on the Wombat development site, which shows the state of Wombat at the tip of the development. While the demo site shows the WorldForge media repository, the development site uses a scaled down repository to allow for faster database rebuilds in case something goes wrong.

Cyphesis version 0.5.22 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ember version 0.5.7 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.

This release contains a new entity movement functionality, with snap-to behavior. Many issues specific to ATI cards have been resolved. Various optimizations in terrain handling have been added.

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Cyphesis version 0.5.21 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Ember version 0.5.6 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.
This release introduces a completely revamped lightning and shader model with real time shadows. It also includes major additions to the authoring interface, along with ingame area editing.
The lightning model is completely new, and we would therefore appreciate any reports on artifacts and problems using different graphics cards.
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Cyphesis version 0.5.19 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. Read the rest of this entry »

WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2009.

If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org, say hello on the general mailing list or post on the WorldForge forum. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

WFMath version 0.3.9 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site. WFMath, or the WorldForge Math library’s main focus is geometric objects, and it has classes for several shapes as well as the basic math objects, points, vectors, matrices and quaternions. It is required by all WorldForge components.

This release is aimed at all developers.
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Ember version 0.5.5 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project. It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.

This release introduces a new combined minimap and compass widget, many improvements to the entity creator and an upgrade to the cutting edge Ogre 1.6 3d library.
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Cyphesis version 0.5.18 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. Read the rest of this entry »