Ember 0.5.7 released
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.
Changes:
- improved movement of entities with snap-to behavior
- greatly improved support for ATI graphics card
- optimizations of many terrain functions, resulting in a various speed improvements
- revamped camera system, allowing for more natural camera movement
This version can be downloaded from the sourceforge download site, at the following locations:
We currently only provide precompiled packages for Linux, but hopefully will provide Windows and OSX packages in the near future.
Note that if you compile from source, you will need to install the content of ember-media-0.5.7.tar.bz2 to PREFIX/share/ember/media or use the “make releasemediarsync” make target.
More information can be found at the Ember site.
All bug reports should be posted at the Launchpad.
