Cyphesis 0.5.5 Release
Cyphesis version 0.5.5 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.
Major changes in this version:
- Some major bugs in the collision code that caused characters to teleport around the map have been fixed.
- Numerous bugs have been fixed in the pig farming code.
- The code for selling pigs for money has been improved to make it much easier for the player.
- Information about the world’s astronomical calendar is now exposed to the client allowing custom day/night cycles.
- Support has been added for Avahi MDNS service discovery.
- The python script interface has been cleaned up and made more consistent.
Source code and Linux binary packages can be downloaded from here:
December 19th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Excellent! It’s good to see the teleport issue fixed, it kinda detracted from the immersion. I’ve updated both amber and folke.
December 20th, 2005 at 1:23 am
The main problem was working out how to reproduce it reliablly. I worked out a way by walking into some of the houses in the village, but even then it took me hours to work out exactly what was going wrong. The joy of race conditions.
Erik, you may want to look out for an issue caused by wielded entities getting deleted, but notification of the fact that they are no longer wielded being slow to arrive at the client. You can see if this causes ember any problems by creating a skeleton, wielding it, then touching it causing it to be destroyed.