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About erik

Main developer of the Ember client.

Students for Google Summer of Code announced

Posted on Tuesday 28th of May, 2013 by erik

The students selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code have been announced. For Worldforge these are: Samuel Kogler: Replace current terrain manager with Ogre terrain component Louis Jencka: Dynamic Media for Ember We’re very excited about having these two onboard the … Continue reading →

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Worldforge participating in Google Summer of Code 2013

Posted on Monday 8th of April, 2013 by erik

Worldforge has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2013. This marks our sixth consecutive year we’ve participated in the program. As before we’re thrilled to be allowed this opportunity to work with students on improving Worldforge. As described on … Continue reading →

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Ember 0.7.0 released

Posted on Sunday 10th of February, 2013 by erik

The Worldforge 3d client Ember version 0.7.0 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. This release improves on performance through the use of automatic mesh reduction and experimental detail level adjustment. Tweet

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GSoC 2012 report: Péter Szücs

Posted on Thursday 18th of October, 2012 by erik

Péter Szücs worked for the Google Summer of Code 2012 on implementing an improved automatic mesh Level-of-detail management system for Ember. His project was a great success, as is demonstrated in this video. The end result of his work is … Continue reading →

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Interview on the Sourceforge blog

Posted on Tuesday 18th of September, 2012 by erik

Just a short notice about a short interview done for the Sourceforge blog regarding our work with Google Summer of Code 2012. Tweet

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Ember 0.6.3 released

Posted on Friday 13th of July, 2012 by erik

Ember version 0.6.3 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 … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code starts

Posted on Sunday 20th of May, 2012 by erik

Tomorrow is the official start of the coding for this years students in the Google Summer of Code program. We’re very excited about them and expect exciting results. The students selected for Worldforge are Anthony Pesce, “Develop Mason game system“ … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code 2012 is on!

Posted on Monday 19th of March, 2012 by erik

Worldforge has once again been accepted in Google Summer of Code! This marks the fifth year Google has allowed us the privilege to work together with students under to Summer of Code program. All previous years students have left us … Continue reading →

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Browser plugin, Windows and OSX builds of Ember

Posted on Friday 6th of January, 2012 by erik

Thanks to the hard work of Péter Szücs during the Google Summer of Code 2011 we can now proudly introduce WebEmber, a browser plugin which allows you to embed Ember in a web page. We support all major browsers on … Continue reading →

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Ember 0.6.2 released

Posted on Wednesday 16th of November, 2011 by erik

Ember version 0.6.2 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 … Continue reading →

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