Category Archives: Clients

A Simple to Use Map Format for Cities and Dungeons

Posted on Friday 20th of January, 2006 by zzorn

A problem slowing the creation of maps is that there are no easy to use tools for doing it. There is a building editor in Ember, and although it is quite flexible, it is not yet very intuitive to use, … Continue reading →

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Will the real settler please stand up

Posted on Saturday 31st of December, 2005 by alriddoch

Looking at the logs on some of the WorldForge game servers made available for public use, I have noticed many errors from users trying to create characters of types which do not exist. Examples include human, knight, dwarf and elf. … Continue reading →

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Official Sear 0.6.0 release for OS-X

Posted on Sunday 11th of December, 2005 by James

Following some final packaging improvements, Sear 0.6.0 is now officialy available for OS-X from the download pages. This release works on all versions of Tiger (10.4) and the most recent release of Panther (10.3.9) – earlier versions of OS-X are … Continue reading →

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Test binary of Sear 0.6.0 for OS-X

Posted on Thursday 8th of December, 2005 by James

I’ve made a test build of Sear 0.6.0 available on my iDisk (once it’s recieved some testing it will be placed on SourceForge). Click here to download the disk image. The Sear application contains all the code and current media, … Continue reading →

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Ember development status

Posted on Saturday 3rd of December, 2005 by erik

There haven’t been any cvs checkins to Ember for more than a month, so I though I should post a note about the current development status. The reason for there not being any checkins is that I moved to a … Continue reading →

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Sear 0.6.0 Release

Posted on Tuesday 29th of November, 2005 by Simon

After nearly 18 months, Sear 0.6.0 is released. As can be expected from
such a long development time, there have been many changes. Perhaps the
most important (and the most asked for) being the addition of a GUI
system for Sear covering the tasks of logging in to a server, creating
and account and a character as well as some in game functionality too. Continue reading →

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Ember 0.3.4 release

Posted on Saturday 29th of October, 2005 by erik

Ember version 0.3.4 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.
Ember is a fully functional 3d client for the WorldForge project. It takes advantage of the latest graphic cards to present a beautiful, fully interactive world. An easy to use GUI allows the player to interact with both the world and other players with ease. Continue reading →

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Initial Eris LOOK-throttling

Posted on Monday 17th of October, 2005 by James

A basic scheme for limiting how fast Eris sends LOOK requests to the server is now committed to CVS – combined with some other fixes from Al, most of the server disconnection issues appear to be resolved. Further stress testing … Continue reading →

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