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Updated Sear Windows Installer

Simon — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:10:32 +0000

The Sear 0.6.3 Windows installer has been re-uploaded to SourceForge as it was corrupt. This is marked as version 0.6.3.1. Please report any problems or bugs for any version of Sear on the Sear forums.

New Windows Installer: sear_win32_setup-0.6.3.1.exe

Sear 0.6.3 Released

Simon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:57:20 +0000

Sear 0.6.3 has now been released. This version of Sear has a new method of representing character appearance based on clothing entities. It also fixes a crasher bug many users were reporting on Intel hardware. It also uses the newer Guichan 0.5.0 library.

Summary of Changes:

Clothing appearance is now based on clothing entities.
Fixed a crasher bug on Intel cards on Windows.
Speed up rendering of static objects.
Improve weather effects.
Fixed selection of objects when many are visible at once.
Look for media in multiple locations. Allows a read-only area and an update area to be used.
Updated to use Guichan 0.5.0.
Added new Sear file format for static 3-D objects.
Numerous GUI improvements.

Sear can be obtained from the following locations:

Source Package: sear-0.6.3.tar.gz
Linux Auto Package: sear-0.6.3.x86.package
Windows Installer: sear_win32_setup-0.6.3.exe

As an alternative to using WFUT to obtain the media, a tarball is also available: sear-media-20070206.tar.gz Sear is also available using WFUT. The channels sear-win32 and sear-linux contain the latest Sear release, and the channels sear-devel-win32 and sear-devel-linux contain nightly sear builds from CVS. Instructions for using Sear can be found on the WorldForge website. The quickstart guide is recommended as it explains the main features of Sear and the basic tasks in the game Mason.

Updated Sear 0.6.2 Binary for OS-X

James — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:04:48 +0000

I’ve just uploaded an updated Mac binary of Sear 0.6.2 to SourceForge. This should hopefully resolve some of the crashes people have experienced. In particular, re-sizing the window, and changing into / from fullscreen mode now works correctly. This release will work on computers running OS-X versions 10.3.9 and 10.4.x, including Intel-based Macs, but is not a Universal Binary yet.

Sear 0.6.2 Released

Simon — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:27:58 +0000

Sear 0.6.2 has been released. This version has task support allowing basic building tasks to be performed. Current tasks include chopping down trees, stripping branches and sharpening into stakes to facilitate stockade construction.
This release also contains many improvements to the rendering system and long standing rotation and positioning bugs have been fixed.

Major changes in this release

* Fixed long standing rotation and positioning bugs
* Support for tasks
* Fixed bugs allowing leaving the world and re-entering without crashing sear.
* Added config options to 3ds and md3 loaders to automatically resize objects.
* Added ability to use texture transforms to fix some 3ds rendering problems.
* Numerous GUI improvements
* Added basic weather rendering. (it rains)
* Updated to Eris 1.3.11 API
* Many other minor bug fixes and improvements

Sear can be obtained from the following locations:

Source Package: sear-0.6.2.tar.gz
Linux Auto Package: sear-0.6.2.x86.package
Windows Installer: sear_win32_setup-0.6.2.exe

As an alternative to using WFUT to obtain the media, a tarball is also available: sear-media-20060627.tar.gz

Sear is also available using WFUT. The channels sear-win32 and sear-linux contain the latest Sear release, and the channels sear-devel-win32 and sear-devel-linux contain nightly sear builds from CVS.

OS-X builds are expected to be available shortly.

Instructions for using Sear can be found on the WorldForge website.
The quickstart guide is recommended as it explains the main features of Sear and the basic tasks in the game Mason.

Getting the castle into the system

alriddoch — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:13:56 +0000

It has taken a lot of mangling, bug fixing, and even some new features, but I have finally got xrenmilay’s excellent keep model into the system. Here is a view in sear of the keep placed in a quiet valley in Moraf, just to the east of the pig sty.

There are still some client bugs to be fixed before this works reliably, and lots of work to get the rest of the castle components loading okay. With any luck it can be ready in time for LinuxTag. We need to think carefully about a setting too. I am thinking about creating a land mass to the west of the area used for the current demo, and make this area the city port from which settlers leave in order to sail to Moraf, which is currently unsettled. Let me know if you have any ideas.

As far as interiors of buildings are concerned, we still have a long way to go with the technology before its possible to navigate around inside buildings. We’ll get working on this as soon as the current work on tasks and combat systems. Please be patient with us for now.

Latest Sear News

Simon — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:51:46 +0000

There has been a lot of activity on the Sear front since the last release. Most importantly, long standing rotation bugs have been fixed which now allows access to the buildings in the village and allows correct rendering of items such as a lit torch. Previously entering a building had unpredictable results and wielding the torch did not render the fire.
The Cal3D goblin by Damien has been added to sear-media and a new combat animation by munin has been added to malebuilder model. These media updates are available to the current release of Sear by using WFUT to update the media.

The inventory dialog has now been updated to stack items with the same name instead of showing a separate entry for each item.
In other news, the first stage of an overhaul in the rendering code has nearly been finished. A common Static/Dynamic Object class has been created to separate individual mesh loading and animating from the rendering process. The next stage is to use these directly in the render queue (instead of the models as a whole) and sort into a more efficient rendering order.As always, nightly builds of development Sear for Linux and Windows are available through WFUT on the sear-devel-linux and sear-devel-win32 channels.

Simon

Sear 0.6.1 Release

Simon — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:11:03 +0000

Sear 0.6.1 is released. This release brings many improvements to the GUI components. The character creation dialog now has a list of playable character types. This fixes one of major issues with the previous release. Speech Bubbles have been added to improve dialog with other players and NPC’s and there is also a basic help system. Other GUI components allow adjusting key bindings and video modes. Two new console commands have been added. /me for emotes and /eat (added to inventory dialog) to nourish our character. Other changes include updating to Eris 1.3.10 API, using builtin Eris ops instead of sear custom ones for use, wield, create etc, and numerous stability and code improvements.

Sear can be obtained from the following locations:Source Package: sear-0.6.1.tar.gz
Linux Auto Package: sear-0.6.1.x86.package
Windows Installer: sear_win32_setup-0.6.1.exe

As an alternative to using WFUT to obtain the media, a tarball is also available: sear-media-0.6-20060204.tar.gz

Sear is also available using WFUT. The channels sear-win32 and sear-linux contain the latest Sear release, and the channels sear-devel-win32 and sear-devel-linux contain nightly sear builds from CVS.

OS-X builds are expected to be available shortly.

Instructions for using Sear can be found on the WorldForge website.
The quickstart guide is recommended as it explains the main features of Sear and the basic tasks in the game Mason.

Will the real settler please stand up

alriddoch — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:23:08 +0000

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. Clearly given the number of errors we have made a serious mistake in the user interface provided in sear for creating characters, in that it provides no guidance on what types are acceptable.

The only character type currently supported on servers is settler. This is described in the Sear Quickstart Guide but buried a little too deep for most people to spot. If you have been having difficulty creating a character, please accept my apologies for this shortcoming in the user interface, and give it one more try. The development code has already been updated to be more helpful, and the next release will feature this as well as many other improvements that make sear easier to use.

Official Sear 0.6.0 release for OS-X

James — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:31:22 +0000

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 not supported. Please post any feedback or bug reports in this forum thread, or on IRC.

Becuase numerous packaging and build issues have been worked-through and resolved in the course of this release, future binary releases should require very little additional work, and should appear very soon after the official tarballs.

Test binary of Sear 0.6.0 for OS-X

James — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:21:55 +0000

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, and it should work on OS-X 10.4 or 10.3.9 (any earlier version of 10.3 must be updated before Sear will run). Please post feedback on the mailing lists, the forums or on IRC.