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libwfut 0.2.2 Released

Simon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:43:57 +0000

libwfut 0.2.2 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site. WFUT is a content distribution system initially intended to provide media updates for WorldForge clients. libwfut is a C++ implementation of the client side functionality.

This release primarily fixes compilation problems on recent compilers.

Source: libwfut-0.2.2.tar.gz

Ember 0.5.8 released

erik — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:00:05 +0000

Ember version 0.5.8 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.

The main feature of this release is a completely new multithreading framework, an entity type manager, improvements to the shaders and lots of new media.

Changes:

pervasive multi threading throughout the application, allowing for smoother gameplay
new entity type manager, allowing dynamic editing of server entity types
provide glsl shaders for all foliage, removing the need for Cg in that component
build fixes for win32
improved mesh management in the assets manager widget

This version can be downloaded from the sourceforge download site, at the following locations:

We currently only provide precompiled packages for Linux and Windows.

Note that if you compile from source, you will need to install the content of ember-media-0.5.8.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.

Eris 1.3.15 Released

erik — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:28:53 +0000

Eris version 1.3.15 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Eris is the WorldForge client-side session layer, used by many existing clients.

This is a development release, as the API may change prior to the final release of Eris 1.4.0. However, any changes should be minor and easy to incorporate into clients; testing is recommended and appreciated.

Changes:

Optimizations to the MetaServer which will improve performance when querying for servers.
Support for server side spawn points when creating new characters.
Allow for clients to create local Entity instances, not bound to any server.
Build fixes for gcc 4.4.

Source code can be downloaded from the following locations:

Student applications are now open.

kai — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:23 +0000

Google has just opened applications for students who want to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2010. If you want to help building tools for great MMOGs, you should have a look at our ideas page.
In order to help you figure out if you have the skills needed to work on Ember, and in order to help us to filter out non-serious applications, we ask students who are applying for ember to find and fix two errors in this special code drop. Also see the Ember prerequisites on this.
A similar coding challenge exists for Wombat, where applicants can have a go at implementing a recent feature request. See the wombat prerequisite for details on that.

We’re looking forward to your applications, and happy hacking!

WorldForge accepted into Google Summer of Code 2010

kai — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:07:58 +0000

Just like in the previous two years, Google has decided to accept WorldForge into the Google Summer of Code. Interested students can spend their summer break flipping code not burgers at WorldForge. See our project proposals page for some ideas of what you could work on. If you have your own idea, don’t hesitate to come to the WorldForge general mailinglist to discuss your idea.

While student applications won’t open until March 29th (see the GSoC timeline), the sooner you contact us, the better.

We’re looking forward to your project proposals.

WOMBAT 0.5.0 release

kai — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:11:58 +0000

The Wombat team is happy to release Wombat 0.5.0

Compared to the 0.4.0 release, Wombat 0.5.0 sports a lot of new features.

Notable differences are:

Now based on Pylons 0.9.7 and SQLAlchemy 0.5
No support for Python 2.4 anymore due to Pylons requirements
Users can now upload artwork
Uploaded artwork will be committed to the media repository after moderation by an administrator or lead artist
Tag-based browsing and other new UI features
A new subversion backend uses pysvn instead of executing the svn shell commands
Automated database cleanups

Read the full announcement for the list of changes since the last development snapshot.

As always, the current release can be tested on the Wombat demo site. As a new service, current progress can be seen on the Wombat development site, which shows the state of Wombat at the tip of the development. While the demo site shows the WorldForge media repository, the development site uses a scaled down repository to allow for faster database rebuilds in case something goes wrong.

Cyphesis 0.5.22 Release

alriddoch — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:31:19 +0000

Cyphesis version 0.5.22 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:

The persistent server ruleset can now be fully managed from clients.
The administrative security model has been improved.
The test suite has been expanded massively.
Lots of bugs have been fixed.

Source code and Linux binary packages can be downloaded from here:

Linux autopackage

Source Code tar.bz2

Source Code tar.gz

Linux source code rpm

Fedora Core 9 rpm

Ember 0.5.7 released

erik — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:27:41 +0000

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.

Cyphesis 0.5.21 Release

alriddoch — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:35:19 +0000

Cyphesis version 0.5.21 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Major changes in this version:

Fishing tasks and AI have been implemented.
Tasks can now be controlled more finely by the player.
The Python API is now much simpler.
Terrain is now handled much more cleanly.
Test coverages is much more complete.
Lots of bugs have been fixed.

Source code and Linux binary packages can be downloaded from here:

Linux autopackage

Source Code tar.bz2

Source Code tar.gz

Linux source code rpm

Fedora Core 9 rpm

Ember 0.5.6 released

erik — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:43:45 +0000

Ember version 0.5.6 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 introduces a completely revamped lightning and shader model with real time shadows. It also includes major additions to the authoring interface, along with ingame area editing.
The lightning model is completely new, and we would therefore appreciate any reports on artifacts and problems using different graphics cards.

Changes:

revamped shader model with shadows
automatic detection and setting of graphics level
real time graphical area editing
improved support for multi threading

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-0.5.6.tar.bz2 to PREFIX/share/ember/media or use the “make releasemediarsync” make target.

If you compile Ogre yourself make sure to disable FreeImage (–disable-freeimage).

More information can be found at the Ember site.

All bug reports should be posted at the Launchpad.