WorldForge Developers Journal

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.

Cyphesis 0.5.19 Release

alriddoch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:37:54 +0000

Cyphesis version 0.5.19 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:

Unused characters are now removed from the world after a short time.
Re-populating the world after a restart checks for persistent world features.
A database tool has been added to simplify admin tasks.
A python command line tool has been added to send python commands to the server.
The entire codebase has been cleaned up.

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

Source Code tar.bz2

Source Code tar.gz

Linux source code rpm

Fedora Core 9 rpm

Google Summer of Code 2009 is on

kai — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:57:05 +0000

WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2009.

If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org, say hello on the general mailing list or post on the WorldForge forum. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

WFMath 0.3.9 Release

alriddoch — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:55:13 +0000

WFMath version 0.3.9 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site. WFMath, or the WorldForge Math library’s main focus is geometric objects, and it has classes for several shapes as well as the basic math objects, points, vectors, matrices and quaternions. It is required by all WorldForge components.

This release is aimed at all developers.

Changes in this version:

The headers have been cleaned up to include fewer system headers and dependencies, and keep the namespace a bit cleaner.

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

Ember 0.5.5 released

erik — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:28:25 +0000

Ember version 0.5.5 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 new combined minimap and compass widget, many improvements to the entity creator and an upgrade to the cutting edge Ogre 1.6 3d library.

Changes:

a new minimap widget
improved entity creator
working OSX support
more and better entity recipes for the entity creation
upgrade to Ogre 1.6
many bug fixes

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

We currently only provide precompiled packages for Linux, but 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-0.5.5.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.

Here’s a video of the new compass in action.

Cyphesis 0.5.18 Release

alriddoch — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:49:53 +0000

Cyphesis version 0.5.18 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Major changes in this version:

World data is now fully persistent across crashes and restarts.

Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements.

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

Source Code tar.bz2

Source Code tar.gz

Linux autopackage

Linux source code rpm

Fedora Core 9 rpm

WFMath 0.3.8 Release

alriddoch — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:08:42 +0000

WFMath version 0.3.8 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site. WFMath, or the WorldForge Math library’s main focus is geometric objects, and it has classes for several shapes as well as the basic math objects, points, vectors, matrices and quaternions. It is required by all WorldForge components.

This release is aimed at all developers.

Changes in this version:

The source has been updated to build cleanly on modern compilers.
The build files have been updated to work better with modern tools.

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

libwfut 0.2.1 released

Simon — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:50:51 +0000

libwfut 0.2.1 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 allows downloads to be aborted, contains some sample python front-ends and fixes a few small bugs. This version will also use a systemwide installation of tinyxml if available.

Source: libwfut-0.2.1.tar.gz

WOMBAT 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 released

kai — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:30:03 +0000

The WOMBAT team is happy to announce the release of WOMBAT 0.4.0 and 0.4.1

New features in these versions include:

Completely revamped look and feel
Support for users and roles
Actions that change the server’s data
Custom icons that reflect the content of the media, if possible
New stock icons from the Tango project
Display total number of files under a directory to simplify browsing

As always, the WOMBAT demo page has the current version for you to test.

Cyphesis 0.5.17 Release

alriddoch — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:14:12 +0000

Cyphesis version 0.5.17 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.

Major changes in this version:

Terrain modifiers are now fully supported.

A new persistence backend has been written and is in testing.

Properties have been re-written to be way more efficient.

Internal metrics and monitors are now exposed using http.

Registration with the metaserver is now much more reliable.

Simulation is now jittered to make CPU load much smoother.

Lots of bugs have been fixed.

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

Source Code tar.bz2

Source Code tar.gz

Linux autopackage

Linux source code rpm

Fedora Core 9 rpm