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:

• ember-0.5.5.tar.bz2
• ember-media-0.5.5.tar.bz2
• ember-0.5.5.x86.package

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 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:

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

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:

• Source code
• Source rpm
• Fedora 9 rpm
• Fedora 9 devel rpm

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

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 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:

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

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 incorporates the results from the three Google Summer of Code projects. The entity creator is greatly expanded, with scripting functionality, there’s now proper support for terrain modifiers and there’s a working sound system in place.

Changes:

• improved entity creator with advanced scripting support
• support for terrain modifiers
• a new complete sound system
• updated sky and lightning subsystem (Caelum 0.3)
• improved lua scripting support, with proper handling of return values

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

• ember-0.5.4.tar.bz2
• ember-media-0.5.4.tar.bz2
• ember-0.5.4.x86.package

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-0.5.4.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.

Mercator is a library for handling procedural world data, especially terrain. It is used by all WorldForge components. This API is still in development, and changes with each version.

Changes in this version:

• The API for terrain modifications has been fleshed out and is now more complete.
• The Forest code has been extended to make it more generic and
  useful.
• The offset of a Segment is now provided in terrain coordinates
  rather than segment multiples to make code simpler everywhere.
• Memory footprint is reduced, and some leaks have been fixed.
• Inline and generated API documentation has been improved.
• Test coverage has been improved.

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

• Source Code
• Source RPM
• Fedora Core 9 RPM
• Fedora Core 9 devel RPM

In addition to that, we now provide a development package for win32, to be found here.

The main reason for providing the development package is in the hope to find someone to maintain the win32 port, which currently has to be done by me. All main development however occurs on Linux. The development package can be used to more easily setup a compilation environment on windows. In order to do this you will need both the MinGW environment and Code::Blocks. The development package contains further documentation on further needed packages.

Note that we only provide this package for win32, since Linux systems normally provides all required tools needed for easy compilation through their packaging systems. More information on how to compile Ember can be found on the wiki.

All main development of Ember occurs on Linux, so the Win32 port is not guaranteed to be as stable. If you experience any problems, please report them, preferrebly to the bug tracker.

See the full announcement for details, and check out the live demo.