WorldForge Developers Journal

Ember version 0.5.1 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 adds many improvments to the GUI system, such as an inventory status widgets. It also contains greatly updated media with normal and specular maps for most game entities. The ingame chat system has been totally redone with increased performance and functionality. The terrain system now supports shaders with fallbacks on a fixed function pipeline.

Read the rest of this entry »

Cyphesis version 0.5.15 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Eris version 1.3.13 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.
Read the rest of this entry »

WFMath version 0.3.7 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.
Read the rest of this entry »

Atlas-C++ version 0.6.1 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Atlas-C++ is the standard implementation of the WorldForge Atlas protocol. This release is primarilly aimed at developers and users who want to build the WorldForge system for themselves.

Major changes in this version:

• The codec and negotiation parsers are now more efficient.
• A small addition has been made to the objects interface for testability.

The files can be downloaded from the following locations:

Source Code tar.bz2
Source Code tar.gz
Linux Source rpm
Fedora Core 7 i386 rpm
Fedora Core 7 i386 devel rpm

Cyphesis version 0.5.14 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. Read the rest of this entry »

I have just upgraded the wiki to mediawiki 1.11.0.
My tests are looking good, but if you find anything broken, just send me an email.

Recently I have been trying to push ahead with designing new features which require data formats and conventions to be specified for the Atlas protocol used to communicate between clients and servers. Progress has been a little slow because I have been forcing myself to write a full spec for the changes and additions to the protocol before I start writing code, and I am never quite happy I have the design right. It always seems to be a little too inflexible, or not general purpose enough. The result is that weeks go by and nothing really happens.

So I thought it would be interesting to try a new approach. Read the rest of this entry »

During the last couple of weeks we’ve been using the Launchpad service for development.

The Launchpad is a rich bug and feature tracker developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It also providers other features useful for developers, such as translations and general answers to common questions about the application. Personally I think one of its main strengths is it’s easy to use interface. It’s a simple procedure to submit bug reports or feature requests.

Read the rest of this entry »

Ember version 0.5.0 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 uses Ogre version 1.4.3 and CEGUI version 0.5.0. It also includes a new in-game authoring framework, as well as a lot of new features.

Read the rest of this entry »