WorldForge Developers Journal

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.

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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.

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Cyphesis version 0.5.13 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 »

Beta 1 of Ember 0.5.0 is now available, both in source form and as a package for Linux systems. A Windows version will be available later on.

Get the files from here:

• Source
• Linux package

If you compile from source you will also need the media, which can be obtained from here.

This version is the first to use CEGUI 0.5 and Ogre 1.4. It also includes a new entity editing framework which allows for real time authoring of the world.

Plunger version 0.1.0 has been released and is available from the WorldForge download site.

Plunger is a 3D mesh converter. It currently imports Collada, OgreXML and Sear’s object format and exports Collada, OgreXML, Sear’s object format, MD3 and a text summary about the model.

Plunger is written in Python.

Source Code tar.gz

I’d like to showcase some of the new editing functionality in the current Ember cvs. First off is the area editing.

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This weekend I will upgrade the wiki to mediawki 1.10.0. This wil probably happen on Saturday. I’m not going to estimate the downtime, just expect there’s going to be downtime this weekend.

I thought I should post a report of the latest progress in Ember. I’m planning for a release of 0.5.0 within a month, and I’d like to report on some of the new features.
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