News
Wiki upgraded
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.
Fast and Loose or Premature Stabilisation
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 [...]
Using the launchpad for more transparent development
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
Ember 0.5.0 released
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
Cyphesis 0.5.13 Release
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
Ember 0.5.0 beta1 released
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
Plunger 0.1.0 released
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
Area and entity editing in Ember
I’d like to showcase some of the new editing functionality in the current Ember cvs. First off is the area editing.
Scheduled wiki upgrade, possible downtime
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.
Ember progress report
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.