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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.
Cyphesis 0.5.12 Release
Cyphesis version 0.5.12 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 0.4.3 released
Ember version 0.4.3 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 includes the new libwfut library for media updates, removing the need for an external java [...]
libwfut 0.1.0 Release
The first release of libwfut is now available. libwfut is a C implementation of the Java updater tool, WFUT. It is primarily intended for use with WorldForge clients to allow integrated media updates, although it is not limited to this task.
A command line tool, wfut, is provided which can replace the Java tool for command [...]
Wfut in Ember
Thanks to some really great work from Simon, the WFUT tool is now ported to C as the libwfut library. While some work still remains, it’s already been integrated into Ember. This means that Ember no longer needs to rely on Java and the external WFUT tool to do media updates. Hopefully this will remove [...]
Ember 0.4.2 released
Ember version 0.4.2 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site.
Ember is a fully functional 3d client for the WorldForge project. It’s meant to be as extensible as possible, to allow for future world builders to adapt it to their worlds or games.
This release updates the authoring tools, adds a dynamic [...]
Updated Sear Windows Installer
The Sear 0.6.3 Windows installer has been re-uploaded to SourceForge as it was corrupt. This is marked as version 0.6.3.1. Please report any problems or bugs for any version of Sear on the Sear forums.
New Windows Installer: sear_win32_setup-0.6.3.1.exe
Ember 0.4.2 release candidate 4
Ember 0.4.2 release candidate 4 is now available. It’s available prepackaged for both Linux and Windows from these locations.
For Linux
For Windows
A source package is also
Where are all the servers?
Over the last couple of months nearly 1000 people have downloaded a copy of our cyphesis server code. This makes me happy. Currently the Active Servers page and the browser in sear shows no reachable servers. This makes me sad. Nearly one thousand people have failed to get a server running and reachable using my [...]
Sear 0.6.3 Released
Sear 0.6.3 has now been released. This version of Sear has a new method of representing character appearance based on clothing entities. It also fixes a crasher bug many users were reporting on Intel hardware. It also uses the newer Guichan 0.5.0 library.