www/src/client.html

Client Installation

<h2>The CFPlus Client</h2>

<p> CFPlus is the new Crossfire TRT (Crossfire compatible) client which
was written from scratch in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was
written to have a more immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground
to implement new features. (And it's still mostly compatible with the
original Crossfire). </p>

<h3>Screenshots:</h3>

<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>

<h2>GNU/Linux</h2>
<h3>Download</h3>

<p>
<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux</a><br />
If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
</p>

<p><b>Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT. (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32)</b></p>

<p>
Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-alpha-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux alpha</a><br />
<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release!
</p>

<h3>GNU/Linux Installation</h3>

<p>
After downloading you need to make the binary <b>executable</b> like this:<br />
<tt style="margin-left: 2em">chmod a+x cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt><br />
And start it like this (when cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin is in the current working directory):<br />
<tt style="margin-left: 2em">./cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt>
</p>

<h3>Build from source</h3>

<p>
If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
</p>

<h2>Windows</h2>

<h3>Download</h3>

<p>
<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus.exe">cfplus windows</a><br />
If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
</p>

<p>
Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus_alpha.exe">cfplus windows alpha</a><br />
<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release!
</p>

<h3>Windows Installation</h3>

<p>
Just download the binary above in the <i>Windows binary</i> Section above at <b>Download</b>.
Thats all. (To start it, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or 
use the context menu of the right mouse button :-).
<b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
and start up everything it needs.
</p>

<p>
<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
</p>

<h3>News</h3>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
    The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
    from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
    better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
    more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
    now (eg. in the inventory).
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
    Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
    are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
 </em>
</p>

<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>

<h3>Features:</h3>

<p>
These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
</p>

<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
    <li>
        Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
        long as you have OpenGL).
    </li>
    <li>
        Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions 
        with scaling invariant user interface.
    </li>
    <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
    <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
    <li>Sound and background music.</li>
    <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
    <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
    <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>
       A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
       and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
    </li>
    <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
    <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
    <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
    <li>
       Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
       eases the input of commands.
    </li>
    <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
    <li>
       There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
    </li>
    <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
    <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
    <li>
       NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
       improves overall game interaction.
    </li>
    <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
    <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Yet unimplemented features (for version 1.5 or 2):</h3>

<ul>
    <li>On screen player name labels.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Future features/ideas:</h3>

<p>
These are some (more or less serious) ideas we have regarding extension of the client's
functionality:
</p>

<ul>
    <li>Integrated IRC client.</li>
    <li>Editor stating shortcut with automated downloading of maps.</li>
</ul>

<h3>News archive</h3>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
    was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
    opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
    driver).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
    on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
    large 64x64 tileset!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
    'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
    database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
    and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
    about your experience with the CFPlus client!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-20
    And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
    minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
    have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
    This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
    replace it!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
    added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
    On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
    improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-30
    The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
    to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
    documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
    is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-24
    Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
    need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly 
    on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-03
    Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
    we are happy to present the first test release!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-12
    The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
    helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-02
    Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
    some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
    Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
    of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
    inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
 </em>
</p>

<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>

<p><b>The cf.schmorp.de Crossfire Development Team:</b></p>

<p><b>
      95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
      the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
   </b></p>
   <p>
    Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
    <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
   </p>

   <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
   <p>
    Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
    <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
   </p>

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2
3			<h2>The CFPlus Client</h2>
4
5			<p> CFPlus is the new Crossfire TRT (Crossfire compatible) client which
6			was written from scratch in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was
7			written to have a more immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground
8			to implement new features. (And it's still mostly compatible with the
9			original Crossfire). </p>
10
11			<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12
13	root	1.2	<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14	pippijn	1.1
15			<h2>GNU/Linux</h2>
16			<h3>Download</h3>
17
18			<p>
19			<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux</a><br />
20			If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
21			bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
22			</p>
23
24			<p><b>Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT. (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32)</b></p>
25
26			<p>
27			Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-alpha-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux alpha</a><br />
28			<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release!
29			</p>
30
31			<h3>GNU/Linux Installation</h3>
32
33			<p>
34			After downloading you need to make the binary <b>executable</b> like this:<br />
35			<tt style="margin-left: 2em">chmod a+x cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt><br />
36			And start it like this (when cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin is in the current working directory):<br />
37			<tt style="margin-left: 2em">./cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt>
38			</p>
39
40			<h3>Build from source</h3>
41
42			<p>
43			If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
44	root	1.2	are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
45	pippijn	1.1	</p>
46
47			<h2>Windows</h2>
48
49			<h3>Download</h3>
50
51			<p>
52			<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus.exe">cfplus windows</a><br />
53			If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
54			bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
55			</p>
56
57			<p>
58			Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus_alpha.exe">cfplus windows alpha</a><br />
59			<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release!
60			</p>
61
62			<h3>Windows Installation</h3>
63
64			<p>
65			Just download the binary above in the <i>Windows binary</i> Section above at <b>Download</b>.
66			Thats all. (To start it, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
67			use the context menu of the right mouse button :-).
68			<b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
69			and start up everything it needs.
70			</p>
71
72			<p>
73			<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
74			</p>
75
76			<h3>News</h3>
77
78			<p>
79			<em>
80			2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
81			The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
82			from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
83			better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
84			more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
85			now (eg. in the inventory).
86			</em>
87			</p>
88
89
90			<p>
91			<em>
92			2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
93			</em>
94			</p>
95
96			<p>
97			<em>
98			2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
99			Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
100			are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
101			</em>
102			</p>
103
104			<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
105
106			<h3>Features:</h3>
107
108			<p>
109			These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
110			</p>
111
112			<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
113			<ul>
114			<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
115			<li>
116			Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
117			long as you have OpenGL).
118			</li>
119			<li>
120			Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
121			with scaling invariant user interface.
122			</li>
123			<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
124			<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
125			<li>Sound and background music.</li>
126			<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
127			<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
128			<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
129			</ul>
130
131			<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
132			<ul>
133			<li>
134			A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
135			and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
136			</li>
137			<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
138			<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
139			<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
140			<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
141			<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
142			<li>
143			Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
144			eases the input of commands.
145			</li>
146			<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
147			<li>
148			There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
149			</li>
150			<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
151			<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
152			<li>
153			NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
154			improves overall game interaction.
155			</li>
156			<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
157			<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
158			</ul>
159
160			<h3>Yet unimplemented features (for version 1.5 or 2):</h3>
161
162			<ul>
163			<li>On screen player name labels.</li>
164			</ul>
165
166			<h3>Future features/ideas:</h3>
167
168			<p>
169			These are some (more or less serious) ideas we have regarding extension of the client's
170			functionality:
171			</p>
172
173			<ul>
174			<li>Integrated IRC client.</li>
175			<li>Editor stating shortcut with automated downloading of maps.</li>
176			</ul>
177
178			<h3>News archive</h3>
179
180			<p>
181			<em>
182			2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
183			was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
184			opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
185			driver).
186			</em>
187			</p>
188
189			<p>
190			<em>
191			2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
192			on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
193			large 64x64 tileset!
194			</em>
195			</p>
196
197			<p>
198			<em>
199			2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
200			'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
201			database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
202			</em>
203			</p>
204
205			<p>
206			<em>
207			2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
208			</em>
209			</p>
210
211			<p>
212			<em>
213			2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
214			and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
215			about your experience with the CFPlus client!
216			</em>
217			</p>
218
219			<p>
220			<em>
221			2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
222			</em>
223			</p>
224
225			<p>
226			<em>
227			2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
228			</em>
229			</p>
230
231			<p>
232			<em>
233			2006-09-20
234			And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
235			minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
236			</em>
237			</p>
238
239			<p>
240			<em>
241			2006-08-14
242			A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
243			have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
244			This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
245			replace it!
246			</em>
247			</p>
248
249			<p>
250			<em>
251			2006-08-14
252			The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
253			added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
254			On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
255			improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
256			</em>
257			</p>
258
259			<p>
260			<em>
261			2006-07-30
262			The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
263			to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
264			documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
265			is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
266			</em>
267			</p>
268
269			<p>
270			<em>
271			2006-07-24
272			Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
273			need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
274			on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
275			</em>
276			</p>
277
278			<p>
279			<em>
280			2006-07-03
281			Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
282			we are happy to present the first test release!
283			</em>
284			</p>
285
286			<p>
287			<em>
288			2006-06-12
289			The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
290			helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
291			</em>
292			</p>
293
294			<p>
295			<em>
296			2006-06-02
297			Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
298			some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
299			Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
300			of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
301			inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
302			</em>
303			</p>
304
305			<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
306
307	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The cf.schmorp.de Crossfire Development Team:</b></p>
308	pippijn	1.1
309	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>
310	pippijn	1.1	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
311			the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
312	pippijn	1.3	</b></p>
313	pippijn	1.1	<p>
314			Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
315			<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
316			</p>
317
318	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
319	pippijn	1.1	<p>
320			Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
321			<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
322			</p>
323	pippijn	1.3
324			<p></p>