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1 elmex 1.11 Client
2 pippijn 1.1
3 root 1.6 <h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4 pippijn 1.1
5 root 1.6 <p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6 root 1.5 in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7     immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8     features.
9     </p>
10 pippijn 1.1
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 elmex 1.11 <h3>Download:</h3>
16 pippijn 1.1
17 elmex 1.26 <p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
18 pippijn 1.1
19 elmex 1.11 <h3>Installation notes:</h3>
20 pippijn 1.1
21 elmex 1.11 <ul>
22     <li>
23     <p><b>Windows</b></p>
24     <p>
25     To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
26     use the context menu of the right mouse button.
27     <b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
28     and start up everything it needs.
29     </p>
30     </li>
31     <li>
32     <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
33     <p>
34 elmex 1.32 <b>
35     Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
36     (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver,
37     eg. nvidia-glx-ia32 (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
38     </b>
39 elmex 1.11 </p>
40     <p>
41 elmex 1.30 After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
42 elmex 1.11 </p>
43     </li>
44     <li>
45 elmex 1.26 <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
46     <p>
47 elmex 1.27 To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
48 elmex 1.33 <b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.</b>
49 elmex 1.26 </p>
50     </li>
51     <li>
52 elmex 1.11 <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
53     <p>
54     If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
55     are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
56     </p>
57     </li>
58     </ul>
59 pippijn 1.1
60     <p>
61     <b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
62     </p>
63    
64 elmex 1.11 <h3>News:</h3>
65 pippijn 1.1
66     <p>
67 elmex 1.21 <em>
68 elmex 1.34 2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
69     client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
70     other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
71     Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
72     invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
73     </em>
74     </p>
75    
76    
77     <p>
78     <em>
79 elmex 1.33 2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
80     The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
81     emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
82     in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
83     Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
84     </em>
85     </p>
86    
87     <p>
88     <em>
89 elmex 1.29 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
90     to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
91     smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
92     (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
93     The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
94     time.
95     </em>
96     </p>
97    
98     <p>
99     <em>
100 elmex 1.28 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
101     like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
102     and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
103     diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
104     with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
105     basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
106 elmex 1.29 </em>
107 elmex 1.28 </p>
108    
109     <p>
110     <em>
111 elmex 1.26 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
112     a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
113     port available now of the client!
114     </em>
115     </p>
116    
117     <p>
118     <em>
119 elmex 1.25 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
120     workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
121     </em>
122     </p>
123    
124     <p>
125     <em>
126 elmex 1.24 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
127     again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
128     </em>
129     </p>
130    
131     <p>
132     <em>
133 elmex 1.23 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
134     map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
135     logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
136     supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
137     And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
138     configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
139     </em>
140     </p>
141    
142     <p>
143     <em>
144 elmex 1.22 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
145     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
146     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
147     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
148     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
149     </em>
150     </p>
151    
152     <p>
153     <em>
154 elmex 1.21 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
155     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
156     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
157 elmex 1.22 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
158 elmex 1.21 </em>
159     </p>
160    
161     <p>
162 elmex 1.20 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
163     where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
164     consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
165     not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
166     typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
167     also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
168     which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
169     windows has been fixed.
170     </em>
171     </p>
172    
173     <p>
174 elmex 1.13 <em>
175 elmex 1.19 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
176     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
177     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
178     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
179     have also been fixed.
180     </em>
181     </p>
182    
183     <p>
184     <em>
185 elmex 1.17 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
186     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
187 elmex 1.18 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
188     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
189 elmex 1.17 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
190     future releases.
191     </em>
192     </p>
193    
194     <p>
195     <em>
196 elmex 1.16 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
197     and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
198     had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
199     too.
200     </em>
201     </p>
202     <p>
203     <em>
204 elmex 1.15 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
205     audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
206     server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
207     the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
208     </em>
209     </p>
210    
211     <p>
212     <em>
213 elmex 1.14 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
214 elmex 1.13 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
215     and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
216     </em>
217     </p>
218    
219     <p>
220 pippijn 1.1 <em>
221 elmex 1.12 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
222     resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
223     system was also officially enabled.
224     </em>
225     </p>
226    
227    
228     <p>
229     <em>
230 elmex 1.7 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
231     </em>
232     </p>
233    
234     <p>
235     <em>
236 pippijn 1.1 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
237     The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
238     from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
239     better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
240     more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
241     now (eg. in the inventory).
242     </em>
243     </p>
244    
245    
246     <p>
247     <em>
248     2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
249     </em>
250     </p>
251    
252     <p>
253     <em>
254     2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
255     Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
256     are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
257     </em>
258     </p>
259    
260     <p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
261    
262     <h3>Features:</h3>
263    
264     <p>
265     These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
266     </p>
267    
268     <p><b>Technical:</b></p>
269     <ul>
270     <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
271     <li>
272     Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
273     long as you have OpenGL).
274     </li>
275     <li>
276     Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
277     with scaling invariant user interface.
278     </li>
279     <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
280     <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
281     <li>Sound and background music.</li>
282     <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
283     <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
284     <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
285     </ul>
286    
287     <p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
288     <ul>
289     <li>
290     A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
291     and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
292     </li>
293     <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
294     <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
295     <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
296     <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
297     <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
298     <li>
299     Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
300     eases the input of commands.
301     </li>
302     <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
303     <li>
304     There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
305     </li>
306     <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
307     <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
308     <li>
309     NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
310     improves overall game interaction.
311     </li>
312     <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
313     <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
314     </ul>
315    
316     <h3>News archive</h3>
317    
318     <p>
319     <em>
320     2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
321     was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
322     opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
323     driver).
324     </em>
325     </p>
326    
327     <p>
328     <em>
329     2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
330     on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
331     large 64x64 tileset!
332     </em>
333     </p>
334    
335     <p>
336     <em>
337     2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
338     'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
339     database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
340     </em>
341     </p>
342    
343     <p>
344     <em>
345     2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
346     </em>
347     </p>
348    
349     <p>
350     <em>
351     2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
352     and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
353     about your experience with the CFPlus client!
354     </em>
355     </p>
356    
357     <p>
358     <em>
359     2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
360     </em>
361     </p>
362    
363     <p>
364     <em>
365     2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
366     </em>
367     </p>
368    
369     <p>
370     <em>
371     2006-09-20
372     And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
373     minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
374     </em>
375     </p>
376    
377     <p>
378     <em>
379     2006-08-14
380     A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
381     have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
382     This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
383     replace it!
384     </em>
385     </p>
386    
387     <p>
388     <em>
389     2006-08-14
390     The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
391     added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
392     On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
393     improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
394     </em>
395     </p>
396    
397     <p>
398     <em>
399     2006-07-30
400     The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
401     to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
402     documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
403     is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
404     </em>
405     </p>
406    
407     <p>
408     <em>
409     2006-07-24
410     Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
411     need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
412     on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
413     </em>
414     </p>
415    
416     <p>
417     <em>
418     2006-07-03
419     Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
420     we are happy to present the first test release!
421     </em>
422     </p>
423    
424     <p>
425     <em>
426     2006-06-12
427     The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
428     helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
429     </em>
430     </p>
431    
432     <p>
433     <em>
434     2006-06-02
435     Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
436     some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
437     Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
438     of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
439     inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
440     </em>
441     </p>
442    
443     <h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
444    
445 root 1.5 <p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
446 pippijn 1.1
447 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>
448 pippijn 1.1 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
449     the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
450 pippijn 1.3 </b></p>
451 pippijn 1.1 <p>
452     Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
453     <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
454     </p>
455    
456 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
457 pippijn 1.1 <p>
458     Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
459     <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
460     </p>
461 pippijn 1.3
462     <p></p>
463 root 1.5