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1Client Installation 1Client
2 2
3<h2>The CFPlus Client</h2> 3<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4 4
5<p> CFPlus is the new Crossfire TRT (Crossfire compatible) client which 5<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6was written from scratch in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was 6in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7written to have a more immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground 7immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8to implement new features. (And it's still mostly compatible with the 8features.
9original Crossfire). </p> 9</p>
10 10
11<h3>Screenshots:</h3> 11<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12 12
13<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p> 13<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14 14
15<h2>GNU/Linux</h2>
16<h3>Download</h3> 15<h3>Download:</h3>
17 16
18<p> 17<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</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 />
20If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
21bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
22</p>
23 18
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> 19<h3>Installation notes:</h3>
25 20
26<p> 21<ul>
27Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-alpha-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux alpha</a><br /> 22 <li>
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! 23 <p><b>Windows</b></p>
29</p> 24 <p>
30 25 To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
31<h3>GNU/Linux Installation</h3> 26 use the context menu of the right mouse button.
32 27 <b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
33<p> 28 and start up everything it needs.
34After downloading you need to make the binary <b>executable</b> like this:<br /> 29 </p>
35<tt style="margin-left: 2em">chmod a+x cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt><br /> 30 </li>
36And start it like this (when cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin is in the current working directory):<br /> 31 <li>
37<tt style="margin-left: 2em">./cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt> 32 <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
38</p> 33 <p>
39 34 <b>
40<h3>Build from source</h3> 35 Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
41 36 (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver,
42<p> 37 eg. nvidia-glx-ia32 (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
38 </b>
39 </p>
40 <p>
41 After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
42 </p>
43 </li>
44 <li>
45 <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
46 <p>
47 To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
48 <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 </p>
50 </li>
51 <li>
52 <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
53 <p>
43If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that 54 If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
44are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>. 55 are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
45</p> 56 </p>
46 57 </li>
47<h2>Windows</h2> 58</ul>
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 />
53If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
54bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
55</p>
56
57<p>
58Alpha 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>
65Just download the binary above in the <i>Windows binary</i> Section above at <b>Download</b>.
66Thats all. (To start it, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
67use 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
69and start up everything it needs.
70</p>
71 59
72<p> 60<p>
73<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b> 61<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
74</p> 62</p>
75 63
76<h3>News</h3> 64<h3>News:</h3>
65
66<p>
67 <em>
68 2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
69 marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
70 mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
71 login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
72 visual fixes.
73 </em>
74</p>
75
76<p>
77 <em>
78 2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
79 the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
80 message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
81 Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
82 minor things.
83 </em>
84</p>
85
86<p>
87 <em>
88 2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
89 client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
90 other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
91 Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
92 invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
93 </em>
94</p>
95
96
97<p>
98 <em>
99 2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
100 The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
101 emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
102 in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
103 Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
104 </em>
105</p>
106
107<p>
108 <em>
109 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
110 to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
111 smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
112 (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
113 The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
114 time.
115 </em>
116</p>
117
118<p>
119 <em>
120 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
121 like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
122 and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
123 diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
124 with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
125 basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
126 </em>
127</p>
128
129<p>
130 <em>
131 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
132 a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
133 port available now of the client!
134 </em>
135</p>
136
137<p>
138 <em>
139 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
140 workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
141 </em>
142</p>
143
144<p>
145 <em>
146 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
147 again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
148 </em>
149</p>
150
151<p>
152 <em>
153 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
154 map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
155 logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
156 supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
157 And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
158 configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
159 </em>
160</p>
161
162<p>
163 <em>
164 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
165 with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
166 a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
167 fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
168 and not the floorbox. Have fun!
169 </em>
170</p>
171
172<p>
173 <em>
174 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
175 the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
176 with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
177 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
178 </em>
179</p>
180
181<p>
182 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
183 where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
184 consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
185 not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
186 typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
187 also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
188 which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
189 windows has been fixed.
190 </em>
191</p>
192
193<p>
194 <em>
195 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
196 have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
197 a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
198 Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
199 have also been fixed.
200 </em>
201</p>
202
203<p>
204 <em>
205 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
206 changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
207 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
208 improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
209 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
210 future releases.
211 </em>
212</p>
213
214<p>
215 <em>
216 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
217 and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
218 had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
219 too.
220 </em>
221</p>
222<p>
223 <em>
224 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
225 audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
226 server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
227 the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
228 </em>
229</p>
230
231<p>
232 <em>
233 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
234 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
235 and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
236 </em>
237</p>
238
239<p>
240 <em>
241 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
242 resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
243 system was also officially enabled.
244 </em>
245</p>
246
247
248<p>
249 <em>
250 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
251 </em>
252</p>
77 253
78<p> 254<p>
79 <em> 255 <em>
80 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client. 256 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 257 The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
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155 </li> 331 </li>
156 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li> 332 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
157 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li> 333 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
158</ul> 334</ul>
159 335
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>
169These are some (more or less serious) ideas we have regarding extension of the client's
170functionality:
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> 336<h3>News archive</h3>
179 337
180<p> 338<p>
181 <em> 339 <em>
182 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting 340 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
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302 </em> 460 </em>
303</p> 461</p>
304 462
305<h2>Authors/Contact</h2> 463<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
306 464
307<b>The cf.schmorp.de Crossfire Development Team:</b> 465<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
308 466
309<p> 467<p><b>
310 <b>
311 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build, 468 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
312 the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees. 469 the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
313 </b> 470 </b></p>
314 <p> 471 <p>
315 Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a> 472 Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
316 <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a> 473 <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
317 </p> 474 </p>
318 475
319 <b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b> 476 <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
320 <p> 477 <p>
321 Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a> 478 Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
322 <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a> 479 <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
323 </p> 480 </p>
324</p> 481
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