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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 </b>
42<p> 37 <br />
38 <b>AMD64 users should use the amd64 binary.
39 (But if you want to run the 32bit client on an amd64 you would need
40 ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32
41 (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
42 </b>
43 </p>
44 <p>
45 After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
46 </p>
47 </li>
48 <li>
49 <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
50 <p>
51 To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
52 <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>
53 </p>
54 </li>
55 <li>
56 <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
57 <p>
43If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that 58 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>. 59 are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
45</p> 60 </p>
46 61 </li>
47<h2>Windows</h2> 62</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 63
72<p> 64<p>
73<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b> 65<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
74</p> 66</p>
75 67
76<h3>News</h3> 68<h3>News:</h3>
69
70<p>
71 <em>
72 2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
73 many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
74 moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
75 The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
76 Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
77 bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
78 client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
79 </em>
80</p>
81
82<p>
83 <em>
84 2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
85 marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
86 mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
87 login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
88 visual fixes.
89 </em>
90</p>
91
92<p>
93 <em>
94 2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
95 the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
96 message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
97 Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
98 minor things.
99 </em>
100</p>
101
102<p>
103 <em>
104 2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
105 client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
106 other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
107 Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
108 invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
109 </em>
110</p>
111
112
113<p>
114 <em>
115 2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
116 The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
117 emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
118 in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
119 Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
120 </em>
121</p>
122
123<p>
124 <em>
125 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
126 to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
127 smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
128 (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
129 The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
130 time.
131 </em>
132</p>
133
134<p>
135 <em>
136 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
137 like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
138 and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
139 diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
140 with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
141 basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
142 </em>
143</p>
144
145<p>
146 <em>
147 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
148 a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
149 port available now of the client!
150 </em>
151</p>
152
153<p>
154 <em>
155 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
156 workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
157 </em>
158</p>
159
160<p>
161 <em>
162 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
163 again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
164 </em>
165</p>
166
167<p>
168 <em>
169 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
170 map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
171 logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
172 supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
173 And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
174 configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
175 </em>
176</p>
177
178<p>
179 <em>
180 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
181 with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
182 a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
183 fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
184 and not the floorbox. Have fun!
185 </em>
186</p>
187
188<p>
189 <em>
190 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
191 the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
192 with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
193 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
194 </em>
195</p>
196
197<p>
198 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
199 where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
200 consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
201 not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
202 typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
203 also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
204 which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
205 windows has been fixed.
206 </em>
207</p>
208
209<p>
210 <em>
211 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
212 have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
213 a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
214 Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
215 have also been fixed.
216 </em>
217</p>
218
219<p>
220 <em>
221 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
222 changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
223 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
224 improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
225 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
226 future releases.
227 </em>
228</p>
229
230<p>
231 <em>
232 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
233 and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
234 had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
235 too.
236 </em>
237</p>
238<p>
239 <em>
240 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
241 audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
242 server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
243 the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
244 </em>
245</p>
246
247<p>
248 <em>
249 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
250 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
251 and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
252 </em>
253</p>
254
255<p>
256 <em>
257 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
258 resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
259 system was also officially enabled.
260 </em>
261</p>
262
263
264<p>
265 <em>
266 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
267 </em>
268</p>
77 269
78<p> 270<p>
79 <em> 271 <em>
80 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client. 272 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 273 The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
155 </li> 347 </li>
156 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li> 348 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
157 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li> 349 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
158</ul> 350</ul>
159 351
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> 352<h3>News archive</h3>
179 353
180<p> 354<p>
181 <em> 355 <em>
182 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting 356 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
302 </em> 476 </em>
303</p> 477</p>
304 478
305<h2>Authors/Contact</h2> 479<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
306 480
307<p><b>The cf.schmorp.de Crossfire Development Team:</b></p> 481<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
308 482
309<p><b> 483<p><b>
310 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build, 484 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. 485 the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
312 </b></p> 486 </b></p>
320 Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a> 494 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> 495 <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
322 </p> 496 </p>
323 497
324<p></p> 498<p></p>
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