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2     <h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
3    
4     <p>This is the Deliantra client which was written from scratch
5     in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
6     immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
7     features.
8     </p>
9    
10     <h3>Screenshots:</h3>
11    
12     <p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
13    
14     <h3>Download:</h3>
15    
16     <p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
17    
18     <p>
19     <b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
20     </p>
21    
22     <h3>Building notes:</h3>
23     <p>
24     If you want to build the client from source you are mostly on your
25     own. You might have success trying the CPAN shell and giving the command <tt>install Deliantra</tt>.
26     Otherwise you are encouraged to checkout the CVS that is linked to
27     on the <a href="contribute.html">Contribute Page</a>.
28     </p>
29     </ul>
30    
31     <h3>News:</h3>
32    
33     <!--
34     <p>
35     <em>
36     2010-04-25 Version 2.11: Spell list has been rearranged to show more
37     interesting information and worked around some music related crashes.
38     </em>
39     </p>
40     -->
41    
42     <p>
43     <em>
44     2010-01-15 Version 2.10: Fixed the blending of the fog of war.
45     </em>
46     </p>
47    
48     <p>
49     <em>
50     2009-12-22 Version 2.09: The fog of war and lighting transitions are now
51     smooth. Also the fog of war texture is customizable now and a crash with bad
52     user input in the "Host" field has been fixed.
53     </em>
54     </p>
55    
56    
57     <p>
58     <em>
59     2009-12-05 Version 2.06: The Apple/NVIDIA font problem has finally been fixed!
60     Also some other OpenGL driver bugs have a work around now.
61     </em>
62     </p>
63    
64     <p>
65     <em>
66     2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
67     marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
68     in the audio engine has been added.
69     </em>
70     </p>
71    
72     <p>
73     <em>
74     2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
75     the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
76     a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
77     implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server
78     went into the windows release.
79     </em>
80     </p>
81    
82     <p>
83     <em>
84     2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
85     many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
86     moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
87     The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
88     Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
89     bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
90     client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
91     </em>
92     </p>
93    
94     <p>
95     <em>
96     2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
97     marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
98     mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
99     login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
100     visual fixes.
101     </em>
102     </p>
103    
104     <p>
105     <em>
106     2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
107     the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
108     message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
109     Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
110     minor things.
111     </em>
112     </p>
113    
114     <p>
115     <em>
116     2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
117     client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
118     other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
119     Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
120     invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
121     </em>
122     </p>
123    
124    
125     <p>
126     <em>
127     2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
128     The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
129     emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
130     in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
131     Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
132     </em>
133     </p>
134    
135     <p>
136     <em>
137     2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
138     to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
139     smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
140     (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
141     The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
142     time.
143     </em>
144     </p>
145    
146     <p>
147     <em>
148     2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
149     like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
150     and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
151     diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
152     with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
153     basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
154     </em>
155     </p>
156    
157     <p>
158     <em>
159     2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
160     a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
161     port available now of the client!
162     </em>
163     </p>
164    
165     <p>
166     <em>
167     2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
168     workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
169     </em>
170     </p>
171    
172     <p>
173     <em>
174     2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
175     again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
176     </em>
177     </p>
178    
179     <p>
180     <em>
181     2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
182     map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
183     logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
184     supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
185     And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
186     configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
187     </em>
188     </p>
189    
190     <p>
191     <em>
192     2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
193     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
194     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
195     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
196     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
197     </em>
198     </p>
199    
200     <p>
201     <em>
202     2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
203     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
204     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
205     but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
206     </em>
207     </p>
208    
209     <p>
210     <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
211     where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
212     consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
213     not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
214     typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
215     also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
216     which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
217     windows has been fixed.
218     </em>
219     </p>
220    
221     <p>
222     <em>
223     2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
224     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
225     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
226     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
227     have also been fixed.
228     </em>
229     </p>
230    
231     <p>
232     <em>
233     2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
234     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
235     improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
236     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
237     message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
238     future releases.
239     </em>
240     </p>
241    
242     <p>
243     <em>
244     2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
245     and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
246     had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
247     too.
248     </em>
249     </p>
250     <p>
251     <em>
252     2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
253     audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
254     server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
255     the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
256     </em>
257     </p>
258    
259     <p>
260     <em>
261     2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
262     for better performance and compatibility under windows,
263     and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
264     </em>
265     </p>
266    
267     <p>
268     <em>
269     2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
270     resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
271     system was also officially enabled.
272     </em>
273     </p>
274    
275    
276     <p>
277     <em>
278     2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
279     </em>
280     </p>
281    
282     <p>
283     <em>
284     2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
285     The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
286     from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
287     better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
288     more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
289     now (eg. in the inventory).
290     </em>
291     </p>
292    
293    
294     <p>
295     <em>
296     2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
297     </em>
298     </p>
299    
300     <p>
301     <em>
302     2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
303     Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
304     are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
305     </em>
306     </p>
307    
308     <p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
309    
310     <h3>Features:</h3>
311    
312     <p>
313     These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
314     </p>
315    
316     <p><b>Technical:</b></p>
317     <ul>
318     <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
319     <li>
320     Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
321     long as you have OpenGL).
322     </li>
323     <li>
324     Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
325     with scaling invariant user interface.
326     </li>
327     <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
328     <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
329     <li>Sound and background music.</li>
330     <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
331     <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
332     <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
333     </ul>
334    
335     <p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
336     <ul>
337     <li>
338     A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
339     and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
340     </li>
341     <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
342     <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
343     <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
344     <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
345     <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
346     <li>
347     Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
348     eases the input of commands.
349     </li>
350     <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
351     <li>
352     There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
353     </li>
354     <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
355     <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
356     <li>
357     NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
358     improves overall game interaction.
359     </li>
360     <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
361     <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
362     </ul>
363    
364     <h3>News archive</h3>
365    
366     <p>
367     <em>
368     2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
369     was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
370     opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
371     driver).
372     </em>
373     </p>
374    
375     <p>
376     <em>
377     2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
378     on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
379     large 64x64 tileset!
380     </em>
381     </p>
382    
383     <p>
384     <em>
385     2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
386     'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
387     database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
388     </em>
389     </p>
390    
391     <p>
392     <em>
393     2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
394     </em>
395     </p>
396    
397     <p>
398     <em>
399     2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
400     and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
401     about your experience with the CFPlus client!
402     </em>
403     </p>
404    
405     <p>
406     <em>
407     2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
408     </em>
409     </p>
410    
411     <p>
412     <em>
413     2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
414     </em>
415     </p>
416    
417     <p>
418     <em>
419     2006-09-20
420     And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
421     minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
422     </em>
423     </p>
424    
425     <p>
426     <em>
427     2006-08-14
428     A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
429     have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
430     This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
431     replace it!
432     </em>
433     </p>
434    
435     <p>
436     <em>
437     2006-08-14
438     The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
439     added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
440     On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
441     improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
442     </em>
443     </p>
444    
445     <p>
446     <em>
447     2006-07-30
448     The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
449     to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
450     documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
451     is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
452     </em>
453     </p>
454    
455     <p>
456     <em>
457     2006-07-24
458     Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
459     need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
460     on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
461     </em>
462     </p>
463    
464     <p>
465     <em>
466     2006-07-03
467     Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
468     we are happy to present the first test release!
469     </em>
470     </p>
471    
472     <p>
473     <em>
474     2006-06-12
475     The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
476     helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
477     </em>
478     </p>
479    
480     <p>
481     <em>
482     2006-06-02
483     Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
484     some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
485     Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
486     of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
487     inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
488     </em>
489     </p>
490     </div>