www/src/client.html

Client

<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>

<p>This  is the new Deliantra 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.
</p>

<h3>Screenshots:</h3>

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

<h3>Download:</h3>

<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>

<h3>Installation notes:</h3>

<ul>
   <li>
      <p><b>Windows</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, 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>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
      <p>
         <b>
            Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
         </b>
         <br />
         <b>AMD64 users should use the amd64 binary.
            (But if you want to run the 32bit client on an amd64 you would need
            ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32
            (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
         </b>
      </p>
      <p>
         After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
         <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>
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
      <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>
   </li>
</ul>

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

<h3>News:</h3>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
   many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
   moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
   The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
   Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
   bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
   client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
   marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
   mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
   login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
   visual fixes.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
   the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
   message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
   Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
   minor things.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
   client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
   other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
   Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
   invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
  </em>
</p>


<p>
  <em>
   2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
   The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
   emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
   in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
   Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
   to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
   smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
   (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
   The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
   time.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
    like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
    and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
    diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
    with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
    basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
    </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
    a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
    port available now of the client!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
    workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
    again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
    map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
    logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
    supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
    And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
    configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
     but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
      where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
      consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
      not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
      typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
      also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
      which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
      windows has been fixed.
   </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
     have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
     improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
     message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
     future releases.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
    and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
    had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
    too.
  </em>
</p>
<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
    audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
    server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
    the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
    for better performance and compatibility under windows,
    and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
    resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
    system was also officially enabled.
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
 </em>
</p>

<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>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 Deliantra 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>

<p></p>

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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	elmex	1.38	</b>
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	elmex	1.32	</b>
43	elmex	1.11	</p>
44			<p>
45	elmex	1.30	After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
46	elmex	1.11	</p>
47			</li>
48			<li>
49	elmex	1.26	<p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
50			<p>
51	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 />
52	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>
53	elmex	1.26	</p>
54			</li>
55			<li>
56	elmex	1.11	<p><b>Build from source</b></p>
57			<p>
58			If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
59			are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
60			</p>
61			</li>
62			</ul>
63	pippijn	1.1
64			<p>
65			<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
66			</p>
67
68	elmex	1.11	<h3>News:</h3>
69	pippijn	1.1
70			<p>
71	elmex	1.21	<em>
72	elmex	1.38	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	elmex	1.37	2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
85	elmex	1.36	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	elmex	1.35	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	elmex	1.34	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	elmex	1.33	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	elmex	1.29	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	elmex	1.28	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	elmex	1.29	</em>
143	elmex	1.28	</p>
144
145			<p>
146			<em>
147	elmex	1.26	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	elmex	1.25	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	elmex	1.24	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	elmex	1.23	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	elmex	1.22	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	elmex	1.21	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	elmex	1.22	but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
194	elmex	1.21	</em>
195			</p>
196
197			<p>
198	elmex	1.20	<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	elmex	1.13	<em>
211	elmex	1.19	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	elmex	1.17	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	elmex	1.18	improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
224			improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
225	elmex	1.17	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	elmex	1.16	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	elmex	1.15	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	elmex	1.14	2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
250	elmex	1.13	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	pippijn	1.1	<em>
257	elmex	1.12	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	elmex	1.7	2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
267			</em>
268			</p>
269
270			<p>
271			<em>
272	pippijn	1.1	2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
273			The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
274			from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
275			better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
276			more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
277			now (eg. in the inventory).
278			</em>
279			</p>
280
281
282			<p>
283			<em>
284			2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
285			</em>
286			</p>
287
288			<p>
289			<em>
290			2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
291			Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
292			are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
293			</em>
294			</p>
295
296			<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
297
298			<h3>Features:</h3>
299
300			<p>
301			These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
302			</p>
303
304			<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
305			<ul>
306			<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
307			<li>
308			Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
309			long as you have OpenGL).
310			</li>
311			<li>
312			Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
313			with scaling invariant user interface.
314			</li>
315			<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
316			<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
317			<li>Sound and background music.</li>
318			<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
319			<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
320			<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
321			</ul>
322
323			<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
324			<ul>
325			<li>
326			A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
327			and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
328			</li>
329			<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
330			<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
331			<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
332			<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
333			<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
334			<li>
335			Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
336			eases the input of commands.
337			</li>
338			<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
339			<li>
340			There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
341			</li>
342			<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
343			<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
344			<li>
345			NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
346			improves overall game interaction.
347			</li>
348			<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
349			<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
350			</ul>
351
352			<h3>News archive</h3>
353
354			<p>
355			<em>
356			2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
357			was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
358			opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
359			driver).
360			</em>
361			</p>
362
363			<p>
364			<em>
365			2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
366			on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
367			large 64x64 tileset!
368			</em>
369			</p>
370
371			<p>
372			<em>
373			2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
374			'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
375			database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
376			</em>
377			</p>
378
379			<p>
380			<em>
381			2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
382			</em>
383			</p>
384
385			<p>
386			<em>
387			2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
388			and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
389			about your experience with the CFPlus client!
390			</em>
391			</p>
392
393			<p>
394			<em>
395			2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
396			</em>
397			</p>
398
399			<p>
400			<em>
401			2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
402			</em>
403			</p>
404
405			<p>
406			<em>
407			2006-09-20
408			And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
409			minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
410			</em>
411			</p>
412
413			<p>
414			<em>
415			2006-08-14
416			A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
417			have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
418			This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
419			replace it!
420			</em>
421			</p>
422
423			<p>
424			<em>
425			2006-08-14
426			The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
427			added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
428			On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
429			improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
430			</em>
431			</p>
432
433			<p>
434			<em>
435			2006-07-30
436			The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
437			to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
438			documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
439			is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
440			</em>
441			</p>
442
443			<p>
444			<em>
445			2006-07-24
446			Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
447			need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
448			on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
449			</em>
450			</p>
451
452			<p>
453			<em>
454			2006-07-03
455			Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
456			we are happy to present the first test release!
457			</em>
458			</p>
459
460			<p>
461			<em>
462			2006-06-12
463			The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
464			helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
465			</em>
466			</p>
467
468			<p>
469			<em>
470			2006-06-02
471			Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
472			some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
473			Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
474			of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
475			inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
476			</em>
477			</p>
478
479			<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
480
481	root	1.5	<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
482	pippijn	1.1
483	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>
484	pippijn	1.1	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
485			the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
486	pippijn	1.3	</b></p>
487	pippijn	1.1	<p>
488			Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
489			<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
490			</p>
491
492	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
493	pippijn	1.1	<p>
494			Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
495			<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
496			</p>
497	pippijn	1.3
498			<p></p>
499	root	1.5