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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 1.35 2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
69     the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
70     message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
71     Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
72     minor things.
73     </em>
74     </p>
75    
76     <p>
77     <em>
78 elmex 1.34 2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
79     client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
80     other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
81     Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
82     invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
83     </em>
84     </p>
85    
86    
87     <p>
88     <em>
89 elmex 1.33 2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
90     The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
91     emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
92     in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
93     Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
94     </em>
95     </p>
96    
97     <p>
98     <em>
99 elmex 1.29 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
100     to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
101     smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
102     (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
103     The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
104     time.
105     </em>
106     </p>
107    
108     <p>
109     <em>
110 elmex 1.28 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
111     like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
112     and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
113     diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
114     with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
115     basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
116 elmex 1.29 </em>
117 elmex 1.28 </p>
118    
119     <p>
120     <em>
121 elmex 1.26 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
122     a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
123     port available now of the client!
124     </em>
125     </p>
126    
127     <p>
128     <em>
129 elmex 1.25 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
130     workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
131     </em>
132     </p>
133    
134     <p>
135     <em>
136 elmex 1.24 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
137     again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
138     </em>
139     </p>
140    
141     <p>
142     <em>
143 elmex 1.23 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
144     map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
145     logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
146     supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
147     And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
148     configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
149     </em>
150     </p>
151    
152     <p>
153     <em>
154 elmex 1.22 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
155     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
156     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
157     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
158     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
159     </em>
160     </p>
161    
162     <p>
163     <em>
164 elmex 1.21 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
165     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
166     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
167 elmex 1.22 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
168 elmex 1.21 </em>
169     </p>
170    
171     <p>
172 elmex 1.20 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
173     where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
174     consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
175     not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
176     typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
177     also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
178     which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
179     windows has been fixed.
180     </em>
181     </p>
182    
183     <p>
184 elmex 1.13 <em>
185 elmex 1.19 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
186     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
187     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
188     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
189     have also been fixed.
190     </em>
191     </p>
192    
193     <p>
194     <em>
195 elmex 1.17 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
196     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
197 elmex 1.18 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
198     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
199 elmex 1.17 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
200     future releases.
201     </em>
202     </p>
203    
204     <p>
205     <em>
206 elmex 1.16 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
207     and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
208     had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
209     too.
210     </em>
211     </p>
212     <p>
213     <em>
214 elmex 1.15 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
215     audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
216     server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
217     the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
218     </em>
219     </p>
220    
221     <p>
222     <em>
223 elmex 1.14 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
224 elmex 1.13 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
225     and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
226     </em>
227     </p>
228    
229     <p>
230 pippijn 1.1 <em>
231 elmex 1.12 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
232     resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
233     system was also officially enabled.
234     </em>
235     </p>
236    
237    
238     <p>
239     <em>
240 elmex 1.7 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
241     </em>
242     </p>
243    
244     <p>
245     <em>
246 pippijn 1.1 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
247     The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
248     from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
249     better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
250     more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
251     now (eg. in the inventory).
252     </em>
253     </p>
254    
255    
256     <p>
257     <em>
258     2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
259     </em>
260     </p>
261    
262     <p>
263     <em>
264     2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
265     Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
266     are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
267     </em>
268     </p>
269    
270     <p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
271    
272     <h3>Features:</h3>
273    
274     <p>
275     These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
276     </p>
277    
278     <p><b>Technical:</b></p>
279     <ul>
280     <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
281     <li>
282     Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
283     long as you have OpenGL).
284     </li>
285     <li>
286     Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
287     with scaling invariant user interface.
288     </li>
289     <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
290     <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
291     <li>Sound and background music.</li>
292     <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
293     <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
294     <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
295     </ul>
296    
297     <p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
298     <ul>
299     <li>
300     A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
301     and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
302     </li>
303     <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
304     <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
305     <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
306     <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
307     <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
308     <li>
309     Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
310     eases the input of commands.
311     </li>
312     <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
313     <li>
314     There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
315     </li>
316     <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
317     <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
318     <li>
319     NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
320     improves overall game interaction.
321     </li>
322     <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
323     <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
324     </ul>
325    
326     <h3>News archive</h3>
327    
328     <p>
329     <em>
330     2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
331     was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
332     opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
333     driver).
334     </em>
335     </p>
336    
337     <p>
338     <em>
339     2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
340     on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
341     large 64x64 tileset!
342     </em>
343     </p>
344    
345     <p>
346     <em>
347     2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
348     'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
349     database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
350     </em>
351     </p>
352    
353     <p>
354     <em>
355     2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
356     </em>
357     </p>
358    
359     <p>
360     <em>
361     2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
362     and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
363     about your experience with the CFPlus client!
364     </em>
365     </p>
366    
367     <p>
368     <em>
369     2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
370     </em>
371     </p>
372    
373     <p>
374     <em>
375     2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
376     </em>
377     </p>
378    
379     <p>
380     <em>
381     2006-09-20
382     And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
383     minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
384     </em>
385     </p>
386    
387     <p>
388     <em>
389     2006-08-14
390     A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
391     have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
392     This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
393     replace it!
394     </em>
395     </p>
396    
397     <p>
398     <em>
399     2006-08-14
400     The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
401     added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
402     On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
403     improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
404     </em>
405     </p>
406    
407     <p>
408     <em>
409     2006-07-30
410     The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
411     to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
412     documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
413     is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
414     </em>
415     </p>
416    
417     <p>
418     <em>
419     2006-07-24
420     Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
421     need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
422     on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
423     </em>
424     </p>
425    
426     <p>
427     <em>
428     2006-07-03
429     Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
430     we are happy to present the first test release!
431     </em>
432     </p>
433    
434     <p>
435     <em>
436     2006-06-12
437     The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
438     helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
439     </em>
440     </p>
441    
442     <p>
443     <em>
444     2006-06-02
445     Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
446     some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
447     Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
448     of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
449     inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
450     </em>
451     </p>
452    
453     <h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
454    
455 root 1.5 <p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
456 pippijn 1.1
457 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>
458 pippijn 1.1 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
459     the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
460 pippijn 1.3 </b></p>
461 pippijn 1.1 <p>
462     Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
463     <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
464     </p>
465    
466 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
467 pippijn 1.1 <p>
468     Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
469     <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
470     </p>
471 pippijn 1.3
472     <p></p>
473 root 1.5