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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 1.44 2010-01-15 Version 2.10: Fixed the blending of the fog of war.
73     </em>
74     </p>
75    
76     <p>
77     <em>
78 elmex 1.43 2009-12-22 Version 2.09: The fog of war and lighting transitions are now
79     smooth. Also the fog of war texture is customizable now and a crash with bad
80     user input in the "Host" field has been fixed.
81     </em>
82     </p>
83    
84    
85     <p>
86     <em>
87 elmex 1.42 2009-12-05 Version 2.06: The Apple/NVIDIA font problem has finally been fixed!
88     Also some other OpenGL driver bugs have a work around now.
89     </em>
90     </p>
91    
92     <p>
93     <em>
94 elmex 1.41 2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
95 elmex 1.40 marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
96     in the audio engine has been added.
97     </em>
98     </p>
99    
100     <p>
101     <em>
102 elmex 1.39 2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
103     the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
104     a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
105     implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server
106     went into the windows release.
107     </em>
108     </p>
109    
110     <p>
111     <em>
112 elmex 1.38 2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
113     many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
114     moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
115     The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
116     Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
117     bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
118     client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
119     </em>
120     </p>
121    
122     <p>
123     <em>
124 elmex 1.37 2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
125 elmex 1.36 marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
126     mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
127     login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
128     visual fixes.
129     </em>
130     </p>
131    
132     <p>
133     <em>
134 elmex 1.35 2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
135     the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
136     message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
137     Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
138     minor things.
139     </em>
140     </p>
141    
142     <p>
143     <em>
144 elmex 1.34 2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
145     client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
146     other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
147     Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
148     invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
149     </em>
150     </p>
151    
152    
153     <p>
154     <em>
155 elmex 1.33 2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
156     The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
157     emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
158     in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
159     Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
160     </em>
161     </p>
162    
163     <p>
164     <em>
165 elmex 1.29 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
166     to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
167     smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
168     (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
169     The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
170     time.
171     </em>
172     </p>
173    
174     <p>
175     <em>
176 elmex 1.28 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
177     like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
178     and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
179     diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
180     with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
181     basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
182 elmex 1.29 </em>
183 elmex 1.28 </p>
184    
185     <p>
186     <em>
187 elmex 1.26 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
188     a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
189     port available now of the client!
190     </em>
191     </p>
192    
193     <p>
194     <em>
195 elmex 1.25 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
196     workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
197     </em>
198     </p>
199    
200     <p>
201     <em>
202 elmex 1.24 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
203     again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
204     </em>
205     </p>
206    
207     <p>
208     <em>
209 elmex 1.23 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
210     map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
211     logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
212     supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
213     And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
214     configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
215     </em>
216     </p>
217    
218     <p>
219     <em>
220 elmex 1.22 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
221     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
222     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
223     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
224     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
225     </em>
226     </p>
227    
228     <p>
229     <em>
230 elmex 1.21 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
231     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
232     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
233 elmex 1.22 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
234 elmex 1.21 </em>
235     </p>
236    
237     <p>
238 elmex 1.20 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
239     where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
240     consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
241     not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
242     typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
243     also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
244     which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
245     windows has been fixed.
246     </em>
247     </p>
248    
249     <p>
250 elmex 1.13 <em>
251 elmex 1.19 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
252     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
253     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
254     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
255     have also been fixed.
256     </em>
257     </p>
258    
259     <p>
260     <em>
261 elmex 1.17 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
262     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
263 elmex 1.18 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
264     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
265 elmex 1.17 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
266     future releases.
267     </em>
268     </p>
269    
270     <p>
271     <em>
272 elmex 1.16 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
273     and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
274     had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
275     too.
276     </em>
277     </p>
278     <p>
279     <em>
280 elmex 1.15 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
281     audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
282     server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
283     the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
284     </em>
285     </p>
286    
287     <p>
288     <em>
289 elmex 1.14 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
290 elmex 1.13 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
291     and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
292     </em>
293     </p>
294    
295     <p>
296 pippijn 1.1 <em>
297 elmex 1.12 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
298     resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
299     system was also officially enabled.
300     </em>
301     </p>
302    
303    
304     <p>
305     <em>
306 elmex 1.7 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
307     </em>
308     </p>
309    
310     <p>
311     <em>
312 pippijn 1.1 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
313     The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
314     from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
315     better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
316     more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
317     now (eg. in the inventory).
318     </em>
319     </p>
320    
321    
322     <p>
323     <em>
324     2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
325     </em>
326     </p>
327    
328     <p>
329     <em>
330     2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
331     Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
332     are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
333     </em>
334     </p>
335    
336     <p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
337    
338     <h3>Features:</h3>
339    
340     <p>
341     These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
342     </p>
343    
344     <p><b>Technical:</b></p>
345     <ul>
346     <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
347     <li>
348     Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
349     long as you have OpenGL).
350     </li>
351     <li>
352     Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
353     with scaling invariant user interface.
354     </li>
355     <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
356     <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
357     <li>Sound and background music.</li>
358     <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
359     <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
360     <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
361     </ul>
362    
363     <p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
364     <ul>
365     <li>
366     A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
367     and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
368     </li>
369     <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
370     <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
371     <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
372     <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
373     <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
374     <li>
375     Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
376     eases the input of commands.
377     </li>
378     <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
379     <li>
380     There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
381     </li>
382     <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
383     <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
384     <li>
385     NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
386     improves overall game interaction.
387     </li>
388     <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
389     <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
390     </ul>
391    
392     <h3>News archive</h3>
393    
394     <p>
395     <em>
396     2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
397     was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
398     opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
399     driver).
400     </em>
401     </p>
402    
403     <p>
404     <em>
405     2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
406     on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
407     large 64x64 tileset!
408     </em>
409     </p>
410    
411     <p>
412     <em>
413     2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
414     'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
415     database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
416     </em>
417     </p>
418    
419     <p>
420     <em>
421     2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
422     </em>
423     </p>
424    
425     <p>
426     <em>
427     2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
428     and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
429     about your experience with the CFPlus client!
430     </em>
431     </p>
432    
433     <p>
434     <em>
435     2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
436     </em>
437     </p>
438    
439     <p>
440     <em>
441     2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
442     </em>
443     </p>
444    
445     <p>
446     <em>
447     2006-09-20
448     And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
449     minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
450     </em>
451     </p>
452    
453     <p>
454     <em>
455     2006-08-14
456     A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
457     have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
458     This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
459     replace it!
460     </em>
461     </p>
462    
463     <p>
464     <em>
465     2006-08-14
466     The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
467     added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
468     On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
469     improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
470     </em>
471     </p>
472    
473     <p>
474     <em>
475     2006-07-30
476     The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
477     to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
478     documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
479     is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
480     </em>
481     </p>
482    
483     <p>
484     <em>
485     2006-07-24
486     Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
487     need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
488     on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
489     </em>
490     </p>
491    
492     <p>
493     <em>
494     2006-07-03
495     Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
496     we are happy to present the first test release!
497     </em>
498     </p>
499    
500     <p>
501     <em>
502     2006-06-12
503     The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
504     helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
505     </em>
506     </p>
507    
508     <p>
509     <em>
510     2006-06-02
511     Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
512     some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
513     Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
514     of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
515     inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
516     </em>
517     </p>
518    
519     <h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
520    
521 root 1.5 <p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
522 pippijn 1.1
523 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>
524 pippijn 1.1 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
525     the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
526 pippijn 1.3 </b></p>
527 pippijn 1.1 <p>
528     Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
529     <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
530     </p>
531    
532 pippijn 1.3 <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
533 pippijn 1.1 <p>
534     Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
535     <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
536     </p>
537 pippijn 1.3
538     <p></p>
539 root 1.5