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>
   2010-04-25 Version 2.11: Spell list has been rearranged to show more
   interesting information and worked around some music related crashes.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2010-01-15 Version 2.10: Fixed the blending of the fog of war.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-12-22 Version 2.09: The fog of war and lighting transitions are now
   smooth. Also the fog of war texture is customizable now and a crash with bad
   user input in the "Host" field has been fixed.
  </em>
</p>


<p>
  <em>
   2009-12-05 Version 2.06: The Apple/NVIDIA font problem has finally been fixed!
   Also some other OpenGL driver bugs have a work around now.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
   marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
   in the audio engine has been added.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
   the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
   a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
   implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server 
   went into the windows release.
  </em>
</p>

<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	1.45	2010-04-25 Version 2.11: Spell list has been rearranged to show more
73			interesting information and worked around some music related crashes.
74			</em>
75			</p>
76
77			<p>
78			<em>
79	elmex	1.44	2010-01-15 Version 2.10: Fixed the blending of the fog of war.
80			</em>
81			</p>
82
83			<p>
84			<em>
85	elmex	1.43	2009-12-22 Version 2.09: The fog of war and lighting transitions are now
86			smooth. Also the fog of war texture is customizable now and a crash with bad
87			user input in the "Host" field has been fixed.
88			</em>
89			</p>
90
91
92			<p>
93			<em>
94	elmex	1.42	2009-12-05 Version 2.06: The Apple/NVIDIA font problem has finally been fixed!
95			Also some other OpenGL driver bugs have a work around now.
96			</em>
97			</p>
98
99			<p>
100			<em>
101	elmex	1.41	2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
102	elmex	1.40	marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
103			in the audio engine has been added.
104			</em>
105			</p>
106
107			<p>
108			<em>
109	elmex	1.39	2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
110			the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
111			a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
112			implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server
113			went into the windows release.
114			</em>
115			</p>
116
117			<p>
118			<em>
119	elmex	1.38	2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
120			many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
121			moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
122			The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
123			Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
124			bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
125			client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
126			</em>
127			</p>
128
129			<p>
130			<em>
131	elmex	1.37	2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
132	elmex	1.36	marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
133			mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
134			login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
135			visual fixes.
136			</em>
137			</p>
138
139			<p>
140			<em>
141	elmex	1.35	2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
142			the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
143			message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
144			Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
145			minor things.
146			</em>
147			</p>
148
149			<p>
150			<em>
151	elmex	1.34	2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
152			client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
153			other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
154			Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
155			invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
156			</em>
157			</p>
158
159
160			<p>
161			<em>
162	elmex	1.33	2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
163			The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
164			emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
165			in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
166			Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
167			</em>
168			</p>
169
170			<p>
171			<em>
172	elmex	1.29	2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
173			to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
174			smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
175			(hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
176			The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
177			time.
178			</em>
179			</p>
180
181			<p>
182			<em>
183	elmex	1.28	2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
184			like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
185			and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
186			diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
187			with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
188			basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
189	elmex	1.29	</em>
190	elmex	1.28	</p>
191
192			<p>
193			<em>
194	elmex	1.26	2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
195			a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
196			port available now of the client!
197			</em>
198			</p>
199
200			<p>
201			<em>
202	elmex	1.25	2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
203			workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
204			</em>
205			</p>
206
207			<p>
208			<em>
209	elmex	1.24	2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
210			again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
211			</em>
212			</p>
213
214			<p>
215			<em>
216	elmex	1.23	2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
217			map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
218			logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
219			supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
220			And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
221			configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
222			</em>
223			</p>
224
225			<p>
226			<em>
227	elmex	1.22	2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
228			with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
229			a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
230			fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
231			and not the floorbox. Have fun!
232			</em>
233			</p>
234
235			<p>
236			<em>
237	elmex	1.21	2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
238			the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
239			with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
240	elmex	1.22	but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
241	elmex	1.21	</em>
242			</p>
243
244			<p>
245	elmex	1.20	<em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
246			where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
247			consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
248			not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
249			typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
250			also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
251			which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
252			windows has been fixed.
253			</em>
254			</p>
255
256			<p>
257	elmex	1.13	<em>
258	elmex	1.19	2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
259			have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
260			a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
261			Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
262			have also been fixed.
263			</em>
264			</p>
265
266			<p>
267			<em>
268	elmex	1.17	2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
269			changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
270	elmex	1.18	improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
271			improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
272	elmex	1.17	message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
273			future releases.
274			</em>
275			</p>
276
277			<p>
278			<em>
279	elmex	1.16	2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
280			and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
281			had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
282			too.
283			</em>
284			</p>
285			<p>
286			<em>
287	elmex	1.15	2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
288			audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
289			server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
290			the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
291			</em>
292			</p>
293
294			<p>
295			<em>
296	elmex	1.14	2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
297	elmex	1.13	for better performance and compatibility under windows,
298			and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
299			</em>
300			</p>
301
302			<p>
303	pippijn	1.1	<em>
304	elmex	1.12	2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
305			resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
306			system was also officially enabled.
307			</em>
308			</p>
309
310
311			<p>
312			<em>
313	elmex	1.7	2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
314			</em>
315			</p>
316
317			<p>
318			<em>
319	pippijn	1.1	2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
320			The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
321			from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
322			better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
323			more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
324			now (eg. in the inventory).
325			</em>
326			</p>
327
328
329			<p>
330			<em>
331			2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
332			</em>
333			</p>
334
335			<p>
336			<em>
337			2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
338			Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
339			are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
340			</em>
341			</p>
342
343			<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
344
345			<h3>Features:</h3>
346
347			<p>
348			These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
349			</p>
350
351			<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
352			<ul>
353			<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
354			<li>
355			Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
356			long as you have OpenGL).
357			</li>
358			<li>
359			Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
360			with scaling invariant user interface.
361			</li>
362			<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
363			<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
364			<li>Sound and background music.</li>
365			<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
366			<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
367			<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
368			</ul>
369
370			<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
371			<ul>
372			<li>
373			A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
374			and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
375			</li>
376			<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
377			<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
378			<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
379			<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
380			<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
381			<li>
382			Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
383			eases the input of commands.
384			</li>
385			<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
386			<li>
387			There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
388			</li>
389			<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
390			<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
391			<li>
392			NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
393			improves overall game interaction.
394			</li>
395			<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
396			<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
397			</ul>
398
399			<h3>News archive</h3>
400
401			<p>
402			<em>
403			2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
404			was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
405			opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
406			driver).
407			</em>
408			</p>
409
410			<p>
411			<em>
412			2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
413			on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
414			large 64x64 tileset!
415			</em>
416			</p>
417
418			<p>
419			<em>
420			2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
421			'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
422			database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
423			</em>
424			</p>
425
426			<p>
427			<em>
428			2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
429			</em>
430			</p>
431
432			<p>
433			<em>
434			2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
435			and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
436			about your experience with the CFPlus client!
437			</em>
438			</p>
439
440			<p>
441			<em>
442			2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
443			</em>
444			</p>
445
446			<p>
447			<em>
448			2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
449			</em>
450			</p>
451
452			<p>
453			<em>
454			2006-09-20
455			And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
456			minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
457			</em>
458			</p>
459
460			<p>
461			<em>
462			2006-08-14
463			A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
464			have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
465			This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
466			replace it!
467			</em>
468			</p>
469
470			<p>
471			<em>
472			2006-08-14
473			The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
474			added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
475			On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
476			improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
477			</em>
478			</p>
479
480			<p>
481			<em>
482			2006-07-30
483			The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
484			to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
485			documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
486			is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
487			</em>
488			</p>
489
490			<p>
491			<em>
492			2006-07-24
493			Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
494			need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
495			on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
496			</em>
497			</p>
498
499			<p>
500			<em>
501			2006-07-03
502			Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
503			we are happy to present the first test release!
504			</em>
505			</p>
506
507			<p>
508			<em>
509			2006-06-12
510			The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
511			helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
512			</em>
513			</p>
514
515			<p>
516			<em>
517			2006-06-02
518			Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
519			some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
520			Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
521			of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
522			inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
523			</em>
524			</p>
525
526			<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
527
528	root	1.5	<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
529	pippijn	1.1
530	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>
531	pippijn	1.1	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
532			the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
533	pippijn	1.3	</b></p>
534	pippijn	1.1	<p>
535			Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
536			<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
537			</p>
538
539	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
540	pippijn	1.1	<p>
541			Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
542			<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
543			</p>
544	pippijn	1.3
545			<p></p>
546	root	1.5