Free worldforge ember 0.5.0 software for linux

WorldForge::Sear is a 3D client for networked roleplaying games based on WorldForge protocols and technology.
Built using a custom 3D engine using OpenGL, it features cal3d character animation, an advanced skydome, Mercator-based terrain, and support for a variety of model formats.
Enhancements:
- Clothing appearance is now based on clothing entities.
- Rendering of static objects has been speeded up.
- Weather effects have been improved.
- Selection of objects when many are visible at once has been improved.
- Media is searched for in multiple locations, allowing a read-only area and an update area to be used.
- Guichan 0.5.0 is now required, and numerous improvements have been made to the GUI.
- A new Sear file format for static 3-D objects has been added.

Sage is an OpenGL extensions library that uses SDL to obtain its function pointers in a cross-platform manner.

Sage source code is automatically generated from the glext.h header file available from the OpenGL site.

Our vision is to foster an independent community, active in the development and maintainance of many unique roleplaying-oriented game worlds, with access to a rich collection of game rules and audio/visual media, a wide selection of server and client implementations, and a standard network communication protocol.

WorldForges mission is to produce the necessary tools and technologies that will allow the creation of graphically rich games of cooperation and socialization.

We strive to blur the distinction between player and maker, and wish to establish a positive community environment for current and future free game developers. Our efforts will culminate in a game, codenamed Belchfire, set in a well developed gameworld called Dural and using the Circe RPG rule system.

Our strategy is simple: Listen to what players, authors, and artists wish to do, and put the tools in their hands that makes it possible for them to realize their visions.
The WorldForge project evolved out of a desire for better internet role playing games.

Where Multi-User Dungeons have had a great degree of success through the early years of the internet, games like Ultima Online have failed to build upon these successes to produce an advanced virtual world of any merit.

Avinash Gupta and a collective of perhaps a dozen enthusiastic gamers began to share their vision of what a truely fantastic gaming experiance should be.

Cyphesis is a WorldForge server suitable running small games. It is also designed by be used as an AI subsystem in a network of distributed servers.

Worldforge::Cyphesis includes a terrain engine based on the Mercator library, a persistence system based on PostgreSQL, and an AI engine using goal trees implemented in Python. It is the server used in most current WorldForge games.

Current releases of cyphesis use the re-written C++ core, based on the design of the original python core.

WorldForge::Mason is the second game system being developed by WorldForge. The primary focus for Mason is to enable players to build a persistent world in-game. Players will be able to manipulate items by creating new items from raw materials, attaching existing items together or splitting items into component parts.
Complicated structures such as houses can be designed on paper as a blueprint and then built with suitable building blocks and skills.
Reaching this milestone will require expanding not only our existing server and client code, but also refining the Atlas protocal that connects them.
The expansion will cover item creation (using a recipe system), construction of houses and other large structures (attaching items together), creating complex machines (combining simple machine parts), simulating organic reactions (festering wounds, adrenaline rush) with a detailed body system, editing text and other information objects in-game, and running an economy that changes with the world.
To demonstrate these techniques we will create a competitive and cooperative game centering about settling the uninhabited lands in the north-western corner of Moraf in our Dural world.
The players can play either human settlers attracted by the rumors of gold or promises of free land, or orcs, driven down to the plains from the overpopulated dens of the orc tribes of Sarnak.
Game
This section contains things related to the Mason Game in general, such as background story, game objectives, and planned features for version 1.0 of the game. It will also contain an installation guide, a players guide, and a game administrators guide. Theres also a page of links to screenshots and downloads.
If you are a potential future player and would like to know what the game will be like, or a creative writer interested in making the game interesting and fun to play, or if you want to write or translate documentation for end users, then this is the place for you.
Technology
This section contains the design of the various abstract systems that will implement all the central features of Mason. The systems include: the Item System, the Mechanical System, the Information Object System, the Body System, the Mind System, and others.
If you are a developer or game designer, interested in how all the revolutionary features supported by Mason are going to be implemented, then this section is for you.
Content
This section deals with all the general data needed for the Mason Game: item and creature descriptions and stats, maps of the Moraf area in the Dural world, and media for items and terrain. This data can be directly reused in later games.
If you are a world designer, artist, musician, or a MU* wizard who loves creating cool new items, then this section is for you.
Enhancements:
- Mason is now supported in two major 3D clients, Ember and Sear.
- An advanced terrain system has been implemented, including procedural texturing, paths, modified areas, and swimming in water.
- Building materials and resources can be gathered from the world using tools.
- Work has started on a new combat system.

WorldForge::varconf is configuration handling library required by many WorldForge components.

It provides:

- An framework for storing and retrieving configuration data.
- Loading and saving of config files.
- Handling of complex command line arguments.
- Signals to notify the application of configuration changes.

Server, client and tool developers can use varconf to handle the configuration of their application. Initially written for stage, varconf is now used by many WorldForge components.

While it has good support for handling flat configuration data, it is not suited for more complex structured data. I recommend that developers use Atlas to store complex data.

Deme is a Web tool to host asynchronous meetings including discussions, document comments and collaborations, straw polls, and decision- making for small to medium groups of people.
It also provides features useful for groups including file storage, member lists, and the like. It is intended to create an environment to allow participation and help strengthen organizations critical to civil society.
Deme is free software, licensed under the AGPL, for asynchronous interactions that include discussions, document collaboration, polls and decision making among small to medium sized groups of people. Our intent in creating Deme is to support the type of deliberation critical to the functioning of smaller, informal organizations in civil society. Read the Deme white paper (pdf format) for more detail on the priciples behind Deme.
Enhancements:
- Full email integration and interface tweaking along with standard bugfixes.

Atlas C++ is the standard implementation of the WorldForge Atlas protocol. WorldForge::Atlas-C++ is currently being developed in parallel with a stable branch, and the development code maintained separatly.
The stable branch are numbered 0.4.x and implement the atlascpp-0.4 API, and the latest version is 0.4.6. The development version is 0.5.x working towards the stable 0.6.x series and implement the atlascpp-0.6 API.
There is in additional branch referred to as transitional, which is the same code as the latest in the 0.4.x stable branch, with the coding conventions modified to match those of the 0.5.x development branch.
This transitional branch is aimed at developers who are planning to migrate to the 0.5.x development branch when it is ready, to ease the transition. Releases on the transitional branch are 0.4.9x, and implement the atlascpp-0.5 API.
Enhancements:
- The copyright dates in various source files have been updated and corrected.
- The RPM spec file has been cleaned up.