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I’ve recently done some work on adding proper pathfinding to Worldforge. For this I’ve chosen the Recast/Detourlibrary. While this approach, using voxel rendering to create navmeshes from arbitrary geometry, is both complex and resource expensive, I’m convinced it’s absolutely required to allow us to properly support the dynamic and changing worlds in Worldforge. I’ve done the initial implementation in Ember, mainly because it’s easier to visually debug. But the main benefit will come from integrating this work into Cyphesis, so that it can control AI movement.

Here’s a short preview of the work I’ve been doing the last couple of days. I’m using Recast/Detour to implement proper navigation in Worldforge, first in Ember and then in Cyphesis.

We now have binaries for Linux and Windows available for Ember 0.7.2. They can be downloaded from here: Linux (64 bit) Linux (32 bit) Windows

Once again Worldforge has had the good fortune to be selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014! This is an awesome opportunity for students to both get more involved in the project as well as get a sweet gig for the summer. If you’re a student reading this, waste no time getting over to the GSoC site and read up on how all of this works.

The Worldforge 3d client Ember version 0.7.2 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Ember is a client for the WorldForge project. It allows you to both play in and edit virtual worlds.This release includes a totally revamped terrain engine as well as various improvements to both game play and authoring. Revamped and improved terrain engine. High level detail terrain materials. Improvements to authoring. Various bug fixes.

Eris version 1.3.23 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Eris is the WorldForge client-side session layer. This release is a minor release which primarily fixes some bugs and adds support for the new entity reference Atlas format, which is vital for proper import and export support. Support for the new entity reference Atlas format. Various bug fixes. Source code can be downloaded from the following locations:

Just a quick update that we’re now providing binary packages of Ember 0.7.1. We’re currently providing these for 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Linux and Windows. To run the Linux packages you must first make sure that the file is executable.

The Worldforge 3d client Ember version 0.7.1 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Ember is a client for the WorldForge project. It allows you to both play in and edit virtual worlds. This release focus on improving the editing capabilities, allowing for much easier world creation. Export and import of entities and worlds. Much improved entity editor. Ability to edit and debug entity minds.

Cyphesis version 0.6.2 has been released and is now available from the WorldForge download site. Cyphesis is a small to medium scale server for WorldForge games, with builtin AI. This version includes the demo game Mason which is currently in development. This release is intended for server administrators wishing to run a Mason server and World developers developing new worlds or game systems. It is primarily a bugfix release which fixes a serious crash issue.