Cyphesis Server

Al has been busy getting Cyphesis all shiny and ready for the Mason release:

Bump up to version 0.1.95
Add code to load rules and map into the database before the service first starts up
Add cyclient service, to populate running server with game stuff
Tighten up some atlas type checks, to reduce the chances of bugs caused by malicious or buggy clients
Fix the way sysconfdir and datadir are handled in the config script
init script fixes.
cycmd.cpp, Admin.cpp: Clean up admin interface so its a bit more Atlas compliant
Connection.cpp, Player.cpp: Improve some checking
EntityFactory.cpp: Remove dead commented out code
system.cpp: Ignore sigpipe so we don't abort on some systems if the client quits unexpectedly
system.cpp: Ensure that parent of daemon exit status indicates whether the daemon has started properlly
Connection.cpp: Clarify error reporting

Stage

Damien has been responding to the Client coders whip-cracking with some very cool changes:

GCC3.2 changes (underway)
changed movement to work as described in sys/pegasus/rim/movement.txt - should be backward compatible
removed a pile of old rim files
took out old rim calls from pegasus
increased player acceleration in rimmove
after a bunch of changes by Rakshasa I needed to fix doors. Placed the collision response on the door instead of the person, inverted the return values to cope with new orion code
changed the process method in some rims to make them work the same
put a timer in rimdungeon....discovered that pegasus timers suck. need to work on them
added code to allow pickup and drop. Can't pickup items that don't move, are > 100kg or are people - definitey needs more restrictions, but will do for now
still need to fix containers and add inventory code - like limiting the amount a person can carry - probably need rimInventory

Dime

Compliance cleanup and build file maintenance seems to be the order of the day for Dime this month:

Makefile.am, StateManagerTest.cpp, TestServices.cpp: cut out StateManager from the tests till I've finished redoing it
StateManager.cpp, StateManager.h: stripping this down, need to do things another way
Label.h, Console.cpp, Console.h: Changed FONT_FILE to a static const char* const, changed to wf_opal.ttf
configure.ac: bumped required sigc++-1.2 version to 1.2.1 and added AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
autogen.sh, NEWS: Made automake do automake --gnu and added needed files
dime.spec.in: tweaked a bit to add docs and build right
All of the Makefile.am's: Fixed these to allow make dist
Font.h: Changed font strings to basic_string <wchar_t> rather than wstring due to gcc 2.95 issues, std:: namespace fix
OOGChat.cpp: Fix connecting of disappearance method to Disappearance signal. Get rid of trailing "0" on some console messages

Mason

Ron and Al have been busy cleaning uclient up and whipping it into shape:

modules/editscreen.cc: Do not set a default character name
media/media_index.cc: Do not complain if the media index is missing
uclient/app.cpp: Show a sensible message to confirm quit
toolbox/local_hash_map.h, toolbox/local_slist.h: Improved handling of non-standard namespaces in libstdc++
uclient/uclient.cc: Fix the way installation directory is verified to make sure the user is not asked unless absolutely necessary
terrain/maploader.*: Fixed an error in the new maploader code where the name of the heightmap to load was being incorrectly generated
Fix up the way the "local state directory" and the "data directory" are set in the code so it is less likely to break
media/sprite_cache.cc: Use the correct local state directory for the sprite cache index
Get rid of media index generation in installation rule
Fix up the rpm spec, and add an rpm spec for media packages
renderer/grid_entity.*, renderer/screen_entity.*, renderer/renderer.*, renderer/Makefile.am, renderer/overviewmap.cc, toolbox/isodefs.h, toolbox/tree.*: Moved the Grid code out of renderer into the top level entity. This will greatly facilitate merging the Entity and ScreenEntity trees when we go to Eris
environment/environment.*, renderer/renderer.cc, terrain/terrain.*, toolbox/isodefs.h: Don't update the drawing buffers in Terrain and Environment until it's time to render
configure.in, acconfig.h, modules/action_chooser.h, renderer/renderer.cc, terrain/terrain.*, uclient/uclient.cc: Bumped libuta version requirement to 0.4.3, got rid of HAVE_UTA_UDIALOG_BOX and HAVE_UTA_LIGHTEN_DARKEN checks

Mist

gfire reports in Mist's history file:

First of all little bug fix into server room. It no longer connects to server if there are insufficient parameters. It also fills port 6767 if there is no port speficied. It also trims name of the server.

I added scenegraph structure. This is major change to gl4java plugin. There are still some problems because eris-java has bugs. Initial loading of entites doesn't yet work correctly. So you must wander around a bit to get entities appear.

There is now BoundingBoxe of each entity shown.

Movement is still crappy and I am working on prediction. Prediction is now better but it assumes that movement speed (velocity) is constant between server updates. This causes some complications with stage. It uses accelerations and speed doesn't seem to be constant. You can see heavy drifting of entities after movement.

Libraries

eris

World.cpp: Fix calls to SigC::slot so it is sigc++ 1.2 compatable. ISO C++ does not allow default value for arg to be specified in function definition
Change ArgumentDispatcher to (new) OpRefnoDispatcher in Avatar
Change std::cerr to log(LOG_DEBUG,...) for debugging code
Commit Ron's Avatar patches : currently got a bug with the IG-transition INFO op, so don't update unless you're doing dev work. Also bumped the version to 0.9.7 since this is an API change (rsteinke has diffs for silence and sear, very minor)
Fix dispatcher removal for the imaginary emote ops fix made on the 9th. October
Add checks so it is possible for a connection to send and receive when its status is DISCONNECTING
Clean up DebugDispatchers when deleting Connection object
ArgumentDispatcher.cpp: Prevent ArgumentDispatcher from aborting if the object it is passed has no args
Room.h, Room.cpp: Rework handling of imaginary emote ops to be a bit more general

skstream2

Added support for GNU/Hurd
Added man page for skstream-config
Added support for NOCONFIGURE in autogen.sh
Added call to Sleep(0) in win32 nonblocking connect

wfmath

Added Doxyfile.in to CVS, did some work towards docs
Added manpage for wfmath-config.
Portability fix. Apparently debian on sparc uses int instead of long for the usec field of struct timeval
Changed operator==() for quaternions to regard two quaternions as equal iff they produce the same 3x3 rotation matrix. This means q == -q is true
Added a Shuffle() function which randomizes the order of elements contained in a std::vector.
Doc updates
Bumped version number to 0.2.10

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