Glest blog

MegaGlest 3.5.2 Released!

2011-05-27T22:37:00.000-07:00

MegaGlest 3.5.2 Released 5/26/11!

Have feedback? Join the #Glest IRC Channel on freenode. Or reply@ our forum thread.

Changelog:

v3.5.2

Lots of work to make MegaGlest a Linux distro friendly package (Debian, Arch, etc)
Added Support for Russian and Ukrainian with proper fonts in Linux if installed.
Map editor now supports diagonal flipping
Windows users now have a shortcut to the mod folder in their MegaGlest programs Menu.
Bug fixes including:
Fix corrupted g3d viewer screenshots, and automatic screenshot mode does not steal focus for Linux users
- Proper network disconnect detection when connection drops in an abnormal way
- Avoid crash when user has no soundcard installed
- Better video handling for buggy opengl drivers that don't properly handle non power of two textures
- Better support for non ASCII file paths (like Japanese, etc) for international users and Unicode enabled parts of the code

v3.5.1

Much better pathfinder performance
Allow servers to temporary block specified network players from the game lobby
Better Linux distro packaing support (by default megaglest works in standard linux paths and make install added)
Game data cleanup (duplicate sound files have been merged in megapack) and non free content replaced.
(autumn and desert tilesets)
Displayed up to 15 queued commands (observers can view all players queued commands)
- Allow factions in a techtree to share common data using the special tag in xml files $COMMONDATAPATH
which points to the techtrees commondata/ folder.
standardized games and tools startup scripts with names starting with 'startup_'
updated translations for German, Italian and French
bugfixes reported in 3.5.0
AI enhancements (better repair, and safer build positions)
Improved network code, fixes some out of synch issues.
Display players svn revision# in network game lobby

MegaGlest 3.5.0 Release

2011-04-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

- Menu changes to better group similar items
- Added Blender related tools in blender sub folder
- Modified binary and script names for Linux builds to avoid conflicts with original glest
- Added preview info in mod menu, scenario menu and tutorials
- End game stats have more info now
- Added more validations for modders for techtrees and scenarios (commandline options)
- Bugfix for OpenAL (now works in v 1.13)
- Updates to Romans faction
- Network messages generated by the game are now displayed in the local users selected language
- Support for custom credits (add the file data/core/menu/credits.txt)
- More AI player improvements
- Default screenshot format is now jpg (configurable in options menu)
- Fixed some performance problems with 'stuck' units
- improved resource selection
- performance improvements, now make it possible to play with more units and slower hardware than before.
- new maps with cliffs and higher terrain
- support for sending 7z tilesets and techtrees over network
- new game mod management console to download new game content or remove existing mod content
- multi-threaded pathfinding for better performance when many units are moving
- CPU AI player improvements (units get unstuck more often and stationary air units attack more efficiently)
- new tileset and resource particle support.
- added jpg screenshot support
- optional compressed GPU texture support
- improved harvesting and resource selection
- better support for multiple platform compiling
- Modifiable keyboard hotkeys
- bugfixes for map editor and g3d viewer to work more stable on multiple platforms
- LSB conform ".megaglest" usage

More: Glest Forum

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 38

2011-02-11T17:37:00.000-08:00

The latest Glest Community Development Newsletter has been posted at The Glest Forums.

MegaGlest 3.4.0 Released!

2011-02-01T20:17:00.000-08:00

MegaGlest 3.4.0 released 2/1/11!
Downloads here: http://megaglest.org/download.html
If you want to play a multiplayer game or you need help, join the #Glest IRC Channel on freenode.

Changelog:
v3.4.0

- new attack alarms use visual and audio cues to indicate when and where you or your team are under attack
- new auto router configuration for Internet hosted games will auto port forward (for UPNP enabled routers)
- new network file transfer system current allows servers to send missing maps and tilesets to clients
- new IRC client built into the Internet lobby (uses freenode's megaglest-lobby channel)
- improved sound handling for better stability and smoother game play
- CPU AI players now can have their resource multiplier manually changed
- new fog of war setting allows showing resources on the map at game start (thanks GAE team)
- many new commandline options (try --help to see)
- texture compression for video cards that support it
- improved AI players are much harder to defeat
- new Romans_beta faction in megapack
- new language translations
- new tilesets, maps, scenarios and tutorials
- G3D Viewer enhancements including PNG screenshots with alpha transparency option
- performance improvements for both rendering and network play
- FreeBSD support has been added in this release
- bugfixes discovered in 3.3.7.2

Changelog for older version:
v3.3.7

- Significant game play performance improvements.
- Added support for FreeBSD (thanks m0ellemeister) and Mac OS X (thanks GeoVah)!
- Players can now tell multiple units to build a new unit all at the same time (multi-build)
- Particle and Transparency improvements
- Map Preview in game lobby
- Added ability to pick a random faction in the game lobby
- Added ability to be a non-player and Observe a network game (becoming an Observer)
- Added ability to change playername in game lobby
- Added new map filter (to display maps with x players)
- AI Player improvements
- Added new LUA functions and events (see wiki for details).
- Added numerous new commandline options (use --help to see a detailed list)
- Improved network performance
- Masterserver PHP scripts will now run on a Microsoft Windows Server
- Added ability to move / size UI components in a custom manner
- Many bugfixes.

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 37

2011-01-11T05:44:00.000-08:00

The latest Glest Community Development Newsletter has been posted at The Glest Forums.

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 36

2010-12-11T05:05:00.000-08:00

The latest Glest Community Development Newsletter has been posted at The Glest Forums.

Glest on "111 free games on 11 minuts"

2010-12-02T06:26:00.000-08:00

Glest game is in the first minute. Thanks to samuel86!

Original title: 111 kostenlose Spiele in 11 Minuten

Vote for Glest!

2010-11-27T02:07:00.000-08:00

Glest is nominated for best game in PortalProgramas.com, it is on the final phase of Best Open Source game

You can help by voting for the game here: http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios/proyecto/71

30 november is the close day. Vote now!! :P :D
Votar por Glest

Cards of the Glest units

2010-11-27T01:55:00.000-08:00

Author: wciow
More info: Glest board

Tech faction:

Magic faction:

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 35

2010-11-11T04:07:00.000-08:00

The latest Glest Community Development Newsletter has been posted at The Glest Forums.

Military Tech Tree

2010-11-06T07:10:00.000-07:00

Military is a free game mod using the Glest Advanced Engine. It boasts powerful graphics, easy playability, and varying difficulties. Based upon the future, Military will leave you revitalized and wanting more!

About
Many years in the future, in the 2030 era, things are peaceful. Or for the most part, that is. However, not everyone want peace. Some would seek to use distruction and mayhem, threatening the world's balance. Thus, we must fight against these murderers, seeking for eternal peace, someday... Over time, technology has changed in some ways. New resources exist, and populations soar. Weapons have changed little over the past 30 years. Sure, they have grown faster, more powerful, more dangerous, but the basic style has been preserved.

Even if we defeat those who seek to destroy our planet, another will step forward to take their place. So why do we fight? Why throw away the lives of our soldiers like we would to a rabid dog? Simple, we fight to protect those who cannot protect themselves. We fight for the good of others, with an eternal dream of peace. We most likely will not live to see that day, but we fight so that our children and grandchildren may have better luck than you.

That, is what Military is.

More info: Glest forum

Undead faction (wip)

2010-11-02T00:33:00.000-07:00

It is a work in process from wciow user. Download & more info: Glest forum

Japanese Faction Mod

2010-10-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

Hagekura is making making a japanese faction for Glest, it is intended for work with all variations of Glest (Vanilla Glest, GAE, Megaglest).

The mod is based on historical 16~17th century japan(there will be no-fantasy units). At the time Japan was under a civil war and the era was known for "SENGOKU JIDAI (era of warring states)".
Large variety of units will be included in this mod.such as ashigaru(conscripted spearman), archer, arquebuser, swordsman, armoured samurai, mounted samurai, cannon, warrior monks and ninjas .along with many japanese traditional style buildings.

Currently it is done 70% of units and buildings.

More info: Glest forum

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 34

2010-10-23T05:03:00.000-07:00

You can find the post over at The Glest Forums. Due to time constraints I won't be posting a copy here for this version.

Mega Glest 3.3.7 release

2010-10-10T03:24:00.000-07:00

Significant game play performance improvements.
Added support for FreeBSD (thanks m0ellemeister) and Mac OS X (thanks GeoVah)!
Players can now tell multiple units to build a new unit all at the same time (multi-build)
Particle and Transparency improvements
Map Preview in game lobby
Added ability to pick a random faction in the game lobby
Added ability to be a non-player and Observe a network game (becoming an Observer)
Added ability to change playername in game lobby
Added new map filter (to display maps with x players)
AI Player improvements
Added new LUA functions and events (see wiki for details).
Added numerous new commandline options (use --help to see a detailed list)
Improved network performance
Masterserver PHP scripts will now run on a Microsoft Windows Server
Added ability to move / size UI components in a custom manner
Many bugfixes.

Downloads and information: Glest forum
News on russian gamedev site: UralDev.ru

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 33

2010-09-17T18:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the thirty-third issue of Glest Community Development. Below you will find events I have recorded over the last month from the forum (usually for things that can be downloaded or a screenshot of progress), GAE SVN, mailing list and bug tracker. Thanks go to the people who have been busy improving Glest with patches, mods and providing support. Smile

NOTE: the dates are only approximations. Please post any corrections, suggestions, or additions.

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Additions are more likely to be added to this list if it uses the same format I have used.

Format:
day Month
- Poster does something. link/reference

Note the capital letter for the poster and 0 is in front for single digit day numbers (ie 01-09).

Link to forum post
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The next issue is scheduled for 11 October 2010.

GAE Bug Tracker fixes
MegaGlest project/tracker

General Announcements:

2010
05 September
- Zoythrus shows update of Crincillin.
24 August
- Mark releases Dark Magic v 10-8-23.
20 August
- Mark makes icons for Dark Magic.
16 August
- ElimiNator releases Hunter mod.
15 August
- Tiger releases Whimsical Forest v0.04.
- Omega releases Military Tech Tree v2.4.
14 August
- ElimiNator uploads British tech.
- Silnarm shows new features in GAE 0.3.
- Hailstone posts GCD 32.
12 August
- Softcoder releases MegaGlest 3.3.6.
- Ultifd shows screenshots of Dark Magic.

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 32

2010-08-13T07:24:00.001-07:00

Read at Glest Forums

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 31

2010-07-11T01:31:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the thirty-first issue of Glest Community Development. Below you will find events I have recorded over the last month from the forum (usually for things that can be downloaded or a screenshot of progress), GAE SVN, mailing list and bug tracker. Thanks go to the people who have been busy improving Glest with patches, mods and providing support. :)

NOTE: the dates are only approximations. Please post any corrections, suggestions, or additions.

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Additions are more likely to be added to this list if it uses the same format I have used.

Format:
day Month
- Poster does something. link/reference

Note the capital letter for the poster and 0 is in front for single digit day numbers.
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The next issue is scheduled for 11 August 2010.

GAE Bug Tracker fixes
MegaGlest project/tracker

General Announcements:
- I created a script to format this better for the blog.

2010 (June - July)
11 July
- Silnarm fixes AI bugs in GAE. GAE SVN r680
09 July
- Hairy cat makes another map.
- Tiger updates Whimsical Forest Theme.
08 July
- Hairy cat makes down vs up map.
- Hairy cat makes a map.
- Softcoder releases MegaGlest 3.3.5.1 alpha.
07 July
- ChupaReaper uploads Necribus.
06 July
- ChupaReaper splits up Malevolent Rising download.
- Weedkiller posts concept art.
04 July
- Softcoder releases MegaGlest 3.3.5.
- Coldfusionstorm updates GIS.
03 July
- Tiger makes music pack.
- -Archmage- makes a humanoid exosuit model.
1 July
- Hailstone uploads a snapshot binary for carrier/transport units in GAE.
30 June
- ChupaReaper releases Malevolent Rising v1.0.
29 June
- ChupaReaper shows update of Malevolent Rising.
- Omega works on Glestimals.
27 June
- ChupaReaper updates Malevolent Rising.
- Titi makes 6isle map.
- Titi makes 4hill8kings map.
26 June
- Wciow updated Glestimals link.
24 June
- Titi makes 3vs1 map.
21 June
- Trappin makes Riptide map.
- ChupaReaper shows Malevolent Rising units.
20 June
- John.d.h shows tech tree for Dragon faction.
- John.d.h finishes spider Glestimal.
19 June
- Trappin makes Route 66 map.
18 June
- Omega gives changes for Military tech tree.
- ChupaReaper gives another update.
- ChupaReaper shows Necribus Faction.
- Hailstone shows work on carrier units.
16 June
- Zothrus shows model for Crincillin mod.
- John.d.h uploads quad armature.
15 June
- Wciow shows experiments of ground textures.
- Wyvern uploads aamissile launcher.
- John.d.h posts tech tree diagram for Dragon faction.
14 June
- Gabbe shows Amazons model.
- HyperCube shows model.
- Silnarm releases GAE 0.2.13a for Windows.
- Ultifd announces MegaGlest 3.3.5-beta5.
12 June
- Little Helper is going on vacation.
11 June
- ChupaReaper updates Malevolent Rising.
- Hailstone posts GCD 30.

Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 30

2010-06-11T02:32:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the thirtieth issue of Glest Community Development. Below you will find events I have recorded over the last month from the forum (usually for things that can be downloaded or a screenshot of progress), GAE SVN, mailing list and bug tracker. Thanks go to the people who have been busy improving Glest with patches, mods and providing support. :)

NOTE: the dates are only approximations. Please post any corrections, suggestions, or additions.

The next issue is scheduled for 11 July 2010.

GAE Bug Tracker fixes:
MegaGlest project/tracker: | Another link

General Announcements:
- Welcome back to Glest Network.
- Hailstone has some free time to work on GAE.
- Testing out the blog. I think in the future I'll just announce it on the blog.

2010 (May - June)
11 June
- Softcoder announces MegaGlest 3.3.5beta1. IRC,
- Hypercube makes concept art.
10 June
- Trappin completes Beta of Meadow tileset.
- ChupaReaper shows update to Malevolent Rising.
09 June
- Titi shows update to Dark Magic.
08 June
- Softcoder updates MegaGlest.
- Little Helper uploads models.
- Wyvern shows new pup model.
07 June
- Wyvern, Little Helper and HyperCube do a model dump. http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5560.0
06 June
- Silnarm applied Zaggy1024's patch.
03 June
- Wyvern shows destroyer modoel.
- John.d.h shows model.
01 June
- Mjace72 uploads The Death Tub map.
31 May
- Omega releases Military tech tree.
- Gabrielle, Gabbe shows model.
30 May
- Mjace72 makes squared circle map.
- Wyvern uploads models.
- Samuelst gives French translation.
29 May
- ElimiNator shows mortar.
28 May
- Silnarm releases GAE 0.2.13a.
- Gabriel, Gabbe uploads ant.
27 May
- Emscape makes 2aboniation map.
- Silnarm adds SSE2 support for model interpolation. GAE SVN rev616
25 May
- Mjace72 makes battlegrounds map.
- Tetzank gets freetype working through physfs. GAE SVN rev615
24 May
- Little Helper shows models.
- Silnarm adds new GUI widgets and freetype fonts to GAE. GAE SVN rev613
22 May
- Trappin makes Burnt Earth map.
20 May
- Mjace72 uploads warland.
19 May
- Gabriel, Gabbe releases model pack.
18 May
- Gabriel, Gabbe shows Rebel Tech Robotics.
17 May
- Jda announces found source of bug.
16 May
- Gabriel, Gabbe shows phoenix model.
15 May
- Josepzin announces Glest Total War blog.
- Jda shows progress of Dragon Slayer.
14 May
- Trappin makes Glest Meadow tileset.
- Weedkiller shows concept art for ORCS.
- Seanachaidh shows Medium Infantry.
- ZaggyDad gives download for New Configurator.
12 May
- Cds makes attackonly scenario.
11 May
- Hailstone posts GCD 29.

New mod: Malevolent Rising (MRise)

2010-05-15T01:41:00.000-07:00

What is Malevolent Rising (MRise)?

MRise is inspired by many games, but mainly: Doom (Doom models and animation will be included in this project), Stronghold Legends (I love werewolves lol), Rise of Legends, old games like Konung, Lords of Magic, Hexen and others.

Aiming for five detailed factions: Necribus (Werewolf and Satyr), Hyperion (Jotun [half-giants] and Angel), Gians (Dryad and Shapeshifter), The Damned (Scourge [half-ghosts] and Vampire) and Vestirus (Aquaparien [inspired by elder scrolls argonian] and Khajiit [as from elder scrolls too]).

So that's 2 races per faction. Each race (so twice per faction) will have their own Barracks for light troops and heavy troops, an element spire for magical troops and a draconic shrine for dragons (dragons will be worked on later once all factions are fully functional with standard units and magic units). I also intend to add some hero units in later, at least one per race (so two per faction).

The player will be able to play each faction in favour of one of the faction's races through upgrades and GAE subfactions.

More info: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5394.0;topicseen

New mod: Glest Total War

2010-05-15T01:24:00.000-07:00

Author: njam2

i am making a glest mod that makes it easy to make an army and fight with out building a bunch of stuff.

controlling more units: okay this was kine of hard but i did it! in Blender 3d i made each unit have two units like you control two at a time. so you have 10 units it would look like you have 20.

kines of units: i only have 2 kines of units, a Knight and a Spearman... knights are better but they cost more.

how to show you: i don't know how to take snapshots during the game if anyone could help me, then that would be good.

i don't know another kine of unit i could make.. i was thinking two handed sword men and they would be greater then knights but idk.

More info: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5382.25

Dwarf faction release: Aglarond 0.1.1

2010-05-11T07:36:00.000-07:00

This is the Aglarond release of the Dwarf faction. As the previous release, declared by wciow as his last personal release of the Dwarves, was named Gimli, I thought it would be fit to name the next one, the result of "Gimli's work", as Aglarond, where Gimli founded and ruled a new Dwarf city.

More info: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5187.0

Mediterran tileset

2010-05-09T11:23:00.000-07:00

More info: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=4735.0

New maps: Ancient Forest, Cold Mountain and Oasis of Thoth

2010-05-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

Ancient Forest

   * Map: Ancient Forest
   * Author: wciow
   * Map Size: Small
   * Preferred Tileset: Imladris
   * Map Type: 4 player generic
   * Resource Allotment: Very low
   * Download: n/a
   * Date: 2/2010

   Cold Mountain

   * Map: Cold Mountain
   * Author: wciow
   * Map Size: Small
   * Preferred Tileset: New Winter
   * Map Type: 4 player generic
   * Resource Allotment: Average
   * Download: n/a
   * Date: 2/2010

Oasis of Thoth

   * Map: Oasis of Thoth
   * Author: wciow
   * Map Size: Medium
   * Preferred Tileset: Desert
   * Map Type: 4 player open
   * Resource Allotment: Low
   * Download: n/a
   * Date: 2/2010

More info at forum: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5101.0

8 player map "Double Cross"

2010-05-09T07:46:00.000-07:00

A new Map made by Sir modman. It is called "Double Cross" because you have to cross two rivers.

http://www.filefront.com/16058501/double_cross.mgm

This is a release candidate, meaning if I feel like changing it..

More info in forum: http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5306.0