We are happy to announce a new PlaneShift release! 0.5.9 has finally arrived! This release has a graphical update for some of the main areas, better lighting, new sounds and music, better NPC day/night cycles and many new features on the PlaneShift Engine which will allow us to add new content in the next coming weeks and months. A big thank to all the developers who dedicated endless hours to make this happen!



Here is the detailed changelog:

Art

• Updated laanx temple geometry and textures
• Performance improvements to hydlaa plaza
• Updated hydlaa jayose with new houses and other new art
• Updated tutorial area with new houses
• Updated hydlaa winch with new houses and added bump maps
• Added new magic staff items, three for each magic Way!
• Updated the lighting and skybox of all levels to have a more realistic day/night effect
• Changed the speed of walk and run to be more realistic, and allow better animations
• Added blending of walk/run to smooth the transitions
• Fixed trasparency problem on all outdoor maps (terrain)
• Added harnquist shop's interior
• Added grass to all outdoor/terrain maps (experimental)

Engine - graphics:

• Added support for GLSL shaders. This should improve compatibility with intel graphic cards but could give problems with old drivers so: update your drivers!
• Added the first iteration of a new NPCUI for npc interactions
• Fixed some issues with pictures in help windows and books (they should start to appear soon)
• Added a lock/unlock function to the quickspell bar (you can enable the bar with "/show quickspell"
• Fixed texture loading order on character which fixes problems with klyros/enkidukai skin colour being wrong and disappearing armor

Engine - rules:

• Overhauled the music rules support to work by limiting the amount of notes instead of making them wrong. Additionally several problems regarding musical instruments have been fixed.
• Added information about quality when a new item is created through crafting

Engine - Artificial Intelligence:

• Merged gsoc2011 work on tribes and expanded from there by adding several functionalities to NPC which should start to show in the next months, making them more immersive and able to act as tribes.
• (for devs) several improvements to functionalities to handle npc paths in order to allow an easier change of them directly from the client
• Added support to the npcclient to handle spell casting
• Added several perceptions and scripting options in the npcclient to allow to check for more conditions and act appropriately
• (for gm/dev) added suppport for /percept to trigger perceptions on NPC and additional information about the NPC status in /info

Engine - Infrastructure:

• From now on clients will just authenticate with sha256 passwords (if you cannot login you can restore the password from the registration page or input your password from scratch in a 0.5.8.1 client and get in-game, then try logging back in 10 minutes later
• Desura clients now will ship with the updater functionalities disabled, you can still enable them by changing the pslaunch.cfg (Update.Enable option) but we suggest to use the desura client update functionalities.
• Now the linux client will run again old older distributions (GLIBC 2.7), additionally several libraries have been updated.
• Improvements to the updater which should be more stable after this release.
• (for dev) added support to restart the npcclient directly from an admin client /quitnpcclient
• Added a button in pslaunch to allow easy deletion of the shadercache
• Fixed a bug which could show the server as unreachable after logging out (for example after deleting a character)

Engine - general:

• Added some command line commands to set character descriptions (/setdesc , /setoocdec , /loaddesc , /loadoocdesc )
• (for devs) mathscripts and paths can now be reloaded from the database at runtime allowing an easier development, and restart-less fixes. (/reload path, /reload mathscript)
• (for devs) added support for buff-able variables on a character
• (for devs) several places are now more script-able: when damage is applied to a character, when a new item is created from crafting, etc. Additionally several ways to change things regarding items and inventory have been added to scripting support.
• (for gm) fixed a crash when using names of offline entities as target.
• (for gm) now it's possible to see mana in the detail windows of characters.
• Fixed dangling alliance/guild data being kept in the db even if they were effectively not existent any more.
• (for devs) Allow multiple crafting patterns to be within one book.
• Removed book xml being printed to stdout when opened.
• (for devs) Added support for restrains in the loot item modifiers (black/white list and no check mode support)
• Fixed crash when using label on target function.
• (for skinners/dev) It's now possible to show and hide windows with pawsscripting using WindowName:Show()/:Hide()
• Fixes on the quality options in pslaunch not being set correctly sometimes
• Languages are now sorted by name in pslaunch and don't show duplicates anymore
• Fixed error shown when opening books written by others
• Fixed take and stack all on action location items
• Fixed selection of skins with dots in the filename
• Fixed issues in dictionary handling with the spellchecker

Engine from crystalspace:

• Several fixes in shader management including crash fixes.
• fixed support to recent openal libraries (which have now been used)

Setting:

• updated many NPCs to have all base dialogue triggers (like greetings, how are you, tell me about you, goodbye, ...)
• Updated the cooking quest chain to allow earlier access to basic cooking books and more logical quest progression.
• Continued improvements and bug fixes to current quests.

Audio:

• New 15 minute ambient music for Hydlaa Plaza, Magic Shop
• New Battle Env Sounds
• Fixed water sound on Bronze Doors Fortress

Known Bugs:

• Fog and rain can be rendered wrongly on certain platforms (big white areas on screen)
• Grass is experimental for now, a bit too tall and enabled only at short distance. You can enable/disable it in pslaunch.
• While speaking with NPCs you may get a double bubble (one from the new system, one from the old system)

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2012.02.29

It is time to say goodbye and thank Zeroping for their excellent service in the past year. Has been a pleasure to work with them! Starting this week, our new hosters for the main PlaneShift server are Subhosting.net (providing the hardware) and Caronet (providing the facilities and network). They have a pretty broad range of services, including Engineered Hosting Solutions, Managed Data Center Hosting, and Dedicated Servers. We suggest you to check their homepages and what they can provide in case you have a project you want to host. Subhosting.net and Caronet decided to sponsor PlaneShift by providing a shiny new server, with more CPUs and RAM, which will hopefully provide a better experience to PlaneShift players.

To have your client connect to the new server is very simple! Just launch the updater and it will download the data/servers.xml file with the new address. If something goes wrong and you want to do the update manually, then just open the file /data/servers.xml and replace planeshift.zeroping.it with planeshift.subhosting.net

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2012.02.03

This is PlaneShift's weekend! There are 3 events planned one for each day, starting friday. "Searching for Talent", "Champions cup ", and "Meet the devs". Participate and bring your friends to the events. Remember there are new achievements on MyPlane for number of events you participated in!

2012.01.28

Did you manage to craft high quality leather armor? We hope so, because it's now time for chain mail! We just added in game the ability to craft chain mail, be prepared to make lot of small steel rings to create gloves, torso, arms, pants, helms, and boots. Four in one patterns, riveted armor, there are quite some options to create high quality protective armor.
Quests are available as well to introduce the art of making chain mail, so be sure to speak to the blacksmith in various towns. The process is as close as possible to the medieval way of creating chain mail.

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2012.01.15

Happy new year to all PlaneShifters! We start the 2012 by bringing you three news for crafters!

• The first news is that we implemented leather working.
  There are two phases to it: making leather pieces and crafting a leather armor. A crafting manual is required for each and those can be acquired through quests. The leatherworking skill allows you to make leather materials (all those hides in your inventory will come in handy). Leatherworking tables with a puncher and water barrel have been added by Hirenn in Ojaveda and the Grotemeys in Hydlaa. Then the existing armor making skill in combination with the book "Making Leather Armor" will enable you to make a full array of leather armor: gloves, boots, arms, pants, and torso (gloves to start and the rest at increasing skill levels). You can even now make a leather cap.
  
  
• The second news is that we decided to merge the skills for making axes, knifes and swords into one skill called "blades making". This will allow a crafter to build all blades without the need to rank up in each individual skill.
  We applied the following rule to set the blades making skill to your existing chars. We took the max between axe/knife/sword and assigned it to blades making, plus we gave half of the sum of the other 2 skills as a bonus to the new leather working skill so you can have a good start with it!
  To learn leathermaking you should visit Hirenn in Ojaveda and the Grotemey family in Hydlaa.
  
  
• Third news is there are now several new shield making manuals available via quests. Can you find them all?
  

We also added a speak perception to NPCs so they should be aware of when you speak with them and not run away.

2012 will be a fantastic year for PlaneShift! With tons of great additions, we can't wait to work more on it and see your feedback!

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