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digitalmars.D.announce - OpenMW 0.6 (+Monster) is out!

reply Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> writes:
Those following the progress of D in game development might be interested to
know that OpenMW 0.6 is out.

OpenMW is an complete reimplementation of the game Morrowind, written from
scratch in D (with some C++ glue for the libraries.) Since it's just an engine
implementation though you still need the original game (data files) to run the
game.

OpenMW is still at an early stage, but new in this release is a new GUI based
on MyGUI, a powerful, OGRE-based GUI system made for games. You can see the
result here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18

It also includes my very own scripting engine, Monster, which was specially
designed for this purpose originally but is now an independent engine. Monster
just reached its alpha stage (v0.11), and now has full
inheritance/polymorphism, a D-like module system and lots of other new
features. It's especially designed for quasi-concurrent situations like you
often see in gaming, such as this:

say("Follow me!");
sleep(3);
moveTo(targetPoint);
say("We're here.");

Here, sleep() and moveTo() are disguised as normal functions, but are actually
part of an advanced cooperative multithreading / fibers system which gives
control to the rest of the program while they execute. This system is already
being used in OpenMW, and you can also use it to simulate Lua-like coroutines
with little effort.

OpenMW download link:
http://openmw.sourceforge.net/jaws/index.php/page/download.html
OpenMW home page: http://openmw.sourceforge.net/
GUI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18
Older vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/nkorslund

Nico
Mar 07 2009
next sibling parent reply Kenny B <funisher gmail.com> writes:
Nicolay Korslund wrote:

 Those following the progress of D in game development might be interested to
know that OpenMW 0.6 is out.
 
 OpenMW is an complete reimplementation of the game Morrowind, written from
scratch in D (with some C++ glue for the libraries.) Since it's just an engine
implementation though you still need the original game (data files) to run the
game.
 
 OpenMW is still at an early stage, but new in this release is a new GUI based
on MyGUI, a powerful, OGRE-based GUI system made for games. You can see the
result here:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18
 
 It also includes my very own scripting engine, Monster, which was specially
designed for this purpose originally but is now an independent engine. Monster
just reached its alpha stage (v0.11), and now has full
inheritance/polymorphism, a D-like module system and lots of other new
features. It's especially designed for quasi-concurrent situations like you
often see in gaming, such as this:
 
 say("Follow me!");
 sleep(3);
 moveTo(targetPoint);
 say("We're here.");
 
 Here, sleep() and moveTo() are disguised as normal functions, but are actually
part of an advanced cooperative multithreading / fibers system which gives
control to the rest of the program while they execute. This system is already
being used in OpenMW, and you can also use it to simulate Lua-like coroutines
with little effort.
 
 OpenMW download link:
http://openmw.sourceforge.net/jaws/index.php/page/download.html
 OpenMW home page: http://openmw.sourceforge.net/
 GUI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18
 Older vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/nkorslund
 
 Nico


Well, I'm surprised that no one has responded to this yet... this is a very
interesting/big pass for D :)

So far, I haven't quite got it working yet on linux, but it appears to me to be
very very cool... good work man
Mar 08 2009
parent Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> writes:
Kenny B Wrote:


 Well, I'm surprised that no one has responded to this yet... this is a very
interesting/big pass for D :)
 
 So far, I haven't quite got it working yet on linux, but it appears to me to
be very very cool... good work man


Many thanks. I've posted about it a few times already, so I guess those who are
most interested have already jumped over our mailing list (link:
http://groups.google.com/group/openmw )

If you want any help getting it working, just let me know.

Nico
Mar 09 2009
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Tomas Lindquist Olsen <tomas.l.olsen gmail.com> writes:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> wrote:

 Those following the progress of D in game development might be interested to
know that OpenMW 0.6 is out.


....

I just checked it out, and while it took a little while to get
everything built, the result was really really cool :D

Definitely gonna play a bit with this tonight :)

Just for information, building on Arch Linux is fairly easy. All the
packages are in AUR except openmw itself.
In case someone else want to try, just get:

1)
ogre
mygui-svn
bullet-2.74
openal
ffmpeg
ois
dmd
libphobos
dsss

2)
then checkout openmw.
a few things aren't set up right, so edit the Makefile and add:

-I/usr/include/libavcodec -I/usr/include/libavformat

to the ffmpeg section.

Edit dsss.conf as well replacing the bullet libraries with:

-llBulletDynamics -llBulletCollision -llLinearMath

in both places.

3)
symlink data files into 'openmw/data', execute, enjoy !

I'm not sure this is a good place to post this, but here it is!

-Tomas
Mar 10 2009
parent Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> writes:
Tomas Lindquist Olsen Wrote:


 Just for information, building on Arch Linux is fairly easy. All the
 packages are in AUR except openmw itself.
 In case someone else want to try, just get:
 
 1)
 ogre
 mygui-svn
 bullet-2.74
 openal
 ffmpeg
 ois
 dmd
 libphobos
 dsss


Thanks. I've added some specific Arch instructions to the readme based on this.
BTW, is it difficult to get new packages into AUR? I assume that with automatic
dependency tracking we could install all of the above automatically if we had
an openmw package.

Nico
Mar 11 2009
prev sibling parent digited <digited yandex.ru> writes:
Fantastic!

Nicolay Korslund Wrote:


 Those following the progress of D in game development might be interested to
know that OpenMW 0.6 is out.
 
 OpenMW is an complete reimplementation of the game Morrowind, written from
scratch in D (with some C++ glue for the libraries.) Since it's just an engine
implementation though you still need the original game (data files) to run the
game.
 
 OpenMW is still at an early stage, but new in this release is a new GUI based
on MyGUI, a powerful, OGRE-based GUI system made for games. You can see the
result here:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18
 
 It also includes my very own scripting engine, Monster, which was specially
designed for this purpose originally but is now an independent engine. Monster
just reached its alpha stage (v0.11), and now has full
inheritance/polymorphism, a D-like module system and lots of other new
features. It's especially designed for quasi-concurrent situations like you
often see in gaming, such as this:
 
 say("Follow me!");
 sleep(3);
 moveTo(targetPoint);
 say("We're here.");
 
 Here, sleep() and moveTo() are disguised as normal functions, but are actually
part of an advanced cooperative multithreading / fibers system which gives
control to the rest of the program while they execute. This system is already
being used in OpenMW, and you can also use it to simulate Lua-like coroutines
with little effort.
 
 OpenMW download link:
http://openmw.sourceforge.net/jaws/index.php/page/download.html
 OpenMW home page: http://openmw.sourceforge.net/
 GUI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Diu3kZTGY&fmt=18
 Older vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/nkorslund
 
 Nico
Mar 11 2009