Game Development: Creel Quern

[boshaw]

[*] Loftar has been β-testing the client rendering rewrite, and, effective tonight, we are finally, three years later, pushing the new client as the effective default client of Haven & Hearth. We will, for some time, maintain a launcher for the old client -- http://game.havenandhearth.com/java/old-launcher.jar -- perhaps to iron out some additional bugs, and to give players some time to adjust, but we do aim to drop support for the old client before too long, as it uses an old resource tree which we no longer wish to/can maintain. All custom client makers are advised to migrate to the new client code as soon as possible. I, for one, am very happy about this.

Are the resource urls going to change for clients using the older version or is the new render client using a different url still?

[svino]

anything new in the pipeline?

[HarryDresden]

Thanks for the update.

Please make Display Signs wall mountable.

[Nightdawg]

In the Pipe
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[*] Loftar has been β-testing the client rendering rewrite, and, effective tonight, we are finally, three years later, pushing the new client as the effective default client of Haven & Hearth. We will, for some time, maintain a launcher for the old client -- http://game.havenandhearth.com/java/old-launcher.jar -- perhaps to iron out some additional bugs, and to give players some time to adjust, but we do aim to drop support for the old client before too long, as it uses an old resource tree which we no longer wish to/can maintain. All custom client makers are advised to migrate to the new client code as soon as possible. I, for one, am very happy about this.

This is a big deal, why is it "in the pipe" ? Put it at the top, I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH AND I LOVE IT

[loftar]

Are the resource urls going to change for clients using the older version or is the new render client using a different url still?

The new client is using a new URL, and it will keep using it. Since the launch of 3D Haven, I had used the "hres" directory for the resources just to avoid any unnecessary conflict with un-updated Legacy clients, but now that that shouldn't reasonably be a problem any longer, the new client uses the "res" directory again and will keep doing so.

[jorb]

This is a big deal, why is it "in the pipe" ? Put it at the top, I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH AND I LOVE IT

Good point! Updated OP.

[boshaw]

Are the resource urls going to change for clients using the older version or is the new render client using a different url still?

The new client is using a new URL, and it will keep using it. Since the launch of 3D Haven, I had used the "hres" directory for the resources just to avoid any unnecessary conflict with un-updated Legacy clients, but now that that shouldn't reasonably be a problem any longer, the new client uses the "res" directory again and will keep doing so.

Thanks !

[Audiosmurf]

Is there a meaningful reason for the camera to be locked to the angles it is in the vanilla client? It's honestly one of the primary things that keeps me from using it.

[shubla]

Creel is too small! Think of poor fishermen who have a large village to feed!

[loftar]

Here are some additional notes about the new client.

Is there a meaningful reason for the camera to be locked to the angles it is in the vanilla client? It's honestly one of the primary things that keeps me from using it.

Well, the reason is that some things tend to look weird in isometric views where the X and Y axes aren't symmetrical. I do realize that the angle-lock is less than optimal, but not having it is also less than optimal.