Ryzom Core Development Site

The Open Shard will be down until we update the new source tree and compiled the latest server with latest modification.

Update: the Open Shard is back online!

PARIS, FRANCE, May 6, 2010 -- Winch Gate Properties Ltd, the developer and publisher of massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playing games, is proud to announce the release of the source code and artistic assets of the popular MMORPG Ryzom to the Free Software Development Community.

Developers can now access the source code of the end-user client, content creation tools and server in order to make modifications, enhancements or to create their own virtual worlds. This move marks a milestone in Ryzom's long history and dedication to the free software movement. In order to ensure that Ryzom continues to grow and foster as a free software project, Winch Gate is now releasing Ryzom under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Affero General Public License.

Winch Gate is also excited to provide the free software community with high quality professional artistic assets including 3D objects, animation tracks, particle effects and thousands of textures. All of the Ryzom artistic assets will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike to ensure that they and any derivative art will be available to all free software projects. These assets will be hosted in a new online repository in partnership with the Free Software Foundation.

By freeing Ryzom code, Winch Gate is transforming the MMORPG marketplace and is setting a precedent for how gaming software should evolve--in freedom. The source code released totals over two (2) million lines of source code and over 20,000 high quality textures and thousands of 3D objects.

Welcoming the news, Free Software Foundation executive director Peter Brown said, "This is a unique opportunity for the free software movement and the emerging free gaming field to accelerate the production of free games and 3D worlds. We recognize the importance of gaming and the current dominance of proprietary gaming software, so today represents a significant breakthrough from which our community can benefit." The FSF has published more information about the scope of today's release, and suggested ways for developers to get involved

Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer of Winch Gate says, "The Free Software community often has a difficult time finding great graphical assets that they can use in their own projects. We are sure that the thousands of textures and 3D objects we are releasing under the CC BY-SA will help a lot of Free Software projects."

Winch Gate intends to incorporate certain code changes and enhancements into the official version of the Ryzom game. All code developed outside Winch Gate's in-house development staff will be thoroughly reviewed to ensure quality standards, stability and security. In order to engage and foster growth in the Ryzom project, Ryzom will have a group of community managers who can manage patch submissions and feature requests. Support will continue to be given for the official Ryzom software only, with third-party projects unsupported by Winch Gate.

Initial projects will include bug fixes and porting to operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OS X. Timeframes for these enhancements will vary depending on the scale of the project and the project team. The level and world data associated with Ryzom will not be released as free content and their use will remain exclusive to players of the Ryzom game.

The source code and additional information will be available from the Ryzom Core Development Portal

The Ryzom's free media assets are available from Ryzom's Asset Repository

About Ryzom

Ryzom is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing or MMORPG Game set more than 3.000 years into the future, on a living, evolving virtual world: beautiful Atys, where after creating your own personal avatar you will guide it through this strange fantastic planet to uncover its mysteries.

The game boasts a unique science-fantasy setting, a distinctive and artistic visual style and a sophisticated plot based upon the conflict of two mysterious supernatural powers. The storyline was awarded "Mmorpg.com Best Story" award. Gameplay is highly adaptive to your personal preferences and the actions/skills system is remarkably unique, sophisticated and profound.

Ryzom Ring is the proprietary innovative free expansion that brings MMORPGs to a new level. Ryzom Ring allows you to create your own role-play and RPG Adventures on the world of Atys.

About Winch Gate

Winch Gate Properties Ltd is the developer and publisher of the massively-multiplayer online science fantasy role playing game Ryzom since 2009. Former employees from Nevrax joined the company to continue to work on Ryzom.

For more information contact:

Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer
vl@ryzom.com
irc: #ryzom on irc.freenode.net

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Sometimes it helps to do more people networking than actual code in the open source world. After learning of our rejection from the "Google Summer of Code 2010": I was advised by Leslie Hawthorn to seek out a mentor-ship under the umbrella of another project as prior Summer of Code experience helps immensely in following years. The WorldForge Project has generously offered us a student slot if one is available and we muster good student proposals.

So please check out WorldForge , their ideas list and then Summer of Code page to see what they're all about. Their project aligns very well with us and we can share a lot of ideas. After you've checked out WorldForge please check out our [[GSoc2010Ideas|ideas list]] and come talk to us about becoming a student so that we can help you with your [[GSoC2010WritingProposals|proposals]] and your [[GSoC2010ApplicationTemplate|student application]]!

Google's Summer of Code program for 2010 kicked off yesterday, March 8th, and NeL has applied. You can get more information about the program at their website and more about our [[GSoC2010Application|application]], [[GSoc2010Ideas|ideas]] list and [[GSoC2010WritingProposals|how to]] [[GSoC2010ApplicationTemplate|apply]] if we're accepted at our [[GSoC2010|GSoC 2010 Page]]. We will post updated news and in the forums if we're accepted.

Next steps: Mentoring Organization Application period ends this Friday (March 12th, 2010.) Google will then review the applications and post a list of accepted mentoring organizations on Thursday, March 18th. Full Timeline

The NeL team is proud to announce its much anticipated 0.7.0 release.

NeL is a toolkit for the development of massive online universes. It provides the basic technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code. It provides developers with a 3D engine, a network framework, a sound engine and much more. In addition to the librariesNeL also has a wealth of tools and plugins for the development of in-game content. NeL is supports Windows, Linux and Mac OSX under the GNU General Public License on both 32bit and 64bit platforms. To see NeL in action check out our technology demo Snowballs or the popular MMORPG Ryzom today! To get started with your own NeL-based project download the shell project and begin coding today!

Highlights¶

• New 3DSMAX Plugin: Tree Painter.
• New 3DSMAX Plugin: Advanced Patch Editing.
• New 3DSMAX Support: Installer available for 3DSMAX 2010.
• Linux Support: Expanded OpenGL support on Linux.
• Mac OSX Support: Added non-native OSX Support (requires X Windows).
• Added 64-bit platform support. (experimental)
• Added Qt-based Tools: Words Dictionary, Message Box, Tile Editor, NeLNS Launcher.
• Added XAudio2 Sound Driver.
• Completed OpenAL Sound Driver.
• Default build environment changed to CMake.
• Tons of bug fixes.

Download NeL¶

• NeL Windows Installer (32-bit): download
• NeL 3DSMAX 2010 Plugin Installer: download
• NeL Source Tarball: download
• NeLNS Windows Installer (32-bit): download
• NeLNS Source Tarball: download
• Snowballs Windows Installer (32-bit): download
• Snowballs Source Tarball: download
• NeL Shell Project: download

For a comprehensive list of fixes please see our 0.7.0 Road Map.

The purpose of the Ryzom Coding Contest was to use the new Ryzom API to develop the best application for Ryzom. After 3 months of hard work, here are the results of the Ryzom Coding Contest.

We received a large number of submissions, so we've taken plenty of time to test and deliberate before deciding.

These applications were made for you, players, and so we invite you to try them: All projects can be found at this address.

Winners:

• 1st place: Nenita. He won EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200) by creating the the fully customizable 'Banner Maker' and 'Maps' application which allows you to locate members of your guild, their mektoubs, or create static maps to plan trips. Furthermore, he had a hand in the creation of many tools that have allowed other projects to emerge. For all of his work that we have designated him the winner of this contest.
• 2nd place: Misugi. He won EUR 1 000 (USD 1 400) with zyRoom, a tool to view, filter and manage the inventories of characters and guilds.
• 3rd place: Nepherk, winning EUR 500 (USD 700) with YubOS, a virtual desktop capable of many things, try it to found out what it can do.

Congratulations to all participants and we will hope to see you again for the next contest! We can already announce that it will be a contest of Ryzom screenshots!

Here is the complete list of sumissions sorted by theme:

http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=34636

The purpose of the Ryzom Coding Contest was to use the new Ryzom API to develop the best application for Ryzom. After 3 months of hard work, here are the results of the Ryzom Coding Contest.

We received a large number of submissions, so we've taken plenty of time to test and deliberate before deciding.

These applications were made for you, players, and so we invite you to try them: All projects can be found at this address.

Winners:

• 1st place: Nenita. He won EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200) by creating the the fully customizable 'Banner Maker' and 'Maps' application which allows you to locate members of your guild, their mektoubs, or create static maps to plan trips. Furthermore, he had a hand in the creation of many tools that have allowed other projects to emerge. For all of his work that we have designated him the winner of this contest.
• 2nd place: Misugi. He won EUR 1 000 (USD 1 400) with zyRoom, a tool to view, filter and manage the inventories of characters and guilds.
• 3rd place: Nepherk, winning EUR 500 (USD 700) with YubOS, a virtual desktop capable of many things, try it to found out what it can do.

Congratulations to all participants and we will hope to see you again for the next contest! We can already announce that it will be a contest of Ryzom screenshots!

Here is the complete list of sumissions sorted by theme:

http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=34636

Looking for some extra cash? Need an idea for a school project? Bored sitting in the house doing nothing? Fed up of flipping burgers? Here's a great opportunity to exercise your development skills, win a first prize of EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200), have fun and develop something useful that the Ryzom community will thank you for.

We have created a new API for the Ryzom MMORPG. This web-based API provides players and developers with a wealth of information from the Ryzom world in real time, creating endless possibilities for new tools, widgets and websites!

In conjunction with the release of the Ryzom API, we are proud to announce the Ryzom Coding Contest to encourage players and developers to collaborate and create fantastic new free software applications for Ryzom players! For example, you can develop an inventory management system, or a brokerage where players can find crafters who can make the items they are looking for, or even more ideas.

More information about the contest.

Prizes:

• First prize: EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200)
• Second prize: EUR 1 000 (USD 1 400)
• Third prize: EUR 500 (USD 700)

Looking for some extra cash? Need an idea for a school project? Bored sitting in the house doing nothing? Fed up of flipping burgers? Here's a great opportunity to exercise your development skills, win a first prize of EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200), have fun and develop something useful that the Ryzom community will thank you for.

We have created a new API for the Ryzom MMORPG. This web-based API provides players and developers with a wealth of information from the Ryzom world in real time, creating endless possibilities for new tools, widgets and websites!

In conjunction with the release of the Ryzom API, we are proud to announce the Ryzom Coding Contest to encourage players and developers to collaborate and create fantastic new free software applications for Ryzom players! For example, you can develop an inventory management system, or a brokerage where players can find crafters who can make the items they are looking for, or even more ideas.

More information about the contest.

Prizes:

• First prize: EUR 3 000 (USD 4 200)
• Second prize: EUR 1 000 (USD 1 400)
• Third prize: EUR 500 (USD 700)

We have completed updating and importing the long-awaited missing tree vertex painter plugin for 3DStudio MAX. This plugin allows artists to paint vertex weights on tree models for use with the wind-tree system. Using this is a pretty simple process:

1. Model your tree as you would normally.
2. Apply the Modifier: Nel VertexTreePaint
3. Use the parameter rollout to tweak, activate and use the tool
4. When complete edit the Node Properties (Tools, NeL Export, Node Properties)
5. Change the VertexProgram to Wind Tree
6. Edit the Wind Tree parameters.
7. Click Export Model to export the tree as a shape.
8. Open the shape in Object Viewer
9. Turn on Global Wind and tweak the setting.
10. Open the Animation rollout and watch!