I recently tried to create a character using the paths rather than custom creation. Unfortunately, it doesn\'t seem to work. First of all the percentages next to base stats like strength are all 0%. Second of all, though the skills are shown in the bottom right panel, when the character is uploaded and I log in, those skills are not there. They are all set to 0 besides base stats which are set to the race defaults. Is this a known bug?

I think there should be a separate window for talking with NPC\'s. This would, for one thing, make it less confusing as the dialog system in planeshift is unique and many people won\'t figure it out right away. While we\'re at it we could also consolidate the training UI, the buy/sell UI and the conversation UI into one window, making everything really easy and nice. It could be a tabbed window with the dialog window being the first tab, the buy/sell being the second tab, and the training window the third tab. The second two tabs would of course, only be there if the NPC is a merchant and/or a trainer.

This wishlist item is also posted on the bugtracker here:
http://planeshift.oodlz.com/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=847&pos=1

Rather than having to click the eye icon to get info about an object, there should be a WoW style popup with compact information about the item, object, character that appears below and to the side of the mouse, which it will follow while the mouse is over the item. This popup would of course be contextual and work with items in your inventory, in the buy/sell/trade windows, for tria on the ground (just shows how much is in the pile), skills in the skill/training window (shows a short description of what the skill does), NPC\'s, monsters, and players (shows short description plus HP plus two lines, \"This person is a merchant.\" and \"This person is a trainer.\" on separate lines at the bottom of the info popup), and various items in the character creation screens, spells, runes, unlabeled buttons in the UI (short explanation perhaps). The popup would appear immediately on mouseover for items in inventory or in buy/sell/trade lists and also for skills in the skill window (short description should pop up), and delayed (with user adjustable delay time) for objects, players, and NPC\'s in world.

I posted this wishlist item on the bugtracker as well and you can view that here:
http://planeshift.oodlz.com/bugtracker/bug.php?op=show&bugid=846&pos=1

I was able to build cal3d and CS using the new fink binaries for libjpeg, libpng, libogg, libvorbis, libmng, and libmikmod (not sure if the last two are strictly needed for PS), but cel plugins refused to build. Anybody else get further than I did with xcode 2.1 tools and mac os 10.4?

Oh, and both were massively puking warnings about classes with virtual functions but non virtual destructors.

I heard a bunch of noise on the CS mailing list about gcc 4.x and Tiger compatibility and then nothing. CS builds ok (sans warning overload) so maybe cel needs to be fixed too?

Trying again with gcc_select 3.3 now hopefully that will work.

-Jerm

Requirements:
1) XCode 1.5  and gcc update (available at developer.apple.com)
2) Fink installed (fink.sf.net, follow all the install instructions for self update etc..)
3) of course, latest CVS of CrystalSpace, cal3d, cel, and planeshift
4) Jam. You can get it here: http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/jam-2.5.tar     Build and install it wherever you like.
5) MySQL (you can download it at http://www.mysql.com/)
6) The following fink packages:
autoconf2.5
autogen
autogen-shlibs
autogen-dev
automake1.8
freetype2
freetype2-dev
freetype2-shlibs
libiconv
libiconv-dev
libiconv-shlibs
libjpeg-bin
libjpeg-shlibs
libjpeg-dev
libogg
libogg-shlibs
libpng3
libpng3-shlibs
libtool14
libtool14-shlibs
libvorbis0
libvorbis0-shlibs
m4

OK, you\'re ready. Make sure your fink paths  are setup correctly (read the website for info on how to do that. Should do it automatically when you install fink).

Steps:
1) Build and install cal3d
you needed updated autotools in order to get cal3d\'s autogen.sh to run. You may, in addition, need to remove the section in autogen.sh relating to checking for libtool. It should be close to the top. It didn\'t seem to detect my libtoolize version correctly, but it worked.

./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-debug
make
sudo make install

2) Build CrystalSpace

Ok, first run:
export CRYSTAL=${PWD}
./configure --enable-debug --enable-new-renderer --without-python

and check to see if all the required libs are detected. Also in certain cases where it checks if a library is sufficiently recent, check if it says \"yes\". The libs you want to be concerned with are libjpeg, libpng, freetype2, cal3d, libogg, and libvorbis.
You might have a problem with freetype2, because there is an older version of freetype2 installed in /usr/X11R6 that gets detected before the fink one. I\'m sure there is a better way, but I just renamed /usr/X11R6 temporarily.

build CS like so:
jam libs; jam plugins; jam cs-config
You might also want to jam walktest and run it to see if everything is working ok.

3) Build CEL
pretty straightforward:
cd ../cel
export CEL=${PWD}
export CSCONFPATH=${PWD}
./configure --enable-debug --enable-new-renderer --without-python
jam

Should build without incident.

4) Build Planeshift
cd ../planeshift
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-debug --enable-new-renderer

Now, open Jamconfig and look for the line that says CURL.LFLAGS. If this line has -arch i686 or whatever, take that out of the line and save Jamconfig. Then:

jam

Now, as of this writing, there are a couple of errors that you\'ll see in updater. Take a look at the files that are not compiling, go to the lines the errors are on and you should see #elif CS_PLATFORM_MACOSX, change all these to #elif defined(CS_PLATFORM_MACOSX). I submitted a patch to the list but it hasn\'t been committed yet. run jam again and you should have a working client, server, and updater.

5) Download the art files
if you managed to build the updater, you should be able to run it by typing:
./updater.app/Contents/MacOS/updater

It should run and a window will pop up. Click \"update\", or if the button isn\'t exactly visible, it\'s the second button at the bottom. This will download all the art files, etc.. It will also download over your client  and updater with older versions. Once it\'s done, you\'ll need to delete the psclient.app and updater.app that it downloaded and rebuild those.

6) Run the client
Once you\'ve done that, you can run the client by typing:
./psclient.app/Contents/MacOS/psclient

First my system:
Mac OS 10.3.6
XCode 1.5 with gcc update

The problem I\'m having is with cal3d and CS. The CVS version of cal3d does not come with a configure, you have to generate it with ./autogen.sh, except that autogen.sh complains that the autogen and other tools are out of date, so there is currently no way to build cal3d with just Apple\'s tools. I tried, instead, to have someone generate the configure on linux, and then run it on mac. That seemed to work. The library compiled, and installed. I configured with ./configure --enable-debug --prefix=/usr/local and it compiled and installed cleanly.

However, when trying to ./configure CS, it would not say that cal3d was present, even if I sent it --with-libcal3d=/usr/local and added /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

So I\'m currently at a loss. There has to be something wrong in this process that I\'m not getting. It seems very strange to me that CS\'s configure would not see the libraries there, even when directed specifically to them. Obviously someone has it working, since the OSX beta is out, so how did you do it?

Thanks,
Jeremy

I\'ve heard that the latest CVS version includes fixes to enable it to work, though slowly, on MacOSX. I, however, haven\'t even been able to get it to compile.

I can get both CrystalSpace and CEL to compile without errors with both gcc 3.1 and gcc 3.3. PlaneShift, however, gives me errors with both gcc 3.1 and gcc 3.3 (all three libraries were built using the same compiler version in each case).

I would just like to know if there are any special build steps that need to take place to get it to compile.

I\'m going to attempt again, on a fresh CVS, and post a script log of the entire process for both 3.1 and 3.3 (since the errors I get are different).

Race: cave pixie
 Pixies look very much like tiny elves with wings. They are descendants of an ancient elvish line which chose to evolve through magical, rather than biological means. Most surface pixies sustain themselves through symbiotic relationships with plant and animal life, drawing on their life energy in exchange for  health and protection. Some come to resemble the animals and plants they draw from. They can move fast, and are extremely intelligent, but their bodies are frail, and they often act without reflecting on the consequences. They lack wisdom to drive their actions. Being partly magical themselves, they can wield magic almost without effort or thought.
  Cave pixies are descendants of their surface cousins. This breed has learned to draw energy from the heat of lava flows rather than other life forms, and their bodies have solidified in order to handle the intense pressures of the underground. They look almost insect-like in appearance, with greyish, sooty skin, large reflective blue or green eyes, and claw-like fingers and toes. They store energy in a web of veins which crisscross over the surface of their bodies, often glowing softly. They have retained the ability to hover, but only for very short distances. Their wings consist of four long, skinny appendages with a transparent red (or sometimes green) membrane stretched between them. When not in use, the wings wrap around the body and the membrane is partially absorbed into the skin. Despite their demonic appearance, Cave Pixies are often very sociable and charismatic in person.