Dear fellow players!

Allow me to announce that PlaneShift client UI translation files are available to translation online on Transifex.com platform!

Transifex.com platform provides translators with many nice features, such as glossary, translation history, automatic translation from translation memory and more. You really do not need to know anything about underlying technology - just ability to translate from english to your native language. If you will try it, you will love it!

If you want to contribute your translation for one of the existing languages (or request new one), you will need to:

1. Get free Transifex.com account.
2. Send me (roman.yagodin) a message with language(s) you want to translate to. I could also invite you by your email address.

Then I will assign you to the right roles and you'd be able to start translating.

I would also gladly add someone from dev. team to the project administators role with full management rights, just ask.

Now some additional details for developers.

The project on Transifex.com is backed up by PlaneShift.Translation project on GitLab.com. The project currently contains shell scripts which can be used to convert translations from 'stringtable.xml' format to 'strings.xml' format and back, and also original and converted translation files to follow changes.

Translations in 'strings.xml' format are effectively Android String Resource files. Yes, I know this is sounds strange, but nethertheless they can be directly uploaded to Transifex.com as resource files. So I've converted all translations available in the PlaneShift source code tree 'lang' folder to 'strings.xml' format and uploaded them to the Transifex.com project.

You can get updated files (with new translated strings) from Transifex.com in 'strings.xml' format, and then apply conversion script to get translations in 'stringtable.xml' format, which can be used by the PlaneShift client.

The project currently lacks of scripts to easily invoke Transifex.com client utility to manage resources from command line. I hope I could solve it in nearest future.

Note that I'm doing this primary to support and organize my work on the russian translation, but think that the instrumentation created in the process could also be useful to translate PlaneShift client to any language.

I would love to hear any questions, suggestions and critics.

From game chat:

> /tell Laanx Hi, Laanx!
> Laanx is not found online.

Current /pray command is a shortcut for /emote pray, but it could be interesting to have separate command to pray gods (or specific god) for miracles or even ask them about something.

"Miracles" should be protective / healing spells, casted on character or group, or offensive spells, casted on enemies.
Spell set could vary by god. Rate of success of appeal & spell power could be determined by character race, faction points, number of previous appeals (in the game day), sacrifices and also (maybe) current location, weather and time of the day.

If god name not specified, any god in the mood could answer to the prayer.
Also, appeling to the more ancient gods (Laanx, Talad) should have lesser rate of success, but greater miracles or revelations.

Any character (even have no magical abilities and choose to be atheist) could use this command.

Gods could be implemented as (invisible) NPCs.

Example command formats:

Pray: /pray [godname]
Ask: /tell [godname] [question]
Sacrifice: /give [godname] [itemname]

Exploring PlaneShift project pages on the SourceForge, I've personally missed some basic things (after some experience with GitHub), like ability to fill an issue and propose a code change for it - and start thinking...
 
I understand PS have it's own long history, development infrastructure, and there is much more than just client / server code that makes The Game, but... Is there any plans to make the contributing process more simple and development process more open -  make things more "agile"?

To be more specific, I name some things (most are CI-flawored):

1. Switch to SVN to git.
2. Separate repositories for client / server applications, libraries (like Cal3D), game content (restricted?), website, related projects (dev tools, default skins, etc.) - the smaller, the better.
3. Issue tracker, integrated with code repositories.
4. Unit tests, at least for some code parts.
5. Automatic build system for main development platforms (simplifies testing).

It's just outsider's look and I've probably missed The Main Thing, but I'm almost sure what any item from this list, if adopted or implemented, could greatly influence project future.

Recently I've worked on compiling PlaneShift client on Debian (Linux Mint Debian Edition 201403, to be more specific). With some help from the devs and forum members, it was successful - so I've decided to summarize this work in a build scripts pack, which may help others to build PlaneShift client from source.

You can get it from here: https://github.com/roman-yagodin/PlaneShift.BuildScripts/releases. See README.md for use instructions.

I hope with very small adjustments these scripts should work on other Linux distributions. Most distro-specific things is located in ps-prereq-lmde.sh - so make a copy, name it e.g. ps-prereq-fedora.sh and modify. And send me, if you are succeeded

Testing feedback, critics and (of course) commits are greatly welcome!

I'm trying to make analog time indicator in the Info window using pawsScrollBar by subscribing it to "TimeOfDay" value. Thing is, that then UI is loaded, scrollbar thumb is always set to min value before time of day (hour) will change - in most bad case it's about one game hour.

infowindow.xml:
<widget name="TimeScroll" factory="pawsScrollBar" direction="horizontal" tooltip="Time" minValue="1" maxValue="24" tick="1" style="Standard Scrollbar Horizontal" ignore="true">
<up gray="Clear" pressed="Clear" unpressed="Clear" />
        <down gray="Clear" pressed="Clear" unpressed="Clear" />
<thumb stopped="MiniUp" moving="MiniUp" />
        <frame x="0" y="57" width="180" height="16" border="no" />
            <attachpoints>
                <attach point="PROPORTIONAL_RIGHT" />
                <attach point="PROPORTIONAL_BOTTOM" />
                <attach point="ATTACH_TOP" />
                <attach point="ATTACH_LEFT" />
            </attachpoints>
    <subscriptions>
        <subscribe data="TimeOfDay" />
    </subscriptions>
</widget>

imagelist.xml:
<image file="/paws/real_skin/components01.png" resource="Clear">
    <texturerect x="511" y="255" width="1" height="1" />
</image>

Does the scrollbar is reacting only to change of TimeOfDay value?.. But then I subscribe it to HP with "fVitalValue0:Self", thumb position updated properly...

So anyone know something about it?

"Enchanted Elves" skin is updated to use with PS client 0.6.1 0.6.3.
You can always download new release here: https://github.com/roman-yagodin/PlaneShift.EnchantedElves/releases.

Here are some "Enchanted Elves" screenshots to compare with original "Elves".

HUD (compare with the original version):



Inventory & Study (compare with the original version):



Books (compare with the original version):

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See changelog for more details.

If you experience some problems with "Enchanted Elves" or have some ideas about how to make it better, don't hesitate to fill an issue (you need GitHub account to do this).