Gnostaria

Client:

• Various performance enhancements
• Chat window should correctly restore its user-modified position and size when restarting the game
• Created functionality to allow for client-side animation sequence loading (improves load time and reduces bandwidth useage)
• Created engine modifications to support 1024 animation sequences (easily configurable to virtually unlimited) -- an increase from about 50
• Implemented more efficient style update code to ensure that all players are visible
• Materials now make proper use of specular maps (metal parts will look shiny, but cloth and leather will look more matte)
• Clicking "register new account" in the login screen will now produce a prompt indicating that registering a new account must be done on the website and warning that the game will be minimized and the web browser launched if the user clicks "Yes"
• Enhanced misc GUI graphics
• Loading progress percent complete now displayed in whole numbers only
• Restructuring of both character models
• Female eyes should look better
• Fading transitions between certain screens
• Fixed a bug where hitting tab to toggle between first and third person for the first time wouldn't work, requiring tab to be hit twice

Server:

• Added support for several new emotes. Emotes are activated by typing a / command in the chat box. Supported emotes are: /applaud, /bow, /cheer, /nod, /salute, /shake, /wave (some alternate emotes also exist, for example, /clap, /celebrate, /yes, /no)
• Added special messaging for talk / shout / whispers that you are not in range to hear completely, but are still relatively close to

Alpha Test:

• Authentication, SimEngine and Game server now all being run on dedicated quadcore server in data center
• Everyone runs around in fancy clothes instead of armor now

Known Issues:

• Emote messaging is currently broken (do to recent enhancements to the chat command handling)
• Emotes only work for the male character
• In some cases the player may be jittery after immediately logging into the game. Switching between run / walk mode should fix this until the code is fixed.