Iris2 updated to Ogre3D Engine 1.6

Today we updated Iris2 to the new Ogre Engine 1.6 .

What does it mean for players?

-2d mode is now Zoomable
-more stability
-smoother Edges in 3D mode (Foliage, Grass)

regards

SiENcE

razor hotkey&macro importer

(in unstable version) you can now import your razor hotkeys and macros to iris, by default it loads “C:\\Program Files\\Razor\\Profiles\\default.xml”  , if you want to load a different file or your razor is installed at a different place, press shift+f11 to bring up a file-browse dialog.

or add a line like

ImportRazorProfile(”E:\\Games\\Razor\\Profiles\\default.xml”)

to your data/mymacros.lua

so far for HotKeys only Spell,Skill,TargetSelf,TargetLast,Dismount,PrimaryWeaponAbility work, and for macros only DoubleClickByType,DoubleClickByID,Walk,TargetRelativeLocation,LastTarget,Speech , but that’ll be extended as needed =)

(post in the forum if you need something specific, and describe in detail how to set the hotkey in razor, and what it does)

iris 2d : transparent, animated water experiment

a little experiment with water in 2d, turning it transparent and animating it a bit.

looks nice at some places, but the borders are too hard and edgy on natural coastlines.

(gEnable2DWaterAnim = true   in config.lua if you want to try)

item counter, fixes for pre-aos shards, new macro commands

• item-counter for regs, potions, gold, bandas, arrows… (see screenshot)
• several fixes for pre-aos shards (esp.uogamers : walking,tooltips,labels,npc-shop)
• npc shop dialog improved (mousewheel scroll, ctrl to inc/dec in 10ths)
• text colors fixed
• new macro commands :  popup menu selection , opendoors , find nearby item , pre-aos runebook
• automatic fallback to 2d mode if no 3d models in uo dir

iris2 mac build

We managed to create a mac build of iris2. You can download it here. Feedback is welcome!

To use the package you need an installed/copied UO:ML as usuall. To run it you need to edit the config.lua inside the package (Iris.app/Contents/Ressources/data/config.lua). If you encounter problems running the binary from the command line might give usable informations to help solving the problem.

Tags: mac

iris stable updated

new stable version released (2702), installer will be updated shortly too.

• 2d mode walk anims
• file browse dialog for uo dir
• packetvideo support
• uoam and party positioning system support added ingame (display only in 2d mode currently)
• 64 bit fixes
• a few fixes for non-runuo shards (pol mainly, but might help sphere as well)
• weapon ability icons coloring fixed
• felucca foilage and model changes fixed
• mobile list at the lower right corner now lists by name and sorts by party/guild/players/pets/monsters/rest
• virtues works now
• lots of small improvements and fixes

some new models

Currently i dont have a lot of time to contribute to iris but i did 2 new models.

Tags: model

plotting runtime statistics

Running the iris client for several hours caused a incredible high load. The problem is that the memory gets filled and linux stats to use the swap space which is incredibly slow. To find the memory killer i continuously dump statistics in a log file (just values seperated by tabs) and wrote a small gnuplot script to plot nice graphs. This was the result where you can see the development of several values along the time axis (x):

If you are interested in the gnuplot file you can find it here.

The Problem in iris is the ogre memory.

Tags: gnuplot, plot, stats

uo-am connection and iris-packetvideos

it is now possible to link/connect iris to a normal uo-automap server, this way you and your friends can see each others positions.  to use this, see http://iris2.de/index.php/Uoam_support

Iris can now record packet videos, which are much smaller than screen-capture videos in file-size , and there is almost no noticable performance hit while recording , as they just capture the network stream, very similar to the package video option in razor. to use this, see http://iris2.de/index.php/Iris_packetvideos

iris 2d-mode : short video

lots of small fixes lately, here’s a short video of the current state =)

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