Modifying Our Client

Now as the deadline for the MV submission to GDC is coming up, so I'm ramping up as much as possible. Today I put up a preliminary patch and loading screen. I will detail the steps I went through to do this, so they can be updated by our art team.

I created a patcher screen 640x480 @ 72 DPI in jpg format. Then created a 1024x1024 load screen in dds format. I copied these files to their proper places (/patcher_images/tempImg.jpg) and (/Textures/loadimage.dds).

I then built the manifest file:
valerie@starscream:/usr/multiverse/bin$ sudo ./build_manifest.py /home/valerie/fi_alpha_assets

Then I removed the old asset repo:
valerie@starscream:/var/www$ sudo rm -rf fi_alpha_assets

Then copied the new asset repo to the webserver:
valerie@starscream:/var/www$ sudo cp -r /home/valerie/fi_alpha_assets .

Then I backed up the asset repo:
valerie@starscream:/var/www$ sudo tar cvf fi_alpha_assets.tar fi_alpha_assets

Then when you start up the mv client on your local machine, you will see the new files.

I also updated the world_patcher.html:
body { background-image: url(http://76.16.47.80/fi_alpha_assets/patcher_images/tempImg.jpg); font-family: arial,sans-serif }
td,div,p,a,font,span {font-family: arial,sans-serif }

.tl {padding: 0; width: 4; text-align: left; vertical-align: top}
.tr {padding: 0; width: 4; text-align: right; vertical-align: top}
.bl {padding: 0; width: 4; text-align: left; vertical-align: bottom}
.br {padding: 0; width: 4; text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom}

.caption {color:#000000; white-space:nowrap; text-align:center}

.form-noindent { border: #C3D9FF 1px solid}

.mv.label { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; }
.mv.value { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; }
.mv.button { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; }
.mv.remember { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; }

.errormsg { color: red; font-size: smaller; font-family:arial,sans-serif; }
.statusmsg { color: white; font-size: smaller; font-family:arial,sans-serif; }

.h3-header-text-color { color: green; }

Future Items for Research:
phpBBCode
Creating a Launch Pad
Load Screen Name
Splash Screen
Theme Music
Photoshop Plugins from Nvidia

With the move and everything going on in the last 2 months, things have been hectic, but it has not stopped progress!

Last weekend I configured apache and set up the multiverse asset repository to allow external access to our new alpha world. Foxman created the alpha world, and we have it up and running on the server. I had a few routers die in the last two weeks, so that caused some mayhem as well.

Now our job is to make the alpha world look like the playable demo we want for January!

Crazy

Things have been crazy here, so I'm just getting back into things.

Today I set up apache on our server so that we have our assets and world going. As usual I need to change a local variable with t he following command:

export DEFAULT_MV_PROPERTYFILE="fiMultiverse.properties"