Open Virtual World

Last month was the month of the item server. This month I am working on the support infrastructure. The client is supposed to paint avatar...

Chrome support arrived. We now have extensions for all 3 major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer. See the image where I am on t...

Just a short notice what's currently happening: I am working on some issues with the IE support. Stability is very good, but avatars wer...

Our extensive unit test suite discovered, that if two WebKit instances are loaded simultaneously, which use the same JS file from the local ...

Three of the remaining six tasks are done: IE Support: I implemented an IE browser helper which connects to the client and tells about openi...

In the last blog post I mentioned a list of remaining tasks: Translations Release packaging Installer testing Auto start Tray icon Settings ...

This is the brand new chat window. It is a normal chat window as you would expect. But there are few facts worth mentioning: 1. It is a modu...

I am working on support for multiple browser tabs. Good old weblin had only one room per browser window. If you changed the tab, then you c...

Do you see the difference? On the left is the new OVW client. On the right is a Weblin display. The OVW client still lacks the points below ...

Based on Brent's WebKit transparency feature I created 2 modules: a WebView module, which manages transparent browsers of any kind a Dia...

We have the construction! Brent 's changes to the WebKit code have been added to the trunk ( http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/84990 ). W...

I started programming the avatar display. The image shows my test avatar on a test scene. The test scene uses the scene graph module. The a...

I have been working on a 2D Scene Graph module. The scene graph will be used to show all graphics of avatar and virtual items on top of the ...

This was a long time. I had very much to do in my job and 3 weeks vacation. I also was kind of stuck with a problem while decoding animated ...

We are still building the avatar display. The most important part of the avatar display are the avatars. There are also chat balloons, nickn...

I am testing the cairo drawing library. I modified the transparency test program from my last blog post so, that it paints an avatar image ...

The client has currently much backend code. It has all the protocol handling, user data, and chat functions we need. But there are no avatar...

I implemented a simple "competition" feature. Competition means, that some items can damage other items. This is another check of ...

I implemented a crafting process in the item server and the portal. I am using two examples to check if the details make sense: coffee machi...

Neptun is growing. After the basic functions are complete, we started implementing an experimental version of virtual item interactions. Int...