I'm happy to announce that the new owners of Ryzom have made significant efforts to embrace GPL. One of the big moves that they made was contacting us in the community and working with us. Additionally they have gone through efforts to set up new repositories and shared tools hosted on the Ryzom network for both internal NeL developers and community members.

To cut to the chase - this means that OpenNeL will be ceasing activity on its fork and will begin merging the fork back into the official GPL NeL hosted on the Ryzom network. While some may view this with mixed feelings I can say personally that the vast majority of the NeL/OpenNeL community is happy, excited and anxious to start it's new adventure with the new owners of Ryzom.

We've been approached with respect and interest and are no longer falsely considered a liability. I think that this positive view of our contributions will go a long way to foster a strong, fruitful relationship and we certainly hope it will go a long ways to bettering NeL and ultimately Ryzom.

Please see the official announcements and new site for more information.

And please, from here forward, update the new site as in a matter of months this site will no longer be accessible.

The popular NeL-based Mtp Target game has been open-sourced under the GPL license. This fantastic game was written by acemtp from OpenNeL community and is inspired by the popular console game Super Monkey Ball. Please check out this wonderful game and don't be afraid to contribute to his cause.

The OpenNeL community is happy to announce that we now have a fully functioning live Snowballs shard.This is shard is a built out of Subversion after the 0.5.0 build. If you would like to play (and we encourage that you do play,) please build a Snowballs client from Subversion and add the following into your client.cfg:

Login                = "login_name";
Password             = "your_password";
LSHost               = "snb-ls.opennel.org:49994";
Local                = 0;
UseDirectClient      = 1;
ClientApplication    = "snowballs";
ShardId = 300;

Some of these configuration variables are already in the config file and you will have to replace them, some will be new. Replace login_name and your_password with your own unique password. If the account does not exist, it will automatically be created for you. We hope that soon we will be able to put this all into nice, fancy menus in the game itself but for the time being, this is how. If you experience any problems, please post in the forum, post a bug or contact us in the IRC channel.

Note: A MySQL reconnection issue has been fixed that was causing the Login Service to fail after the MySQL connection timed out.
Note: Also fixed a bug with the frontend service that was crashing all clients on a server when another client would disconnect before identifying.

The mail server on opennel.org was not able to send mail out for awhile and this has been resolved. Your JIRA watchers should resume emailing you. Sorry for the inconvenience.

NeL has had CEGUI support through a contributed library for awhile now but now that library is part of the main NeL build tree. Providing integration to CEGUI allows NeL developers to quickly get started on their game without the distraction of having to design a GUI toolkit. CEGUI NeLRenderer is in src/cegui and include/nel/cegui and has a fully functioning sample in samples/3d/cegui. This is written for CEGUI 0.5 but can be very easily regressed to work with CEGUI 0.4.1 if necessary. Special thanks to the CEGUI team for providing a fantastic GUI toolkit and for providing a nice, clean interface to implement various renderers.

This is only the baseline for the renderer. We will be cleaning up and converting it into a pure NeL library so that using it and loading it is much cleaner and seamless to NeL users. If you are working with this and are experiencing problems feel free to open an issue up on JIRA, contact us on IRC or use the forums. If you are having problems with CEGUI, the CEGUI datafiles or have general questions about CEGUI please visit their website for more information. The CEGUI developers can also be found on irc.freenode.net in #cegui.