http://www.g-system.at All News concerning the G System en-us http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=53&forum=4&thread=85 Today, the G System 0.6.0 has been released together with the X3DToolKit 1.1. Read the full announcement... raphael Release 2006-11-14T22:04:30+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=52&forum=4&thread=84 The G System 0.6.0 BETA is now available for testing. We welcome people to help weeding out any last-minute issues, to make sure the final release does not contain nasty bugs. Please use the guniverseclient to connect to the universe.gugerling.at Server. raphael Release 2006-11-04T08:18:22+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=51&forum=4&thread=83 Now that the G System becomes more and more stable, the G Universe project begins to enroll on the foundations of the G System. Raphael has recently prepared a vision paper that outlines many ideas and goals - the G Vision. It can be found at http://raphael.g-system.at/g/vision.html raphael General 2006-11-01T11:12:22+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=50&forum=4&thread=82 Soon the 0.6.0 version of the G System will be released after a year of development since version 0.5. A number of significant improvements were made like porting from Qt3 to Qt4, adding support for 3D models (X3D) and many architectural improvements like the Action and Information interfaces als well as many small things all over the place... raphael Development 2006-09-30T10:00:16+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=49&forum=4&thread=81 The G System will be presented at the Linuxwochen, Austria. Dates are 2nd June, in Vienna, and 16th June, in Linz. Please look at http://www.linuxwochen.at for more information and exact schedules. raphael General 2006-05-27T16:45:32+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=48&forum=4&thread=80 Raphael just posted a lengthy article on various possible uses of the G System and the G Universe, answering the often repeated question - what can you use the G System for? Find the article on http://raphael.g-system.at/blog/index.php?/archives/51-Uses-and-Abuses.html raphael General 2006-05-12T14:06:39+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=47&forum=4&thread=79 Recently we set up FishEye, a web-frontend to subversion repositories. It features all kinds of interesting things to keep track of development. You can check it out at http://www.g-system.at:81/viewrep/GSystem raphael Development 2006-04-21T08:20:31+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=46&forum=4&thread=78 The last two months have seen many highlights within the G System project - porting to Qt4, support for real 3D models using the XML based X3D standard, new developers and quite some development speedup. Read on for a detailed report... raphael Development 2006-03-27T13:04:34+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=45&forum=4&thread=77 During my (Raphael) vacation at Esalen ( http://www.esalen.org ) I met Todd Burnham who shared lots of great ideas regarding a virtual 3D space for an online community that can be used by Esalen itself. We found out that the G System can serve as a good base for such an application. I'll now outline some of the major ideas that we came up with during our talks. All this will add an additional facet to the G Universe... raphael General 2005-09-19T10:58:44+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=44&forum=4&thread=76 The FreeBSD port has now been updated to 0.5.1 raphael Release 2005-06-18T12:49:16+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=43&forum=4&thread=75 The second release of the G System 0.5 series is now available. Besides fixing some bugs in the network layer and the demo many functional improvements have been made, including a complete database storage layer. raphael Release 2005-06-11T19:21:49+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=42&forum=4&thread=74 The G System 0.5.1 release is just about to be released with a fully implemented database backend and improved network code. Please help testing to ensure a high quality release! raphael General 2005-06-09T20:05:12+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=41&forum=4&thread=73 An element knows its parent as well as its children. This redundancy makes it more difficult to keep the complete element hierarchy in sync and there are easy ways to improve consistency... raphael Development 2005-06-08T22:04:25+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=40&forum=4&thread=72 The G System 0.5.x series concentrates on building a functional world engine, suitable for distributed operation. In the 0.5.0 release a network layer was already included, the soon to be released 0.5.1 release has a completely rewritten storage infrastructure and improved ... raphael Development 2005-06-05T08:51:27+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=39&forum=4&thread=71 The demo included in the 0.5.0 release does not fully work (no visible content). A patch is now available that fully restores the demo's functionality. raphael Release 2005-05-21T13:21:06+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=38&forum=4&thread=70 Want to know how you can join the virtual universe? This post gives a quick overview of the steps involved to enter the G Universe. raphael General 2005-05-17T10:34:08+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=37&forum=4&thread=69 Finally, the 0.5 release of the G System is released to public. This release marks an important milestone in the history of this project: multi-user capability. It's the first release where many users can join in the same virtual universe. raphael Release 2005-05-16T21:14:15+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=36&forum=4&thread=68 This second BETA release, one week after the first, includes some bug fixes and numerous improvements over the first BETA release, including: * G Universe Client initialisation fixed * Full XMPP/Jabber Instant Messaging support (read the full news) * Protocol improvements, corrections and many optimizations * Smoother camera movement Read the full story! raphael Release 2005-05-05T17:42:35+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=35&forum=4&thread=67 During one of the latest changes just before the beta release a bug was introduced that effectively prevented the guniverseclient to fully initialize (no rendering, no user element created). A patch is now available... raphael Release 2005-04-28T17:12:00+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=34&forum=4&thread=66 Many months after the 0.4 release of the G System, the 0.5 release series is finally dawning. As already hinted by the 0.4 release, this new release is the first with real network support, among many other improvements. Building on the XMPP standard, the G System is an open network with XML based communication. Read the full story! raphael Release 2005-04-27T14:00:26+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=33&forum=4&thread=65 Today a first multi-user universe was set up with one server and two clients. Communication between all participants in the network was working properly and thus both clients could see each other. raphael Development 2005-04-25T16:21:08+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=32&forum=4&thread=64 The last 4 weeks have brought many cleanups, the beginning of a working network connectivity, a brand new configuration application - GOD, improved design in storing additional element data, converting existing agents to use this element data storage ... and RSS feeds on the webpage and more... even an approaching 0.5 release. Read on for a development report over the last four weeks. raphael Development 2005-04-15T01:48:47+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=31&forum=4&thread=63 Now we offer the announcements via RSS feeds. These XML-based files, updated in real-time, help you stay up-to-date with most recent news from the G System Team. phoenix General 2005-04-05T23:21:56+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=26&forum=4&thread=58 Finally, a FreeBSD port is available to make installing G System on FreeBSD systems as easy as could be. raphael Release 2004-12-24T13:15:25+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=25&forum=4&thread=56 Finally, work has started on improving the world engine to make it network and database capable. For one thing this means massive changes in the sourcecode (using SVN HEAD is not recommended) but this also means a giant step towards a distributed server environment. raphael Development 2004-11-22T23:35:04+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=24&forum=4&thread=55 Our work towards a distributed application brings many technologies into the scope of the G System, including a standard for representing element data: XML Schemas raphael Development 2004-10-27T10:34:04+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=23&forum=4&thread=54 A new release of the G System has just arrived. The documentation was heavily extended and revised! The demo has some surprise ready for you as well. raphael Release 2004-10-21T22:49:02+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=22&forum=4&thread=52 Soon, the G System will be ready. Ready to handle a virtual reality with a few users at the same time - a online virtual world. The 0.5 release series is targeting at this feature! raphael General 2004-10-11T20:59:54+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=21&forum=4&thread=48 Finally, the 0.4 release series of the G System has started. Many improvements to the system were made, among the most incredible feature improvements is the world generation framework. raphael Release 2004-09-23T21:43:03+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=20&forum=4&thread=47 The upcoming 0.4 release concentrates on providing one cornerstone of the G System - dynamic universe generation. This allows for HUGE worlds to be generated :eek1 raphael Development 2004-09-14T13:27:56+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=19&forum=4&thread=46 New Mailingslists are available now Parmenides General 2004-09-01T08:50:42+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=18&forum=4&thread=45 The first maintenance release of the G System 0.3 release is available. This release mainly focuses on improved documentation. Read on to see what has been improved... raphael Release 2004-08-24T18:54:00+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=17&forum=4&thread=43 Currently it is not easy to extend data held in an element that is accessible by all agents. Providing a global element-wide data storage can improve this situation... raphael Development 2004-08-17T20:27:44+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=16&forum=4&thread=42 After only 20 days of work, the next release of the G System is ready! The focus for this release was to create a solid base from which the project can grow into an ... evolving universe. raphael Release 2004-08-16T21:15:29+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=14&forum=4&thread=31 Two years ago Martin got the idea to develop our own MMORPG platform. Now the homepage is online and the basic idea of the platform takes shape. ... phoenix General 2004-08-11T01:24:38+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=15&forum=4&thread=33 At first many thanks to the overwhelming responses we got so far! ... Parmenides General 2004-08-11T11:07:32+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=12&forum=4&thread=26 Ever dreamed of a nice piece of software that actually tries to simulate the evolution of an universe? Ever thought it would be possible? Now after a long time of planning and writing of some source code a small group of developers goes public with their innovative project: the G System. ... raphael Release 2004-08-10T20:17:28+01:00 http://www.g-system.at/news_detail.php?newsid=13&forum=4&thread=27 The 0.3 version of the G System will be released on 16th August. It will include a much improved demo application as well as a nice investigation interface for interested people to play around with as well as many general improvements. ... raphael Release 2004-08-10T20:21:34+01:00