Iris2 - "Ultima Online" 3D-Client for Freeshards

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:19 pm

Iris2 is a highly customizable cross-platform open-source 3D client for playing the MMORPG "Ultima Online" (tm) on Freeshards.

More Screenshots ..

Specs:
* opensource (GPL)
* Ogre3D MinGW SDK, FModX, LUA 5.0, ZLib
* tilebased for huge 3d-world loaded dynamically
* ogre lua binding : complete game logic scripted in lua
* highly detailed world with many small dynamic objects (lego-like)
* ogre-loader for granny v1 (RAD) (character models + skeletal animation)
* seamless indoor-outdoor transitions with blending out upper floors
* terrain-shader for multi-tile-spanning high-res textures
* 2d sprite manager with animation
* 3D-Renderer and optional 2D-Renderer (ingame-switching)
* developed in about 7 months (complete rewrite of an existing os-project)

Trailer
You can download the Trailer (codec: XViD) here:
http://www.iris2.de/releases/iris2_trailer.avi

On YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-T9XwmkVn4

Homepage:
http://www.iris2.de/

There you can find Todo-List, Roadmap, Screenshots and much more Infos.

b.regards

Iris Team (Ghoulsblade, SiENcE, hagish, Varan)

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Trosan · Post by **Trosan** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:54 pm

Ultima Iris is - and remains - one of my favorite Ogre-supported projects! I've followed this project from the beginning (even of Iris1) and it's truly amazing to see what you have achieved since then!

Please, keep up your great work! The idea of your project is still exactly fine and I am sure there will be lots of people who'll welcome your engine very much. Ultima Online has strengths in some parts which no other current online game has to offer. There are, however, people who do not dare to play a 2D game again. These will be satisfied by Iris2!

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:12 pm

Woo-hoo, ShowCase!
And ShowCase it is!

Accolade to you! UO is my all time favorite, and it looks absolutely great in 3D.

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:14 pm

I am really digging your automap/compas widget!

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:28 am

@Torsan: Thanks. It's good to hear, that there are also people out there who like to see UO in 3D.
@jacmoe: thanks.

Thanks a lot for this great comments. If someone want to help (submit patches, do graphics or something else) you are welcome.

Currently we plan our own testshard: Iris - Online. PvP, Siege Combat, Castle/City Building and commanding Armys.

Expect something new.

Twinsen · Post by **Twinsen** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:04 am

I'm utterly shocked in awe @ how awesome this project is, this is truly a great feat in how large a scope this is...

UO is one of my fav games ever...and I never knew there was a Iris1, :O

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:23 pm

Update (i know this should be in the recruitment thread, but i think here it's more usefull):

We are starting our own Game using Iris2 Engine.

more Infos: http://iris2.de/index.php/Iris_Online

Short discription
I thought of an Siege Combat System. Something like Civilization. The Land is devided into several Territories. Players can join a Faction/Territory or create a new one.
Every Player gets some Ressources. With this ressources he can build houses. The Player can recruit a small Army under his control. He is able to build cannons and battering rams. After he gather more ressources (doing combat, producing (graden system), trading aso.) the player is able to build Towers or Castles or whole Towns (only a Guilds can build this).

Why:
* try something different than all other MMO's
* testing purposes for Iris2 Engine
* test out enhancements and new features
* to build a community that is closer to Iris2

Keyfacts:
* Standalone game on the base of the uo opensource software (sunuo,xmlspawner,spawneditor aso.)
* No need of an original uo installation
* Own guiart, 2d Art, models, textures, Groundtextures, hues, radarcolors, tiledata, cliloc, speech
* Small map at first (island)
* keyfeatures like castle building, destroying and cannons should work for the first publish.
* Equipment and Items are not important for the first time.
* What counts, is fun building Castles/Towers and and doing Siege Combat.
* The whole system should be developed over time.

open positions:
* 1-2 Mapmaker/Static Builder(s)
* 1 Scripter for SunUO/RunUO (C#)
* 1 Administrator
* many 3D Character/Monster/Equipment Artist(s)

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:35 am

Few words - extrelmy good, outstanding idea

I love UO (greatest bug of that game is amount of time it needs) In pictures Iris looks really nice... I must check it

===EDIT===
It crashes every few seconds (ScriptError something

)... probably thanks to custom scripts on the server

But looks very nice

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:48 am

Please don't use unstable, its our developer version and always broken

!

Use the Stable version of Iris2.

If you have a bug please report it here: http://nwn2.obsidian.net/expotron_plug.html

regards

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:12 pm

SiENcE wrote:Please don't use unstable, its our developer version and always broken !

Use the Stable version of Iris2.

If you have a bug please report it here: http://nwn2.obsidian.net/expotron_plug.html

regards

I use stable verions... anyway I try to use

Unstable doesn't even run xD
My sys spec:
Celeron D 3,2GHz (I must change it for Core Duo or something

)
1GB RAM DDR2
Palit Radeon 1950GT 512MB [Omega Drivers 3.8.360]
WinXP SP2
2048MB SwapFile
DirectX 9.0c
Any ideas? Maybe my PC doesn't like Iris2?

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:02 pm

Please contact me in our forum... i think nobody is interested in bugreports here

.

http://www.iris2.de/forums/

Please post your stacktrace.log and/or the ogre.log from your iris2\bin\ directory.

regards

ghoulsblade · Post by **ghoulsblade** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:50 pm

small update : quite a few things have happened in the meantime, stability has improved at least a bit in the stable release, but we're still busy tweaking overall performance. In the meantime a screenshot from shadow experiments, in our unstable branch :

http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 01_937.png
edit : fixed image url and added permalink in case path changes again

Trosan · Post by **Trosan** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:06 pm

WOOOOOW! THAT's cool! The new terrain looks waaaay better and the shadows.... NICE!

Post by **sinbad** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:41 pm

Indeed, the shadows make a huge difference, nice work. More shots like that and we'll find a slot in the Featured Projects area for you

ghoulsblade · Post by **ghoulsblade** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:05 pm

about the new terrain : it spans textures across multiple tiles to make it look less repetitive, uses a texture-atlas, and uses 4 pass multitexturing (2 mask-atlases, 2 ground texture-atlases) for transitions. so it doesn't need shaders to work.

glad you like it =) sience said he's gonna try and make a few more nice screenshots.

Technogenius · Post by **Technogenius** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:41 pm

great work!

ghoulsblade · Post by **ghoulsblade** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:48 am

a few more screenshots =) (sorry for the delay, we were kinda busy)

permalinks:
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 53_194.jpg
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 44_509.jpg
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 43_582.jpg
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 57_799.jpg

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:17 pm

Some more screenshots:

permalinks:
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 51_672.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 20_172.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 25_984.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 44_672.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 49_469.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 32_516.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 58_078.png
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Image:200 ... 58_234.png

Trosan · Post by **Trosan** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:58 pm

This is just WOW! Sorry if I start to repeat myself, but I can't find any words for this. I was this project emerge (starting with Iris1, no even with "3D client for UO"). First, it was only a very dirty delphi version which displayed the UO maps in 3D, then there was a better one with some own models, but this (OGRE-driven) version is definitely the most astonishing. Respect!

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:49 pm

I just like to mention that we won the 1st Prize for our Iris2 project at Dusmania 10 hobby game developer meeting in Frankfurt/Germany.

New Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmINRZ6zFz8

the presentation:

many Ogre featured projects where there ...

.

More Infos here:
http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Iris-Ogre ... _1st_Place

cheers
SiENcE

Post by **sinbad** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:11 am

Congratulations!

SiENcE · Post by **SiENcE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:24 pm

Just a quick note to all.

Ogre was on the german TV !!

We had an interview with the german tv-station 3sat and talked about OpenSource Gamedevelopment, Ogre3D, Freegamer and some projects.

I also showed two Ogre Demos and of couse the OGRE Logo

.

HD-Quality:
http://wstreaming.zdf.de/zdf/veryhigh/0 ... er_nes.asx

Low-Res Quality:
http://www.3sat.de/webtv/?080914_spiele ... ler_nes.rm

Article on 3sat tv-station Homepage:
http://www.3sat.de/neues/sendungen/maga ... index.html

next Dates on TV:
16.09.08 Dienstag: 1:50 Uhr (ZDF)
18.09.08 Donnerstag: 13:30 Uhr (ZDF-Infokanal)

have fun.

sisyphus · Post by **sisyphus** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:00 pm

geil :)

Nauk · Post by **Nauk** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:50 am

Klasse

Brainshack · Post by **Brainshack** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:40 am

Ist echt der Hammer, vor allem wenn man bedenkt in welch kurzer Zeit das gemacht wurde

Congratulations, i hope i'll be able to present my project there too someday^^

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