OpenEQ News
 

FreakU has reached what we hope is the final name switch. The name FreakU was a joke that got too out of hand and just stuck, so we needed a new name. We decided on OpenEQ earlier today.

Aside from this, work has been done on creating a generic world/object file format. We have a partial convertor from WLD to the new format. (We're thinking of using the name OCX (Open Content eXpansion) just to confuse windows users, but if we get a better suggestion, we'll most likely use it)
The new file format is much like the QT (Quicktime) file format in that it is atom-based rather than fragment-based. You can represent the file format as a tree and handle it all very easily.

Work was temporarily suspended on the project due to being busy with other things at first, and then I was in a bad car accident (http://www.asleep.net/blog/Daeken/2004/09/02/320/) two Wednesdays ago. I just finally got replacement glasses this Thursday, so I can code again.

The future for OpenEQ looks good, but we have a lot of work left to do. My hopes are that we can get OoW zones rendering at least partially within the next few days :D

Happy Hacking,
Lord Daeken M. BlackBlade
(Cody Brocious)

Is there a link where to read about recent changes / updates to openEQ (btw liked FreakU name, but nm)

A dedicated site is additional work, esp. if meant to be relevant and up to date, but ... well, just wondering.

Not yet, though work on the OpenEQ site is being done by Cisyouc right now. Mostly just hang out in #phpgeeks (not really a PHP channel, just more a place where my friends and I sit around and BS) and #freaku on irc.freenode.net and you'll hear news :)

Wow. glad you are ok Daeken. Also glad to hear OpenEQ is moving along. I'm excited and can't wait to ditch sony's client altogether.

Good to hear from you and your "baby", daeken.