wow, thats beutiful, i’ve a screenshot where the sun is reflected in the water which looks very nice and think it would look very nice as a background, got any high res screenshots?
Very nice.
I’m curious - what are you using to generate soft shadows for the trees in the screenshot? Are those dynamic or they just static lightmaps?
Lightmaps
It really does look amazing. I haven’t tried it in a while. I am going to have to give it a whirl after work. 
Beautifull.
Some one year ago I started to code in Java, and wurm was my first inspiration for making games in java. I’m curious too - do you make trees in some 3d modeling tool of build them in your code? What about other objects?
Going gold June 1. 
_* Markus_Persson spends too little time on jgo these days. :-_
Tried Wurm today (the update is installing, so not sure about the game), but in the jnlp, you specify “1.4.2* 1.5*” and your forgetting the 1.6 peeps.
Changing that to 1.4+ solved that
DP
1.6 isn’t final yet, and there are bugs in it that break wurm. :-\
Anyway, here’s a recent (and bug free) screenshot of the new client test.
that is an amazing screenshot!
you (and the wurm community) really have created your own little world 
Looks amazing
I can see BLOOOM! Very nice; you seriously need some AA tho (look at the trees in the distance)
DP
it looks great! amazing.
I did a search for “sun” on google images and on the first page was a picture of Wurm…
darkprophet:
yeah, I guess those are pretty ugly.
Hmm, perhaps I can do alpha blending instead of depth testing, and still get decent results.
Breakfast:
Whoa, haha. Cool.
Depth testing? Or did you mean alpha testing ? If I was in a similar situation, i would use a combination of alpha testing and blending, make the edges of the leaves or whatnot slightly alpha to get a nice light scattering effect.
Or you could just implement sub surface scattering using ramp shaders, hint hint 
DP
Wooo, Wurm got 4 stars in The Linux Game Tome http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Wurm%20Online. Well done!
DP
doesn’t work on java 1.6 or at least the jnlp is set not to work with it! 
i know 1.6 isn’t final yet but i’d be nice if it could with all the performance improvements in 1.6,
besides only ppl running 1.6 are probably developers and could potentially help you iron out any problems with 1.6 and wurm.
all the terrain lower than 0 on the map turns into extremely tall terrain, like the short isn’t signed.
I assume this is a bug in nio in java 1.6, but quite frankly, I don’t feel very interested in finding out what causes it… the game is unplayable (all lakes turns into huge plateaus), so I’d rather just disallow it, especially since we’re going gold in two weeks.
Any developer who really wants to help debug java 1.6 by running wurm is free to do so by downloading the jnlp and modifying it to allow 1.6.
We’re gold, by the way.
Five euros per month, one euro per silver coin. Seems to be going very well so far.
Really nice job on the game. Its encouraging to see what you can do with Java and JOGL. JWS seems to be working well in this context, no trouble setting up the game or logging in. I’ve been playing for a few days, and subscribed and bought some silver coins.
On the graphics options, most didn’t make a huge visible difference. The exception is turning the shaders on, with cloud and hills reflection. Really adds to the nice job you have done with the sky. Not much performance difference, except for large textures. That drops the framerate from about 15fps to 4fps. That could be the flaky AGP driver I have on that machine though, it causes all sorts of odd problems.
Large textures off is still OK for me graphically. I get used to the oddities like non animated chars and NPCs pretty quickly, and the gameplay is very good. Real tough even gathering enough food in the early days, but that feels right for a bunch of pioneers in a new world. I see someone just opened a restaurant, so I expect things will get easier and more civilized.
Looking forward to seeing how it goes.