Iceball

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An in-game screenshot of Iceball.

Iceball is a project started by GreaseMonkey. It is currently under development.

The core engine is coded in C, while the bulk of the game logic is coded in Lua. It is planned that the client will download the bulk of the files from the server, including at least a bootloader in Lua, allowing the server to control what happens. If clientside content is to be permitted, the server-provided scripts can allow it (including Lua code, but securitywise that's just outright stupid).

Iceball is Free Software, the C engine being GPLv3 and the Lua side being LGPLv3.

Links

• Official website
• Forum thread on Build and Shoot (there is a testing build for Windows noobs on the first post if you look hard enough)
• Project repo on Github
• PMF
• Icemap

Change Log

Note, this documents the Windows builds. It also only documents the C engine changes, not the Lua game code.

We have not had a proper "release" yet, so these are all prereleases.

Version	Date of Addition	Addition Summary
N/A	1 November 2012	Git repo started, not playable at this point
N/A	11 November 2012	First playable release
N/A	14 November 2012	Playing the game made easier
N/A	17 November 2012	Implemented PMF editor
N/A	19 November 2012	Player models Fog Player names and squads
N/A	28 November 2012	Implemented ability to shoot rifle Implemented ability to kill players Added chat system (cannot talk yet)
N/A	29 November 2012	Implemented the T/Y chat system Sorted out pathname security Sorted out common.fetch_block Implemented tent and intel
iceballfornoobs-004	12 December 2012	First networked prerelease.
iceballfornoobs-0.0-5	4 January 2013	Added sound support Fixed a bunch of bugs
iceballfornoobs-0.0-6	4 January 2013	Fixed crash bug in 0.0-5 pertaining to sound channel wraparound (hotfix)
iceballfornoobs-0.0-8	7 January 2013	3D Cubes
iceballfornoobs-0.0-10	9 January 2013	Fixed some rendering bugs with 0.0-8
iceballfornoobs-0.0-16	23 January 2013	Bugs fixed in renderer Per-face shading implemented Miscellaneous fixes and whatnot
iceballfornoobs-0.0-18	9 February 2013	Preliminary multi-core support in renderer
iceballfornoobs-0.0-22	14 February 2013	OpenGL renderer
iceballfornoobs-0.0-24	15 February 2013	Images are now shoved into their own texture objects instead of being constantly loaded over and over again VBOs are supported
iceballfornoobs-0.0-25	17 February 2013	learn_more fixed a bug and added a feature. Added a feature wrt keyboard layouts, and broke compatibility with -24
iceballfornoobs-0.0-27	18 February 2013	Adjusted client.hook_key so that it wasn't backwards incompatible
iceballfornoobs-0.0-29	15 March 2013	OpenGL renderer would crash if a new map was created in the map editor 16-bit samples load the whole sample now, instead of just the first half
iceballfornoobs-0.0-30	15 March 2013	clsave/config.json
iceballfornoobs-0.0-32	20 March 2013	Added support for ImpulseTracker (*.it) modules Fixed the dedicated server build, which I broke in -30 (was fixed in -31)

Building Iceball

Windows

Prerequisites

To build Iceball on windows, you need the following

MinGW

MSYS FIXME: I'm pretty sure this isn't necessary. Use the SDL devel build instead of compiling SDL. --GreaseMonkey (talk) 01:39, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

zlib

SDL 1.2

Lua 5.1.4

And of course, Iceball which can be download from Github.

Setting up

Copy the Lua/zlib/iceball folders to mingw/msys/1.0/home/(user name). Then in the Iceball folder, create a new folder called "winlibs". Now create another folder called "SDL", place all SDL headers inside it. Then grab all lib_sdl*.a files and place them in winlibs. Place all Lua/zlib headers inside winlibs aswell. You will need to build zlib and Lua. This is pretty straight forward.

Building Lua

Open up MSYS, and navigate to the Lua directory. Then type

make mingw

This should build Lua. Copy liblua.a into winlibs.

Building zlib

Navigate to the zlib directory in MSYS. Type in

make -f win32/Makefile.gcc

This should build zlib. Copy zlib.a to winlibs.

Building Iceball

Navigate to the Iceball directory. Type in

make clean all -f Makefile.mingw

If you have any problems, I would start by opening up Makefile.mingw and changing the line CC = $(MINGWPREFIX)/gcc to CC = gcc. If that fails get on #Iceball and bug somebody till they help you.

Contributors

GreaseMonkey - Lead dev

Everything no one else did.

Arctic77 (articsledder)

Made the Rifle model

BR

Player name list

Team switching

Exit dialogue

Improved keybinding system

Dany0

Czech translation

Ericson2314 (Sonarpulse)

Rearranged the build tree

Added an SSE optimized matrix-vector multiply

rakiru

Scroll wheel to switch tools

Runs the only Iceball server

Topo

FPS counter

Basic key binding system

Triplefox

GUI system

Misc util functions

UnrealIncident

Debug stuff