Kitterwing Update!, Alpha Version 023 Options

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Furcadia will be updating April 6, 2007! This will not be the full Kitterwing update originally planned, though it will still have many cool new features. Windows came out with a new OS, Vista, so we needed to put out a new client that worked well with it. Since we are putting in needed programming to make Vista work, we decided to put together a bunch of the stuff that was close to ready into this update as well. It was supposed to be just a quick little update, which has turned into a pretty major one!

It will prompt you to download when you try to log in. You can wait for the game to send you the download or go to one of our download hosting sites to get the update. We do not expect for any of your dreams or .ini files to be damaged or lost. They will still be there when you update. You can rename and save them someplace else though, if it would make you feel safer. If you have patched your DEFAULT folder, you will have to back up those patches as they will be overwritten. Note that some files will be installing in your "My Documents" Folder, as Vista requires that any files that are "written" to, need to be there. That's where you will find your logfiles!

We won't be adding in Accounts or Group Packages unfortunately as they were not close enough to completion and we need to get Vista compatibility out very soon. That also means Gold Sponsorships, Adult Verification and the new maps won't be going in. These things will come out in the update after this one.

However, we are adding all the new features listed below!

*Windows Vista support
*Kitterwing Avatars
*Prime Wings
*Bovines/Minotaurs(free avatar)
*24-bit non-remappable portraits
*Lead and follow
*More Descags
*2 Local species for everyone and 4 for Silver Sponsors!
*Iteme.fsh increases to hold 1000 (0-999) objects and floore.fsh increases to 500 (0-499)
*News window that comes up with new news and with a button
*New M16+ Environment upload dream-Hawthorn, for mature content due to language and violence. (Replaces Haven)
*Ignore commands have been improved(right click to ignore)
*Colored text
*Copy text from text window
*support for Unicode
*Support for Windows Fonts and antialiasing
*New emoticons and pop-up window
*New punctuation icons
*Right click menu both for text box names and avatars
*"Click Here" commands
*Insert URL button
*Tab shows all names on screen
*New "Dream Standards" for public areas and that can be set for player dreams.
*Small updates and fixes to several public maps
*Dream Editor resizes to show more of a map being worked on
*Ctrl-left click copies dream coordinates to clickboard in DreamEd
*New buttons in the skin that can go over any part of the interface and be activated with DS.
*Dream preferences can be set in DreamEd, such as dream standards, filter, shield, etc.
*Mousewheel support for DreamEd
*DreamEd autoscrolling
*Skewing in FSH Editor
*Z-Order for buttons in Skin Editor
*Config tool has a new interface and imediate updating to client
* 74 of new lines of DS including wall Ds, Paw DS, DS buttons, Silence DS, Gender DS, expanded entrycode DS and much more
*Fixes for old DS bugs

There will be a special Premiere Party in test world for Silver Sponsors the day before we ship. Hope you enjoy all the new toys!

To discuss the update please go to: http://forums.furcadia.com/index.php?&showtopic=34303