Loads of progress in cyphesis. Collision detection is now working well, and allows objects to move along next to each other in contact.
Spent easter weekend doing a comprehensive review of the code. Re-wrote quite a lot of it, especially re-naming things to fit in with conventions, and using iterators properlly. The code is now the fastest and most robust it has ever been. I will probably release a version as soon as there is nothing left that I am ashamed of.
The main work to complete in the short term is the persistance layer. Loading a list of client entities into the persistance database before the world is started is probably the best way to handle the whole area of maintaining client side entity maps.
FOAF updates: Trust rankings are now exported, making the data available to other users and websites. An external FOAF URI has been added, allowing users to link to an additional FOAF file.
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