Patch 560 and 561 were released Thursday, September 28th 2006.

Patch 560

Release notes can be read here.

Ryzom

Foraging and Prospection

• Good news foragers, some explorers have told us that the raw material spots are back to their correct locations.

Ryzom Ring

Components

• Here is the list of the new added components:
  • Ambush : let one or more creatures or NPC appear when a player enters a specific zone.
  • Timed Spawn : let one or more creatures or NPC appear after a certain period of time.
  • Hidden Chest : let an Item Chest appear when a player enters or leaves a specific zone.
  • Random Chest : allows you to create an Item Chest with randomly defined content, from a list specified in the chest properties.
  • Scenery Object Remover : allows you to remove a Scenary Object with an event.
  • Scenery Object Interaction Task : allows you to create a mission (given by an NPC) where the aim is to target a Scenery Object.
  • Scenery Object Interaction : allows you to trigger an event when a Scenery Object is targeted.
  • Get Item From Scenery Object : allows you to get an item from a Scenery Object, like a loot.
  • Visit Zone : allows you to create a mission (given by a NPC) where the aim is to go into a specific zone.
  • Target Mob : allows you to create a mission (given by an NPC) where the aim is to target a creature.
  • Kill NPC :allows you to create a mission (given by an NPC) where the aim is to kill a specified creature or NPC.
  • Hunt Task : allows you to create a mission (given by an NPC) where the aim is to kill one or several creatures or NPCs from a list of creatures or NPCs.
  • Delivery Task :allows you to create a mission (given by an NPC) where the aim is to deliver an item given by a NPC to another NPC.
  • Mob Hunt : triggers an event when all specified creatures are dead.
  • Proximity Dialog : launchs a dialog when a player is near a specific zone.

Miscellaneous

• Switching to test mode or animation in a new scenario will not teleport the Adventure Master to the Spawn Point anymore.
• It is not possible to take control of an NPC's corpse anymore.
• The feature "request item task step" is repeatable again.
• It is now possible to change a scenario's description on the Ring Terminal in Animation mode.
• You now have access to your Guild Forum in a Ring session.
• The event "What happens" "Dialog activate" is working even if the dialog is not already activated.
• A trigger zone will not launch an event if set as non active.
• About the Dialog macro, the events "Before Step" and "After Step" are working as intended.
• You can now apply an event to a member of a group instead of a whole groupe.
• Trying a helmet on an NPC won't initialise his haircut anymore.
• Copying a group of Karavan or Kami will now leave their correct name.
• You can now create a route over a wander zone.
• A two plots-route will be deleted if one of its plot is deleted.
• You will be able to set correctly the language used in your scenario (which appeared on the Ring Terminals) in the Scenario window.
• You can now set a creature to run or to walk in his Properties window.
• The 'Sit Down' and 'Stand Up' options have been activated for some creatures.
• The creatures respect now the aggro range they have been given.
• All Activity Steps will be activated as requested, even the short one.
• An AE option can now be added to your spell in a Ring Session too.

Interface

• A significant number of Ring Windows have been improved. They now have a better size, some new icons, scroll bars and texts have been added or corrected.
• Guild names of more than 20 letters are fully displayed on the player control window.
• In the Session Window, level display has been corrected
• No text will appear in a bubble chat if it was not the way it was designed to be.
• A case where some debug messsage were displayed in the Sysinfo window can not occur any more.
• Properties dialog boxes were wrongly set, their display is now as it should.
• Click on the Go Live in the main menu while being in test mode will work as intended.
• It is now possible to set the transparency of the window of the Go back to AM mode button.
• The dustbin and the ". . ." icons have been redone.
• In the Scenario Window, two icons not related to the window have been removed.
• Some windows positions have been fixed.
• Some tool tips were missing in the Scenario Control window.
• Some icons were missing in the Meteo Control window.
• The button for launching scenarios from ring terminals has been redesigned.
• The partial white border of the Map subtropic15 has been removed.
• Customising the look of an NPC will no longer display the NPC acting in a frenzy mode.
• You should be now able to see all players' name correctly.
• The tool tip for the "tell Adventure Master" at the creation of dialog has been fixed.
• The tool tip for the description of animation has been corrected.

Ring Terminals

• If the Adventure Master unticked 'allow players' after inviting some players, those players were unable to see the session in the terminals. This have been fix.
• Ring Terminal Windows now refresh better.
• If after a second thought, you don't wish to create a session, you can come back to the session list thanks to the Back button.

Minimap

• Sometimes the season on the mini map in a Ring scenario wasn't the same as in game. Now the mini map displays the correct season.
• After dying in a Ring session, the respawn map could not appear unless you zoom in or out in the minimap. This have been corrected.
• It could happened that after a death / respawn in Ring, the Ring minimap changed for an Atys minimap. This won't happen anymore.

Patch 561

Release notes can be read here.

Bug Fix

• The aura stanza buttons will now gray out when used as previously.