On 26 Dec 2013, at 16:44, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote:
> This sounds really exciting :) > >> That sounds very interesting. I dream of a virtual world environment such as >> Second Life, highly dynamic and completely open source. > > Croquet was going in that direction and this is good to improve the > infrastructure of Pharo in that direction. Better interaction with C and C++ > is definitively a big plus. > >> But currently I would like to do a simple video game, with toon like >> graphic, using bullet for physics. I think that making an actual game >> development pipeline would be very interesting. > > Yes :) > Now let us start small and focus on key elements. Clement was suggesting that > we could even launch a kick starter :) > >> I would not create a full level editor, modeling software because it takes >> too much time, and there is Blender which is open source and very complete. >> >> Some tasks required are as follow: >> - An easy way to make bindings for C++ libraries. For this I am going to >> start extending SWIG(http://www.swig.org/) so it can generate bindings for >> Pharo NativeBoost. > >> - Bindings for the Bullet physics >> engine(http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/). With the extensions for swig, >> this is trivial. > Did you see that esteban and JB did a binding to another physic engine > (forgot his name). it is chipmunk, but is for 2d physics. Esteban > >> - An importer for COLLADA. COLLADA is a XML based asset exchange format, >> with a wide support in different 3d model editors, such as Blender. > We could turn that into a student project. > >> - For Linux, a new VM display module is required. The current that uses just >> X11 suffers of severe tearing and flickering. I would like to make a display >> module for the VM that uses SDL2, which is a cross platform library that >> supports hardware accelerated graphics, or cross platform creation of an >> OpenGL context. > > I’m sure that igor wants to have a look at that. > > >> - I think that garbage collection would require some determinism/time >> constraint or write some guidelines to avoid triggering the gargbage >> collector. When I'm testing the particles, I can see some noticeable pause, >> that I attribute to the garbage collector. > > Eliot Miranda is working a new GC and it is much much much better. No global > GC needed anymore. So for Pharo 40 we will get > a lot of improvements from this part. We are really excited because it opens > a lot of space > >> >> Greetings, >> Ronie Salgado >> >> >> 2013/12/25 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> >> Ronie >> >> I was talking about 3D with Igor (because Igor came to Smalltalk because he >> wanted to use it as a game engine and built rendering >> engine in Pascal long long time ago :). >> So I was brainstorming to see what you could do. >> >> the last time alex show roassal 3D we were thinking that it would be good to >> build a kickstarter show case on something >> sexy (maybe bridging a physical model to 3D)…. >> >> Now what would like to build with NBOpenGL? What are your dreams and how >> could we slice them into tasks that could be reached in a limited amount of >> time. >> >> Stef >> >
