Hi all,
(sending a developer e-mail on this mailing list to reply for George
Sellman's comment, feel free post any replies on the -dev mailing list if
you are on that list)
I wrote a list of backlog items in early March, see:
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http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev/browse_thread/thread/c474c8d501fc9a5b/f8e937f28db87e5d
Looking back at that list, I can see the code in the Tundra 2.0 preview
repository from LudoCraft matches very well to the tasks I discussed in
that backlog. Let me try to refresh on it here.
From the original list, these items are (task implementor and current
maintainer in parentheses) completed:
UI API type-specific context menus. (LudoCraft: Ali)
Console API.(LudoCraft: Ali+Jukka)
Math libraries improvement. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
Scene geometry processing helpers. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
Extensions: Asset editor plugins. (LudoCraft: Ali)
Assets dialog improvements. (LudoCraft: Ali)
Asset API finish. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
Config API. (Admino: Jonne)
Event API removal. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
Dead code elimination/refactor/cleanup. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
Environmental features. (LudoCraft: Ali+Jukka)
Scene attribute: EntityRef parenting to a bone or another entity.
(LudoCraft: Lasse)
ECMaterial. (LudoCraft: Lasse)
ECParticleSystem. (LudoCraft: Lasse)
Notification-enabled asset server. (LudoCraft: Lasse)
ECCamera. (LudoCraft: Lasse)
ECPlaceable rewrite.(LudoCraft: Lasse+Jukka)
ECScript application mechanism. (LudoCraft: Lasse)
Optimizations: Remove PoCo. (LudoCraft: Jukka)
From the original list, these items are still remaining: (see the original
email for descriptions)
Config API registry editor UI.
Build System. Rewrite the build system to be SDK-friendly.
Easy scene query helpers + optimizations.
Asset bundles.
ECEditor improvements.
.txml/.tbin files.
Scene API improvements.
Rendering optimizations.
Network optimizations.
Networking security.
WebCam streaming support.
Documentation.
Flash asset support.
Video assets.
ScenePersistenceModule.
ECGrass.
NPAPI/ActiveX plugin.
ECRainfall.
ECVolumeFog.
ECDecal.
Animation system improvements.
Car Physics demo.
User profile server.
It makes me sad to see that sharing the backlog did not catch much wind
from other developers, and only one item on that list was developed
external to LudoCraft. It might be that these features were considered
worthless or uninteresting in other teams, or others did not have
development resources to use on Tundra development, or something else, but
I guess that's how open-source development sometimes is. Nevertheless, I
do welcome comments like this:
On 1 heinä, 21:56, George Sellman sellm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hope I haven't over stepped. We've got developers and funding. If you'll
have us we would like to contribute anyway we can.
We definitely welcome contributions of well-structured, -written and
-functional code. If you are interested in ideas for contribution, this
e-mail is exactly written for you. I am hoping that some day I would be
merging in features which I would kill for to get into our branch.
The March tasklist has still plenty of work left, and I am sure we will be
working on them after the holidays. At the end of this email are some new
items have emerged since March.
I am leaving on vacation, and can be reached again probably in late August
or early September. Have a great summer everyone,
Jukka
New task items (in no particular order, and not necessarily any more
important than the unfinished items in the original list)
Bug tracker.
- Tundra is getting more and more buggy, particularly due to issues with
network update ordering, old assets being left over in Asset API pools,
and due to different kinds of usability issues. We need a good bug tracker
dedicated for Tundra issues.
Asset live-update improvements.
- Remove the use of QFileSystemWatcher: It is buggy, lacks features
(listening on new whole directories for new files, and listening for
deletions followed by additions to the same file), and is slow. Replace
with some other library that allows listening on full storage directories.
- Expand assets storages to receive live notifications from newly added
assets to storages (without polling) at runtime (this already exists for
startup time).
- When a new file is added to a storage directory, add it in Unloaded
state to the Assets window. (this already works for network storages using
the asset discovery mechanism when creating new assets).
- Auto-upload to network storage when changing a file in the cache.
GIMP .xcf image format support.
- Tundra uses OGRE's FreeImage, which supports plenty of file formats,
but this one is still missing.
Config API.
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