[Gtkradiant] 1.2 roadmap

[Pablo Zurita]

Sorry about the late response. I have been REALLY BUSY with school. We are 
in the last 2 and a half weeks of school so I can't afford to get a bad 
score in the last asigments. But after that we have a 2 month vacations!. I 
may try to get a work(I have been approached by Paraform 
http://www.paraform.com , and also by Robert McNeel & Assoc creators of 
Rhinoceros 3D http://www.rhino3d.com ) even if working for free, just to 
get experience and do put something in a curriculum :-)
Ok, I will take care to do some code to get the FPS and some performance 
measurement stuff. About the plan, I still have to talk more with IO^Warp 
to see our approach and give a plan.
Thanks all...

^Fishman

At 03:27 PM 5/18/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Ok, 1.1-TA is finally out. Time to get the ball rolling on 1.2
>
>In the next few days I'd like to set up a page with a roadmap for 1.2. 
>This should summarize the main features we want to put in the next 
>release, and who is mostly in charge to make each of these things happen.
>
>There are a few things that need to be done first, and that's what I will 
>be dealing with next:
>
>- update the FAQ with correct info for GtkRadiant developers (new bug 
>tracker location, CVS instructions etc.)
>
>- update the GtkSDK zip. I will hand it over to the Gtk win32 developer, 
>see if he can do something with it.
>
>- merging the Alpha branch back into the trunk. The trunk will be our main 
>developement version from now on. Obviously merging is gonna take a while 
>and break some shit. Shortly after we have the merge done I will setup at 
>automated build system (or something similar) so we can have binaries 
>available online regularly.
>
>- I think Spog and ^Fishman are mostly interested by camera code / 
>rendering. Work at that level can be split into several tasks.
>         - have a module to do performance measurements. For example hook 
> it into the main Radiant loop and have it walk around a path in the 
> level. Then get an average FPS. This is an essentiel validation to 
> wathever we do to the rendering.
>         - plan the changes to the rendering code. Put the important 
> things on paper and describe how we can move from the current rendering 
> to a better approach.
>
>- modularisation of the editor core. This is partly written, needs to be 
>finalized and stabilized. Depending on a variety of things this will go 
>towards multiple games support etc.
>
>- mixing regular texturing and BP texturing. we are gonna go for XML as 
>the primary map format to get rid of all map corruption shit and crappy 
>parsing code. XML allows easier customization of the storage format and we 
>will work to mix regular texturing and BP as a proof of concept.
>
>Also, I'd like to maintain a page with "open tasks". That is TODO items we 
>believe are pretty self-contained and could be done by new contributors. 
>There's a bunch of the bugs in the tracker that fall under this category 
>already.
>
>That's a first draft .. I'm waiting for feedback ..
>
>TTimo
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