Monday, May 14, 2007

Saturday meetup

This saturday me and Simon met in order to do some syncronuous hacking on SteamWinter. Actually, we didn't hack much but found a much better way to define levels using the .scene files. More specific the triggering markup was way too complicated to understand and needed a brush over. Further more, we identified some other features/bugs that need fixing before we can actually make the simple level required as a part of a flight2 release. I've already done some of the stuff:
  • Make areatrigger into sphere and boxtrigger
  • Make 'system' a valid target for a trigger. Used when it is not an actor that is interested in a trigger event
  • Revised .scene format
  • Show names properly and not a generated name as previously
  • Print version number to console upon start (only linux for now)
The are no missing part before we can actually make a simple level, but these are the things that should get implemented as soon as possible to easy the level editing:
  • Visualization of trigger areas
  • A debug mode flag indicating that all names and triggers should be rendered
  • Document the script bindings!
  • Build time printed to console on windows
  • Click to get world position
  • Tutorial of creating a simple scene
After that I'll release flight2.... probably with some flight3 features as well.

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