Massivety

So... here it is. The Massive Post I've been talking about. It's not a showcase or anything, but put simply, an overview of current status (with featureset), future status (this week, next month, three months) and a demo information (which I will start to work when I finish this week's features).

Current status
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Project build version 0.0.57

Features

• PAK, including following features:
• Unique asset export from Blender
  
• Cameras
• Entities
• Lights
• ...
  
• Shared asset export from Blender
  
• Scripts (Py only)
• Textures
• Images
• Materials
• Meshes
• Shaders
• ...
  
• Scene binding (uniques only)
• PAK externalization (meaning asset exists in an other PAK)
  
• File externalization (meaning asset exists as a file somewhere outside PAK)
• Python scripting
• Multiple materials per mesh
• Event system (experiemental)
• Shaders (wip)
• Gamepad/Joystick support (Xinput for Xbox controllers, autodetect)
• Input system

TODO this week:

• PAK import to AGE
• Post-Process pipeline
• Material system refine (shadows)
  

TODO this month

• Animations
• More to Post-Processing
• Scenegraph (if needed)
• Finalize event system
• Dynamics
  
• Sound (SFX/BGM)

TODO next months

• Particles
• Dynamic LOD
  
• GUI system
• PAK update -> Cache and preload
• OpenMP
• Memory pool
• Terrain
  
• Dynamic scene switching

COULDHAS list at the moment:

• Engine plugin system
• Editor (scripts, scenes, shaders...)
• Video streaming
• Asset streaming
• Networking
  

Following two are COULDHAS because they aren't yet planned to any TODO list:

• Bone animations
• HDR native integration

Demo information
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AGE showcase demo
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Small demo showcasing the abilities, flexibility and compatibility of AGEs SHARD

It has few scenes each representing capabilites of how different scenes one can create with correct use of assets. Currently I have only thought it so far as I have themes:

1) Open grass scene
Type: Fly-Through
Length: 1-2 minutes

2) Horror house
Type: In-Control?
Length: 3-10 minutes

3) Street View
Type: Fly-Through
Length: 1-4 minutes

I will not guarantee I will create all of them in one pack, but I try at some point create at least the fly throughs.


MEH. Not so massive after all. Now. I will return to you wednesday or thursday with images. Stay tuned.