July Status

Hello all,

For the past few weeks, I've been making slow but
steady progress toward a new release of Ardonril,
so I think I'm finally getting back on track (yeah,
I've said that before...)

Anyway, I've been having loads of fun leanring how
to properly do 3D rotations. How I wish I'd paid
more attention to this stuff in school.. Fortunately
there's plenty of material on the net.

I really want to have a new release by early
September (when Ardonril turns 1 year old!).
I'm trying to add terrain, texturing, and limited
animated models. That's probably too ambitious
given how little time I can spend and how soon
September is, but I'll see what I can do.

I'm also trying to drop the size of the download.
This may mean I'll give up ACE for this release since
the ACE dll is 1Meg all by itself, but ACE is very
handy and I'd rather not do that.

Thank you for checking up on Ardonril, and here's
too hoping I can make a good next release!

--db