[Cgewrapper-general] Ian - send earlier one by mistake.

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hit ctrl-enter by accident, sending the e-mail before I finished writing =
it.

Ian, are you signed up for the Genesis3d forum?  Here is a link in case =
you haven't signed up yet.

http://www.genesis3d.com/forum/index.php

It's a free forum ofcourse, it's a help forum for the Genesis3d engine =
which this wrapper is being built around.  It's a good place to goto to =
learn how to use G3d and to ask questions.  It's not a mailing list but =
a forum, just to be clear about that ;o)...but you need to create a free =
account to be able to post.

Once I finish making the DInput wrapper I will go and make a flow chart =
(or close to it) of the classes which will be included with the wrapper =
and there functionality and there relationships.  But briefly I want to =
make these classes:

cgeEngine - Main engine

cgeInput - Direct Input wrapper

cgeWorld - Game world, load the world rendering world etc.

cgeTexture - Texture control class, you can load a texture and =
manipulate it

cgeActor - Actor class, both player and non-player movable objects =
(people, animals, etc.)  Load mesh, texture and actor files support.  =
Also stores position of the actor and rotation in respect to the world.

cgeBitMap - a 2d bitmap loading, manipulating class.

cgeHUD - (HUD =3D Heads Up Display) An overlay for the camera which will =
give a HUD like interface to players.  The HUD objects are not =
clickable.

cgeInterface - A class which will create an interface for the players, =
it will have 2d clickable areas which the programmer can set, such as =
buttons, icons, ect.  When you think of this, think of most 3d game =
interfaces, such as baldurs gate which has the icons of party members on =
the left side and action buttons on the bottom.  This interface will =
generally only be used in 3rd person games, but can be used in 2 person =
games to display statistics much like the cgeHUD class does.  This class =
will automatically create a HUD like interaction.

cgeAttachedHud - This is a special version of the HUD class, it will be =
able to attach itself to actors, so that when in 3d person view you can =
display statistics above the actors head, such as health, name, etc.

//Special Note:  cgeHUD, cgeInterface, cgeAttachedHud will have special =
commands which can make them visible or invisible, or sections of the =
HUD visible/invisible.

Well that's all the base classes I wanted to include, there will also be =
helper classes such as the cgeLog class (used only in debug mode to make =
log messages, similiar to the cdxLog class) and other similiar =
classes...

Ok, that's pretty much all I have to say for now....but if anything else =
crosses my mind I'll be sure to mention it.

Jacek