Re: [Mote-dev] The checkinfest continues...

[James Q. <j_q...@ya...>]

--- Edwin Brady <E.C...@du...> wrote:
> Perl improvements - now creates the whole galaxy and
> instatiates models
> from the galaxy data. Now would be a good time to be
> thinking about that
> XML spec...
> 
> Perl bug fixes too. Better reference handling. I'm
> still not convinced I
> understand the reference counting internals though.
> Still, at least it
> doesn't crash ;).
> 
> Also, I've gained a huge speed increase (at least on
> my machine) by the
> curiously simple tactic of not drawing things that
> are too far away or
> behind. I've always been going to do that, but it
> has become necessary
> since I've added two more random planets. I could
> take it a bit further
> too, so that's good.
> 
> Finally, F7 gives you a "Local System Details"
> screen. Not that there's
> anything on it yet, but I will be using that as an
> initial navigation
> system. It'll show a graph of what planets are in
> the system, what's
> orbiting what and so on. We could do with some nice
> planet and space
> station bitmaps/icons for it, I think. The section
> at the bottom is for
> displaying more wordy information about the system,
> if it exists, and
> statistics.
> 
> Edwin.

This might sound twisted to you, but is it possible to
integrate shockwave flash and a viewer into mote? It
would mean that we could save loads of programming
time as i could do all the in-game menus and stuff as
flash interactive animations and then just import them
into the code. I know that the file spec is well
documented and there is quite a lot of articles about
integrating it into c++.

James

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