[Orpg-devel] update

[George M. <dr...@bl...>]

the toolkit...

        gfx and various low level stuff: ogre
        interface: cegui
        physics: ode
        sound: openal
        network: hawknl?
        scripting: lua?

...and preferred IDE (eclipse) have been more or less decided on. The
lack of automake support in eclipse is both a blessing and a curse. It
complicates the build process on *nix, but the same build process should
work on windows too. Together with the cross platform natures of all the
other components this should make building on windows a relativly simple
affair, requiring only specifying the correct build settings for each
project.

ogre 1.0 requires CEGUI 0.2 for it's user interface components and there
is no deb. As I write this I am compiling my own versions of CEGUI and
ogre (not for installation) to link orpg against. This is a pain but
does allow us more control over the final binaries. I'll post
instructions on building these 2 libs on debian once i have done it
myself. It may be an idea to use custom versions of more of the
libraries we use, perhaps even down to things like libjpeg. For now
something that works with the GUI would be good :)

um, i think i kinda messed up with cvs... where do i put stuff?

we could do with scrubbing CVS TBH. Eclipse seems to have it's own way
of doing things... we can share the same workspace via CVS, currently I
have the ogre and CEGUI libraries in the workspace too, but as long as
you tell CVS to ignore those directories it should be fine. Then all our
options and settings will be shared. Currently orpg is 5 projects...

        orpgs (server) - The server process, will required ode and
        possible ogre too to be able to handle the 3d environment of the
        game.
        
        orpgc (player client) - The game
        
        orpga (admin client) - Like the NWN dmclient
        
        orpgb (world builder) - Models and maps and the like can be
        designed elsewhere, but they all get tied together into the game
        here.
        
        liborpg (game engine) - Provides a layer above the various
        libaries to provide a game engine.
        
I'm still learning all of the stuff here, some of it i've not even
started on. 
        
there's a lot more to write, but i'll do it later ;)