[simspark-devel] releasing rcssserver3d-0.5.8 ?

[Yuan X. <xuy...@gm...>]

Hi Joschka, Hesham and all,

Hope everyone have a good weekend !

Teams are asking for the model and rule now.
We are really far away from our schedule.
I hope we can have the final version fro RoboCup 2008.
There will be a demo game in Hefei, May 2.
So I think it is an good opportunity to test the new feature of server
in this game.
Do you think it is possible that releasing rcssserver3d-0.5.8 at the
end of this month?

I think the new release should contains:
 * done:
 - Nao model ( thanks Feng for your great work! )
 - external monitor works now
 - joint limitation
 - Extended OBJ importer ( Joschka, correct me if wrong )
 - and some other fixing
 * to do:
 - textures for Nao
 - resize the soccerbot and pitch ( Need Open Discussion )

Open Discussion:
Do you think we need to resize the soccerbot and pitch?
I think it is useful to resize them: firstly they are should be that size,
secondly, Nao can work after the pitch resized.
Note that simulating different types robot is a good feature of our simulator.
Last year, we have to enlarge the size due the stability of ODE.
Joschka, do you think we can resize the robot without problem?
However, we also should consider the compatibility,
so I think we should creat the soccerbot058 and soccersim058.
Then teams and game in May can test this new configuration.
What do you think?

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Best wishes!

Xu Yuan
School of Automation
Southeast University, Nanjing, China

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