Re: [simspark-devel] MC 2010

[Joschka B. <jos...@am...>]

Hi Hedayat,

On Sep 19, 2009, at 3:34 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:

>
> Well, we should organize MC for 2010. Beside old members, we have some
> volunteers. So, let me say welcome to new members: Welcome to  
> RoboCup 3D
> Simulation Server Maintenance Committee!
>

Thanks for starting the organization!

>
> Except the new members, I would like to hear from the old members to  
> see
> who is available in 2010!

I won't have much time to work on things myself much, but I have a new  
student (from Koblenz University in Germany) called Andreas Held  
(cc'd) who wants to work on refactoring the physics integration in  
order to support multiple engines. I'll help him along the way.

>
> First, let me summarize our plan for 2009 (items which someone decided
> to do):
>
>
> * Implementing a physical abstraction layer for simspark, so that it  
> can
> use different physical engines.

Right, that's the one Andreas volunteered for :-) We'll post some  
design proposals once we get to it.

> * Implementing support for OGRE as a rendering engine

If enough time remains (while he is here in Osaka), Andreas signaled  
he might be interested to work on that one, too, but our focus will be  
on the physics part for now.

> * Implementing PhysX physical engine support (in addition to ODE)

Andreas and myself are working on the integration of the Bullet  
physics engine, but if there would be someone willing to also  
integrate PhysX, it would be awesome!

>
> Also, this is the complete list of our TODO for 2009:
>
>
> * PAL integration

We took a look at PAL and decided it would probably not be the right  
choice for us. Quite a bit of desirable functionality seems to be  
missing in order to support a long list of engines (most of which we  
probably wouldn't use). We thought we would be better off writing our  
own code, but I would be interested to hear whether anybody has  
comments on that.

Cheers,
Joschka