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=== 2007 June ===
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'''we moved the devblogs of our projects into one common blog: http://schattenkind.net/blog/'''
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:59, 29 June 2007 (CEST) : just moved the branch we were working on back to the trunk, so please change you svn path to
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for download, see [[Main Page]]
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if you have been using the branch =)
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i made a simple cargo dialog you can see what cargo you have, and can jettison it if you don't need it.
 
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also it's now easy to add tooltips to gui elements, and i have done that for the shield and hull-meters already.
 
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(see left-top, the mouse isn't visible on the screenshot)
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:57, 28 June 2007 (CEST) : real live will keep me from coding until friday, i just dumped a few ideas here : [[Ideas_mission_planets]]
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=== new blog software and url ===
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:08, 26 June 2007 (CEST): players can now collect cargo, currently this is only iron from destroying asteroids and pirates, stations can now offer services (available via right-click-menu when you are close enough), currently only repairing the ship, which costs iron =D
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[[User:Hagish|Hagish]] 15:35, 8 October 2008 (CEST) because of some issues with the wiki bloging we moved to a "normal" software. you can find the new post under http://schattenkind.net/blog/ .
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:56, 26 June 2007 (CEST): we got shields, and we got fancy hud meters for shields and hull status of your own ship (left-top) and of the selected target (right-top)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:33, 12 March 2008 (CET) : we're still testing in the iris codebase mainly, but the new gui system will be used for sfz as well, a little preview about some upcoming features for text display :<br>
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:37, 24 June 2007 (CEST) : hud : object markers : colored edges around objects
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:37, 24 June 2007 (CEST) : finished cleanup and extension of code used to track 3D elements with 2D-HUD-gfx, now we've got the basis for fancy hud stuff like edges around objects and text next to them.
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== 2008 February ==
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:45, 22 June 2007 (CEST) : gui and input system cleanup is finished so far, just the cursor stuff that was in the old gui code has to be reactivated, but thats not much. New context/rightclick menu implementation, supports easier creation and nested submenus.
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=== bit quiet lately ===
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:24, 21 June 2007 (CEST): there is a forum thread about sfz in the [http://freegamer.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=426 freegamer forums] in case anyone wants to talk about it =)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:40, 15 February 2008 (CET): we're still around, but rather busy lately with other stuff, some interesting things that will probably be used for sfz planets later are being experimented with in iris (see  [http://iris2.de/index.php/Dev_Blog iris devblog] ), namely shadows, sky, and also a few grass and tree experiments. Also code for TextureAtlas and geometry-batching for better performance has been added there.
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:55, 20 June 2007 (CEST) : we're currently cleaning up and improving the input and gui systems, especially event-handling.
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and we're also brainstorming for a redesing of the guicode, a few notes [http://lugre.schattenkind.net/index.php/GUINotes here].
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i also started writing a little developer documentation about the input system, but its still work in progress, see [[DevDoc:Input]]
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:18, 17 June 2007 (CEST) a simple experimental rightclick menu can be used to activate a simple approach/follow autopilot
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:41, 16 June 2007 (CEST) : targets can now be selected via mouse-click, that makes destroying asteroids easier.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:28, 16 June 2007 (CEST): first experiments with 3rd person cam
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 13:54, 15 June 2007 (CEST):
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After experimenting a bit we decided against making sfz combat based on fast reaction time and dogfight navigation,
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which quickly leads to frustrating "where is the enemy" problems. Instead weapons won't have to be aimed manually,
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they'll work like turrets, and if the enemy is in range you will be able to hit him without effort.
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The deciding factor in combat will be stuff like weapon ranges
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and strengths and weaknesses of different weapons against different shield-types,
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homing missiles and counter-measures, maybe also a bit of energy management.
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This makes positioning, tactics and equipment a more interesting component.
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Therefore a 3rd-person perspective of your own ship will probably be better than 1st person, for getting a better overview.
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This also fits nicely with the ship-editing features, because if you designed your own ship, you will want to see it =)
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Another benefit is that this makes it easier to use the mouse for gui stuff during combat,
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as there is no more need to use the mouse as joy-stick-like aiming tool, like in 1st person.
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So we can use the mouse for clicking on a target list, display tooltipps over hud-elements,
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and configure weapons and autopilot maneuvers with a proper gui using the mouse
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instead of dozens of key-combos like in most 1st-person-joystick space sims.
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The massive multiplayer spacegame eve-online also has a similar gui to what we are aiming,
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(ingame web-browser, 3rd person stuff like described above, target lists, cool map)
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and some nice gameplay elements (frequency crystals for weapons, buildingplans for equipment, most stuff could be crafted, also weapon ranges were very important)
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but it sufferes from being massive multiplayer and having rpg elements, e.g. you needed skills to do stuff and training a skill takes hours or even days,
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also death there means you loose equipment that took days to get, so people tend to be rather careful when and what to fight.
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This leads to lots of ressource grinding, which i personally don't like too much, as it eats so much time.
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By not going massive multiplayer, and focusing on coop instead, we will try to avoid these problems.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:44, 11 June 2007 (CEST) code is now online (not trunk, but branches/eihortport)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 21:09, 4 January 2008 (CET) : we've been working on a class for grouping the geometry of up large numbers of objects into a single batch, similar to the Ogre::StaticGeometry, this allows better performance at a slightly increased vram cost.
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It is a bit more lightweigt and flexible than static geometry, and has been designed to construct the batch fast so it can be used for contructing the batch at runtime, whereas Ogre::StaticGeometry was rather designed to construct the batch while loading a level or similar, so it wasn't really designed for fast construction.
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Also our batch allows colouring instances via vertex colour, and allows the whole batch to be repositioned and rotated as a whole. The main reason for developing it was to improve performance in iris, but it will probably be useful for things like asteroid fields in sfz as well, and maybe for stuff on planets later as well.
  
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 14:46, 10 June 2007 (CEST) friday night ghoulsblade and i worked on sfz. due to a lack of internet (his t-online router sometimes acts a bit bitchy) the current code is not online but here are some screenshots. you can now fly around kill each other using the custom ships. the satellites with the green lasers are a first test of tower-defense like "towers".
 
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:00, 7 June 2007 (CEST) pirates hunt the player, and player laser can now damage and destroy stuff
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[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 08:27, 6 June 2007 (CEST) : Pulled actual source through VC 2k5 EE. Shooting pirates seen on a Windows XP flagship. :-P
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=== merry xmas to all ! quiet here lately due to work on iris ===
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:39, 5 June 2007 (CEST) : pirate attack ! they don't move yet, they only turn towards the player and start shooting lasers when he comes close enough, but lasers don't do damage yet =)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 16:17, 24 December 2007 (CET) : merry xmas to all who read this =)
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it's been a bit quiet here lately, we're currently busy working on performance improvements for [http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Dev_Blog iris], but at least some of them might also be interesting for sfz later =)
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We're experimenting with multitexturing, tilebased terrain, transition masks, and a more dynamic batched geometry class than the Ogre::StaticGeometry, as we need to change the contents at runtime, and want to avoid costly reading mesh data back from VRAM.
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And since iris and sfz share the lugre lib, both projects benefit from the resulting code improvements and addtitions.
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 09:38, 5 June 2007 (CEST) our [https://sourceforge.net/projects/sfz sourceforge project] has been approved =)
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== 2007 November ==
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:54, 4 June 2007 (CEST) : experimental colored hud-text for all objects
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 21:03, 26 November 2007 (CET) : first experimental tractor-beam weapon.
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[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 17:30, 2 June 2007 (CEST) : first working version of sfz-editor under Windows XP with MS Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition successfully created. Without sound support.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 13:30, 2 June 2007 (CEST) : network code is proceeding nicely, netmessage system with format and size checks is in place, udp works, resyncs are sent, received and handled, and the plugin system is also starting to take shape.
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 03:29, 28 May 2007 (CEST): first network experiments, tcp-connection was established and chat-text was successfully transmitted.
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=== short video of interior walk ===
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 16:22, 22 November 2007 (CET) : no new feature, but i made a short video showing how interior walking and furniture placement currently looks
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 04:33, 20 May 2007 (CEST): "intelligent guessing" mode for shippart placing is working, we just have to optimise it a bit as it gets rather slow when there are may shipparts on the scene.
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also load and save is now possible, the filebrowsing dialogs are just very simple so far, but its a start =)
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[http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/images/7/72/Interior.ogg Interior.ogg(1.5mb)]
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 04:35, 20 May 2007 (CEST) upgraded the fmod sound code from fmod3 to fmodex. full ack, the ship editor is totally shiny :)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:09, 19 May 2007 (CEST) placing parts in the shipeditor is slowly getting more intuitive, parts are placed by selecting a part type and clicking on the side of an existing part of the ship in the editor window.<br>
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:01, 16 May 2007 (CEST) : some experiments with calculating a voxel grid from convex mesh-shapes, will be used for intersection testing in shipeditor.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:17, 20 November 2007 (CET) : the weapon icons now have a bar displaying the cooldown time until the weapon can be fired again.
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:31, 12 May 2007 (CEST): experimental mirror tool working, added ramp and pyramid with z-length = 1
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 14:51, 12 May 2007 (CEST): implemented ramp primtive using the texture hagish made
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:16, 19 November 2007 (CET) : now we've got clickable weapon icons, left-click to fire the weapon, rightclick to open a context menu (currently only for unequipping)
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 03:17, 12 May 2007 (CEST): we planned a lego-like intuitive placement system for spaceship parts, experimented a bit with geometry generated via code, hagish made a "cockpit-window" texture, and we tried a cubemap-skybox-reflection on it, looks nice in motion.
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 13:00, 18 November 2007 (CET) : Last night and the last 2 hours we improved the ship movement. Now we have a non-newton-max-velocity navigation. This not very realistic but far more fun. There are some new weapons too: splitting rockets (nut,star), chain laser, lightning gun
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:31, 11 May 2007 (CEST) : hexagon mousepicking is working now, i also made the algorithm to generate them generic to make cone-shapes that might be used as simple cockpits and engines with a few nice textures. (one of them looks like a nice escape pod, another already gives the impression of a heavy freighter)
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 16:45, 17 November 2007 (CET) : the first new weapon starts to work. a split rocket and a chain laser.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 13:48, 11 May 2007 (CEST) started experiments with prism shapes, hexagons look good as building block, but mousepicking isn't working correctly yet.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:22, 10 May 2007 (CEST) ship editor now supports different part types (just a few coloured test boxes so far), object-types now support "hueing" : the original asteroid is gray, the brown color is applied via code,  also we have simple laser-beam-thingies now =)
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 19:40, 4 November 2007 (CET) : last night ghouly and i worked a little bit on sfz. he startet to implement the new weapons and i merged the contributed enemygroup patch and started to implement a hero-defense like game mode.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:22, 9 May 2007 (CEST): first experiments with an ingame ship-editor have begun, just now its just colored boxes, we'll have spaceship parts instead of them soon.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:52, 2 May 2007 (CEST): added lighting to mainmenu background scene, looks a lot nicer =)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 03:44, 1 November 2007 (CET) hagish and i met today, and we decided to focus on combat.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 12:19, 1 May 2007 (CEST): it has been quiet here since we've been busy coding on http://iris2.de, but now we also resume work on sfz.
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:00, 8 November 2006 (CET) : it has been a while, i worked on iris with science, have a look : [[http://www.iris2.de]]. iris and sfz use a common codebase, both build on ogre3d and lua, so both project benefit from each other.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 20:49, 10 September 2006 (CEST) : target indicators fixed, f-key cheat disabled, "jump" menu available when far enough from system center.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 20:13, 9 September 2006 (CEST) : location system is working, in the current svn you can teleport between our first 2 test-locations using f1 and f2. Known bugs : collision and radar isn't working, and the hud-target-indicators still show objects outside the current location. Will be fixed soon.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 01:33, 8 September 2006 (CEST) : location systems starts working, some heavy code restructuring has just been finished, and although collision detection is still broken, we definitely moved forward. Beware that this evenings svn commit is still work in process, and might be unstable, but it compiles and runs, and i gotta sleep a bit now.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 01:27, 8 September 2006 (CEST) : a few points are still open, but the hud is basically functional, and work on the location system (which is mainly used for travelling) has started, so its time to move on to the next point on the roadmap
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 18:37, 6 September 2006 (CEST) : been busy starting the iris and zw rewrite, but now also working a bit on sfz again. Next thing planned are locations, eg. traveling between different places instead of just the one lame old asteroid field, but it'll take a while as this is a major design decision, so we have to plan carefully.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:05, 1 June 2006 (CEST): it's been quiet but we have quite a bit of progress, just no time to write about it, speedlines have been added to give visual feedback for own velocity, the hud-element-system has been made completely scriptable, and we just found and fixed the  "crash on ship death" bug under win, so a more playable win release should be available soon. I also just made a "buyzone" near the space-station, that shows a hud button when the player is within, still todo is to actually be able to buy something (just weapon upgrades for a start) and getting destroyed enemies and astaroids to drop something collectable to give the player cash to buy things with =)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:22, 29 June 2006 (CEST) : after playing (too much) guildwars, i finally completed the border-color-clipplane-thingie, a graphical element that will be used intensly by our gui, it can be coloured freely, even colour-transitions from the edges, supports clipping (for parent-child hierarchy and scrolling later on) and consists of 3x3 parts (middle + borders), where each part can use its own set of texturecoordinates, and the middle can have a seperate texture from the borders, e.g. something tilable.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 20:05, 11 April 2006 (CEST) : worked a bit on shots and explosions, looking quite nice now i think (3 new screenshots), still not animated though, screenshots can be made ingame by pressing "f", dumped particles from this roadmap, not really needed currently, so now we are done with milestone number 2, jeeehaww !
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Latest revision as of 10:15, 6 July 2012

we moved the devblogs of our projects into one common blog: http://schattenkind.net/blog/

for download, see Main Page


2008 March

new blog software and url

Hagish 15:35, 8 October 2008 (CEST) because of some issues with the wiki bloging we moved to a "normal" software. you can find the new post under http://schattenkind.net/blog/ .

working on the new gui system

Ghoulsblade 23:33, 12 March 2008 (CET) : we're still testing in the iris codebase mainly, but the new gui system will be used for sfz as well, a little preview about some upcoming features for text display :
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2008 February

bit quiet lately

Ghoulsblade 00:40, 15 February 2008 (CET): we're still around, but rather busy lately with other stuff, some interesting things that will probably be used for sfz planets later are being experimented with in iris (see iris devblog ), namely shadows, sky, and also a few grass and tree experiments. Also code for TextureAtlas and geometry-batching for better performance has been added there.

and we're also brainstorming for a redesing of the guicode, a few notes here.

2008 January

fastbatch

Ghoulsblade 21:09, 4 January 2008 (CET) : we've been working on a class for grouping the geometry of up large numbers of objects into a single batch, similar to the Ogre::StaticGeometry, this allows better performance at a slightly increased vram cost. It is a bit more lightweigt and flexible than static geometry, and has been designed to construct the batch fast so it can be used for contructing the batch at runtime, whereas Ogre::StaticGeometry was rather designed to construct the batch while loading a level or similar, so it wasn't really designed for fast construction. Also our batch allows colouring instances via vertex colour, and allows the whole batch to be repositioned and rotated as a whole. The main reason for developing it was to improve performance in iris, but it will probably be useful for things like asteroid fields in sfz as well, and maybe for stuff on planets later as well.

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2007 December

merry xmas to all ! quiet here lately due to work on iris

Ghoulsblade 16:17, 24 December 2007 (CET) : merry xmas to all who read this =) it's been a bit quiet here lately, we're currently busy working on performance improvements for iris, but at least some of them might also be interesting for sfz later =) We're experimenting with multitexturing, tilebased terrain, transition masks, and a more dynamic batched geometry class than the Ogre::StaticGeometry, as we need to change the contents at runtime, and want to avoid costly reading mesh data back from VRAM. And since iris and sfz share the lugre lib, both projects benefit from the resulting code improvements and addtitions.

2007 November


tractorbeam experiment

Ghoulsblade 21:03, 26 November 2007 (CET) : first experimental tractor-beam weapon. Can be used to drag enemies inside the range of deadly close-range weapons.... or for having fun with asteroids :)

<flvplayer width="320" height="240" loop="false">TractorBeam01.ogg</flvplayer>


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Ghoulsblade 16:22, 22 November 2007 (CET) : no new feature, but i made a short video showing how interior walking and furniture placement currently looks

<flvplayer width="320" height="240" loop="false">Interior.ogg</flvplayer>
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weapon icons : cooldown bar

Ghoulsblade 22:17, 20 November 2007 (CET) : the weapon icons now have a bar displaying the cooldown time until the weapon can be fired again.

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clickable weapon icons

Ghoulsblade 17:16, 19 November 2007 (CET) : now we've got clickable weapon icons, left-click to fire the weapon, rightclick to open a context menu (currently only for unequipping)

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better movement and more weapons

hagish 13:00, 18 November 2007 (CET) : Last night and the last 2 hours we improved the ship movement. Now we have a non-newton-max-velocity navigation. This not very realistic but far more fun. There are some new weapons too: splitting rockets (nut,star), chain laser, lightning gun

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split rocket

hagish 16:45, 17 November 2007 (CET) : the first new weapon starts to work. a split rocket and a chain laser. http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/images/f/f0/Splitrocket.ogg

weapon icons 2

Ghoulsblade 17:14, 11 November 2007 (CET) : BR48 showed up in the freegamer irc and asked if he could help out anywhere, now he started making nicer icons for us =)

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forum thread : http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=443

weapons and enemygroups

hagish 19:40, 4 November 2007 (CET) : last night ghouly and i worked a little bit on sfz. he startet to implement the new weapons and i merged the contributed enemygroup patch and started to implement a hero-defense like game mode.

weapon icons

Ghoulsblade 03:44, 1 November 2007 (CET) hagish and i met today, and we decided to focus on combat. some notes : Sfz31.10.2007 i already started making a few weapon-icons, they're rather simple, but should do for getting started.



rn_pd_rocket.png rn_pd_rocket_strong.png rn_pd_rocket_split1.png rn_pd_rocket_split3.png rn_pd_rocket_split_star.png (unguided missiles, last 3 can split into multipe warheads, in different formations)

rn_pd_missile.png rn_pd_missile_strong.png rn_pd_missile_remote.png (guided/homing missiles, the last one is remote controlled)

rn_pd_laser.png rn_pd_projectile.png rn_pd_railgun.png rn_pd_charging.png laser,projectile,railgun,charging

rn_pd_edrain.png rn_pd_tractor.png rn_pd_emp.png rn_pd_plasma_glob.png e-drain,tractor,emp(paralyzing shockwave),plasmaglob

rn_pd_afterburner.png rn_pd_chainlightning.png rn_pd_lightning.png rn_pd_plasma.png afterburner,chainlightning,lightning,plasma(like flamethrower)


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