Yesterday I mailed about the new Open Game project with the Blender and Crystal Space projects. More information about this can be found here: - http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/2007-plans/ - http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/2007-plans/apricot-open-game/
Ton Roosendaal from Blender will come to the Crystal Space conference to talk about this project. You have only a few days left to register for this. For Crystal Space this project is an enourmous opportunity. I see several big advantages for us in this. First the goals of this project are pretty high. We don't want *just* another free game. We want a free game that can visually compete with commercial quality games. To that end we'll have to improve on Crystal Space to allow for more modern 3D features. One important aspect in that plan is the new render manager that we are planning. Another big advantage of this project will be a 'documentation' or 'tutorial' aspect. The entire process of making this game will be documented (on a DVD) and made available later. All sources and art files will be available. This will be a huge documentation process and hopefully it will help many people who want to start a new project with Crystal Space. Also this is of course a big publicity boost for Crystal Space. Apricot (code name for Open Game project) only starts late this year but I think we should not wait for that to start improving Crystal Space and CEL. I really think we should make haste now in designing the new render manager as I feel this is going to be important for this. At the conference we have set aside some time to discuss the new render manager. So let's all make this a wonderful project. Together I think we can make a fantastic game. Greetings, -- Project Manager of Crystal Space (http://www.crystalspace3d.org) and CEL (http://cel.crystalspace3d.org) Support Crystal Space. Donate at https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=649 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
