The existing roadmap is as follows:
2.1 - The multiplayer release (Xmas 2007)
* Fully working multiplayer between all three OSes, two endians
and two bitsizes.
* Disconnected clients can reconnect feature.
* Campaign works.
* Variable size connectors to make multiturret droids look ok.
I think we need at least a 3 months beta period before every release,
at which point the trunk must be branched off and feature-frozen. That
means 2.1 needs to be feature complete between September/October.
2.2 - The tools and content release (June 2008)
* Working and fully usable world editor and pie importers.
* Upgraded tilesets and models.
* New and upgraded maps.
* A well defined, future-proof savegame format.
* Improve path-finding.
* Other stuff
2.3 - The campaign restoration release (Xmas 2008)
* Replace missing FMVs with something else.
* Allowing playing campaign as multiplayer.
* Multiplayer save and load.
* Other stuff
Now that we are at xmas, and after having worked quite a bit on the
renderer, I would suggest the following new roadmap, and minimum
hardware requirements to go with it:
2.1 - The multiplayer release (January 2007)
* Fully working multiplayer between all three OSes, two endians
and two bitsizes.
* All the other things that are already complete. Except
multiturret droid feature is IMHO still too immature to ship in a
stable version.
Hardware requirement: Hardware accelerated OpenGL 1.1
2.2 - The tools and content release (June 2008)
* Add or replace missing FMVs.
* Disconnected clients can reconnect feature.
* Working and fully usable world editor and pie editor.
* A well defined, future-proof savegame format.
* Additional multiplayer maps.
* Multiturret droids and structures enabled.
Hardware requirement: Hardware accelerated OpenGL 1.4
2.3 (or 3.1) - Campaign upgrade (Xmas 2008)
* New campaign
* Improve path-finding.
* Upgraded tilesets and models.
* Allowing playing a campaign as multiplayer.
* Multiplayer save and load.
Hardware requirement: Hardware accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (or 3.0)
3.0 - Render upgrade (when done, but after 2.2)
* New shader based renderer using GLSL.
Hardware requirement: Hardware accelerated OpenGL 2.0, and a minimum
of 4 texture units that can use at least 2048x2048 textures.
My explanation for the 3.0 item: I have tried many ways to make the
current renderer use static data now, and I do not think it is worth
the effort. Current development is going toward a progammable
pipeline, and then you can do what Pumpkin did in 1999 on the CPU but
on the GPU instead, without having to go through a turturous rewrite
of the renderer. And better. I like this as a concept, too, since it
allows us to follow the original Pumpkin engine model.
- Per
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