For those of you who have not followed the latest events on the forum and/or IRC, EIDOS have now granted us permission to distribute both the FMVs and the soundtracks from the original game under the GPL. This bodes well for the future.
It does, however, give us somewhat of a challenge for 2.1, which is way overdue. I believe there is some expectation that our next release will include the missing data now, and we should discuss if this is a good idea. I would like some input from the people who worked with the FMVs on how much work remains to integrate them properly (gerard, angus...), and I would also like to hear people's opinions on how they should be distributed. Here are my very preliminary thoughts: * we ship beta3 once we have run some quick network tests on it, tomorrow or Saturday, with an announcement of the above good news, adding that we will attempt to integrate as much as possible of it into the final 2.1 release. * we put the original soundtracks in a mod to be distributed along with beta3 * we create a new branch based on trunk to attempt to quickly produce working FMV code for 2.1 beta4 * we put the converted FMVs in a tarball on gna.org, but not in the svn repository (too big, 300mb+) * for 2.1 we allow the user to play without FMVs, as before, and only optionally play them if present * for 2.2 we try to isolate all of the campaign into a mod, so that you can pull down a single mod to enable the campaign with FMVs, and find a way for mods to 'register' their presence into the main menu, etc. Opinions? Yours Per _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
