Custom Query (296 matches)

It is always nice to be able to import multiple file-types

• Idea:
  • Use the existing importer classes to import a new Model from a .x-file
  • Build models in this format

• Interface:
  • Use Model class for handling 3D-models
  • See how it is done in the OBJModel-class

• Beware:
  • x-file format is DirectX file format and is not Open-Source
  • Do not do to much work here, it should just work, but it is not what we should support
  • It is always better to extend .obj and .3ds support

Text is a must for every game

• Idea:
  • look for a suitable Way to render text on top of the draw-stack
  • Fast, cool, modular method
  • Maybe use ascii-chart, with text-icon coordinates
  • also create an own font for orxonox

• Interface:
  • Text initializer
  • positioning
  • changing
  • coloring
  • font selection
  • display
• Extensions:
  • fading
  • anti-aliased

What I am thinking of is a UnrealTournament Style GUI that pops up the first time you start the game and every time the game terminates unexpectedly so you are able to change any critical software settings. Furthermore there are some other features, that would be fancy to have:

Feature Requests:

• a performance meter, that calculates the speed of the CPU and graphics hardware to show a diagram of how fast the pc is compared to others. it should be able to suggest some reasonable graphics settings.
• possibility to download any update to the software and its media-data.
• possibility to send bug messages to the orxonox developer team. maybe with a debug engine, that will send the last debug output of orxonox with the debug message

all these possibilities sound very good but the user should always (and always) have the opportinuty to choose if he/she wants to go online to do these things!