Getting started - Octree

[K-Jtan]

Hello everyone,

First let me introduce myself. My name is Cajetan Bouchard, I'm a Master student in Computer Science from Canada. My expertise is in Crowd Simulation in an non-collision envirement. I've been working in C++ for 5 years and an half.

And now let me be a newbie. It's my first time I try to contribute to an OpenSource and I'm not sure where to start.

K776 started a conversation a few days ago in this thread http://www.wildfireg...showtopic=16991 where he mention that there is a need for an Octree (Oct-tree). I would like to know if someone could provide more information about what are the actual needs ? (what is it for, can it be program in C++, etc.)

Also, where do I get all the code, what tool do you use to build and test the code that is develop before it's put in the actual game?

I don't know if I will have time to work on this, but I would like to give you my help on this enhancement.

K-Jtan

Edited January 22, 2013 by K-Jtan

[FeXoR]

Welcome to the forum!

I think this page should be helpful especially the build instructions and track usage:

http://trac.wildfire...rtedProgrammers

Have a nice stay

Edited January 22, 2013 by FeXoR

[MishFTW]

Welcome to the community Cajetan!

[K-Jtan]

I think this page should be helpful especially the build instructions and track usage:

http://trac.wildfire...rtedProgrammers

Thank you very much I will look at this documentation during this week

[quantumstate]

The octree would be written in C++. It would be used to speed up the game by providing quick position filtering. There are a couple of places that I know of so far which I mentioned in my reply to that other thread.