Monthly Review - May 2004

[Wijitmaker]

The following are the outstanding accomplishments by the 0 A.D. Staff Members for the month of May.

Rich Cross aka notpete - For being a source of extraordinary graphical wizardry. This month he brought us the attachment system, animated unit models, dynamic shadows, unit picking, a host of improvements to ScEd and the graphics engine.

Jan Wassenberg aka janwas - For not only tirelessly ploughing through a list of low-level programming tasks of approximately equal length to the Berlin Wall, but for his commitment to stamping out compiler warnings, memory leaks, and establishing DLL standardisation. Also a source of great ideas for improvements to the agenda, prioritisation, etc.

Mark Thompson aka MarkT - For taking Rich's units and making them "dance" (not literally, but maybe later). Added entity management, waypoint movement, basic pathfinding and collision detection, provided a linefix solution, and helped out Jan a whole lot with his fixes.

Alan Kemp aka Alan - For implementing and thoroughly documenting a Javascript host interface, soon to be the backbone of 0 A.D.'s scripted logic.

Bobby Ognyanov aka CheeZy - For creating a beautiful set of terrain textures, and an accompanying set of terrain sprites.

Behind-the-Scenes news for May

• RPS dynamics documented
  
• Several Concept images were sketched
  
• ScEd has been updated to version 0.0.7.2
  
• New member Chad Heim joined the Programming Department
  
• Details of the Schedule were completed
  
• Master art list was created
  
• 3ds Max template was updated to version 2.0
  
• Much low-level code was updated and/or initialised
  
• Animation implemented
  
• Propping implemented
  
• Shadows implemented
  
• Pathfinding implemented
  
• Waypointing implemented
  
• Scripting implemented and documented
  
• Design Document v1.8 advancing nearer to completion