Monthly Review - October 2004

[Wijitmaker]

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

Michael Hafer aka Mythos Ruler: For his hard work, speed, and solid effort to wrap up the Persian structure concepts. Four down, only 2 left to go! Also excellent work in helping with the concepts for the RMS maps.

Mark Thompson aka MarkT: Somehow, Mark has managed to do an exceptional juggling act of university work, server maintainance, and entity coding. The fruit of his labour isn't visible at the moment, but you'll definitely hear about it next month.

Behind-the-Scenes news for October

• Research and code for programmable pipeline support
  
• Mipmap LOD bias settings
  
• Water code research
  
• Enhanced actor functionality
  
• Initial implementation of experimental collapsible GUI
  
• Completed low-level sound interface via OpenAL
  
• Bug-fixes and improvements to resource manager code
  
• Created 'Progress Bar' control
  
• Made improvements to the GUI's text processor
  
• Work on the 'Input' control has started
  
• Made GUI block world interactions
  
• Did work on using untextured sprites in the GUI
  
• Implemented user profiles
  
• Completed bits of entity combat scripting
  
• Made headway for move to Subversion
  
• Revised string class
  
• First Carthaginian musical score composed
  
• Roll-over unit descriptions nearly complete
  
• New experimental 'orb' GUI presented
  
• Persian structure concept art completed
  
• Skin modifier capabilities added for the 3ds max plugin
  
• Forums merged and upgraded
  
• Major work done on the new website
  
• Design Document 1.8 pronounced complete
  

Special thanks to:

* Stuart Walpole for helping polish off the design document

* Nathanael Barbettini for his help with the the website

* Matt Holmes for the technical support during the forum merger

[Wijitmaker]

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