Monthly Review - December 2004

[Wijitmaker]

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

Philip Taylor (aka Ykkrosh): For his highly competent and relentless assistance in a wide range of areas this month. No problem too large or small, with great initiative and never a word of complaint, Philip fixed bugs, built tools, and made welcome improvements to such diverse areas as the GUI and editor. A real asset while we've been understaffed during the holiday season.

Accomplishments for the month of December:

• Found and fixed bugs related to the build system, game engine, SpiderMonkey, garbage collection, and pretty much everything else.
  
• Cleaned/Optimized source code.
  
• Internally renamed the game engine, many name corrections were made replacing the old with the new.
  
• Added graphical effects (greyscale, recolouring, etc) to textures in the GUI system.
  
• Provided support for icon-sheet textures in the GUI.
  
• Implemented tooltips.
  
• Made the sky blue.
  
• Reorganised build repository.
  
• Implemented archive builder.
  
• Made Scenario Editor recompilable and improved.
  
• Built multiplayer connection / IP hosting screen and message box.
  
• Built SP map selection screen.
  
• Further refinement of session GUI (particularly status icons). Established build lists (train, construct, research, etc).
  
• Revised GUI to take advantage of new improvements like icon sheets, tooltips, and sprite colouring effects.
  
• Fixed a raft of bugs and improved the low-level code, including texture flipping.
  
• Made various user interface placeholder art, like command buttons, unit icons, etc...
  
• Started on in-game Editor GUI (aka Atlas).
  
• Made static loading screen and F10 menu.
  
• Wrote and released 2D/3D developer article.
  
• Hired two new historians.
  
• Created and released eight screenshots.
  
• Updated DD with some changes to match entity implementation, and initial plan for charge effects.
  
• Various mundane admin, management and discussions too random to detail here.
  
• Carthaginian structure concepts finished.
  
• Iberian concepts started.
  
• Created placeholders for all the structures in the game (60+ actors).
  
• Created placeholders for all the units in the game (150+ actors).
  
• 12 humanoid charecters modeled.
  
• All Carthaginian structures modeled.
  
• All Persian structures modeled.
  
• Hellenistic voice acting started.
  

[Centurion_13]

wow we have done a lot this month.

[Gunthahaha]

If work is always going so fast, why must we wait 2006?

[Paal_101]

Because there is so much more to be done LOL 12 figures modeled out of, what? 270? Plus there are all the world objects and beasts

[feneur]

"Made the sky blue"

That sounds like quite an accomplishment.

(Why don't we take and paint the sky blue, if me can make a game we can do anything )

A bit more serious note though: It's sure interesting to see from where we're coming, the project has sure come a long way, though we're obviously not done yet.