Re: [glob2-devel] level 2 school construction site.

[Stéphane Magnenat]

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 03.59, Joey Luke Marshall wrote:
> I made a level 2 school construction site and the mask. hope you like
> it. :)

Thanks. It is cool and much better then the "old" buildings sites. 
Nevertheless, what would be really great for building such as this school is 
a building site that show the school half built, like only the frame and 
inner core. Settlers 2 had some clever hack : each building had a frame and a 
final sprite and they were draw clipped from the top during building, vaguely 
showing sort of progression. I'm not sure this effect would be cool on glob2, 
which has much bigger buildings be having a frame half covered when building 
could be cool.

What do you think about it ?

Some words on the GL backend now. It is using glSDL 
(http://olofson.net/mixed.html), modified to add lines, circles and rect 
primitives in GL. Our version lays in glob2 CVS in libag's directory. It is 
only two files (on .h and one .c).
The backend is completed, although two things are not working properly :
- the menu in game are not updated correctly. I check and rechecked all the 
code related to this and it seems that glSDL does not blit SDL to SDL 
textures correctly. I looked at it and only found that it does 
SDL_BlitSurface them together. Perhaps something is trashed. I very welcome 
any feedback from tests on other plateforms or any patch. SDL crashes on my 
notebook which has a mobility radeon 9000 with GPL drivers.
- the resize trash the glSDL texture cache. This is a glSDL known issues. 
Patch toward the glSDL version in glob2 CVS are welcome.

I'm very happy that people are interested in glob2 and do good 
contributions :-)
Luc and me are not enable to allocate as much time for glob2 as we would like 
to, but we are decided not to let it die. We welcome any people that want to 
contribute; in code, graphism, web site, map design, map testing, 
scenario, ...

Thanks to everyone,

Steph

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