New map format... again...

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 22 Jun 2006, 16:55

Any chance that the new map format could be released in the next version? As in putting a lot of manpower into it?

WOuld be pretty kick ass.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 22 Jun 2006, 18:39

manpower? where?

(sorry couldn't resist)

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 22 Jun 2006, 18:42

Well, with enough people working on it, it could be released anytime. The problem is, those people would need to be not random people, but programmers, and not even rookie ones like myself.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 22 Jun 2006, 21:23

For those of you that missed the question...

COuld the devs be requested to focus on getting the new map format out the door? <- Another way of saying what I said in my first post.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 22 Jun 2006, 21:30

answer:

probaly not....

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 22 Jun 2006, 21:37

Last I heard from JC was that is was a cross platform issue.

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » 22 Jun 2006, 21:41

yes now I remember, the new map renderer had still bugs on ATI cards which JC didn't know (yet) how to solve.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 22 Jun 2006, 22:04

HA HA at ATI

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 22 Jun 2006, 23:09

ATI pwns your crap cards. The New crossfire system beats SLi And doesn't need a hugewtfbbq Fan about the size of your head to cool it like SLi does.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 22 Jun 2006, 23:46

ATi r suck. I dont have facts to back this up, or any sort of knowledge that would allow me to say this.
But still ATi r suck.

Arco · Post by **Arco** » 22 Jun 2006, 23:50

Drone_Fragger wrote:ATI pwns your crap cards. The New crossfire system beats SLi And doesn't need a hugewtfbbq Fan about the size of your head to cool it like SLi does.

This isn't the "ATi versus NVidia" thread. The relevant thing is how well Spring runs on various cards, and what can be done to make it work better. Presently the architecture of some ATi cards is posing a problem that the developers will have to spend some effort solving, or choose to ignore (which they can do, since this is not a commercial venture reliant on supporting the widest possible playerbase). It has nothing to do with whether ATi cards are "good" or "bad". Why even drag this into a dumb internet debate?

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 23 Jun 2006, 00:33

This is a very rough guess but I won't be surprised if Jelmers map format still needs a good 6 months of part-time development.
Maybe Jelmer will include it in a release before that.
But before most bugs are out and it's really useful we live in 2007 I think.

Now of course "if" an engine developer (Jelmer) would focus on it full-time it might be finished in 2 months.
(But again this is a rough guess)
But I'm quite sure that won't happen.

mongus · Post by **mongus** » 24 Jun 2006, 07:27

Tim Blokdijk wrote:This is a very rough guess but I won't be surprised if Jelmers map format still needs a good 6 months of part-time development.
Maybe Jelmer will include it in a release before that.
But before most bugs are out and it's really useful we live in 2007 I think.

Now of course "if" an engine developer (Jelmer) would focus on it full-time it might be finished in 2 months.
(But again this is a rough guess)
But I'm quite sure that won't happen.

on what basis are you guessing?

Dr.InfernO · Post by **Dr.InfernO** » 24 Jun 2006, 11:02

ooh god stop fanboying ATi or nVidia.

3dfx was the best!

Damn the the spring developers are only a small amount of people.

Post by **jcnossen** » 24 Jun 2006, 13:12

Nah, not 6 months. I can't really give a date, but I hope to finish it this summer. Also, when I think the texturing specification is stable, I'll put it in spring even if there are some bugs (It won't affect any maps anyway). The current spring version already has the map abstraction, so including the new terrain renderer in it is really simple.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 24 Jun 2006, 14:06

I bow you your uberness jcnossen.

(why did ythat get a negative ring to it?.. None intended, as you seriously do rock)

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 24 Jun 2006, 14:13

Comp1337 wrote:I bow you your uberness jcnossen.

(why did ythat get a negative ring to it?.. None intended, as you seriously do rock)

The correct word is ubertastictacularity.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 24 Jun 2006, 14:54

Of course, how could i forget.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 24 Jun 2006, 19:11

JC, I bow to your ubertastictacularity.

Targ Collective · Post by **Targ Collective** » 24 Jun 2006, 21:06

Ah, sweet anticipation. JC, you and the devteam have put a lot of effort into this over the years, and it shows...

...Thanks!

Spring RTS Engine

New map format... again...

New map format... again...