Another monthly update from the World Foundry comes along giving us the latest news on whats going on with there developments. Read on...

1. Explorer 2260 Update.

This is what has been added (on the design and programming end of things) to Explorer 2260 in May.

• - 3D editor redesigned and reimplementation started with a focus changed from full object creation to editing, texturing and zoning.
• - Server architecture altered, filesystem operations now handled by the client unless client and server are not on the same machine.
• - Investigation into a port of the server core to linux underway (with a view to allowing multiplayer games to be set up on linux boxes)
• - Development focus moved to implementation of the 3D engine using Warp3D.
• - Region specific time handling partially implemented.
• - Hyperspace calculations and Theory Of Hyperspace altered slightly (involving the clearing of a small forest to provide the paper).
• - Graphical work will be increasing in June now that school studies are now finished.

2. Maim & Mangle Update.

• - Work has picked up a bit with M&M and the 3d engine is getting nicer as time goes on with some rather cool features.
• - These are the new features added to the engine in May:
• - hierichal objs
• - enhanced double buffering routine, it doesn't rely on the ScrollVPort trick anymore
• - gouround shading
• - infrared night vision
• - the daylight may vary during battles
• - general speedup (now it reach 40fps on a 604/180 + CVPPC with a resolution of 640x480 15 bit)
• - implemented first fx effects
• - pick/info on units

  Features to be added in June:

  • - a new gui (maybe based on semi-trasparent floating windows)
  • - more fx effects
  • - first AI implementation

There was also several work on our internal developent tool, M3D editor and Terrain editor.

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