Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Mario Wynands" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: World Maker Plans Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 02:38:35 +1200 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 44 Message-ID: <7jkbt1$rqe9@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7jho2m$49v11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3-max8.wlg.ihug.co.nz X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1423 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:4166 Nathan Miller wrote in message news:7jho2m$49v11@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > 10 DAYS TO BETA RELEASE OF PSX FILE SERVER V1.0!!! > > Now that my file server project is reaching its final stages, I have began > design on my next project (on any time that I do not have access to my > computer). It is going to use the file server as a transfer base, but is > going to be a level editor and contrary to my web page, I have decided to > implement it on the Yaroze. It will output a file much like the OpenFlight > file from MultiGen. I already have plans for LODs and terrain and a bunch > of other junk, but I can always use more. I am doing the preliminary design > on the actual file format, so if you have suggestions on what should be > implimented, please email me or post here. Sounds like a good idea! Off the top of my head I can think of the following things which might come in handy - height, texture, colour, surface attributes info for landscape - collision detection info - lighting/camera info - object position/rotation/scaling info - list of required data files e.g. TIM, TMD etc It would probably be an idea to have within World Maker the option to include/exclude each information component from the export. That way if people are only interested in a subset of the functionality World Maker provides they can easilly exclude the extraneous data. Alternatively, use english language tokens in the file so people can skip over stuff when parsing. You might also want to code a Yaroze level file parsing template which will help people incorporate your format into their projects quickly. Regards Mario mario@sidhe.co.nz www.sidhe.co.nz