Want to help ?
Everybody is free to contribute to this project in any way they want. I’ve compiled a list of ideas and things I’d like to do myself but still haven’t had time to. If anyone wants to volunteer in any of them email me so I can coordinate things a little and there aren’t several people doing the same at the same time.
Coders
There are endless ways in which this could be extended. These are a few I’ve though of:
- More material types: when building the examples I found it was very slow and tedious to define each wall and paint each door manually. The tile material helps a lot, as you only specify the size of the plane and the texture to be repeated, but it would be nice to have a Door material, for example that automatically draws a door centered in the middle of you wall, or a material that draws windows each N pixels of you wall.
- AI functions. I plan to have some AI methods already implemented for the next release, but the more the better. Algorythms that find paths into your scenes, AIs for a bad guy that seeks cover when being shot, etc…
- A graphic editor for scenes: that would be absolutely wonderful.
Graphic designers
- Material libraries and object libraries: for single developers or small groups of people, this is a must. Having access to a ready-to-use set of ancient-greece textures or characters makes a big difference and encourages people to finish their projects instead of never going past the “technology test” phase. If you want to submit libraries, check the examples in the basepack and the documentation on how to build one. Essentially it will be a swf file with the symbols and an XML definition with the liks to that symbols. IMPORTANT !! Every symbol is made into a class. Therefore, use UNIQUE names and try to come up with a naming convention such as MYNAME_COLLECTION_ITEM. Don’t label your items badguy or stone because it will end up coonflicting with other libraries other people will submit.
- Logos: the project doesn’t have a logo. A logo gives a serious touch to anything. “Powered by FFilmation”, bwa ha ha ha !!
- A wordpress theme for this site, or a nicer header image. My skills with photoshop are close to none.
Again this is only a list of suggestions based on what I miss, but this is opensource so do whatever you like.
