Open Jelly
So inbetween coursework pieces I have been coding our (Comscare house’s game) MMORPG we’re making, dubbed ‘Project Furscape’. Eventually its going to be a full 3D futuristic space MMORPG, it’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and apparently, the same with Charlie. I’ve volunteered to write the 3D engine for it and oh boy its a biggie! It’s boggling my mind already, but I’m slowly plodding on with it. I should be writing my final year project for university but the renderer, despite causing me physical pain, is fun (masochist?).
I’ve got a basic scene tree implementation working with textures and can load in models from Milkshape 3D (but haven’t got round to implementing the animation side of things, and every time I think about doing it, I feel like I’m going to cry). The test scene I’ve tried it out with actually makes me feel pretty good, just from looking at it. Couple of spinning asteroids on a starry background… makes me think “Wow, I’ve actually got to the point where I’m coding in the same language at the pros!”, but OpenGL is a biiiiiig place 
lots of areas, particle effects, bump mapping, and I don’t even want to think about pixel shaders :S
We have been designing it on a MediaWiki hosted on our LAN and have been recording all ideas we come up with, various systems and how things are going to interact with each other. We weren’t planning on starting it until AFTER unviersity (since the end is pretty close). But I couldn’t resist… this is something I’ve always wanted to do and it’s GOING to happen 
Anyway, I guess I should get some sleep. Tomorrow has been assigned to AI coursework completion. Might do a spot of light reading in bed of “The Redbook” (OpenGL documentation).
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By ste, March 25, 2006 @ 2:58 am
how many project have u guys got?
the comscar media wiki, the planet, etc….
my house mates are even too afraid to set up file sharing via our network let along this stuff!
By Jargon, March 28, 2006 @ 12:21 pm
As many as possible
but most of this stuff is hosted online with [link=http://www.web-dragon.co.uk]Web-Dragon.co.uk[/link] (but I still own the [link=http://www.comscare.org]Comscare[/link] domain hah!). The development wiki is hosted on my own server though, which sits underneath the stairs (dubbed WOPR).