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Create API Documentation for this component.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentions for all classes in this component.

The current brightness code with the hardware gamma creates some problems. Its hard to set up a proper looking screen as the color control just darkens and lightens the whole screen and this looks unnatural.

It seems that the original Fallout games calculated brightness from the pal files. Hopefully there is a way to integrate a pal-based brightness control so the screen looks natural like in Fallout.

We’ll need to find a way to get this stuff working for pure sdl and opengl rendering.

Docs about pal files and the brightness code © TeamX:
- http://members.fifengine.de/docs/pal_processing.html

The user should be able to let the core display a frames per second counter that shows the current fps.

This feature will be needed anyway if we want to know if the current system is fast enough and will be the only way to prove if an optimation worked.

The user should be able to toggle it on / off using the “f”-key.

The current maploader does already work but it displays the tiles with the lowest brightness available.

The renderer needs a brightness control so the user can increase / decrease the global brightness of the whole SDL-screen by pressing + / -

If the new core doesn’t compile on linux, we’ll need to make adjustments to fix that

Testing

This issue was reported by EWMS

Installing Pyton.
Installing Sconns.
Checkout Prototype Code.
Compile.
Sounds easy enough ^^.

The user must be able to scroll the map using the arrow keys of the keyboard.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentation for the SDL Renderbackend

Tesseract and Roger already added the scons support for MacOsX.

It does already compile (even the OpenGL version!) but we need to find a way to get a dat tool working on Mac before we can really test the compiled file.

Test1

This issue was reported by HansGans

This is a test to ensure that trac can cope with anonymous tickets

We’ll need a maploader that can load the existing fallout 2 maps. That includes:
- floor tiles
- roof tiles
- objects
- critters

Another test

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentation for the OpenGL Renderbackend

This is an assign test

After ticket #30 has been resolved we could animate the loaded critters.

Docs about the .frm file format and how animations work can be found here © TeamX:
http://members.fifengine.de/docs/frm_1.html

and here

http://members.fifengine.de/docs/frm_2.html

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentation for this component.

After the tickets #30 and #31 have been resolved we should combine the results to create an alter ego that can walk on the object coordinates.

The starting point for the alter ego (object / hex coordinate) can be read from the .map file. While walking it should display the walking animation for the alter ego.

Map file docu:
- http://members.fifengine.de/docs/map.html

Object / hex coordinate docu:
- http://wiki.fifengine.de/index.php?title=Fallout%27s_map_geometry

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Create API documentation for this component.

Details: Way to many singletons in here:
- TimeManager
- Engine
- InputManager
- SettingsManager

Also some util classes/files:
- Log
- Exception and derived
- Debugutils

All InputManager infrastructure
- InputListener
- InputListenerRaw
- Events

Blockers are special map object that block something. There are different kinds of blockers for different purposes.
- FULL blockers so you can’t run through a wall
- WALK blockers will block walking on this hex field but you can still shoot there. E.g. Windows use this blocker type
- Scroll blockers are the ones that ensure that you don’t scroll outside of the map; these blockers shouldn’t be integrated into FIFE IMO

Docs about the blockers:
- http://members.fifengine.de/docs/map.html
- http://members.fifengine.de/docs/falloutEd.pdf

This issue was reported by phoku

Figure out a way to update the documentation regulary with an automated script.
This script should be run daily.

If this is not possible, please describe the reasons shortly.

We’ll need a way to modify key bindings @ runtime.

I suggest to create a new “bindings” file (just similar to the already existing “settings”) and save the key bindings there.

The console should be able to bind one and even more than one function to a key. You should always be able to modify the “bindings” file with a simple txt editor as there are some problems with the console key under windows.

This way the users could simply edit it and bind the console key to a key that works with Windows XP.

The current code does not support the displaying of animations that are based on palette files.

See the “burning” barrels (flames are white here as we don’t suppor the animation ATM) in this screenshot:
http://screens.fifengine.de/prototype1_007.jpg

The following objects use pal based animations:
- fast fire
- slow fire
- monitors
- slime (goo, radioactive waste, etc.)
- costal water / shoreline
- flashing red alarm

Docs about .pal files and the animations © TeamX:
http://members.fifengine.de/docs/pal_processing.html

Sourcecode of a windows palette viewer:
- http://www.teamx.ru/srcs/Fallout2_Palette_src.rar
- http://www.teamx.ru/srcs/PALView_src.rar

Add support for the Fallout 1/2 .acm sound format. Using the libACM library seems to be the best option:
http://libacm.berlios.de/

This is another test

We’ll need a .dat archive reader that can retrive files from the Fallout .dat files and pass them to the core.

The .dat reader should run on Linux, Windows and MacOsX and we need to find a way to cope with the filename / .lst case problem under case sensitive platforms.

Documents about the .dat format can be found here:
http://members.fifengine.de/mvbarracuda/dat.html
(copyright: TeamX)

This issue was reported by rwilco

It would be nice to have at least some basic support for audio playback in our prototype.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentions for all classes in this component.

The prototype needs to load the floor & roof tile ids from a map and convert them into the name of the gfx file. After he got the filename he needs to load the file and render the tile to the correct position.

The user should be able to switch roof tile displaying on and off using the “r” key.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create documentation for FIFEdit.

An OpenGL port of the existing renderer.

This issue was reported by [email protected]

Proposed patch: http://members.iinet.net.au/~mroot/FIFE/vorbisfile_fix.diff

This has the added benefit of not assuming that the vorbis headers are in /usr/include/vorbis/.

Roger hopes that he can write a first version of the coding standards docs. We’ll discuss them in the meeting and talk about useful changes / additions.

We’ll need to create a custom 2d gfx format for the project so we can support new features like the easy ingame recolouring of sprites.

This includes defining the format and creating documents that describe the format

Suggested svn location:
HEAD/contrib/doc/gfxformat

The renderer should be to change the display resolution.

This could be done by using a command line argument and passing it to the core.

E.g.
prototype maps\test.map 800 600

→ the prototype loads the map “test.map” and displays it with a resolution of 800×600

We should integrate the SDL_console library into FIFE so we’ve got an ingame console for script triggering and testing.

Without an ingame console, the whole scripting integration can’t start IMO.

Download: http://sdlconsole.sourceforge.net/wiki/

This issue was reported by [email protected]

I have made a patch which fixes it. It is available here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~mroot/FIFE/mac_gl_fix_2005-10-03.diff

This issue was reported by tesseract

When starting testproj on the Mac this error is displayed on the console:

```
ERROR in DT_drawtext.c:DT_LoadFont(): Cannot load file
: Couldn’t open lib/fonts/ConsoleFont.bmp
ERROR in SDL_console.c:CON_Init(): Could not load the font
" for the console!Font.bmp
```

The file in question is in the correct location, and giving the full path in the settings file does not help. The console cannot be activated in the program. Also, the framerate display does not appear. Choosing a different renderer makes no difference.

This issue was reported by skybound

For example see denbus1.map; roughly in the middle is a street corner with a “stop” sign; two of the yellowish critters flicker – are only draw sometimes.

Furthermore on the same map in lower left corner (entrance, guard in armor and yellow critter, also flickering) there seems to be a drawing problem: critter partially overdrawn by wall.

The current revision of FIFE does not build on Macintosh using our SCons build system.

Find out what’s wrong by posting the exact build error message @ the public mailing list:
- [email protected]

The critter information should be loaded from the Fallout 2 .map files and the corresponding critter .frm file should be displayed.

After the displaying of the critters works, we could think about animating them by adding code for .frm files with multiple frames.

Docs about the map format: © TeamX
http://members.fifengine.de/docs/map.html#MAP%20Objects

This issue was reported by ianout

Where is the core?

After we added .dat support we should give running FIFE on Mac OS X a go.

The current code does already compile fine on Mac but there is no .dat extraction utility that works (neither emulation nor native).

I’ll contact Tesseract and ask if he got time to test the newest version after .dat support has been added.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API Documentation for this component.

If you scroll with the error keys outside the map, the not existing tiles will get overdrawn by existing one. This effect is quite irritating.

Every tile outside the map borders should be black and get drawn black if you scroll over them.

This issue was reported by phoku

Create API documentation for this component.

This issue was reported by phoku

The problem has schown up that we get line ending pollution,
if we don’t use this property. So this property should be set
for all source code files. This is marked as defect, since
svn problems will show up otherwise.

This applies for all components.

Set it with:

```
svn propset svn:eol-style native filenames
```

Get the properties with:

```
svn proplist —verbose filenames
```

This issue was reported by [email protected]

The complete implementation of the scriptbase.h file is crap. I think the author should read a very good C++ book!
Rewrite this code… Mr. skybound