[Nel] Snowballs Data & CVS

Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:57:56 -0800

First off I'd like to say hello, I'm new to the list, one of the slashdot
+crowd that have descended upon you. :)  I'm a C/C++/VB^H^H^H/SQL developer
+and I've done mud development as a hobby for years
+(www.sourceforge.net/projects/embermud) so this project was immediately
+interesting to me.  I'm entirely a client/server developer with just a
+rudimentary understanding of 3D so I'll probably be contributing entirely in
+the server or client/server communcation areas.  Few questions for you all
+at Nevrax.
+
+Would it be possible to move the snowballs data into the CVS tree?  I'm
+keeping current with the CVS updates and evidentally some changes made to
+NeL or the client/server portion have rendered the data package offered on
+the website obsolete.
+
+Have you all looked at using sourceforge for your public CVS front end?  The
+site can be designed to look exactly like your current site (but I believe
+would require a sourceforge graphic and link somewhere on the page) and
+offers all the services you currently offer as well as more bandwidth and
+will spare you from further slashdot type outages (at least to some degree
+:).
+
+I've read back through the mailing list archives and understand that you're
+using a plugin to 3DSMax to create NeL objects.  Will you be releasing this
+any time soon?  I know a few people that are not 3D developers (unable to
+write a plugin) but would be interested in starting to build content.  I'm
+curious why you haven't released it already?  (Yes, I'm nosy :)
+
+What about design documents for NeL?  You have a lot of auto-generated
+documentation available but as far I as I can tell there aren't many (or
+any) design documents available.  This would be especially nice for parts of
+the library that have yet to be developed.  Starting work on undeveloped
+portions of the library (the DB portion for instance) might be of interest
+to other developers.
+
+Are you actually interested in other developers making major contributions
+to this project pre-production or are you more interested in just offering
+your work to the community?
+
+Forgive me if I'm asking questions with answers that are readily available
+on your web-site but I've done my best to research beforehand.
+
+Thanks,
+E.J. Wilburn
+zane@supernova.org
+
+
+
+