[Nel] Snowball 2.0?

Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:14:50 +0200

Hello Tony,
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+> I'm curious as to the progress of SnowBall and it's compatability with
+> the latest version of nel.
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+The Snowball is out of date. It doesn't compile with NeL since we change lot
+of things in the user interface. We (Cedric Valignat, Benjamin Legros and I)
+work on the new snowball called Snowballs2. In this version, we rewrite
+everything from scratch (except lens flare and radar) with the current NeL
+interface. There's a simple (14 cpp files) client explain how to use NeL.
+It uses lot of stuffs from NeL like Particule system, Animation, Skeleton,
+Skinning, Landscape, Collision, Network, etc...
+So it will be a good tutorial or starting point to use NeL.
+We plan to release it soon (before the end of the next week) and we actually
+work on the server side and 3d datas integration.
+
+> Has the team stableized things in the
+> interface to a point where a new version could be done or should we see
+> more inteface re-defineing changes in the future that could strongly
+> affect any projects desired to be based off of it?
+
+The NeL library user interface changes often because we have not fix it. We
+plan to fix the NeL interface before the end of this year. But the current
+user interface doesn't change often anyway.
+
+>   Also, how's the progress on the 3d rendering engine?  At home I have a
+> p3 800 but only a tnt2 ultra video card with 32mb ram.  Will nel
+> eventually be developed to support that weak a model of graphics card?
+
+> At least there should be some options of disableing a lot of 'special
+> affects' to help speed up the game in question.  And we all know that it
+> should be able to deal with 100 active actors on screen at one time.
+> (Stress test)  But how possable does that look in the near future?
+
+I leave Cyril Corvazier (lead 3d programer) to answer to this :)
+
+Vianney Lecroart
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