[Nel] .shape file format change

Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:41:58 +0200

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+From: "Daniel Miller" <miller@nevrax.com>
+Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 4:01 PM
+
+> First for the Nevrax.org home page: the news is all badly out of date and
+> doesn't show what's going on at the moment.  Sorry about that.  We're just
+> sorting out our internal knitting so that we can post news more easily.
+> There should be a general improvement at this level soon.
+
+I spoke to Lecroart about this point. I think that keeping the site up to
+date at least once a week wouldn't require a great effort. I'm not asking
+you to report on the news page every single change that happens upon the
+codebase. Just some generic news about what's going on in order to know that
+the project is still alive.
+
+> For the roadmap - my mail of last week entitled 'a bit of news' contains a
+> loose plan for the next few months. It'll go up on the site some time
+soon.
+> I'm not sure if it contains the information you're after - please shout if
+> it doesn't.
+
+The roadmap you posted last week has been greatly appreciated on my part. :)
+I hope that you can keep sending those once every one or two weeks ;)
+
+> On the documentation side - We posted a handfull of new 'features'
+documents
+> under the different library headings earlier this week. Any feedback would
+> be very much appreciated. Beyond that we have been discussing what docs
+> would be good to write among ourselves. Any ideas are very welcome
+although
+> our time for writing dociments is a bit limitted right now!; The problem
+> with 'how to design and build an MMORPG' type docs is that they warrant an
+> entire book - and I don't have time to write a whole book right now :(.
+> I'll see what I can do.
+
+I've just looked at the new docs. I'm going to print them all and read them
+with ease later on during those lonely nights :)
+
+I'm not going to ask you to write a "how to design and build a MMORPG" book.
+That's out of our scope. If I'm evaluating NeL, it's because I am already
+designing an MMORPG and I'm evaluating a framework that would reduce the
+efforts needed to code all the game from grounds up.
+The kind of documentation that I'm looking for in the future is something
+that gives an overview of how the pieces of the NeL framework are tied
+together, and then, some more indeep documentation about how to build a new
+3D entity, how to make a connection to the server and all those things that
+explain what objects should be used and which method should be called to
+accomplish the main operations.
+
+> Snowballs is being re-written (to look more like a designed program and
+less
+> like the accumulation of a few dozen chunks of test code spaghettied
+> together). We're just starting, so our first steps 'll be up on line
+> shortly...
+
+I'm not pressing you to make a new Snowballs in no time. You've got all the
+time you need (I know that I have no influence over this, anyway :))
+I just wish that the new Snowballs will show how to write a basic server and
+a basic client, and how to code the main functions needed to make them both
+run with each other. That's enough to get started with coding upon NeL.
+
+> For a binary sdk - it's a good idea - We'll look into it. :)
+
+I agree on this one. A binary SDK would save a lot of compiling-time which
+is mainly unneeded.
+
+Having an offline version of the code documentation without going over the
+doxygen compilation time (which took a hour or maybe more on my Athlon)
+would also be useful once the code is in a fairly stable condition.
+
+--
+Valerio Santinelli
+http://www.digisoft-multimedia.it/
+
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