Meeting:2009/07/19

This article contains a list of topics for as well as the results of the July developer IRC meeting.

Date

Progress of pathfinding rework
FIFE svn structure
Quick update of engine map loader
Renderer code improvements by Helios (Zero-Projekt)
- Lighting renderer (global light / lightmaps)
- More texture units (4 instead of 1)
- Image resizing on runtime
FIFE releases and packaging

Pathfinder: vtchill and wenlin still are investigating the memory leak; after solving this issue, the redesign will go on
The devs agreed on a new SVN structure; clients should be split from the engine core (and it's build scripts) to allow faster checkouts for people who only want the engine
Vtchill updated his maploader branch and invites everybody to profile the code; the editor will be switched to the c++ maploader for that purpose
Helios from the Zero-Projekt team introduced his renderer improvements; the code is currently reviewed by some devs to decide wether it is merged into FIFE or not
Image resizing is postponed to next meeting as this also needs a discussion about the future of SDL support in FIFE
It seems that FIFE is currently reviewed by package maintainers of linux distributions; Less to now info is available to the FIFE devs, therefore they agreed on an additional wiki page to organise this process.