[Verse-dev] Back from GDC

[eskil at obsession.se]

Hi!

I'm back in Sweden now after three weeks of traveling in the US and  
Canada. As you all know I was at Game Developers Conference, and  
people there really liked it. Both  Khronos and Web3D are interested  
in using verse. I have got a host of new contacts and I'm now working  
to go threw them all. I also visited a number of companies and talked  
about verse.

There is a lot of things going on right now, and I'm trying to keep  
track of them all. Now that Emil is no longer working full time on  
verse, we need a new web master for verse.org, I am a very bad web  
master so If any one would like to help send me a mail. One of the  
things i would like to add is a list of all the projects going on and  
their status and contact. Even projects that arent yet ready are  
interesting, because the people can join in and help. A web board  
would be nice too.

So lately I have been thinking about what projects i should be working  
on and I have two ideas for things i would like to do. First is a  
verse export toolkit. Lots of people(like me) want to use verse for  
game development and things like that, and they need help processing  
verse data for various platforms. As I'm sure you know i wrote a  
Collada exporter not too long ago, and i came to the conclusion that  
it would be better to build a tool kit for export that would be an API  
that would make it easy to make exporters for any format. The idea  
would be to have built in shader and LOD generating and things like  
that. So my question is: does any one have any ideas for what they  
would like such a tool kit to do?

Second, We all want verse support in all applications known to man, so  
to help that happen it might be a good idea to write a "verse  
integration toolkit" that would help people do that. It could do  
things like keeping track of changes, and material conversion. But  
there are many people out there writing plugins/integratios that know  
far better then me what is needed, so if this is something you think  
would help, tell me what you need, tell me what is annoying about  
using verse as is and ill get started.

Cheers, and happy coding!

E