[Bf-committers] restore Game Engine project

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Hehe, nice to read such positive reactions! :)
Nevertheless, it's not a real fair point you raised there. It was - not  
for me and most of the developers - never the question whether it's a  
useful addition to Blender. It's more a matter of design,  
functionality, planning, manageablity.

As proposed for the roadmap (and I've heard no objections) we do at  
least a 2.29 and/or 2.30 with full engine restored. Gives us time to  
review development status, and proposals how to manage the project.

If you want to know what you'll start, check the old bugtracker for  
bugs in the engine... there's a load. Most of it related to badly  
integrating, making it needed to implement every Blender feature again.

http://www.blender.org/ 
modules.php?op=modload&name=mantis&file=login_select_proj_page

-Ton-



On Saturday, Aug 16, 2003, at 19:15 Europe/Amsterdam, Patrick wrote:

>    They got a little more rowdy and upset than I expected, but I made  
> a post at elysiun to see what the game engine people would think if  
> there were no game engine.  Um, with some trepidation, I present it to  
> you :)
>
> http://www.elysiun.com/forum/ 
> viewtopic.php?t=14573&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
>
> At the very least, it kind of gives a decent overview of many of the  
> people working with the game engine right now, and how they feel about  
> it, why they choose it over other engines, and similar things.  I  
> think it shows it is worth supporting the game engine, at least long  
> enough to hopefully fix the major bugs.
>
> I hate that we're still waiting for solid, but I suppose we're at  
> gino's mercy on that one.
>
> After we get the game engine "back", fixing some of the "showstopping"  
> bugs/lacked features would be a priority for me.  There are many times  
> where I'm making a game and everything is going great, but then I run  
> into one of the major bugs and have to work out an odd way around it.   
> Some of them don't really have good workarounds.  I'll try to make a  
> really good description of each one, and look through the code to see  
> where they might be occuring.
>
> Then again, I know how hard bug-squishing can be:(  Especially when  
> it's not your own code, gah!
>
> Cheers all
>
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