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This is like a giant to do list/wish list. This includes things planned both for the short term and the long term. More items will be added as I think of them and completed items will be removed from the list.

Last Updated: July 16th, 2016

Core:

• Add spot lights.
• Improve cascaded shadowmaps: fix shadow acne, optional blending, SDSM, VSM for last cascade?
• Normal map compression options (DXT5nm, etc) in OpaqueNode
• Populate all major functions with profiling capability
• Node based animation system incorporating state and blending
• Finish SSR shader
• Finish and test realtime GI
• Fix client-side prediction in networking
• ShapeComponent allowing simple geometric shapes like cube, sphere, cone.
• Occlusion culling.
• Vertex buffer batching for improved performance
• LoD and automatic billboarding
• Move radiance/irradiance generation to CPU for legacy platforms

Editor:

• Saving scripts in the script editor
• Debugging in the script editor
• Terrain editor
• Particle editor
• Foliage editor
• Undo/Redo
• Project-wide save all

Plugins:

• Foliage plugin needs to support large foliage in addition to small foliage
• Terrain plugin needs to create a physics representation for collision purposes
• Particle plugin needs more options for users
• Investigate the idea of using materials for particles and for terrain texturing
• Ocean plugin needs improvement.
• SkatterySky plugin needs to feed radiance/irradiance map system
• Cloud plugin
• Fog plugin
• Develop PolyVox plugin further

Examples:

• First Person Shooter demo
• Real Time Strategy demo
• Third Person Shooter demo

Extras:

• Document the core
• Document the editor
• Finish torque6.com
• External project manager + marketplace application

It's good to have clear goals....

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rlranft : Yeah, I've had this list bouncing around in my head for awhile it's good to finally put it on paper. It's not looking too bad either. We're not too far from a solid, stable core.

You guys should apply for an open-source Atlassian license: https://www.atlassian.com/opensource/overview

So you can use Jira, Bamboo, etc.

And also on Jetbrains, for CLion: https://www.jetbrains.com/devnet/sponso ... en-source/

Jira is nice until it fails.

Andewmac is looking good. You could do a 3 months dev, 1 month testing,bug fixing. One release every 4 months.

Today should be the last day to add any new features. The next week will be preparing for a release. I decided to do something fun and work on the TextComponent.

Behold:

Hello. How is the development going? Can you show any new stuff to the world?

Hey

I'm still around and working on things. I'm mainly focusing on lightmapping and I've been holding off on showing any images until I get it fully working. The idea is a fully featured lightmapper built into the engine. Press 'Bake' and the process begins then the maps are automatically applied.

Stay tuned

Hey

I'm still around and working on things. I'm mainly focusing on lightmapping and I've been holding off on showing any images until I get it fully working. The idea is a fully featured lightmapper built into the engine. Press 'Bake' and the process begins then the maps are automatically applied.

Stay tuned

I can't wait to see!

Quite the list. Looking good. Thanks for Linux support.