A-Eightometer

Share your A8 feelings with the world. This is not a real feature request- nor a bug report- nor a complaints thread. Just one sentence, just one thought. I begin.

I want a new beta!

I want a new compiler!

I want the new public beta!

I want optional DirectX 11!

I want unicorns pooping rainbows that tastes like nutella.

@Quad Wish partially granted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWM2joNb9NE

I want new beta, built-in fast pathfinding, optimized shadows shades for level blocks with multiply flashlights support, I want new WED! I want different hull shapes for c_trace and c_move (box, cylinder), I want proper collusions for PH_CHAR with PH_RIGID (I know this is impossible, but I just want this). I want to get realistic car movement at least (want the one I'm working on to get realistic enough), I want free update from my A7 com to A8. This list really can go on endless...

I want A8!

I want better (read: deeper) QA.

I want volume textures!

I want realtime shadowmapping for indoor scenes as sphere engine plugin already did 6 years ago

I want motivation.

I want an exporter for android

I want the "Create Game" button.

I want TUSC

No, not really, but i want to be the one who finished it

I want BEAM/ STREAK for ISOMETRIC views!!!

lol shade-c finished or shadec like library built in (and a level editor with it) i could do some serious dev if i had those two things with this engine (i still could if i had the patience to go through and make my own library and tools... i just dont )

I want a built-in collision engine that doesn't use ellipsoids -.-

EDIT: Didn't realize how old this thread is now... oh well.

abs agree

Abs agree! F**K OBB!

I want free time to work on my projects so I can finally show something to the public.

+1

(What a luck that I've got holidays :P)

However, I want no artifacts, when I am scaling an image, in a direction i am not even scaling in. (Y Scale, X artifacts D: )

The more free time I have, the bigger my project becomes, the fewer finished work I end up with .

+1
The less time I have, the more I get done on my projects...

Me too

Me three

I want to see inestical's project and Harry's finished Game.
And I want liiiiinuuuux suppooort!

android support pretty much means also linux support. Either way engine needs a opengl renderer.

Not just that, but JCL would have to rebuild many other subsystems as well, including the multiplayer engine (which relies heavily on DirectPlay), the multimedia handler, I/O, and probably the physics engine (since PhysX will not work with the GPU under Linux).

That said, I think it's safe to say that a Linux port will never ever happen for Gamestudio.

Hm no, A8 uses the Enet library (or am I wrong?). And why would physX not work or depend on the GPU?

EDIT:

DirectPlay isn't used anymore it's been overwritten in A8 by Enet. Not sure about the physics though...

Yeah, even with Enet already implemented, tt's probably still safe to say that a linux port will never happen. But I figured this was a thread to say anything you don't like, so I did...

physx 3.0 runs with gpu accerelation on android.

Yes, but not Linux (despite the similarities) and that's a fact, jack.

EDIT: Here's a thread on Nvidia's own developer boards to prove it. Disappointing, eh? Admittedly, the thread is a little old, but as the last poster said, there were no plans to add GPU support to the Linux SDK and it's stayed that way the last two years.

You can also see it on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

And where is the problem with missing GPU acceleration? I actually doubt that gamestudio is using it at all, at the moment...
There is no real reason against Linux and Mac support as soon as Android is working. Changing the very few platform dependencies is then only a matter of a few days of work. And in case the new WED is written using Qt, it will probably also just run on most platforms, with minimal additional work.
I don´t believe that there will be linux support, anytime soon, but I also don´t really see a reason against it. Same about iOS btw, if Android works, there isn´t much left to do to make it work on iOS.

I am guessing hardest part would writing a lite-c compiler for ARM based processor, but even without lite-c support there is still c-script.

I've been saying this since 2003, nearly TEN YEARS: A better texturing interface in WED!! The way it is now is just... ignorant. I may as well keep a frickin hoola hoop next to me and everytime I set a texture I'll get out of my chair and jump through it.