Development:Roadmap

Development

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This article is a work in progress, and is intended to become a centralized list of what we want to see for the 0.5.0 release, how it can be accomplished, and who is planning to work on it.

General roadmap discussion should occur in the proper thread. The wiki talk page may be used for discussion and refinement of specific points, and conversations pertaining to the roadmap article itself.

0.4.4 Task List

Things required to be completed before release.

• Units Related
  • Ensure all ships are correctly* fitted with new upgrades
  • Ensure that all upgrades are correctly sized and allocated resources
  • Add new ships as bfxm**, add stats for these*, and add to python*
• Master Parts List Related
  • Finish vetting of new cargo lists*
  • Ensure that all bases and planets correctly use these cargoes and upgrades
• Miscellaneous
  • Modify config performance settings to account for increased traffic
  • Fix the mission problem with multiple identical targets, particularly a problem now with the additional traffic
  • Final package to ship *without* launcher

Things that would be nice, but will probably be left unless a volunteer contributes.

• Redo planet types
  • Was planned to be a part of the economy stuff, but wasn't
  • Will need to get strangelet's planets in there too
• Fine-tuning SPEC
  • Forum threads
    SPEC drive changes (thread started by pincushionman)
    spec system
• Inter-system SPEC travel (without jump nodes)
• Keyboard remap
  • Keyboard Bindings (thread started by Silverain)
  • See Manual:Keyboard layout for graphics/templates for new bindings
  • See Manual:Config:Advanced for the binding-syntax in the config file
  • Unicode is now supported?! Someone check and get on to this!

0.5.0 Task List

Stuff that should get done before the release.

• Stats rebalance
  • See Development:Rebalance for detailed task list and information
  • Rebalance Countdown forums thread
  • Announcement and discussion in the forum
• Fine-tuning SPEC
  • Forum threads
    SPEC drive changes (thread started by pincushionman)
    spec system
• Inter-system SPEC travel (without jump nodes)
• Keyboard remap
  • Keyboard Bindings (thread started by Silverain)
  • See Manual:Keyboard layout for graphics/templates for new bindings
  • See Manual:Config:Advanced for the binding-syntax in the config file
• A hierarchical fidelity model for physics simulation so as to expand the number of objects that can be concurrently simulated
  • Benifit: Improved ship spawn distances/locations
• Space dust
  • A forum discussion on the pros and cons of space debris and other means to get a feeling for speed
• Bump mapping (req. small engine rewrite? or transition to another rendering engine?)
• Re-working cargo organization?
• Phasing out all XMESH files
• Phasing out Launcher.exe (nearly done)

Aspects for consideration

Stuff that's under discussion and may coincide with the release.

• Multiplayer
  • See Development:Network
  • what would you like to see in the vegastrike multiplayer?
  • Multiplayer questions?
  • multiplayer concerns
  • if VS does go multiplayer...
• New logo/icons
  • See Development:Logos & Signage
• Improved planet textures (Higher quality/Fractal Enhanced?)
  • Auto-Enhancing Textures
  • Fractal Generation System
  • More pretty stuff: atmospheres and planet surfaces
• Flesh out storyline / Devise more story-based missions
  • CVS Testing -- The Campaign (sticky forum thread)
• Rework HUD
• Strangelet's new LODs
• Ethereal walker's ship/weapons pack
• Implement OGRE as the rendering backend
  • See Development:Ogre
  • Graphic engine and graphic technologies forums thread
  • Ogre interface framework forums thread

Future additions

These will hopefully be implemented sometime in the future, probably after 0.5.0.

• High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDRL)
  • forum thread
• Shaders

See also

• FAQ:Feature Requests
• Vegastrike:Features