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.

Roadmap

0.4.3

Road map to v0.4.4

0.5.0

Road map to v0.5.0

0.6.0

Road map to v0.6.0

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

Unsorted Task List

Bugfixing

• Sourceforge Bug Tracker

list of bugs included for this release:

• The economic system needs a review (see forum thread)

Bugs reported through the forum:

• In in system defend missions, the type of enemy ship didn't seem to display. it just had an extra space in the mission description (should have said Redeemer)
• Javelin rockets cost 30,000 credits a piece. Should be more like 30 creds I think.
• Finally, in the output after I quit, there were about 50 python traceback warningS about not finding a cultivator.stock entry in units.csv. maybe one should be added, although its probably not vital. Peace out all.

Multiplayer

• Multi-player support beta [ace123]
• Server list support, ala Quake

Engine

• Get mac building under a unified central build file (if it doesn't use ./configure)
• Implement opcode's Ray Collider for ray-mesh collisions. [safemode, ONGOING]
• Rewrite vssetup so that it parses sane XML, leading the way to a more understandable config file setup.
• Fix multi-ship ownership loopholes.
• Faction level AI (or at least the imitation of one)
• Cubemap environment to replace sphere meshes [safemode, NOT STARTED]
• Make ships (ai too) dock sanely. (auto way points?) Super big ships cant dock inside small docking bays.

Python

• Make jumpoint wireframes HUD only. Allow for selective disabling/enabling of jump points via python.
• New campaigns. Some to put you into different factions to start out with (and thus different systems/ships).

Artwork

• Normal maps (for shaders) support for all units in game
• Cockpit graphics for all units.
• 8 faces for shields and cargo hud [pyramid, PENDING]
• Revision of planet types [pyramid, PENDING]
• File extensions review and standardization [pyramid, PENDING]
• Supplement missing cargo graphics and improvement of low-quality cargo graphics
• Improvement of space backgrounds
• Improvement of some low-quality star images
• Improve shield graphics for Target VDU [pyramid, PENDING]

Future Development Items

• 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 [ This may already have been done in 0.5, Verification?]
  • 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)

See also

• FAQ:Feature Requests
• Vegastrike:Features