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.

0.5.0 Task List

• Stats rebalance
  • Announcement and discussion in the forum
• Fine-tuning SPEC
  • Forum threads
    SPEC drive changes (thread started by pincushionman)
    spec system
• 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
• Space dust
• Bump mapping (req. small engine rewrite?)
• Ethereal walker's ship/weapons pack?
• Re-working cargo organization?
• Phasing out all XMESH files
• Phasing out Launcher.exe (nearly done)

Aspects for consideration

• Rudimentary multiplayer
  • what would you like to see in the vegastrike multiplayer?
  • Multiplayer questions?
  • multiplayer concerns
• New logo/icons
  • Forum threads:
    My Logo Proposal
    workign on some new logos for VS
• Improved planet textures (Higher quality/Fractal Enhanced?)
  • Auto-Enhancing Textures
  • Fractal Generation System
  • More pretty stuff: atmospheres and planet surfaces
• Ship spawning
• Flesh out storyline / Devise more story-based missions
  • CVS Testing -- The Campaign (sticky forum thread)
• Rework HUD
• Strangelet's new LODs

Future additions

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