Short-term roadmap

[encelo]

I'm opening this thread to talk a bit about what I'm working on in the short term.
Even if I have started using Issues and it's a lot easier for you to follow the development, I would still like to post some updates here.

What's next

• At the moment I'm working on a Tiled loader/viewer. I have written a bit more about ncTiledViewer in this thread.
  To support this project I will probably implement animations with varying frame times in the engine.
  When I'm sufficiently satisfied with it I will make it public on GitHub and work on the next task.

• The following task will be one of the open nCine issues.
  I will probably try to tackle Move template scripts inside the engine #5 first, to simplify a lot the process of updating or creating a new project.
  Then I will probably move on either Custom Shaders #2 or Reloading and fault tolerance for Lua scripts #6, depending on how I feel. 😛

[encelo]

I'm currently working on some enhancements proposed by Fahien, like movable resources and nodes, and cloneable nodes. He also pointed out a strange behavior of Array::setSize(), it was not constructing new objects when extending the array like StaticArray::setSize() does.

You can already test the new setSize() method and the new movable constructors and assignment operators for some classes, while I'm still working on a clone mechanism.

After that I might explore the idea of having a dirty flag to prevent transforming static nodes (which makes ncTiledViewer quite CPU limited at the moment) and after that I will resume the work I detailed in the previous post.

[encelo]

I have recently posted the Development Update #17 and I have just started working on #5.

[encelo]

I have just created #16 to track my work on viewports and cameras, an important step before going back to #2 and support interesting post-processing effects. 💪🏻