Anybody out there?

Gordon
1) AI:
Aircraft: <-not much stuff here, but likely to be fiddly.
Bomb/Strafe Static or moving Targets
Landing:
- mission completed/primary target is destroyed etc
- player issued the radio command "return to base"
- battle damage/specially fuel leaks or weapon systems gone(can't shoot/drop bombs)
Air 2 Air engagement (the basics are working)

Ship:
follow path.
Confirm defence AI still works against bit rot

2) Mission System <- simple but lots of little stuff.
using lua.

a monitoring function driven from update(float dt) in main game code. (done)

hooks for
mission time, position of objects, velocity of objects.

able to spawn dynamically. (most likely works already, untested)
able to modify AI used in any object. (lua hook written (untested))

'Ground Controlled Interception' style verbal instruction.

3) Combat Simulation itself.
aircraft reaction to damage.
ships fight back, defensive maneuvering, sensors line of sight, ranges and limitations.

4) visual FX
Airburst explosions
flak

5) fm/ai bug fixing
audit flight model - (I suspect my thrust mismatches air resistance)
audit AI - any changes to flight model probably requires changes to AI to compensate.

6) what would be nice:
i) improve load up times.
ii) make greater use of multi-threading.
iii) re-implement load on demand rather than load all at once with regards to terrain.

Bell
1) sea shader
2) shadows/self-shadowing?
3) enviroment/cubemap/bloom/sun glare

de Patta
1) moral encouragement whilst he has little to do until programming catches up to art
2) monitor development
3) help with testing of features, keep looking for bugs.
4) work with me on aquiring spanish accent english for voice
5) be thinking of a scenario that the mission is in...

demo mission: ..I know we will be attacking a ship. but what shall the ship be doing? what is its defences, state of sea harriers in area, what sort of allied, counter british forces will help? - jamming, decoy attacks.

are there any twists we can put into the mission to make it exciting?


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time scale.
i hope to work through most if not all the above of my work by november 3rd.

i am going to be taking off from november 3rd 2 weeks holiday which i will use to polish the demo since all major features required for it will by then be working.

I expect that during this time a lot of effort will be applied to making the AI feel right so that it is challenging and that the missiles and things work appropriately.

Come middle of november - we should then be in a position where we can do a closed beta with interested people from the forums and show to the current interested publishers.

P.S.:memory footprint was high and removing either some terrain from terrain.cfg or some spawned objects enabled debug version to run.

Will tick these features off as I complete them