State

Current Project status

Huge list of everything

• Daedalus-VM (Scripting)
• World loading
• Input
• Video
• Audio
• UI
• Ports
• Game objects
• File formats

Daedalus-VM (Scripting)

Code execution

• Working
  • Interpreting all of the daedalus-instructions
  • Calling functions, stack, etc
  • Calling externals
  • Initializing instances
• TODO:
  • Classes are described in Daedalus::registerGothicEngineClasses, which can be done automatically. The Daedalus-Symbols of the classes are actually in order, so we can just map everything using that, instead of making use of an evil makro.
  • Symbols have unused variables and are very heavy, which could be improved
  • Externals.cpp is currently containing everything and should be split up.
  • Creating an NPC is pretty messy, as there are externals defined inside some classes in the Daedalus-namespace, triggering callbacks to REGoth-code, pre- and post-versions... That can be improved.

World loading

.zen

• Works
  • Extracting the world-mesh
  • Putting vobs
  • Initializing the world using script-functions (inserting items/npcs)
• TODO
  • Not all vobs implemented (particle-systems, decals)
  • Loader is crammed into the WorldInstance-class, which can be improved greatly.
  • Preprocessing of the worldmesh and collisionmesh takes ages. Can be cached or speed up.
  • Could be loaded in parallel

.json (Savegame)

• Works
  • All vob-types supported by the .zen-loader, except mobs!
  • Inserting NPCs/Items from json-file instead of startup-script
  • Export/Import of all major controllers
• TODO
  • Read mobs (Some work is done for that already!)
  • Compress on the fly, maybe do some simple encryption
  • Loader is crammed into WorldInstance as well, which can be improved.

File formats

.zen (World)

• Works
  • Opening ASCII- and BinSafe-Files.
  • Reading WorldMesh-data
  • Reading VobTree
    • zCVob
    • oCMOB
    • oCMobInter
    • oCMobContainer
  • Reading Waynet
• TODO:
  • Vobs
    • Particle-Effects
    • Other types of Mobs
    • Decals
    • Triggers
    • Ambient-Sounds
    • Movers
    • more?

.TEX (Textures)

• Done

.MSH (zCMesh)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

.MDM, MDH, MDL (zCMeshLib, zCMeshSoftSkin)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

.MDS (zCModelPrototype)

• Works
  • Reading some of the contents of the text-version in Gothic 1
• TODO
  • Most features. Parser is pretty bare as well.
  • Binary files used by G2 (G1 uses text) not supported at all

.MAN (zCModelAni)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

zCMaterial

• Done

.FNT (zCFont)

• Wrote some code, but never tested it. Should be working, I guess.
• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

OU.bin/dat (zCCSLib)

• Everything needed by the game works. Format is very verbose.

.DAT (DATFile)

• TODO
  • Use a union in the opcodes to make them smaller! (PARStackOpCode)