Advance Forward - Jade and JadEd
Long time since last post, and lots of things happened along the way :)
Jade 1.1 it´s coming out nicely, and it´s going to package more features than expected. At the moment the Jade binary format is completed and Jader has moved to tweak with the engine internals: his changes now allow to support multiple render views and scenes. Also, he did some changes in the engine shaders.
The collade import is advancing at a very good rate, with most of the import now finished (meeshoo is now giving it finishing touches and testing). Animation should closely come after he finishes with this.
The new filesystem is finished, except for the filters and total integration, but it´s working and the packager tool performs it work too.
The only point we haven´t being able to touch yet is the buffered input, that part will come probably after all the other features are finished. But on the other hand we are getting a very nice new mathematic library from Reed, who has finished several classes for interpolation and geometry operations. He also cleaned most warnings from the development code, so it´s much more neat now :)
But one of the most exciting things that have being happening to Jade in these last days are related to the Jad Engine Editor, codenamed JadEd (we are so clever with word jokes :p). After several people expressed their interest in JadEd, we have decided to create a new project in codeplex:
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=jadedThis project will be exclusively for JadEd, and it´s mainly managed by gonzo, Quimbo, Reed and matias. There´s some code now available to download, and I must admit that the level of architectural design they are giving to it will make it a very good piece of software. If you don´t believe me, you can join them at the new JadEd forum:
http://forums.jadengine.de/forumdisplay.php?fid=16Also, if you have read the latest news in the boards, you will probably know that we have now some IRC channels where you´ll be able to chat with us and see how the development goes. You can grab the info at the JadEngine webpage (
www.jadengine.com).
Hope to see you on IRC!