Re: [Adonthell-devel] I'm back !!!

[cirrus]

Benjamin Walther-Franks wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to change the topic so quickly - what does the others think about
> > the situation with SDL? Kai, ZT, Cirrus, Ben, Nezu, Jol?
> 
> Same as James I can't really say much to the issue, as my knowledge is yet 
> too limited in this area.
> 
> But maybe a general thing that might fit at this point (from what I gather 
> from this discussion, and I didn't gather a lot...):
> 
> If at this point there is the possibility of regarding far-spread platform 
> compatibility (Yes, it's my vision, that in the distant future Adonthell 
> might actually run on Mac OS, or even Window~) then certain decisions such as 
> at SDL thing should be made in favour of far-spread compatibility. If you ge 
> what i mean. I'm just trying to say that we should see to it that Adonthell 
> runs on as many OS as possible, and we should consider it as early as 
> possible.
> 

If I understand correctly we're pretty close to a win port anyway, OS X
is being tried and so is Solaris. ..Palm anyone? :P

> It would just suck if we sit there in the end with everything completed, and 
> suddenly notice that we can't transfer it to, for ex., Windows, because of a 
> simple problem we didn't consider in the early stages...
> 

True.
My non-expert understanding is that we won't have that problem!


Speaking of our graphics requirements don't forget that we'd want some
real-time colour manipulations for weather FX and such. Also I've been
wondering about spells and battles (Alex: Nooooooooo!) it would be neat
if we could have Adonthell generate some cool fx likes sparks and fire
works. Does anyone here know the G-Force visulisation plugin for XMMS /
WinAmp? Something like that layered on top of the map gfx would be
perfect IMO.


-James

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