Intermediate Challenge #1 Poll

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:07 am

Ok I am in charge of the Intermediate Challenge, and given the suggestions on the topic I have picked for the first challenge. I was tempted to add the "Take an old 2D game and make it 3D" and make it one of the poll options but I will plan that one for challenge #2.

So the choices are:

Mesh Buffer Manipulation (Suggested by my fellow challenge organizer)

And

Set up a game configuration, Reading/Saving to an XML file using IrrXML.

I chose these two because I think they best represent the Intermediate Challenge.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:34 am

Every time I check on my poll its dead even.

Well at the end of this month I will have time to start my contest so I hope this poll gets alittle more interesting.

ErUs · Post by **ErUs** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:49 am

im gonna win by loading game config from xml file

Other · Post by **Other** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:06 pm

Any Ideas about syntax of XML files? It is very interesting for me, because I am actuelly working on a smart XML format for graphics - not as complex as X3D - just for saving/loading the curent state of scene/game.

However it would be great, if we use the same XML-format.

I thought about something like that:

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<world>
   <use mode = "zip" src = "media.zip">
   <obj>
      <pos x = "" y = "" z = ""/>
      <rot x = "" y = "" z = ""/>
      <scale x = "" y = "" z = ""/>
      <gr> <mesh src=".."/> </gr>
      <ph> ... </ph> <!-- physical prop. - can be avoid for you-->
      <au> ... </au> <!-- audio - can be avoid for you -->
   </obj>
</world>

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:36 pm

YEah that would be good. I like how that is laid out.

Frodenius · Post by **Frodenius** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:44 am

i agree. useful tags, i would suggest the <gr>-tag with a name or id attribute for mulitple groups.
regarding the challenge: i'm currently working on a system for creating the gui with xml files

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:44 am

Using attributes is often not a good choice, except when having some values from an enumeration. But you cannot put any structures values into attributes such that you're stuck with the format very soon. We have made our coordinates into mathematical expressions. Fortunately, we had something like

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<pos>
<x>somevalue</x>
...
</pos>

such that we could easily extend the format without throwing away everything.
IDs are a must for each and every element. Cross referencing can make formats very useful, and with the use of XML technology it's not very expensive to use.

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:50 pm

LAST CALL FOR VOTES!

May 1st!

needforhint · Post by **needforhint** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:56 pm

Now I have equaled it

, meshbuffer manipulation will win

mandrav · Post by **mandrav** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:14 pm

SkaterX29527 wrote: Set up a game configuration, Reading/Saving to an XML file using IrrXML.

I 'd really love to see the "saving" part because, as far as I know, irrXML is one-way (i.e. only reads XML files)

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:45 pm

I can't wait to see what you guys put together.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:44 pm

Yes, MeshManipulation! There are so many interesting techniques which could become part of Irrlicht.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri May 05, 2006 12:33 pm

So now that it's May and there is no winner, what's up for this contest?

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Sun May 07, 2006 3:17 am

no winner? What's the challenge?

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Thu May 11, 2006 4:59 pm

Read/Write and XML file for Game Configuration is the winner! Now lets get this thing started. I will post the rules shortly.

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