I don't know if anybody is still reading the comments here; I'm going to
make a similar post on a usenet group or two.
Anyway, I'd like to form a team and do it! Yeah, I know that I should
have put a team together before the contest, but I thought I might be able
to do the whole thing myself. Fortunately, the task divides neatly into
two or three (mostly) independent parts, so that teammates won't need to
be in close contact with each other.
This paragraph won't make a lot of sense unless you've read the
task
description, so do that now if you haven't already. My plan is to write
(in Perl, because it's the rapid-prototyping language I'm most familiar
with) a program to translate GML into C. This code will be compiled and
linked with the actual rendering code, which will be written by someone
else on the team. I'm assuming that the procedural texturing precludes
the use of canned open-source code. A third teammate should write GML
code to thoroughly test both the translator and the renderer. Of course,
there may be more than one person on each task. Please contact me if you're
interested in joining my team, or if you have any useful suggestions.
Note: I will probably not be able to answer my mail until after midnight
tonight. I probably won't have time to post this to usenet, so feel free
to post a copy of this (together with
an explanation of what the contest is all about) to all appropriate
newsgroups.
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I don't know if anybody is still reading the comments here; I'm going to make a similar post on a usenet group or two.
Anyway, I'd like to form a team and do it! Yeah, I know that I should have put a team together before the contest, but I thought I might be able to do the whole thing myself. Fortunately, the task divides neatly into two or three (mostly) independent parts, so that teammates won't need to be in close contact with each other.
This paragraph won't make a lot of sense unless you've read the task description, so do that now if you haven't already. My plan is to write (in Perl, because it's the rapid-prototyping language I'm most familiar with) a program to translate GML into C. This code will be compiled and linked with the actual rendering code, which will be written by someone else on the team. I'm assuming that the procedural texturing precludes the use of canned open-source code. A third teammate should write GML code to thoroughly test both the translator and the renderer. Of course, there may be more than one person on each task. Please contact me if you're interested in joining my team, or if you have any useful suggestions.
Note: I will probably not be able to answer my mail until after midnight tonight. I probably won't have time to post this to usenet, so feel free to post a copy of this (together with an explanation of what the contest is all about) to all appropriate newsgroups.
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