Water, Collada and Forums
24 March 2008 - 22:23:16 UK
We have recently added support for water into the engine. The water itself is translucent, specular-lit, textured and animated and supports under-water fogging as well as tides. We are considering vertex animation and other effects for inclusion in the future.
We are in the final stages of developing a Collada 1.4.1 importer for the engine. This provides a useful additional pipeline for getting animated models out of 3D packages such as Maya and 3D Studio. The module has been developed to be as lean and fast as possible since it will eventually be made available in Everplanes.
Since the Elflight technology preview is nearing completion, we felt that the time was right to launch a forum on the Coded Edge website. We looked at a number of open source options for this, but in the end decided to develop our own.
The forum will eventually support game server authentication integration as well as other features, but will initially be in basic form. We plan to have the initial version available later this week.
We hope that it will be useful in answering any questions people may have and to bring members up to date on developments, together with a facility for general discussion.
