User:Jeko
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Software Wars - French Edition
Work in progress
Planning
I quickly summarize here my availabilities and the work I plan to do.
| Week | Availability | Job |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Quite busy | Answer e-mails -- specification/conception |
| 25 | Out of business | At Madrid |
| 26 | Less busy | Specify Simulator API |
| 27 | Full time | Choosing code base |
| 28 | " | Learning Mono/Ogre/Torcs |
| 29 | " | Build Torcs' graphics plugin for C#. Define the new WorldMap interface. |
| 30 | " | Begin OgreDotNet implementation of the graphic plugin C#, have something being displayed by OgreDotNet on SSG's main screen. |
| 31 | " | " |
| 32 | Quite busy | Moving to Lebanon. Keep up working on the rendering engine. |
| 33 | Full Time | Screenshots should start to be analyzable by vision, export them. |
| 34 | " | ??? |
| 35 | " | ??? |
| 36 | " | ??? |
| 37 | " | Dead-Line! |
Daily journal
The time I spent working on vision project.
| Date | Time | Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| before | 4 hours | It is an approximation. I think it is honest, I hope that Keith feel that I am to. |
| 2008-jun-09 | 5 hours | Mails about scripting languages, about world simulator, writing planning, ... |
| 2008-jun-12 | 4 hours | Compile Torcs from CVS. Make it work (black screen problem). Start understanding the 3D engine and make improvements plans. |
| 2008-jun-13 | 2 hours | E-Mail. Understanding the 3D engine (car models and tracks). Make improvements plans. |
| 2008-jun-24 | 2 hours | Improvements plans, net-meeting with Keith about the world simulator framework. |
| 2008-jun-26 | 2 hours | Organize wiki. Answer a few questions. Installed and compiled mercurial's repository on my laptop. |
| TOTAL FOR JUNE | 19 hours | |
| 2008-jul-02 | 4 hours | Study OgreODE, Plans for the changes to an Ogre/ODE/Collada architecture., and share my point of view (e-mail meeting). |
| 2008-jul-03 | 2 hours | Install back Torcs / Mercurial after system upgrade. Fixing compilation problems. |
| 2008-jul-04 | 3 hours | Slimming torcs' data directory to 28 MB (te best that can be achieved without changing texture, sound and 3D models storage format. Birthday :-) |
| 2008-jul-05 | 3 hours | Trying hard to install OgreDotNet, I discovered it's a dead project supporting a very outdated version of Ogre... Trying alternatives. : Axiom, OsgDotNet, Irrlicht, Plib? |
| 2008-jul-07 | 7 hours | Ogre and OgreDotNet installed from sources.
Setting up my first Mono Develop Solution which links with OgreDotNet. Starting TorcsDotNet :
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| 2008-jul-10 | 4 hours | Learning Ogre3D |
| 2008-jul-12 | 4 hours | C# graphic plugin for Torcs. |
| 2008-jul-13 | 2 hours | C# wrapper for Torcs made a separate project from driving robot. |
| 2008-jul-15 | 2 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin added. |
| 2008-jul-16 | 3 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin : OgreDotNet initialized. |
| 2008-jul-18 | 3 hours | Torcs' C# graphic plugin :
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| 2008-jul-19 | 4 hours | Work on Torcs' C# interface and graphic plugin. |
| 2008-jul-21 | 2 hours | Cleaning up C# code. |
| 2008-jul-28 | 0 hours | Reinstalled everything. |
| 2008-jul-29 | 4 hours | C# plugins now displays something. I finally discovered (after hours of debugging) that custom window creation interferes with resources loading, which was the reason I got strange exceptions. |
| 2008-jul-31 | 2 hours | AC3D track file converted to Ogre Mesh, experimentally displayed with buggy textures. |
| TOTAL FOR JULY | 49 hours | |
| 2008-aug-01 | 2 hours | Fixed the texturing problems, switched texture format to JPG and PNG. |
| 2008-aug-10 | 4 hours | Fixed AC3D->Ogre conversion problems, work on the alpha channel problem. |
| 2008-aug-11 | 3 hours | Fixed double faced faces problem (have to be made by hand unfortunately), test of texture-based shadows. |
| 2008-aug-20 | 4 hours | Fixed alpha-channel textures, try to make shadows which work with this. |
| 2008-aug-21 | 4 hours | Solved texture shadow problem, initial work on car display. |
| 2008-aug-22 | 3 hours | Work on car display, fixed the aspect ratio bug, big commit to mercurial. |
| 2008-aug-23 | 4 hours | Continue with cars management (now called Avatars for generalization purposes). Switch to shader based materials. |
| 2008-aug-25 | 2 hours | Continue with cars management, discovered the Ogre picture is not dynamic (SSG steal it the OpenGL context after the 1st frame) |
| 2008-aug-26 | 3 hours | Investigate the Ogre + SSG OpenGL Context problem... No solution for the moment, posted questions on forums. |
| 2008-aug-27 | 6 hours | Solved the OpenGL Context problem. Fixed car position tracking correctly (there was a misalignment in C->C# data structures). |
| 2008-aug-31 | 2 hours | Work on the car orientation problem. |
| TOTAL FOR AUGUST | 37 hours | |
| 2008-sept-5 | 2 hours | Solved the car orientation problem. Camera can now track a car. |
| 2008-sept-8 | 4 hours | Fixed stencil shadow problem (by spliting the models), activate per-vertex ambiant coef, imported an high-quality skybox, start making some 3D models manifold. |
| 2008-sept-10 | 4 hours | Trying to add lightmaps to the track model. |
| TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER | 10 hours | |
| 2008-oct-5 | 2 hours | Looking for OgreDotNet render-to-texture way of doing screenshots for multiple cameras. |
| 2008-oct-6 | 3 hours | Conception and start implementing the screenshot feature. |
| 2008-oct-8 | 5 hours | Code clean-up and refactoring, continue with the screenshot feature. |
| 2008-oct-9 | 3 hours | Manage the list of user defined cameras. [Keith paid for all hours (128) through now * 2] |
| 2008-oct-21 | 3 hours | Configure and generate Doxygen for Monographic. Continue the camera stuff and some code re-arangement. |
| TOTAL FOR OCTOBER | 16 hours |
Goom
Low-priority task.
