State

Current Project status

Huge list of everything

• Daedalus-VM (Scripting)
• World loading
• Input
• Video
• Audio
• UI
• Ports
• Game objects
• File formats

Daedalus-VM (Scripting)

Code execution

• Working
  • Interpreting all of the daedalus-instructions
  • Calling functions, stack, etc
  • Calling externals
  • Initializing instances
• TODO:
  • Classes are described in Daedalus::registerGothicEngineClasses, which can be done automatically. The Daedalus-Symbols of the classes are actually in order, so we can just map everything using that, instead of making use of an evil makro.
  • Symbols have unused variables and are very heavy, which could be improved
  • Externals.cpp is currently containing everything and should be split up.
  • Creating an NPC is pretty messy, as there are externals defined inside some classes in the Daedalus-namespace, triggering callbacks to REGoth-code, pre- and post-versions... That can be improved.
  • Monster AI

World loading

.zen

• Works
  • Extracting the world-mesh
  • Putting vobs
  • Initializing the world using script-functions (inserting items/npcs)
• TODO
  • Not all vobs implemented (particle-systems, decals)
  • Loader is crammed into the WorldInstance-class, which can be improved greatly.
  • Preprocessing of the worldmesh and collisionmesh takes ages. Can be cached or speed up.
  • Could be loaded in parallel
  • Some kind of progress indicator during loading would be nice
  • Loading and managing of Freepoints
  • Extracting the BSP-Tree and using it for culling and sections (NPC-houses)

.json (Savegame)

• Works
  • All vob-types supported by the .zen-loader, except mobs!
  • Inserting NPCs/Items from json-file instead of startup-script
  • Export/Import of all major controllers
• TODO
  • Read mobs (Some work is done for that already!)
  • Compress on the fly, maybe do some simple encryption
  • Loader is crammed into WorldInstance as well, which can be improved.

Input

• Works
  • Binding (multiple) keys to actions
  • Mouse input
• TODO
  • Android-Input is pretty bare

Video

• Works
  • Drawing of World-Mesh, Static-meshes, Animated models
  • Fog
  • Day/Night coloring
• TODO
  • WorldRender.cpp doesn't look very good. Rendering-system should be reworked at some point.
  • Compile the shaders for D3D11/12 on windows
  • Put shader sources into the repository

Audio

• Works
  • Decoding of Gothics ADPCM compressed .WAV-files
  • Playback using SFML
• TODO
  • SFML is too large. Replace with OpenAL or something similar.
  • Glitch at the end of decoded ADPCM wavs

UI

• Works
  • Basic tree-structure for UI
  • Debug-drawing of dialogs using Imgui
  • Displaying dialog-options using Imgui
  • Displaying dialog-lines using Imgui
• TODO
  • Basically everything
  • Usage of Gothics original font files (zCFont from ZenLib) + drawing them
  • Console
  • Dialogs are still pretty rough. No animations, dialog-selection pops up between sentences.
  • Inventory, menus, ...

Ports

• Works
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac OSX
  • Android
• TODO
  • bgfx-cmake fails to compile on BSD (clang)
  • Audio not implemented on android
  • N64-port

Game Objects

PlayerController

• Works
  • Basic collision-detection
  • Script-State tracking
  • Equipping all kinds of items
  • Using Mobs (still early version)
  • [More, but I'm tired right now]
• Todo
  • Rename to CharacterController
  • Remove old routine system
  • Implement proper physics
  • Implement proper pathfinding (Currently only following the waynet)
  • NPCs take other paths than in the original (Baal Parvez runs through the forest from the old camp (I think!))
  • Many Event-Messages are not implemented yet
  • Player movement should be done using messages as well
  • Some monsters not playing idle-animation
  • Fighting system
  • States like death, unconsciousness, burning, etc
  • Proper inventory (UI)
  • NPCs not reacting to the player going into their houses
  • Proper animation-library (For all kinds of weapons, etc)
  • Swimming
  • Torches
  • Animation when picking up items
  • ... Probably way more ...

MobController

• Works
  • MobCore-system describing the different types of mobs without needing a new controller every time
  • Playing animations on both Mob and interacting player
  • Finding all positions we can interact from
  • Tracking of the current state the mob is in
• TODO
  • Find out what the max-state is and block it there
  • Complicated mobs like alchemy-tables, beds, doors are not implemented yet
  • CLosing-animations on chests should be reversed, but the reverse-flag is not yet read from the MDS-file.

ItemController

• Works
  • Done.

File formats

.zen (World)

• Works
  • Opening ASCII- and BinSafe-Files.
  • Reading WorldMesh-data
  • Reading VobTree
    • zCVob
    • oCMOB
    • oCMobInter
    • oCMobContainer
  • Reading Waynet
• TODO:
  • Vobs
    • Particle-Effects
    • Other types of Mobs
    • Decals
    • Triggers
    • Ambient-Sounds
    • Movers
    • more?

.TEX (Textures)

• Done

.MSH (zCMesh)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

.MDM, MDH, MDL (zCMeshLib, zCMeshSoftSkin)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

.MDS (zCModelPrototype)

• Works
  • Reading some of the contents of the text-version in Gothic 1
• TODO
  • Most features. Parser is pretty bare as well.
  • Binary files used by G2 (G1 uses text) not supported at all
  • Reading of animation-events

.MAN (zCModelAni)

• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

zCMaterial

• Done

.FNT (zCFont)

• Wrote some code, but never tested it. Should be working, I guess.
• TODO
  • Remove internal data copy

OU.bin/dat (zCCSLib)

• Everything needed by the game works. Format is very verbose.

.DAT (DATFile)

• TODO
  • Use a union in the opcodes to make them smaller! (PARStackOpCode)