TODO.md

TODO List

• Create VoxGame VoxWindow and VoxApplication classes.
• Refactor windows functionality into discrete files and using the VoxWindow class.
• Add camera controls and movement to mouse and keyboard controls.
• Window and renderer resize functionality.
• Add proper license.
• Add Shader support to renderer.
• Add frame buffer support to renderer.
• Add selection of shaders to toggle different render modes for testing.
• Add ability to camera class to rotate around point (rotate position around view).
• Deferred lighting support.
• Lighting effects.
• Particle effects.
• Add weapon trails.
• Remove any GL calls from VoxGame - Add InitZeroTexture() functionality to renderer.
• Use Cmake for build management.
• Add fullscreen support and toggle.
• Enable x64 build configurations.
• Phong lighting shader.
• Add basic lighting to scene - OpenGL lighting.
• Add pre-built release exe to root of git, so people can run exe without compiling - VoxGame.exe
• Better SSAO shader.
  • Make deferred lighting and SSAO optional toggles separate.
  • Allow for phong shading and deferred lighting together.
• Shadow shader.
• Decouple shadow rendering from SSAO shader.
• Decouple dynamic lighting from SSAO shader.
• Better readme file.
• Split up VoxGame file into VoxRender, VoxUpdate, VoxSetup(?), etc.
• App player class and put voxel character functionality in player class.
• Add ability to switch voxel character model.
• Rebuild vs2013 libs using non-dll version of linking
• Fix up cmake for the different visual studio versions and also for the different lib linking.
• Weapon trails controlled by the animation file.
• Create vs2012 libs and VS2012 project files
• Add blur shader.
• Implement MSAA (or other AA) in glsl shader.
• Convert shadow rendering calls to use renderer - remove GL from gamecode.
• Add LUA bindings.
• Make weapons trails time based, rather than "numpoints" based, better weapon trail alpha rendering.
• Switch over to using glm maths lib.
• Solution to allow for running the exe from Visual studio, because atm the working directory needs to be ../
• Textures on GUI.
• Frontend manager for textures and common GUI objects.
• Allow camera rotations around world coordinates, so 'upside down' doesnt happen.
• Add full GUI skin textures and control to change 'theme' on GUI.
• Add limits to rotation so we dont go over and under the max/min up-axis.
• Add different camera modes, option toggle on GUI.
• Add player camera controls.
• Enable cross platform compiling and support, linux, mac
• Convert all data, media, folders to lowercase to fix Linux issues.
• When in auto-camera mode, slowly orient to behind the player, after a time.
• Add gamepad support.
• Fix up auto-camera mode for gamepad and remove hacks for storing the up, right, forward target camera vectors.
  • Store a camera-to-player vector in the player class and use this for camera offsets in auto-mode.
  • Only use the x, z components when working out the offset camera position, plus the players up from the facing.
• Proper first person mode camera.
• Implement mouse rotation camera mode for when in game mode.
• Turn cursor on/off and fix cursor in position when doing mouse rotations in game mode.
• Make camera auto-mode rotate to behind the player after a short delay.
• Settings file loading at startup, change options and rendering based on settings.
• Player alpha when camera zooms in.
• Add proper ini reader functionality - add other startup params to ini, resolution, fullscreen etc.
• Camera clipping mode.
• Add ability to create and render the Voxel objects/characters without merging, 2 vertex arrays, or rebuild?
• Terrain generation via chunks.
  • Chunk loading and unloading based on player position
• Create Vox EXE launcher. (C# app)
• Debug settings option to toggle the Debug GUI from the settings ini file.
• Settings in ini to run straight into game, with player and camera controls - or run into front-end etc.
• Ordering of the chunk loading based on the camera/player position, so that loading filters outwards from player.
• Add back in skyboxes and support tweeningblending from one skybox to the other.
• Wait before spawning player in world, until world is generated.
• Better physics response and detection when jumping and from above
• Add version string to config ini file and display on GUI.
• Add DEBUG/RELEASE switch depending on what build was made, display on GUI.
• Player movement on voxel world and terrain.
  • Walking up single block steps automatically.
  • Smooth out camera when doing single 1-size block step up animation. (Was because of different interpolator values)
• Add exit/quit popup when the game is closed or quit using various exit methods.
• Add pause menu when ESC is pressed, and add popup in center of screen.
• Add back in frustum culling for chunk rendering.
• Player collision with items.
• Player interaction with items.
• Cinematic letterbox mode.
• Add console and logger to the in-game gui for output and logging information.
  • Log when loading/saving model files.
  • Log to output file and log files as well as console GUI.
  • Remove old log messages, only allow a certain nunber of log messages to be shown.
  • Add debug log information for model loading and rendering - num verts, tris, faces, etc.
  • Log on errors.
  • Allow input commands.
  • Clear log text functionality
  • Rendering of many log messages is slow, output to file?
• Create basic front-end.
• Fix camera glitching when going in and out of pause menu (also quit menu).
• Animated text effects in the HUD, for pickups, combat, etc..
• Add biome manager
  • Add colour variation management to biome manager.
• Add item manager.
• Add inventory GUI.
• Add character GUI.
• Add options menu window to pause menu.
• Add mods menu window to pause menu.
  • Select mods that are already loaded and 'tick' their buttons. SelectLoadedMods() function called on each tab.
• Tidy up inventory and item managers!
  • Add back in TODO code (TODO : Add me back in).
  • Test ALL functionality with player equipping items and weapons.
  • Add hooks to GUI.
  • Player stats.
  • Loot GUI chest interactions.
  • Crafting GUI functionality.
  • Character GUI paperdoll render.
  • CharacterGUI player poses and animation stances.
  • CharacterGUI particle effects.
  • CharacterGUI dynamic lighting.
• Investigate continuous automatic builds on github when files are submitted to depot, using cmake and make.
• NPCs.
• Enemies.
  • Enemy spawners.
• Add scenery manager.
  • Flower generation.
  • Poisson-disc separation and generation for random placement of scenery.
  • Convert scenery manager to use instance rendering and the instance shader.
• Add Quest GUI.
• Create front end scene and character line up.
• Character creation and customization.
• Add character creator and customization from front-end.
• Player particle trail on walking.
• Use proper animation pose for target camera mode, with different weapons.
• Add common front-end slider graphics and accessors in front-end manager.
• Custom cursors.
• Particle effects and lights in character GUI.
  • Have particles with characterGUI viewport flag, also another world matrix that isnt offset by position.
  • Add flag to block particles so that only weapon/item particles are rendered in the viewport (non world offset).
• Bug with HUD text when resizing (HP, experience, etc)
• Make sure to fully clear the quest journal, manager and QuestGUI when round tripping to the front-end.
• Debug GUI should be on top of HUD and action bar.
• Add a left/right pose to the character GUI animation pose so that hands can be animated seperately.
• Enemy and NPC particle effect and light update code should be simplfied, (like player) no duplication for left/right.
• Fix for getting hit / knockback when crafting or interating with items / chest / npc
• Physics & collision goes wrong with lag spikes when MoveAbsolute() is called, during a lag spike.
• Add common front-end label / button colours, hover, pressed, etc.
• Add spell hands attacks.
• Add dagger / knife attacks.
• Respawn button properly skinned and textured.
• Dont create dying lights for the weapons in the front-end create character screen, since this bleeds into the customization section.
• Add magic back into player logic.
• Random direction on mimic spawning.
• Mimics turning around when going back to non-aggro.
• Different default inventory when we load a different class type from the create character screen.
• Use mouse and gamepad sensativity in the looking and camera rotation functions.
• Fog rendering.
• Add easier crafting functionality, just a single function call.
• Water, creating and manipulation, rendering, updating.
• Create random loot manager and random loot dropping.
• NPC loading falls through the world when we road trip to the front-end and start the game, Because physics happens during loading.
• Better front-end scenery and character screens.
• Add audio and music playback.
• Add debug render metrics for all counters (i.e num chunks, particles, items, triangles, verts, etc).
• Remove debug options and debug controls in RELEASE mode.
• Add more presets for other body parts in character creator screen.
• Add VLD support to debug version, allow for memory leak detection.
• Saving and loading chunks.
  • Group together chunks for saving, loading. Not individual
• Add voxel editor.
• Add texture support for voxel blocks.
• Add mode to play in reduced and low FPS.
  • Low FPS causes bad physics and also bad step-up block functionality, investigate and fix.
• Dont allow jumping multiple times by holding down the space (or joy button).
• Allow for font changing on the fly, allow different font styles to go with the themes.
• Add shadow receiving on instanced rendered objects. (Add texture matrix to shader??)
• Beter player walking - animation speeds, lean(?), speed up, slow down, etc
• Test out Baked AO models using MagikaVoxel.
• Companion pets.
• Particle effects proper position when in first person mode!
• Side stepping animation when in target camera mode.
• Bug with custom cursors when going outside of windows bounds.
• Don't allow 'other' buttons in select character screen when we have delet popup - i.e select, create, etc.