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[Upekshe Jay]

I can use the template I used for the GSoC 2015. It was well detailed . Anyway I will share a draft proposal today or tomorrow.

 

[Upekshe Jay]

@Cervator Hi, how can we add these characters to the gameplay??

 

[oniatus]

@Cervator Hi, how can we add these characters to the gameplay??

These are the L&S creatures, have a look at
https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadow
https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadowResources
and maybe https://github.com/Terasology/Pathfinding

With L&S active, some of the default blocks in the inventory should spawn the creatures.
Otherwise you can use the console to spawn the prefabs directly.

 

[Skaldarnar]

You might find these useful:
https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadow/blob/develop/src/main/java/org/terasology/ligthandshadow/componentsystem/components/SpawnerComponent.java
https://github.com/Terasology/LightAndShadow/blob/develop/src/main/java/org/terasology/ligthandshadow/componentsystem/controllers/SpawnerSystem.java

 

[Upekshe Jay]

@oniatus and @Skaldarnar, Thank you very much for the information. I'll look at those links. .

 

[Upekshe Jay]

BTW, I started writing the proposal.
I'll share it in the summerofcode site around tonight. It will be really helpful if you can give some comments there . Thank you

 

[Upekshe Jay]

Hi, @Cervator @Skaldarnar (or anyone else ) if you can give me some comments about the proposal I really appreciate that

 

[Cervator]

Heyo - sorry about the delay, got really busy at work. I see the proposal in the system. Full review I hope to see from another mentor tomorrow, maybe comments in the doc.

I noticed real quick that the timeline is kind of generic, entries like "Decide on functions to be implemented, and prioritize them" are really more like the sort of stuff you'd put in a template that a person using the template would then replace with actual details of which functions are to be implemented. You need to make the proposal your own - what are you actually going to try implementing? Rather than just describe that you plan to implement stuff

It is pretty important to understand some more of the code before you can answer those questions well, which I realize there isn't a lot of time left for.

 

[Upekshe Jay]

Thanks I'll make the timeline more descriptive then..

 

[Upekshe Jay]

I did some modification in the timeline section.

 

[Cervator]

Heya - are you sure it updated? I'm still seeing last modified March 21, 2016 and am not sure I'm spotting any changes.

 

[Upekshe Jay]

Yes I did, I checked again, it is there..
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wqk_mT5OG26-NFYb3r4hhxxNuk9kfIou2Q59Kbr2IBM/edit

 

[Cervator]

Alright, the GSOC site must just not be reflecting changes to the doc in its listed date then

Appreciate it! Have you had any more time to dig into the related code?

 

[Upekshe Jay]

Yes, I did try to dig into the code, I am looking at both MOO and Miniions source codes. BTW, where are these models saved. I mean the L&S models, OreanGuard, OreonMaster,...

 

[Cervator]

Yes, I did try to dig into the code, I am looking at both MOO and Miniions source codes. BTW, where are these models saved. I mean the L&S models, OreanGuard, OreonMaster,...

Do you mean the raw Blender models? We try to keep those in a "meta" repository that doesn't ship with the game, one example is for wild animals: https://github.com/MetaTerasology/WildAnimals

The L&S creatures haven't been moved to a meta repo yet so they still live in an older location: https://github.com/MovingBlocks/TeraMisc/tree/master/lightandshadow/redteam

Oreons I'm not sure we have the originals for Maybe saved on somebody's hard drive somewhere. Would have to do some digging.

 

[Upekshe Jay]

So how can we use the Oreons models to spawn them. Are the stored in another format inside the game. I uploaded the proposal to the summerofcode site.. if you have time can you have a look and tell me if anything to be changed

 

[Cervator]

So how can we use the Oreons models to spawn them. Are the stored in another format inside the game. I uploaded the proposal to the summerofcode site.. if you have time can you have a look and tell me if anything to be changed

The Oreons are indeed in a different format in-game, they're in md5 which the engine knows how to use

Those versions of the creatures live here: https://github.com/Terasology/Oreons

I didn't get a chance to look at the proposal again, but I see it in the right place in the system so you're all set. We have a few weeks now to review and spend time with all the students, we'll do what we can to keep mentoring whether you get a project slot or not

 

[Cervator]

Bump! Heya @Upekshe Jay are you still out there and doing well?

We're slowly digging through the pile of GSOC proposals and I made it through yours again, a bit more thoroughly. Saw you had read an AI book by Peter Norvig, very cool, I managed to get into a free AI course he and Sebastian Thrun ran online out of Stanford, so I got to see the two of them via web conference. Also noted you had some experience with unit testing.

Any interest in doing a small contribution before April 22nd, or are you otherwise occupied till then? There are probably some small AI stuff to do somewhere and just about anything could benefit from more unit tests

 

[Upekshe Jay]

@Cervator , Ya I am around and these days I am thinking about how the UI should be for the MOO. What I thought was if the idea is to connect MOO's Oreans AI to the behavior trees( I am trying to understand the way how the behavior trees code work) the current menu would be useless. And since the generic idea is to create a environment where the player command the Oreans to do stuff, simply the behavior trees can be use to assign work for them. About "doing a small contribution before April 22nd", I would love to do some work in AI. . I guess I should look at the issue list to find some thing .

 

[Upekshe Jay]

@Cervator since you have pointed out " There are probably some small AI stuff to do somewhere" do you have something in mind?
BTW, is there some graphical representations showing how the system works, A set of use case diagrams..