Sofie 0.2

• 10.11.97 did a lot, but did not notice is. released Sofie-0.2
• 7.11.97 did a lot, but did not notice is.
• 29.10.97 improved demo. Identification of objects now with regular expressions. Radar improved (destiguishes different types).
• 27.10.97 placed start of time at end of frame 0 in sofie.cc. implemented power display in cockpit.
• 26.10.97 frustrum added. This enables sofie to decide what objects could not be viewed.
• 25.10.97 used pipes to load compressed image files. cockpit resizing is now also done with a pipe. tmp.ppm is not longer necessary. commited 0_1_4.
• 25.10.97 changed class CPilot1 to Basic_CPilot. class CPilot is now a pilot which can switch between different maneuvers. class Maneuver is a Basic_CPilot which represents a special maneuver, eg. one to turn around, another to head forward, another to attack.... commited 0_1_3.
• 25.10.97 commited 0_1_2.
• 16.10.97 commit preliminary 0_1_1. More OOP methodes were included, MPolygon as child of Polygon, BSP_tree as child of Polygon_List. tpointset are used as central place for an object to store TPoints. (Transformations should be faster then). world2.cc was created as easy world, for debugging. This version is only able to display one polygon per object.
• 5.10.97 Created pointset.h and pointset.cc.

Sofie 0.1

• 31. 7.97 Released Sofie-0.1.
• 27. 7.97 improved explosions. Now shots "explode" if they hit an object.
• 26. 7.97 Threw out the old timing functions. Replaced them by RDTSC, which is a special Pentium command.
• 20. 7.97 made first explosion.
• 14. 7.97 Replaced not_to_draw (in objects.h) by power. A objects gets a certain amount of power. If power <= 0, the object does not exist. If two objects collide, then the power of each objects is reduced by the amount of the power of the other object. Collision detection improved. Now every object is tested against every other object. (but of course not a subobject with the object); There is a known bug: if a object has "active" subobjects but the objects gets deactivated, then there is no collision testing for the remaining subobjects.
• 13. 7.97 created new title screen for Sofie 0.1 (with gimp, used relief effect).
• 9. 7.97 Shots are now part of the objects, to which they belong. Therefore shot stuff is no longer contained in main{}. The same with cockpit handling. Now Object_List takes care of cockpit. Each Object can now have its own cockpit. (Necessary because it is possible to switch from one to another object). Added RPilot (recorder Pilot) and PPilot (player pilot).
• 6. 7.97 finished restructuration of last week. Did work on sofie.html.
• 29. 6.97 created readar.h, radar.cc, pilot.h, pilot.cc as consequence of a minor restructuration. Started sofie.html documentation.
• 18. 6.97 added backface removal. improved shots. (now they look like shots, not harmless squares)
• 17. 6.97 added recorder and player. Added timer to control frames per second.
• 16. 6.97 added mipmapping. The switching between mipmapsteps is still not ok. Have to do this later.
• 15. 6.97 added usecolor and color field in class Polygon. If you like to use no texture for a Polygon, then you simply paint that Polygon with one color. The gain is faster polygon drawing. The new draw_mode_0 is used for that.
• 14. 6.97 improved shape of fighters.
• 4. 6.97 implemented first stupid computer enemy.
• 2. 6.97 changed stars, now they blink. radar resizes now if cockpit resizes. radar points change slightly if corresponding object gets farer and farer. shots are now not visible on the radar screen (non solid objects).
• 1. 6.97 reimplemented 8 bit colordepth support. (sofie should run on 8 bit X servers)
• 31. 5.97 stars are now there.
• 28. 5.97 added radar to the cockpit, but did not consider resizing of window.
• 20. 5.97 - 25. 5.97 Did so much changes, too much to name them all. Split up sofie in more files. Added Object class and related classes. Rewrite point class and related classes. Changed bsp-tree class so that moving objects are possible. Added shots. and so on.........
• 6. 5.97 Added method is_collision of class Wall. Method computes distance of the viewer to the given Wall (distance in moving direction). This is a first step to implement collision detection.
• 1. 5.97 Added Joystick Support

Sofie.0.0.5

• 29. 4.97 Made new title-screen for Sofie 0.0.5. In graphics.cc: if a ConfigureNotify occures, the framebuffer will now change, only if resized. (with that fixed bug that cockpit was gone after a non-resize ConfigureNotify) Released Sofie 0.0.5
• 27. 4.97 shake function is improved, now it works satisfactory. Cockpit is now availible, even if the window was resized! (uses pnmscale to scale the cockpit)
• 26. 4.97 moved the input-structure from graphics.h to input.h. If someone likes to change moving capabilities then he simply changes functions in input.c. Improved Makefile.
• 24. 4.97 Sofie replaces Column_Manager by Row_Manager. It should work faster, because usually one has more columns than rows, therefore rows are usually the longer ones, and the best for the texture mapper is to draw long slices instead of many short slices. Another advantage is, that in the inner loop of the texture mapper there is only an incrementation of a variable (pstart) and not an addition with the screen width (you get lines by adding 1, and columns by adding the screen width). Since incrementation should be faster than addition (observed severe loss of fastness as I replaced constant values by variables) dealing with row-scan-lines should be faster.
• 20. 4.97 Now vh_scale stays constant if the window is resized. This is needed to avoid distortions of the rendered objects if you gear. If you change the resolution of the screen during sofie is running, then it may be look bad. Now you can specify the screen dimensions and the resolution in the Makefile. (SCREEN_W,SCREEN_H,X_RES,Y_RES)
• 19. 4.97 Sofie is now much faster at startup. Instead of XAllocColor, we use now direct calculation of the colormap-cell if the RGB Value is given. (An assumption on the colormap is made.) I think there should be a better solution, but it works.
• 1. 4.97 Sofie now checks first if there are 16 colorplanes and the truecolor visual.
• 23. 3.97 now it is possible to resize the window. (but we still need a dynamic version of the screen-manager. This has to be done soon).
• 22. 3.97 added the cockpit-switch c
• 18. 3.97 added struct active-objects more comments (in english)