Hey guys, currently I’ve a cold so that’s why I’ve yet to respond, and there seems to be a lot you want me to cover.
Katch:
I agree, if we can find an animator who wants to help us, I’d be more than glad to include his animations.
I know how to setup a skybox built out of several images:
Left side.png
Right side.png
Front side.png
Top side.png
Bottom side.png
You’ll need to make sure they’re seamless, though. All I’ll do is place them properly. (No worries about rotation, I’ll fix it)
I’ll try to get you an example soon. If you’re really eager the example code for the demo I posted is here and it has two images inside of it. the ‘map.png’ which controls the height and drop of the map itself, and the ‘map_texture.png’ which is put over top of the map generated by ‘map.png’ (darker pixels are further down, lighter pixels are higher up, it’s a simple gradient)
both you and adr: it seems the official name (for now, whatever that means) is Suyo-Suyo Supernova
Yes, the weapon creation from stars sounds like a good idea and I think it’s do-able.
P.S. I like the boss model, it look’s really cool. You’re the artist, do what you think is good for a house model.
Adr:
(in a completely non rude way) Do you want to handle the idea-book?
Just throwing it out there that either one of you is more than welcome to also build onto it, or handle it completely if you want.
Networking api: right, we will have a server, with server-sided API, and a networking client, with client-sided networking API, I’ll handle basically all of this for us. You can learn from all my stuff once I’m finished with it, too, if you’d like.
Object api: Mostly information on objects/weapons can just be stored in the nodepath’s themselves. Via NodePath.setTag/getTag and NodePath.setPythonTag/getPythonTag
Player api: Sort of with the above, most the information will just be stored in random non-orginized classes and held on the nodepath’s themselves or in arrays/dictionaries
Music api: This really only need’s to be one small file, in fact I’ve an example (pretty much all we’ll need) that will let us controll the volume of sounds effects and music independantly.
When you say some way to save some basic information, do you mean client sided or server sided? Server sided we have an object API for MYSQL.
as far as a menu API, do you reckon each menu would be in it’s own class, and how automated do we want it? I’ll bet we can go with a more pixel-based moveable window situation with some nice scrollers, mostly we’d need some prepared gui images.
**KATCH
Should the gui look dark or light hearted? in your opinion? I’m going to design it mostly, so it’ll be almost completely unrelated to you, do you feel it would have more of a ‘star trek’ theme, like everything is black-ish or more of a light hearted-blue-white-non-american-flag theme?
**KATCH
adr:
Yes the client should be able to have up to x characters. I’mma jump to conclusion and say they can have 7. Because 7 is my lucky number 
Players will get around to stars by opening a (gui menu) window that will have an artistic-ly drawn (By Katch) map, much like the one in the idea-book I gave out. Then you can click on each planet to travel to it.
Some planet’s will be greyed out until you unlock them at NPC’s by beating quests etc…
Ah, a place for storing stuff… humm.
Do you want a centralized point of some sort? Google code? I can set us up a Git Repo, and we could each have a copy of the repo on our computers. That’s only if you’re all okay with using command line tools.
Katch will mostly just email me files (whenever they’re ready) and I’ll upload them for me and you. (Hint hint, Katch)
Katch: Email me the files whenever you complete them. Like above I’ll give them to adr as soon as you give them to me, or him ;D, I’ll PM you my email address.
As for the login system, do we want it in-game? Are we going to host this on a website? I can host it on lightpoke.com and we can use the lightpoke.com account’s for login, though I dunno if you guys would be comfortable with that. We could try google app engine? or something? I dunno, where do you guys want to host the game on?
adr: we can probably use an HTML input box for login, like I do on my website, and it can transfer the username/password through javascript to panda3d.
~powerpup118
